Denmark had no tradition of hosting the sport's biggest nights until Ole Olsen decided to build one. Born in nearby Haderslev, Olsen became Denmark's first individual world champion in 1971 and took the title twice more, in 1975 and 1978. He has part-owned the Vojens track since the day it opened in September 1975 — a 300-metre oval in a South Jutland town of no great size, with room for something in the region of 15,000 spectators.

On a map the choice looks eccentric. On the calendar it made perfect sense. Denmark spent the following two decades producing riders faster than anyone could count them, and those riders needed somewhere to race in front of their own crowd. Vojens took the Danish Championship in 1977, 1979 and 1981, and then started taking the world.

Thirteen FIM world finals have been run here across every major format. The first was the 1979 World Pairs Final, and it could hardly have gone better for the house: Denmark won it on 25 points, with Olsen himself riding alongside Hans Nielsen on the track Olsen owned. Erik Gundersen took the individual world title at Vojens in 1988 on 14+3 points. Sweden won the 1993 Pairs. Denmark carried off the World Team Cup here in 1983 and 1991 and won round two of the three-round 1986 final; the United States took the 1998 edition. World Cups followed in 2003 to Sweden, 2008 to Denmark and 2010 to Poland.

The 1994 individual final is the one the sport still talks about. It was the last world championship ever decided in a single meeting — the Grand Prix series began the following year — and it came down to a three-way run-off. Tony Rickardsson beat the local favourite Hans Nielsen and Australia's Craig Boyce for the first of six world titles, a haul matched by Ivan Mauger and, decades later, by Bartosz Zmarzlik.

The rain has its own record book at Vojens. When the 1979 World Pairs Final was pushed back a day, the British commentator Dave Lanning reported scenes in the stands that came close to a riot. Two years later, the 1981 Intercontinental Final produced open revolt among the riders themselves: after the first round of heats they refused to come back out, voting 14–2 against continuing on the surface. Exactly two men wanted to ride. Both were Danes, both were at home, and both were Vojens regulars — Ole Olsen and Hans Nielsen. The meeting only resumed when officials threatened the objectors with disqualification, and that threat carried real weight, because this was the last qualifying round before the world final at Wembley six weeks later.

Four years earlier the weather had simply won. At the 1977 inaugural European Under-21 final, Denmark's Alf Busk was unbeaten on nine points when the rain ended the meeting after twelve heats, and he was declared champion where he stood.

Vojens hosted the Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark every year from 1995 to 2002, returned as the Grand Prix of Nordic from 2009 — missing only 2013 — and reclaimed the Danish round in 2019. The roll of Grand Prix winners here reads like a history of the modern sport: Hans Nielsen took the first one in 1995 and won again in 1998, Tony Rickardsson won three, and Billy Hamill, Mark Loram, Greg Hancock, Andreas Jonsson, Tomasz Gollob, Michael Jepsen Jensen, Bartosz Zmarzlik, Artem Laguta, Leon Madsen and Robert Lambert have all stood on the top step.

The 2015 World Cup final came here too, with Denmark automatically qualified as hosts and defending the title they had won in Poland the year before. Sweden beat them by two points, with Poland third and Australia fourth. In 2022 the Speedway of Nations was added to the list. Half a century after Olsen laid out the shale, Vojens is still where Danish speedway comes home.