The Erftlandring, which is owned by Schumacher and where he started his career, has secured funding that will ensure its long-term future now that threats of it having to make way for a lignite mine have fallen away.
Back in 2016 there had been extreme doubts about the future of the venue, with energy company RWE having purchased parts of the surrounding area in a bid to expand lignite mining from the nearby Hambach Forest.
Despite opposition to the RWE plans, it pushed on with its plan to get rid of the site and presented a compensation offer in January 2018 that seemed to seal the kart track’s fate.
However, in 2020, RWE decided against further expansion of its opencast mining in the region following protests by environmentalists in Hambach Forest. These triggered local laws to secure its preservation.
That saved the Kerpen track in the short term, but left some uncertainty as RWE still owned the land, and the vicinity remained officially a mining area.
However, it has now…
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