Dutch entrepreneur Hennie van der Most bought 60 hectare of the former Kraftwerk Meppen-Hüntel power plant in 2004, four years after its closure.

Van der Most planned to build an automotive theme park with a racetrack.

Van der Most reached an agreement with the municipality to postpone the opening of the Funpark to 2015.

In 2014, 20 acres of the Funpark Meppen were bought by Harry Maessen, owner of Raceway Venray, to develop the racing circuit.

[5] Due to the installation of noise monitoring equipment at Race Park Meppen, and by too few participant, CREVENTIC and Race Park Meppen have jointly decided to postpone the 2016 Hankook 12H MEPPEN, a twelve-hour race for touring cars, scheduled for September 23–24, 2016, to a date that will be announced in due time.