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Andreas Jonsson is an idiot, should have let MJJ pass.

Then I was born and it's all been downhill since...

Speedwayn SM-liiga 3/8 Seinäjoki (SeMK) 19.6.2012 Sand Blowers 32 Jari Mäkinen 10223 8 Niko Siltaniemi 01122 6 Pasi Pulliainen 22320 9 Tomi Reima 3303 9 Keittiöpiste 31 Tero Aarnio 32101 7 Timo Lahti 20322 9 Teemu Lahti 32312 11 Marko Suojanen 2R11 4 Kotkat 30 Juha Hautamäki 33133 13 Mika Loppi 12011 5 Markku Autio 03023 8 Joni Keskinen 1120 4 Haukat 21 Kalle Katajisto 23333 14 Jiri Nieminen 01010 2 Vili Mattila 10001 2 Mika Pellinen 021F 3 Erä erältä: 1. Reima, Suojanen, Keskinen, Pellinen 64,64 2. Aarnio, T.Lahti, Mäkinen, Siltaniemi 64,13 3. Hautamäki, Katajisto, Loppi, J.Nieminen 63,50 4. Lahti, Pellinen, Mattila, Suojanen R 64,43 5. Reima, Pulliainen, Keskinen, Autio 64,89 6. Hautamäki, Loppi, Siltaniemi, Mäkinen 64,45 7. Katajisto, Lahti, J.Nieminen, T.Lahti 64,02 8. Aarnio, T.Lahti, Hautamäki, Loppi 63,00 9. Autio, Keskinen, Pellinen, Mattila 65,31 10. Katajisto, Mäkinen, Siltaniemi, J.Nieminen 62,98 11. Lahti, Pulliainen, Suojanen, Reima 64,61 12. Hautamäki, T.Lahti, Aarnio, Autio 64,61 13. Pulliainen, Mäkinen, J.Nieminen, Mattila 65,46 14. Katajisto, Autio, Loppi, Mattila 64,51 15. Mäkinen, Siltaniemi, Lahti, Aarnio 64,63 16. Reima, Pulliainen, Mattila, Pellinen F 66,34 17. Autio, Lahti, Suojanen, Keskinen 64,63 18. Katajisto, T.Lahti, Aarnio, J.Nieminen 64,45 19. Hautamäki, Siltaniemi, Loppi, Pulliainen 65,04 Tuomari: Mika Laukkanen, katsojia ?. After two rounds Seura O P + Sand Blowers 2 60 9 Keittiöpiste 2 73 9 Kotkat 2 54 6 Haukat 2 41 4 Next round at Kuusankoski on July 3rd. New date for the round 1 is July 7th at Hyvinkää. Kaupunki Cup scheduled for July 7th has been moved to July 8th and Pori.

7th Kauhajoki Speedway was ridden last friday, just saw the pony appear in my backyard delivering the results. Here you are: Teemu Lahti KMMK 3333 12 Marko Suojanen PMK 3233 11 Markku Autio KuMaMo 1333 10 Joni Keskinen SeMK 3222 9 Jiri Nieminen SsMK 2320 7 Aarni Heikkilä FMS 2122 7 Vili Mattila KauhjMK 1012 4 Jarkko Kunnaskari FMS 2101 4 Jukka Nieminen SsMK 0201 3 Janne Nyman SsMK N111 3 Markku Weckman MPTuki 00N0 0 Erä erältä: 1. Keskinen, Ji.Nieminen, Mattila, Weckman 62,20 2. Lahti, Heikkilä, Autio, Nieminen 61,57 3. Suojanen, Kunnaskari 62,48 4. Ji.Nieminen, Nieminen, Kunnaskari 63,35 5. Lahti, Suojanen, Heikkilä, Weckman 61,20 6. Autio, Keskinen, Nyman, Mattila 61,76 7. Lahti, Ji.Nieminen 61,20 8. Suojanen, Heikkilä, Mattila, Nieminen 62,64 9. Autio, Keskinen, Nyman, Kunnaskari 61,51 10. Autio, Heikkilä, Nyman, Ji.Nieminen 60,95 11. Lahti, Mattila, Kunnaskari 61,29 12. Suojanen, Keskinen, Nieminen, Weckman 61,82 Semi: Autio, Heikkilä, Keskinen, Ji.Nieminen T 62,42 Finaali: Lahti, Autio, Heikkilä, Suojanen R # Tuomari: Mika Laukkanen, katsojia 50, # = ei aikaa. Finland had three riders in the GP qualis this season. We got 2 trough and the 3rd as a reserve, the 19 year old rookie. I feel confident in saying that we have not had such success in the GP era of these qualis. I have the stats somewhere, not that bothered to check now as sauna is ready. I think the guys did a GREAT JOB!

Egon is back?

He's contracted to Rospiggarna, not given a chance yet.

Yes, we got it going!!! Second round of the Finnish SM-liiga started today at Hyvinkää. The weather was the same as last tuesday, shining while raining and it was not that far fetched that it would have been stopped, again. Eleven heats is the cut off point, and after that the rain stopped, track was graded and we finally saw some speedway after a really crap start to the meeting racing wise. Some highlights were Mäkinen beating Katajisto as the first this year, Katajisto beat both Lebedev and Timo Lahti, Mika Loppi challenged Katajisto til the end in one heat and the one that should never have happened: A huge brawl including officials, riders and a couple of mechanics after heat 18 over a lap of honour that should never have taken place. There's a strict curfew at Hyvinkää and it went really close… Katajisto looks really good both on and off the bike. He's fast and has lost over 10 kg in weight during the winter. He sends his regards: "If you want me, I'm available!" Keittiöpiste 42 Andrei Lebedev 23332 13 Timo Lahti 32231 11 Teemu Lahti 22022 8 Marko Suojanen 3313 10 Sand Blowers 28 Jari Mäkinen 1223^33 14 Niko Siltaniemi 01101 3 Aarni Heikkilä 102 3 Pasi Pulliainen 22013 8 Kotkat 24 Juha Hautamäki 23121 9 Mika Loppi 10022 5 Markku Autio 33110 8 Jani Pirttinen 1010 2 Haukat 20 Kalle Katajisto 33233 14 Jiri Nieminen 01010 2 Vili Mattila 00001 1 Mika Pellinen 012F 3 Erä erältä: 1. Suojanen, Pullianen, Pirttinen, Pellinen 64,22 2. Katajisto, Hautamäki, Loppi, J.Nieminen 63,82 3. T.Lahti, Lebedev, Mäkinen, Siltaniemi 63,93 4. Suojanen, Lahti, Pellinen, Mattila 66,91 5. Autio, Pulliainen, Heikkilä, Pirttinen 65,66 6. Hautamäki, Mäkinen, Siltaniemi, Loppi 64,34 7. Lebedev, T.Lahti, J.Nieminen, Mattila 63,39 8. Katajisto, Mäkinen, Siltaniemi, J.Nieminen 64,23 9. Mäkinen^, Lahti, Suojanen, Pulliainen 65,96 10. Lebedev, T.Lahti, Hautamäki, Loppi 64,50 11. Autio, Pellinen, Pirttinen, Mattil 69,06 12. Mäkinen, Katajisto, J.Nieminen, Heikkilä 65,44 13. T.Lahti, Hautamäki, Autio, Lahti 64,74 14. Lebedev, Lahti, Pulliainen, Siltaniemi 63,94 15. Katajisto, Loppi, Hautamäki, Mattila 65,73 16. Suojanen, Lahti, Autio, Pirttinen 66,32 17. Pulliainen, Heikkilä, Mattila, Pellinen 66,38 18. Katajisto, Lebedev, T.Lahti, J.Nieminen 64,05 19. Mäkinen, Loppi, Siltaniemi, Autio 66, 39 Tuomari: Matti Koivuoja, katsojia 250. A scene from Hyvinkää

SM-liiga will continue on tuesday at Hyvinkää. LIVE updates behind the ***LINK*** New date for the KC meeting at Varkaus is September 2nd. There's no new date yet for last week's meeting, it should have been set already, but there's been some issues and Lahti that hosted the meeting dont currently even have their own track.

077.9.2 Ties After the completion of Heat 20, 21 or 22 When establishing the order between the riders in the list of Intermediate Classification at the conclusion of Heat 20, or following the completion of the Semi-Final Heats 21 and 22, any ties will be solved as follows: a) Precedence will be given to the riders (tied on race points) having the most number of 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th placings (a “0” for last placing is better than being disqualified for whatever reason). If the tie still persists and involves only 2 riders, precedence will be given to the better placed rider in the heat or heats where the 2 riders met. c) If the tie still persists and involves more than 2 riders, it shall be checked whether there is a possibility to determine a proper precedence (e.g. 3 riders tied on points: A, B, C: rider A has beaten rider B rider A has beaten rider C rider B has beaten rider C Then the precedence will be: best position for rider A, then rider B and then rider C. 26 d) If solutions a), and c) cannot resolve the tie, then the lowest riding number jacket will be deemed the better placed rider. The Intermediate Grand Prix Classification In case of riders tied on Grand Prix points in the Intermediate Classification, the lowest riding number jacket will be deemed the better-placed rider. The Final Overall Grand Prix Classification In case of riders involved in a tie on the Final Overall Grand Prix Classification, at the end of the Grand Prix Series, the following will apply: 1. Run-off for 1 st, 2nd and 3rd place. 2. Run-off for 8 th place, which is the last qualifying place for the following year’s Grand Prix Series. 3. For all other placings, the lowest riding number jacket will be considered the better-placed rider. You do naturally realize, that there's a chance of a ballot between riders befire the semi's, if nothing else falls into place...

Not a bad day for Marma Rzeszow! Crumpie and Kylmä both won a GP today!!!!!

1. Any number of points beats a letter (R, N, M T, F, Fn). There fore he's beaten BEFORE countback is on the heat between the two.. I dont even know whats happening, just tuned in on the stream...

I'm watching the rerun fron Canal+ and I just had to check: 3.2.4 Vid lika placeringar i övrigt skall den förare som erövrat flest antal heatsegrar placeras före i prisprotokollet. Om detta inte kan särskilja förarna räknas andraplaceringar, tredjeplaceringar, o s v. Ett fullföljt heat rangordnas alltid högre än ett heat, som av någon anledning icke fullföljts. Om detta inte kan särskilja förarna räknas inbördes möte. I sista hand tillgrips lottning. Thats from the Swedish rulebook, was the ref right or wrong?

Just seen this. Arthur Sissis has become a Finn.

Lahti track is currently closed, they rode their first meeting at Hyvinkää. New date should be set in a couple of days.

Not that anyone is asking me, but the ref has made a mistake according to my rulebook. There should have been no run off (heat 21) as Nermark had beaten Ljung in the preli's. Funny thing is, after talking about it for 8 weeks now, we finished the Finnish rule about this and it's now according to FIM. If nothing else can solve it, it's the toss of a coin. You dont do runoffs in the middle of the meeting.

There was a report inthe Swedish press that the Ullevi stadium made losses over the GP. So good for BSI, they've played it right and someone else pays. There attendance at Göteborg has been pathetic since the GP that never was. People just have not returned (I havent) and on top of that there's no league speedway at the moment in Göteborg so people have sort of fell of the wagon...

As I was going in to a deeper depression last night, for some reason I started going through some older emails. Found an excellent shot, I'm covered! Results from Hyvinkää, like mentioned they do not stand. Sand Blowers 22 Jari Mäkinen 22R 4 Aarni Heikkilä 11 2 Niko Siltaniemi 32 5 Pasi Pulliainen 3233 11 Keittiöpiste 18 Tero Aarnio R/R Timo Lahti 323 8 Teemu Lahti 03 3 Marko Suojanen 2212 7 Haukat 12 Kalle Katajisto 333 9 Jiri Nieminen 000 0 Vili Mattila 00 0 Mika Pellinen 111 3 Kotkat 8 Juha Hautamäki 22 4 Mika Loppi 111 3 Markku Autio 1T 1 Joni Keskinen 0RR 0 Erä erältä: 1. Pulliainen, Suojanen, Pellinen, Keskinen 64,93 2. T.Lahti, Hautamäki, Loppi, Lahtu 63,77 3. Katajisto, Mäkinen, Heikkilä, J.Nieminen 64,27 4. Siltaniemi, Pulliainen, Autio, Keskinen R 66,28 5. Lahti, Suojanen, Pellinen, Mattila 65,06 6. Katajisto, T.Lahti, Suojanen, J.Nieminen 65,04 7. Pulliainen, Mäkinen, Loppi, Keskinen R 65,89 8. Katajisto, Hautamäki, Loppi, J.Nieminen 65,04 9. Pulliainen, Siltaniemi, Pellinen, Mattila 67,33 10. T.Lahti, Suojanen, Heikkilä, Mäkinen R 65,87 Ottelu uusitaan, tulokset eivät jää voimaan. Tuomari: Matti Pöysä, katsojia 220.

The meeting was cut short by rain, the results do not stand. New date should be set with in a weeks time. Katajisto beat Timo Lahti, passed him too after missing the start slightly. He won Mäkinen and Hautamäki as well, they were easy.

Finnish SM-liiga starts tomorrow at Hyvinkää. SPEEDWAYN SM-LIIGA 1/8 5.6.2012, KOKOONPANOT: Haukat: 1) Kalle Katajisto, 2) Jiri Nieminen, 3) Vili Mattila, 4) Mika Pellinen. Sand Blowers: 1) Jari Mäkinen, 2) Aarni Heikkilä, 3) Niko Siltaniemi 4) Pasi Pulliainen. Keittiöpiste: 1) Tero Aarnio, 2) Timo Lahti, 3) Teemu Lahti, 4) Marko Suojanen. Kotkat: 1) Juha Hautamäki, 2) Mika Loppi, 3) Markku Autio 4), Joni Keskinen. First start 6 pm our time. There is a liveupdate system, but dont know if this meeting is covered. The track at Hyvinkää has been worked on alot during the close season, new top material has been added and the early reports suggest that it's gonna be really good. We'll see tomorrow.

I know turning up with four causes problems/hassle/paperwork/possibly a fine. Dont think it's any easier if there's only three.

It all depends naturally, Lahti is 19 and been scoring double figures around and beating riders that are established in Poland. A bit like Hausinger I bet... Though I understand your point exactly. It's just that the money in Poland is ridicolous... If I only spoke/wrote polish...

Was also interesting that Stella was definately the biggest beer in New York... Timo Lahti spent the whole weekend practising in Rzeszow, thats why he missed both Teterow and Gustrow.

I hear Timo Lahti's poor show in Poland was largely to do with his engine breaking down just before the meeting. Considering he did not even have his own bikes there, it was a huge "blow" to his chances. Anyway, he did enough during the weekend and is getting another crack at it. On other news, our U21's sucked at Abensberg today...

My opinion is that the riders can mess and p_ss about the whole 1 minute and 59 sec's they have, it's their right and part of the mental game and this sport. But according to the rules they have to be ready to start when the time runs out. These guys were idiots on this occasion...

Excellent call by the ref!