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Whats up with Hans, even Jari Mäkinen would score more! I put my whole all owance on Hans outscoring Shamek! And Lindbäck... His new carb must be too far up in his äz, damn he's slow.

This one was one those meetings where you had to be there to believe it. Training was cancelled due to rain, according to Aarnio's mechanic the right tool to ride the track was a canoe on sat evening. Still wet when I got there at around 1030. Finland got a great start, gates had a part in it but still. we continued that until heat 12 when Aarnio beat Smoli (no questions, fair and square) and at that point it was pouring even more. It was started raining heavily after/during heat 9 when Hautamäki was on, and at one point it was raining pieces of ice, the size of a diamonds two big for my wallet. Anyway, the meeting was in no way dragged by the ref, in fact the gradings were skipped to carry on. Then there was the break after 12, we were tied with DE with 7 or so wins against 4 or so and were winning with the track soaked, still raining and a 30 minutes break. So what happens next? It clears, our guys lose their edge, Germany keeps up and the Latvians get fired up... Like I said, you had to be there. You would have hated it. but the results by themselves dont tell even 5% of what happened.

It means it's moved forward due to track conditions which in this case means that it's been winter for too long. For the past two years that track has opened today/this weeekend of April.

Just got back home and straight after putting my incredibly cheap liquor to it's place I checked that there was no mention of an APD (air fence) coming mandatory or even provisional for 2012 in the 2011 rule book. There was work done and plenty I'm told to get a fence to Finland, but in the end there was no realistic plan to store and uphold it, so the federation backed out and gave the meeting away. There have been a few projects to get a fence in various tracks and a couple are rolling as we speak and have a chance of materialising, but they wont happen for this meeting anymore. They are big projects involving EC money and stuff like that, even Seinäjoki did'nt want to pay for the fence by themselves and they have been the "biggest/most economically balanced" club in Finland for the past few years.

Lahti brothers Timo and Teemu are on lahtiracing.fi News also in english and rider comments weekly.

Since I'm holding a beer on my other hand a my Sh!tPhone in the other on the shoreline of Lake Como I cant quote the rulebook but it's there. From what I was told last year Timo Lahti/Finland is actually the first ever rider/Federation that has received an uem fine, so why bother testing with FIM and fine 15 times as big. The ban is for fim meetings, not leagues.

Now announced in Finland that the U21 quali has been given away because the FIM wants an airfence for this meeting. So far there isn't even one in Finland and none were apparently available for hire abroad. Denmark will host this now and the last I heard our top guns will give it a miss. In my opinion the U21 wc has turned in to a joke with the current system of 7 or what finals. Finland as an example we have two riders of that level that they could make the series. They are not interested to invest that amount of money to ride in it, 10-15 k in euros has been mentioned. And having qualified from their quali, they have ride in the semi or face FIM ban for the rest of the season and a fine between 10-100k.

FB? Timo Lahti just wiped the floor with Magic in Arlington, how strong do we need to be?

It might change, but you wont see Kauko or Joonas. Kauko is taking a year off from these and Joonas is either out with injury or in Poland. U coming?

Finland is in Herxheim and Ukraine at Ljubljana on request of the Ukraine federation.

PLEASE try again.

KAUPUNKI CUP Calendar 2012 Varkaus May 12th: Seinäjoki-Karhula-Pori-Varkaus-Forssa-Lahti 1. Kauhajoki June 30th: Kauhajoki-Seinäjoki-Karhula-Pori-Varkaus-Forssa. Seinäjoki July 1st: Lahti 2-Kauhajoki-Seinäjoki-Karhula-Pori-Varkaus. Lahti 1 July 7th: Lahti 1-Lahti 2-Kauhajoki-Seinäjoki-Karhula-Pori. Lahti 2 July 15th: Forssa-Lahti 1-Lahti 2-Kauhajoki-Seinäjoki-Karhula. Forssa August 19th: Varkaus-Forssa-Lahti 1-Lahti 2-Kauhajoki-Seinäjoki. Pori September 1st: Pori-Varkaus-Forssa-Lahti 1-Lahti 2-Kauhajoki. Karhula September 8th: Karhula-Pori-Varkaus-Forssa-Lahti 1-Lahti 2.

Swedish Press tells us that Robert Henderson will ride as #16 in the semi.

Calendar for Finnish SM-liiga has been announced today. SM-liiga 2012 Lahti June 5th: Haukat-Sand Blowers-Keittiöpiste-Kotkat. Hyvinkää June 12th: Sand Blowers-Keittiöpiste-Kotkat-Haukat. Seinäjoki June 19th: Kotkat-Haukat-Sand Blowers-Keittiöpiste. Kuusankoski July 3rd: Keittiöpiste-Kotkat-Haukat-Sand Blowers. Lahti July 14th: Sand Blowers-Keittiöpiste-Kotkat-Haukat. Seinäjoki July 31st: Haukat-Sand Blowers-Keittiöpiste-Kotkat. Kuusankoski August 7th: Kotkat-Haukat-Sand Blowers-Keittiöpiste. Hyvinkää August 18th: Keittiöpiste-Kotkat-Haukat-Sand Blowers. Kaupunki Cup will start on May 12th from Varkaus, KC calendar will be published within a week.

Tani to replace Järf in Assen. Finnish final at Seinäjoki. Track was declared crap after an incident in heat 16 and meeting abandoned. Antti Aakko IRR 333 9 Tomi Tani P-KMK 332 8 Janne Vilponen A-SMP 331 7 Harri Saari IRR 133 7 Seppo Siira SE 223 7 Timo Kankkunen P-KMK 222 6 Janne Kastren P-KMK 213 6 Jouni Seppänen PirMM 302 5 Jussi Hytönen P-KMK 2d2 4 Sami Hassinen P-KMK 121 4 Markku Weckman MP-Tuki 021 3 Ari Tuomisto FMS 110 2 Tomi Norola SeMK 110 2 Mikko Jetsonen P-KMK 010 1 Tommi Suolammi HäMK NN1 1 Mika Helin FMS 000 0 Rami Systä P-KMK d 0 Jens Budden DE 0 0 Erä erältä: K1: Kastren, Systä R, Budden F 63,00 K2: Suolammi, Norola, Jetsonen F 60,50 K3: Jetsonen, Norola, Systä, Budden 58,7 1. Vilponen, Siira, Hassinen, Weckman 52,44 2. Tani, Kastren, Tuomisto, Systä d 53,94 3. Seppänen, Hytönen, Norola, Helin 57,10 4. Aakko, Kankkunen, Saari, Jetsonen 53,35 5. Saari, Hassinen, Norola, Budden 52,06 6. Aakko, Siira, Kastren, Seppänen 52,06 7. Vilponen, Kankkunen, Tuomisto, Hytönen d 54,78 8. Tani, Weckman, Jetsonen, Helin 55,44 9. Kastren, Hytönen, Hassinen, Jetsonen 58,06 10. Siira, Kankkunen, Suolammi, Helin 55,37 11. Aakko, Tani, Vilponen, Norola 54,30 12. Saari, Seppänen, Weckman, Tuomisto 57,25 Abandoned after 15 heats, results stand after 12. Coin over 3rd place Tuomari: Mika Laukkanen, katsojia 370. EDIT: Järf withdrew with fever. EDIT2: Jens Budden rode in heat 5, edited to correct the mistake.

Järf had an injury from saturday and said something along the lines that his left leg and hand were more or less "out"...

Happy to be surprised for what Järf and Aakko have done.

Whats your problem? For a forthnight and a half you've had nothing negative to say...

Ice racing Nordic final at Kauhajoki on February 11th. Per-Anders Lindström SE 33333 15 Per-Olof Serenius SE 33323 14 Fredrik Johansson SE 32233 13 Fredrik Olsson SE 23133 12 Janne Vilponen FI 22322 11 Torleif Burman NO 30212 8 Tomi Tani FI 23011 7 Timo Kankkunen FI 11131 7 Joakim Söderström SE 02d22 6 Jo Saetre NO 01310 5 Jussi Nyrönen FI 201d2 5 Jimmy Muckenhirn SE 01220 5 Jussi Hytönen FI 02201 5 Tobias Åström SE 110N1 3 Jouni Seppänen FI 1F11N 3 Markku Weckman FI 10000 1 Ari Tuomisto FI 0 0 Erä erältä: 1. Johansson, Vilponen, Åström, Söderström 58,01 2. Burman, Tani, Seppänen, Saetre 59,21 3. Serenius, Nyrönen, Weckman, Muckenhirn 60,44 4. Lindström, Olsson, Kankkunen, Hytönen 58,81 5. Tani, Hytönen, Åström, Nyrönen 60,84 6. Lindström, Johansson, Saetre, Weckman 59,32 7. Olsson, Söderström, Muckenhirn, Seppänen 60,98 8. Serenius, Vilponen, Kankkunen, Burman 62,40 9. Saetre, Muckenhirn, Kankkunen, Åström 63,91 10. Serenius, Johansson, Olsson, Tani 61,07 11. Lindström, Burman, Nyrönen, Söderström d 61,79 12. Vilponen, Hytönen, Seppänen, Weckman 64,06 13. Lindström, Serenius, Seppänen 60,30 14. Johansson, Muckenhirn, Burman, Hytönen 63,00 15. Kankkunen, Söderstöm, Tani, Weckman 64,43 16. Olsson, Vilponen, Saetre, Nyrönen d 63,62 17. Olsson, Burman, Åström, Weckman 63,72 18. Johansson, Nyrönen, Kankkunen, Tuomisto 64,57 19. Serenius, Söderström, Hytönen, Saetre 64,82 20. Lindström, Vilponen, Tani, Muckenhirn 63,31 Semifinaali: Johansson, Olsson, Vilponen, Burman R 64,43 Finaali: Lindström, Olsson, Johansson R, Serenius T 64,03 Tuomari: Matti Koivuoja, katsojia noin 300.

Lindström won, olsson second, johansson retired and seremous hit the tapes. Full results in a moment. Final: pa, po, olsson, johansson. Not ridden yet... P-a and posa trough to final, johansson, vilponen, olsson and burman in the semi. P-a won posa in 13, auhajoki 8 heats. Posa and p-a on 6, johansson, tani & olsson on 5 Kauhajoki 8 heats. Posa and p-a on 6, johansson, tani & olsson on 5

A crowd of 5212 saw Elitserien ice racing earlier this week in Stockholm, Sweden. Tickets 100 kr (around 11,5 euros) apiece and a few hot drinks and korvmedbröds sold... You do the math. My turn for a lie down...

Teams and lineuos for next season's Kaupunki cup are confirmed. Note that Varkaus and Karhula are returning tracks. Also 8!! teams with a possible 9th when home team is allowed to track another team in a meeting. Looks good, and busy. Joukkueet ja niiden kokoonpanot speedwayn Kaupunki Cupissa 2012: Pori: 1) Jouni Viljanen, 2) Jere Lehtonen. Kauhajoki: 1) Vili Mattila, 2) Miikka Hyyryläinen, 3) Jarkko Kulmala Seinäjoki: 1) Aarni Heikkilä, 2) Mika Loppi, 3) Herman Kenkkilä. Varkaus: 1) Mico Brotkin, 2) Jesse Mustonen, 3) Eki Kaulamo. Lahti 1: 1) Jiri Nieminen, 2) Jukka Nieminen, 3) Niko Siltaniemi. Lahti 2: 1) Marko hyyryläinen, 2) Juha Tuominiemi, 3) Kalle Kivistö. Forssa: 1) Marko Suojanen, 2) Jarkko Kunnaskari, 3) Ari Tuomisto. Karhula: 1) Marko Toikka, 2) Tino Turkia, 3) Jani Eerikäinen.

Countback is as clear as crystal, but... As long as I remember there's been a rerun to determine qualifications and podium places. But not now. In longtrack they even do reruns after the final of the meeting is ridden if riders are tied on points. Thats crap! Anyway, has anyone have any idea where the online saturday scores from the FIM site have gone?

You can bet on the weekends GP's through Svenska Spel... Odds as follows Spelstopp 4/2 kl. 14:59 Vinnare Odds N Krasnikov 1.40 D Ivanov 3.75 D Koltakov 8.00 D Khomitsevich 10.00 S Karachintsev 14.00 E Krysov 16.00 F Zorn 20.00 H Simon 75.00 G Knapp 75.00 A Aakko 100.00 R Henderson 100.00 M Järf 150.00 J Klatovsky 150.00 R Stellingwerf 200.00 M Niedermaier 200.00

I did indeed try and stir a bit last saturday AFTER visiting my lovely top range sauna facilities and it had nothing to do with LACK of beer. I found it "not so good" that websites were saying he's through and he's not, when it appeared that the info had no foundation. Aktuellspeedway.se for example said Svensson was through and it was credited widely in Sweden... Not so good... Makarov's case, he was a reserve rider and should have gone through. Instead he was a riding outside the meeting and his points did not matter? Whats that... But two Finns through, I expect Järf to do well this time. EDIT: It's winter here, -23,3 currently outside and should be around -25 for the rest of the week. Record low for this winter last night somewhere up north was set at -39,something.