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Next meeting in Finland will be the 6th round of SM-liiga at Kuusankoski on Saturday, August 20th. We have a break in domestic racing since the Finnish federation is the main organizer in the Six Days enduro world Cup that starts this week at Kotka/Hamina area. All organized motorcycles races/meetings are forbidden between this friday (5th) and Sunday the 14th.

Actually I think he's hit the double without realising it...

The U21 final scheduled for this saturday has been postponed to september 10th due to rider shortage. There are only about a dozen of them with some out with injuries, some with family commitments and some just not interested. Better luck in september.

League results from the past two weekends. SM-liiga 4/8, Hyvinkää 16.7.2011 Sand Blowers 37 Jari Mäkinen 11R33 8 Andreas Messing 23322 12+1 Pasi Pulliainen 33203 11+1 Aarni heikkilä 222 6+3 Kotkat 36 Juha Hautamäki 3332^33 17 Markku Autio 02212 7+3 Rene Lehtinen 3112 7+1 Mika Loppi 203 5+1 Keittiöpiste 22 Tero Aarnio R/R Teemu Lahti 3213^33 15 David Hillborg 10011 3 Marko Hyyryläinen 1002100 4+1 Paholaiset 13 Joni Keskinen 22121 8 Marko Suojanen RR1RR 1 Jiri Nieminen 11001 3 Jere Lehtonen d10 1 Erä erältä: 1. Lahti, Keskinen, Hillborg, Suojanen R 64,09 2. Hautamäki, Messing, Mäkinen, Autio 63,16 3. Lehtinen, Loppi, Nieminen, Lehtonen d 67,09 4. Pulliainen, Heikkilä, Hyyryläinen, Hillborg 66,90 5. Messing, Lahti, Mäkinen, Hyyryläinen 64,34 6. Hautamäki, Autio, Nieminen, Suojanen 67,09 7. Messing, Keskinen, Suojanen, Mäkinen R 64,52 8. Pulliainen, Heikkilä, Lehtinen, Loppi 67,28 9. Hautamäki, Autio, Lahti, Hyyryläinen 65,16 10. Lahti^, Hyyryläinen, Lehtonen, Nieminen 67,52 11. Mäkinen, Pulliainen, Keskinen, Suojanen R 65,41 12. Lahti, Hautamäki, Autio, Hillborg 65,40 13. Hautamäki, Messing, Lehtinen, Pulliainen 65,16 14. Lahti, Keskinen, Hyyryläinen, Nieminen 69,34 15. Loppi, Lehtinen, Hillborg, Hyyryläinen 67,47 16. Pulliainen, Heikkilä, Nieminen, Lehtonen 69,23 17. Hautamäki, Autio, Keskinen, Suojanen R 67,04 18. Mäkinen, Messing, Hillborg, Hyyryläinen 66,72 Tuomari: Matti Koivuoja, katsojia 285. SM-liiga 5/8, Seinäjoki 23.7.2011 Meeting ababndoned after 16 heats due to heavy rain. Results will stand as they were after 16 heats. Sand Blowers 32 Jari Mäkinen 2233 10+1 Andreas Messing 3123 9+2 Pasi Pulliainen 31212 9+2 Aarni heikkilä 103 4 Keittiöpiste 30 Timo Lahti 3212 8+2 Tero Aarnio 2333 11+1 David Hillborg 20331 9 Marko Hyyryläinen 020 2+1 Kotkat 26 Juha Hautamäki 1310 7 Rene Lehtinen 020 2+1 Markku Autio 23003 8+1 Mika Loppi 3222 9+2 Paholaiset 8 Joni Keskinen 1Fn 1 Marko Suojanen 0111^1 4 Jiri Nieminen 1100 2 Jere Lehtonen 000001 1 Erä erältä: 1. T.Lahti, Aarnio, Keskinen, Suojanen 64,14 2. Messing, Mäkinen, Hautamäki, Lehtinen 64,43 3. Pulliainen, Hillborg, Heikkilä, Hyyryläinen 64,51 4. Loppi, Autio, Nieminen, Lehtonen 64,24 5. Hautamäki, Lehtinen, Suojanen, Lehtonen 65,21 6. Aarnio, Mäkinen, Messing, Hillborg 64,36 7. Aarnio, T.Lahti, Hautamäki, Lehtinen 65,74 8. Autio, Loppi, Pulliainen, Heikkilä 63,11 9. Mäkinen, Messing, Suojanen, Lehtonen 63,90 10. Hillborg, Hyyryläinen, Nieminen, Lehtonen 66,72 11. Aarnio, Hautamäki, T.Lahti, Autio 64,49 12. Messing, Pulliainen, Suojanen^, Nieminen 65,36 13. Mäkinen, Loppi, Pulliainen, Autio 65,02 14. Hillborg, T.Lahti, Suojanen, Lehtonen 65,80 15. Heikkilä, Pulliainen, Lehtonen, Nieminen 65,96 16. Autio, Loppi, Hillborg, Hyyryläinen 66,10 Ottelu keskeytettiin sateen takia, tulokset jäävät voimaan. Tuomari: Mika Laukkanen, katsojia 195. Standings after 5/8 Sand Blowers 5 - 159 - 21 Keittiöpiste 5 - 156 - 21 Kotkat 5 - 159 - 18 Paholaiset 5 - 54 - 10 Kaupunki Cup results from the past two weekends... Kaupunki Cup 3/6 Hyvinkää, HyMK 17.7.2011 Seinäjoki 21 Mika Loppi 23333 14 Pekka Valo 12211 7 Pori 18 Jere Lehtonen 0d12 3 Jouni Viljanen 33333 15 Lahti 17 Janne Nyman 32223 12 Jiri Nieminen 23d 5 Kauhajoki 14 Olli Heikkilä 01020 3 Vili Mattila 12332 11 Hyvinkää I 11 Jani Eerikäinen 21221 8 Ari Tuomisto 00102 3 Hyvinkää II 6 Marko Toikka 31Fn 4 Tino Turkia 1T0 1 Pekka Toikka 1d 1 Erä erältä: 1. Toikka, Eerikäinen, Turkia, Tuomisto 72,84 2. Nyman, Nieminen, Mattila, Heikkilä 88,09 3. Suojanen, Loppi, Valo, Lehtonen 66,39 4. Loppi, Valo, Eerikäinen, Tuomisto 67,01 5. Nieminen, Nyman, Toikka, Turkia T 70,40 6. Suojanen, Mattila, Heikkilä, Lehtonen d 73,62 7. Suojanen, Nyman, Nieminen d 69,82 8. Loppi, Valo, P.Toikka, Turkia 66,75 9. Mattila, Eerikäinen, Tuomisto, Heikkilä 75,25 10. Mattila, Heikkilä, Toikka Fn, P.Toikka d 74,56 11. Suojanen, Eerikäinen, Lehtonen, Tuomisto 71,81 12. Loppi, Nyman, Valo 67,50 13. Loppi, Mattila, Valo, Heikkilä 68,96 14. Nyman, Tuomisto, Eerikäinen 72,62 15. Suojanen, Lehtonen 75,23 Tuomari: Matti Koivuoja, katsojia 65. Kaupunki Cup 4/6 Kauhajoki, Kauhjmk 24.7.2011 Seinäjoki 23 Mika Loppi 23333 14 Herman Kenkkilä 32R22 19 Lahti 20 Jiri Nieminen 33303 12 Janne Nyman 12212 8 Kauhajoki 13+3 Vili Mattila 31331 11+3 Olli Heikkilä 10010 2 Pori 13+2 Jere Lehtonen 2T012 5 Jouni Viljanen 01133 8+2 Hyvinkää I 11 Jani Eerikäinen 13221 9 Tommi Ahlgren 01100 2 Hyvinkää II 10 Marko Toikka 222d 6 Tino Turkia 021 3 Pekka Toikka 010 1 Erä erältä: 1. Mattila, Lehtonen, Heikkilä, Viljanen 67,50 2. Kenkkilä, Loppi, Eerikäinen, Ahlgren 65,32 3. Nieminen, Toikka, Nyman, P.Toikka 64,08 4. Nieminen, Nyman, Mattila, Heikkilä 64,18 5. Loppi, Kenkkilä, Viljanen, Lehtonen T 63,54 6. Eerikäinen, Toikka, Ahlgren, Turkia 67,92 7. Loppi, Toikka, P.Toikka, Kenkkilä R 62,70 8. Nieminen, Nyman, Viljanen, Lehtonen 63,75 9. Mattila, Eerikäinen, Ahlgren, Heikkilä 67,61 10. Viljanen, Eerikäinen, Lehtonen, Ahlgren 67,36 11. Mattila, Turkia, Heikkilä, Toikka d 68,15 12. Loppi, Kenkkilä, Nyman, Nieminen 63,00 13. Nieminen, Nyman, Eerikäinen, Ahlgren 63,65 14. Loppi, Kenkkilä, Mattila, Heikkilä 62,18 15. Viljanen, Lehtonen, Turkia, P.Toikka 68,31 Tuomari: Mika Laukkanen, katsojia 70. Standings 4/6 Seinäjoki 4 - 85 - 20 Pori 4 - 68 - 14 Lahti 4 - 66 - 13 Kauhajoki 4 - 40 - 5 Hyvinkää 2 4 - 38 - 4 Hyvinkää 1 4 - 36 - 4

Whats the story here??? There was an article in the Spar about Timo Lahti saying that after last mondays match he'd be an asset after completing 4+4 matches for the Eagle's...

SM-liiga at Hyvinkää today. Results here!. I'm playing my lazy card with this one and will log off for a week in 15 minutes. KC at Hyvinkää tomorrow, league at Seinäjoki next saturday and KC at Kauhajoki on sunday after that. Follow results from www.speedway.fi. I think thats the safest bet to see them. So Hyvinkää saw some league action today for the first time since -06 I think. The fences were torn down last October and the construction was finished during the week. I think the fences look really good, but since the track has seen no action, it was somewhat understandable that it was really awful (absolute nightmare even) for racing. Still there were some good battles that kept you on the edge of your seat, but there was also the riders that were in it over their heads with the circumstances. Still, now they have the fences and hopefully after a short break the people in the group behind the deveploment at the track will get back to it and make the track itself better. I'm looking forward to the season finale at the same track on August 27th. And Aarnio was absent today because of flight delays. It was R/R for him. League standing 4/8 2011 Keittiöpiste 4 - 126 - 17 Sand Blowers 4 - 127 - 16 Kotkat 4 - 133 - 15 Paholaiset 4 - 46 - 8 See you in a week...

Erä erältä: 1. Harris, Gollob, Povazhny, A.Dryml 59,56 2. Darkin, Nicholls, Hampel, Kus 60,47 3. Kolodziej, Dryml, Bondarenko, Woffinden d 59,31 4. Protasiewicz, Kennett, Gafurov, Topinka 59,19 5. Kasprzak, Barker, Sitera 59,06 6. Protasiewicz, Povazhny, Barker, Dryml d 59,90 7. Kasprzak, Harris, Topinka, Darkin 59,22 8. Gollob, Sitera, Bondarenko, Nicholls^ R 60,34 9. Hampel, Gafurov, A.Dryml, Woffinden d 59,78 10. Kennett, Kolodziej, Bondarenko, Kus 60,28 11. Nicholls, Kolodziej, Topinka, Povazhny 60,91 12. Woffinden, Protasiewicz, Darkin, Sitera 60,78 13. Kasprzak, Kennett, A.Dryml, Bondarenko 60,50 14. Harris, Gollob, Gafurov, Kus 60.50 15. Hampel, Harris, Dryml d, Darkin d 60,50 16. Kasprzak, Woffinden, Povazhny, Kus R 60,68 17. Gollob, Kennett, Dryml, Darkin 60,87 18. Woffinden, Hampel, Topinka, Bondarenko 60,91 19. Harris, Kolodziej, Gafurov^, Sitera 61,47 20. Protasiewicz, Dryml^, Povazhny, Nicholls d 61,69 21. Povazhny, Kennett, Hampel, Sitera 62,12 22. Barker, Kolodziej, Topinka, Darkin 61,58 23. Harris, Protasiewicz, Sitera, Bondarenko 62,31 24. Kasprzak, Dryml, Nicholls, Gafurov R 62,00 25. Gollob, Woffinden, Topinka 62,00 Tuomari: Krister Gardell.

Anyone have results from yesterdays Gold Fish team meeting? EDIT: Minispeedwayn joukkuekilpailu Rybnik, Puola 10.7.2011 Tanska 56 1. Patrick Josefsen 33233 14 2. Martin Steen Hansen 03113 8 3. Frederik Jakobsen 23323 13 4. Andreas Lyager 33F31 10 5. Sam Jensen 3323d 11 Ruotsi 44 1. Freddie Broms 22321 10 2. Johan Jensen 313d3 10 3. Alexander Johansson 3d022 7 4. Joel Kling 11222 8 5. Björn Nilsson 21312 9 SuomiAustralia 29 1. Henri Ahlbom 12133 10 2. Jooa Partanen 221R1 6 3. Nike Lunna 0d1T1 2 4. Max Fricke 22222 10 5. Antti Vuolas 00010 1 Puola 20 1. Kacper Woryna 02332 10 2. Krzysztof Wojaczek 1011d 3 3. Robert Chmiel 11210 5 4. Kamil Wieczorek 00000 0 5. Mike Trzensiok 11000 2 Erä erältä: 1. Josefsen, Broms, Ahlbom, Woryna 44,50 2. J.Jensen, Partanen, Wojaczek, Hansen 44,66 3. Johansson, Jakobsen, Chmiel, Lunna 45,84 4. Lyager, Fricke, Kling, Wieczorek 45,22 5. S.Jensen, Nilsson, Trzensiok, Vuolas 44,62 6. S.Jensen, Woryna, Kling, Lunna d 45,04 7. Josefsen, Fricke, Nilsson, Wojaczek 44,22 8. Hansen, Broms, Chmiel, Vuolas 44,28 9. Jakobsen, Ahlbom, J.Jensen, Wieczorek 43,00 10. Lyager, Partanen, Trzensiok, Johansson d 45,38 11. Woryna, Fricke, Hansen, Johansson 45,21 12. Jakobsen, Kling, Wojaczek, Vuolas 43,09 13. Nilsson, Chmiel, Ahlbom, Lyager F 45,32 14. Broms, S.Jensen, Partanen, Wieczorek 44,50 15. J.Jensen, Josefsen, Lunna, Trzensiok 44,75 16. Woryna, Jakobsen, Nilsson, Partanen R 44,19 17. Lyager, Broms, Wojaczek, Lunna T 44,00 18. S.Jensen, Fricke, Chmiel, J.Jensen d 44,57 19. Josefsen, Johansson, Vuolas, Wieczorek 44,34 20. Ahlbom, Kling, Hansen, Trzensiok 44,96 21. J.Jensen, Woryna, Lyager, Vuolas 45,43 22. Ahlbom, Johansson, Wojaczek d, S.Jensen d 45,18 23. Josefsen, Kling, Partanen, Chmiel 44,63 24. Hansen, Nilsson, Lunna, Wieczorek 44,69 25. Jakobsen, Fricke, Broms, Trzensiok 43,22 Here's the final: http://www.pzm.pl/userfiles/2011-pliki/zuzel/GT_FINAL.pdf And whats happened to czarnysport.pl?

Five more Jensen's coming through.... What am I gonna do!

Back home from Forssa. The meeting was abandoned after 10 heats due to heavy rain. Results were declared after as the standings were after 9. Results are to be found elsewhere, I was told that speedway.org did them live and I guess Smolinskis site did them too. They did ride pretty fast! Kylmä was the best and Mustonen pointed out that if his drive belt would have lasted in his first it would have been Finnish 1-2... But it didn't. Appleton and Phillips both did well, but Phillips was rammed over by Lespinasse in heat one and hurt his knee. Smolinski had a nightmare with mechanical gremlins, just said to me that rubbish happens, no comments. That summed it up well. Also Hall blew up an engine and trashed a gearbox as well, not his night either. The rain started as heat 10 was at the tapes. The heat itself was ridden without problems but after that the sky opened at it was clear pretty soon that it's over. Joonas Kylmäkorpi FI 554 14 Andrew Appleton GB 454 13 Jörg Tebbe DE 335 11 Glenn Phillips GB 443 11 Richard Speiser DE 541 10 Matthias Kröger DE 325 10 Theo Pijper NL 513 9 Aki-Pekka Mustonen FI R44 8 Josef Franc CZ 413 8 Mathieu Tresarrieu FR R52 7 Herbert Rudolph DE R25 7 Dirk Fabriek NL 222 6 Stephan Katt DE R32 5 Martin Smolinski DE d30 3 Stephane Tresarrieu FR 200 2 Rene Lehtinen FI 101 2 Jerome Lespinasse FR d11 2 Richard Hall GB 1R0 1 Erä erältä: 1. Speiser, Phillips, Mustonen R, M.Tresarrieu R, Smolinski d, Lespinasse d 119,51 2. Kylmäkorpi, Franc, Kröger, Fabriek, Hall, Katt R 117,98 3. Pijper, Appleton, Tebbe, Tresarrieu, Lehtinen, Rudolph R 118,79 4. Kylmäkorpi, Mustonen, Smolinski, Rudolph, Franc, Lehtinen 118,32 5. M.Tresarrieu, Phillips, Katt, Kröger, Pijper, Tresarrieu 117,85 6. Appleton, Speiser, Tebbe, Fabriek, Lespinasse, Hall 116,98 7. Kröger, Appleton, Phillips, Fabriek, Lehtinen, Smolinski 118,30 8. Rudolph, Kylmäkorpi, Pijper, M.Tresarrieu, Speiser, Hall 116,70 9. Tebbe, Mustonen, Franc, Katt, Lespinasse, Tresarrieu 116,79 Kilpailu keskeytettiin sateen takia, tulokset jäävät voimaan. Tuomari: Istvan Darago, katsojia 2750. Sarjan tilanne 3/7 MM-finaalin jälkeen: 1) Joonas Kylmäkorpi 58, 2) Richard Speiser 51, 3) Stephan Katt 47, 4) Jörg Tebbe 45, 5) Theo Pijper 42, 6) Herbert Rudolph 40, 7) Matthias Kröger 36, 8) Mathieu Tresarrieu 35, 9) Andrew Appleton 34, 10) Martin Smolinski 32, 11) Dirk Fabriek 27, 12) Glenn Phillips 26, 13) Josef Franc 24, 14) Aki-Pekka Mustonen 21, 15) Richard Hall 20, 16) Jerome Lespinasse 19, 17) Stephane Tresarrieu 10, 18) Richard Wolff 6, 19) Rene Lehtinen 2.

I forgot that Kauhajoki Speedway was last sunday. VI Kauhajoki Speedway Kauhajoki, KauhjMK 3.7.2011 Timo Lahti KMMK 23333 14 Joni Keskinen SeMK 33323 14 Juha Hautamäki SeMK 33232 13 Pasi Pulliainen VRT 33113 11 Marko Suojanen PMK 32321 11 Teemu Lahti KMMK 2233F 10 Aarni Heikkilä HyMK 22222 10 Janne Nyman SsMK 11032 7 Jiri Nieminen SsMK d1213 7 Vili Mattila KauhjMK 01202 5 Jouni Viljanen PMK 02120 5 Miikka Hyyryläinen SsMK 11111 5 Olli Heikkilä KauhjMK 20001 3 Jere Lehtonen PMK d010F 1 Erä erältä: 1. Keskinen, Heikkilä, Nyman, Mattila 61,49 2. Suojanen, O.Heikkilä, Lehtonen d 62,75 3. Pulliainen, Lahti, Hyyryläinen, Viljanen 62,20 4. Hautamäki, T.Lahti, Nieminen d 60,10 5. Keskinen, Suojanen, Hyyryläinen 61,73 6. T.Lahti, Lahti, Nyman, O.Heikkilä 60,63 7. Hautamäki, Viljanen, Mattila, Lehtonen 60,35 8. Pulliainen, Heikkilä, Nieminen 62,90 9. Keskinen, Nieminen, Viljanen, O.Heikkilä 62,41 10. Suojanen, Hautamäki, Pulliainen, Nyman 61,19 11. T.Lahti, Mattila, Hyyryläinen 61,16 12. Lahti, Heikkilä, Lehtonen 61,93 13. T.Lahti, Keskinen, Pulliainen, Lehtonen 61,16 14. Nyman, Viljanen 65,20 15. Lahti, Suojanen, Nieminen, Mattila 61,38 16. Hautamäki, Heikkilä, Hyyryläinen, O.Heikkilä 60,83 17. Keskinen, Hautamäki, Lahti F 60,78 18. Nieminen, Nyman, Hyyryläinen, Lehtonen F 64,63 19. Pulliainen, Mattila, O.Heikkilä 65,10 20. T.Lahti, Heikkilä, Suojanen, Viljanen 62,84 Semifinaali: Hautamäki, Lahti, Pulliainen, Suojanen 60,75 Finaali: T.Lahti, Hautamäki, Keskinen, Lahti 61,02 Tuomari: Mika Laukkanen, katsojia 65.

My pics from the U19 EC semi HERE!

Ok, thanks!

Went through yesterdays results this morning and dug up the UEM papers from las year that showed allocations. Seinäjoki was supposed to get 4+1 through, but with no hosting fed rider it was gonna be 3+1 according to Annexxe II, dated November 30th. Any idea when this changed, anyone...

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Glad you asked, since I would have been pretty p1ssed if no one was watching... CREDIT SPEEDWAYSANOMAT.FI FOR THESE RESULTS! Mikkel B Jensen DK 33313 13 Michael Jepsen Jensen DK 3d333 12+3 Jonas B Andersen DK 13332 12+2 Timo Lahti FI 33222 12+R Kasper Lykke Nielsen DK 32221 10 Nikolai Jakobsen DK 13131 9 Joel Larsson SE 20322 9 Mikkel Michelsen DK 02R33 8 Mathias Törnblom SE 21103 7 Jakob Thorsell SE 22210 7 Victor Palovaara SE 22101 6 Oliver Berntzon SE 11012 5 Tim Gudmundsson SE 01121 5 Mika Loppi FI 0021d 3 Jiri Nieminen FI 11000 2 Miikka Hyyryläinen FI 00000 0 Erä erältä: 1. B.Jensen, Törnblom, Andersen, Michelsen 63,18 2. Lahti, Thorsell, Nieminen, Hyyryläinen 64,48 3. Nielsen, Palovaara, Jakobsen, Loppi 64,50 4. J.Jensen, Larsson, Berntzon, Gudmundsson 62,44 5. Andersen, Palovaara, Gudmundsson, Hyyryläinen 65,53 6. Lahti, Nielsen, Törnblom, Larsson 64,75 7. Jakobsen, Michelsen, Nieminen, J.Jensen d 63,88 8. B.Jensen, Thorsell, Berntzon, Loppi 63,28 9. Andersen, Lahti, Jakobsen, Berntzon 64,61 10. J.Jensen, Loppi, Törnblom, Hyyryläinen 64,28 11. Larsson, Thorsell, Palovaara, Michelsen R 65,00 12. B.Jensen, Nielsen, Gudmundsson, Nieminen 64,01 13. Andersen, Larsson, Loppi, Nieminen 65,59 14. Jakobsen, Gudmundsson, Thorsell, Törnblom 64,12 15. Michelsen, Nielsen, Berntzon, Hyyryläinen 64,22 16. J.Jensen, Lahti, B.Jensen, Palovaara 63,34 17. J.Jensen, Andersen, Nielsen, Thorsell 65,50 18. Törnblom, Berntzon, Palovaara, Nieminen 64,41 19. Michelsen, Lahti, Gudmundsson, Loppi d 65,12 20. B.Jensen, Larsson, Jakobsen, Hyyryläinen 62,81 Uusinta: J.Jensen, Andersen, Lahti R 63,19 Tuomari: Wojciech Grodzki, katsojia 345. Three danes through after Lahti's engine failed on lap three in the rerun while clear second behind MJJ. Some great speedway through the meeting after the locals made huge effort in saving the track and the meeting from abandonment. Loads of rain yesterday and last night and the track was really soggy but with the sun and hardwork they pulled it off. MBJ was the best and might have won it with max if MJJ had not had a fall in his second. He was helped by teammates a couple of times and he owns the guys a few drinks, not just Mad croc I might add. MJJ and Lahti had a great battle in their heat and a couple of heats after the interval had so much passing that I could not keep up. Hopefully starting the trip back home now, I've been here since 8AM and I'm only the photographer...

Sun is out and the track looks great. Without heavy showers it's gonna be great. I'll post some details on intervals. Edit; they are watering the after two heats, would not have believed this 6 hours ago. Mbj and lahti wineers so far. Lahti R while clear second 20 done; mbj won and it looks like a runoff for 2nd with lahti, andersen and mjj 4 done: lahti, andersen, mbj 10, mjj lykke 9. Lahti led mjj for two laps with mbj 3 rd. Mjj squeezed through for the win. Lookd like we ' ll get this done before the rain. 3rd set: Mbj 9, lahti 8, lykke & b andersen 7, mjj 6. Might start to rain soon and 12 done. 1st winners: mbj, lahti, lykle nielsen, mjj Problems with tapes. Been for 20 mins now. B andersen passed palovaara for the win in heat5. 2nd set done: mbj 6, lahti 6, lykke nielsen 5, jakobsen thorsell palov b andersen 4. Mjj fell on his own and got a d.

Practide has been postponed twice, another track check at 1145. The weather radar looks really bad, but then again it's supposed to be pouring down at the moment and it's not. I do have a feeling though that we'll see the results of this meeting today. EDIT II: Practise cancelled, meeting goes ahead as planned at 4PM local. Short practise before each first heat. EDIT: SM-liiga last tuesday, I saw no one else had done them... Keittiöpiste 35 Tero Aarnio 23332 13 Timo Lahti 1’12’2’1’ 7+4 Marko Hyyryläinen 2’12’ 5+2 Andrei Lebedev 3d313 10 Sand Blowers 33 Jari Mäkinen 2’2’230 9+2 Andreas Messing 331’33 13+1 Pasi Pulliainen 0102’1 4+1 Aarni Heikkilä 133 7 Kotkat 28 Juha Hautamäki 02’022 6+1 Kauko Nieminen 3331’R3 13 Rene Lehtinen 100 1 Mika Loppi 3221 8 Paholaiset 12 Joni Keskinen 11102 5 Jiri Nieminen 00010 1 Marko Suojanen 22101 6 Jere Lehtonen 000 0 Erä erältä: 1. Nieminen, Aarnio, T.Lahti, Hautamäki 63,83 2. Messing, Mäkinen, Keskinen, J.Nieminen 63,82 3. Lebedev, Hyyryläinen, Heikkilä, Pulliainen 63,76 4. Loppi, Suojanen, Lehtinen, Lehtonen 65,68 5. Nieminen, Hautamäki, Keskinen, J.Nieminen 63,97 6. Messing, Mäkinen, T.Lahti, Lebedev d 64,41 7. Aarnio, T.Lahti, Keskinen, J.Nieminen 65,40 8. Heikkilä, Suojanen, Pulliainen, Lehtonen 66,34 9. Nieminen, Mäkinen, Messing, Hautamäki 63,24 10. Lebedev, Loppi, Hyyryläinen, Lehtinen 63,82 11. Aarnio, T.Lahti, Suojanen, Keskinen 64,87 12. Messing, Hautamäki, Nieminen, Pulliainen 63,52 13. Mäkinen, Pulliainen, J.Nieminen, Suojanen 66,13 14. Aarnio, Hautamäki, Lebedev, Nieminen R 64,08 15. Heikkilä, Loppi, Pulliainen, Lehtinen 66,61 16. Lebedev, Hyyryläinen, Suojanen, Lehtonen 64,39 17. Messing, Aarnio, T.Lahti, Mäkinen 64,42 18. Nieminen, Keskinen, Loppi, J.Nieminen 65,41 Tuomari: Harri Heikkilä, katsojia 260.

1) b. Andersen, 2) m. Törnblom, 3) m. Michelsen 4) b. Jensen, 5) m. Hyyryläinen, 6) timo lahti, 7) jiri nieminen, 8) j. Thorsell, 9) palovaara, 10) k l nielsen, 11) n. Jacobsen, 12) mika loppi, 13) t gudmunsson, 14) joel larsson, 15) jepsen jensen, 16) berntzon, 17) vili mattila, 18) Jere Lehtonen Practise is halved and some rain expected during the day.

There's been absolutely nothing officially regarding tomorrows meeting, nothing. I just checked with speedway.org and they have nothing either, so I suspect its an UEM thing. I did hear today that only three are going through since the final's host nation doesn't have a qualified rider and semi 4 is the one giving from its quota. I'm at the track early tomorrow so I'll post something after noon. The organizer has also decided against keeping live updates, but we'll see how the day gets going and whether or not I'm into keeping some myself on this forum.

Lebedev set to appear in the Finnish league next tuesday. I'm not able to post results from the meeting, maybe someone of the Finnish readers here can keep you all up to date... There's a chance that the U19 EC semifinal is gonna have liveupdates. I'll confirm it here late next week if it happens.

You can add Jiri Nieminen, Mika Loppi and Timo Lahti to that. Reserves unknown at the moment.

Federatione Nationale Motorcyclismo... or something like that. From your southern neighbours I believe?

According to the poster on the clubs website it starts at 4 PM local. Wouldn't hold my breath for a starting list... Maybe sometime late next week.

This probably doesn't look as good pasted here as it did on the excel sheet, but should give some idea. I think it all works out on the success of the federation, what do they have to back up the requests they make when the starting positions in each competition is given. And it works through the years, not just what happened last time. Except when your rider doesn't turn up, you are usually one slot short the next year. Below are the slots for this years GP quali's. 2011 2010 Requested Obtained FMNs 8 8 6 ACCR 5 5 5 ACU 1 2 2 AMA 6 7 5 AMZS 1 1 1 CMA 3 3 2 CAMOD 5 6 5 DMSB 8 8 8 DMU 1 2 1 FFM 0 0 FMB 4 4 4 FMI 3 5 4 FMU 2 2 2 HMS 0 2 2 KNMV 2 3 3 LaMSF 4 4 3 MA 2 2 2 MAMS 8 8 6 MFR 1 2 2 NMF 1 1 1 OeAMTC 1 1 1 SMF 9 10 9 PZM 1 3 2 SML 7 7 7 SVEMO 83 96 83