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I think Jussi Nyrönen should be proud of his score, I'd say he's surprised even himself. Anyway, well done!

Hope you make it. Kauhajoki club has announced that they are holding Finland vs. Sweden ice racing test match on March 5th.

I've been present as a journalist many times and still got them wrong! That was not the question though. I dont know how the live updates worked, but usually I do trust (most of) them... I guess I'll go with Mama's report then, since Mark Uzzell clearly did not finish second in heat three. If he really was excluded, the ref was an idiot. My brother recently picked up on his ice hockey ref career and has been getting some decent games this season. Anyway, as the juniors gain size they usually do more stupid things and I told him that he should always remember that if he himself does something wrong in the rink, it can be in youtube within minutes... Like with this one, the ref cant really talk his way out of this one... (if he did exclude him) EDIT2: Any idea about the size of the crowd? Looked decent...

Actually they seem to be totally wrong... It was a direct copypaste from the adress mentioned. Where did your's come from?

The meeting from Gniezno by espeedway.pl Grzegorz Knapp PL 33333 15 Miroslaw Daniszewski PL 33223 13 Radek Hutla CZ 333d3 12 Gerrit Scukken NL 21233 11 Jan Pecina CZ 32311 10 Simon Reitsma NL 20232 9 Pawel Strugala PL 132d2 8 Lukas Hutla CZ 21122 8 Lukas Volejnik CZ d2032 7 Johan Bruckner AT 123d1 7 Mark Uzzell GB 21101 5 Markus Birn CH 02020 4 Bohumil Behal CZ 00121 4 Rony Haring CH 11110 4 Harri Saari FI 10010 2 Piotr Hejnowski PL 0R0RN 0 Erä erältä: 1. Knapp, Scukken, Haring, Hejnowski 2. Daniszewski, Hutla, Saari, Behal 3. Pecina, Uzzell, Bruckner, Volejnik d 4. R.Hutla, Reitsma, Strugala, Birn 5. Knapp, Birn, Uzzell, Behal 6. R.Hutla, Bruckner, Hutla, Hejnowski R 7. Daniszewski, Volejnik, Scukken, Reitsma 8. Strugala, Pecina, Haring, Saari 9. Knapp, P. Strugala, Hutla, Volejnik 10. Pecina, Reitsma, Behal, Hejnowski 11. R.Hutla, Scukken, Uzzell, Saari 12. Bruckner, Daniszewski, Haring, Birn 13. Knapp, Daniszewski, Pecina, R.Hutla d 14. Volejnik, Birn, Saari, Hejnowski R 15. Scukken, Behal, Bruckner d, Strugala d 16. Reitsma, Hutla, Haring, Uzzell 17. Knapp, Reitsma, Bruckner, Saari 18. Daniszewski, Strugala, Uzzell 19. Scukken, Hutla, Pecina, Birn 20. R.Hutla, Volejnik, Behal, Haring

I found a clipping that says he won his 3rd consecutive key in -66. The key's were the centerpiece of his wall of honour at his home.

After another year of a double figure increase in percentage in interest I guess I have to do this again... Four teams in the Finnish SM-liiga this coming season after Kauhajoki decided they would not enter the league this year. They had problems gathering a competiteve team. So it's four and that's what we'll work with. Lineups are announced after January 15th. There was some controversial governing of the leagues last season and we'll have to see if it gets any better this year. I'm the new federation supremo behind league speedway so it's a bit 50-60 if anything will change. And after iris123 made my sauna an international news item, it's really not progressing all that well. It could be finished by the ice racing final but then again it was supposed to be finished for christmas. The obituary of Kalevi Lahtinen is here, use google translate yourself. It may not have been the best, as the man was THE sports superstar of his city back in the day.

Finnish final at Hyvinkää (Lat: N 60º 39' 47.7" Long: E 24º 54' 30.8") on February 20th.

Swedish WC riders St Johann: Fredrik Johansson och Posa Serenius Saalfelden: P-A Lindström och Peter Koij Sanok: Stefan Svensson och Tommy Flyktman Swedish EC riders Tommy Flyktman och Robert Henderson. and the Nordic final at Målilla on (EDIT) January 28th. At the speedway stadion. No news regarding meetings in Finland at the moment. Trying to find out as I write...

Klatovsky gave it away... To leave the door open like that!

Enough sources have confirmed that Kalevi Lahtinen passed away just before christmas. He was one of the 16 riders that took part in the first ever Finnish speedway championship final back in 1955. Mentioning just that dont do him the credit he deserves so I'll wait for others with more knowledge to write about him. More on this next years thread. He was also a member of the VSRA.

I was gonna laugh but I'm glad I didn't. 320 meters of ice racing track averaging 10 meters in width... I'd probably bail out before I was even asked. The people at Gdansk clearing out for the track on a lake... Harri Saari from Finland is riding so I hope it turns out ok.

Bronchitis by google...

Merry Christmas! I'm starting to build up for the coming season now...

The Finnish SM-liiga (formerly known as Extraliiga) will be a four team battle again next year. Kuusankoski (fka Keittiöpiste), Hyvinkää (fka Sand Blowers), Pori (fka Paholaiset) and Seinäjoki (fka Kotkat) are those four teams. The door is kept open for a fifth team until the end of the year. Team nicknames will be announced with lineups after January 15th 2011. Kaupunki Cup will also be contested next year, more info on that WAY later...

Finnish nominations 15.1.2011 St Johann: Mats Järf 21.1.2011 Sanok: Henri Malinen, Jouni Seppänen 22.1.2011 Saalfelden: Antti Aakko, Kai Lehtinen Berlin 26.-27.2.2011 team WC: Antti Aakko, Mats Järf, Kai Lehtinen and team manager Jouni Seppänen. Euro's: 29.1.2011 semifinal Togliatti: Henri Malinen 30.1.2011 final Togliatti: Jussi Nyrönen

Ok, they must have had a coffee break at speedway.org then, since I had this info (Berlin for 2011) from speedway.org several weeks ago... No biggie...

Whats this at speedway.org between Inzell and Berlin? Are they pallning to stage the Inzell round at Berlin?

Didn't even bother to read your post but when it comes to the Danish (international even) 80cc scene, I know there's no one else to turn to but you. You KNOW what your did...

Now you've done it...

Timo Lahti was made U21 rider of the year in Finland by Speedwaysanomat, the Finnish track racing magazine. Lahti turned 18 midway through the season and was practically untouchable on the Finnish tracks apart from a blip in form in the individual final at Kauhajoki. He was also an important part in the Finnish national team in all the international competitions. The award has earlier been given to Jari Mäkinen -07, Aki-Pekka Mustonen -08, Kalle Katajisto -09 and now Lahti 2010.

Nothing much positive has been said of their actions either in the past couple of years... If the governing body itself decides to give the boot for 3 of the 4 persons running track racing, it does not mean they've done a good job.

There was a meeting today to finish up the training camp at Ylitornio, Finland. Results are as follows: Antti Aakko IRR 33333 15 Mats Järf VaMK 33332 14 Kai Lehtinen IRR 33222 12 Henri Malinen P-KMK 22313 11 Jussi Nyrönen P-KMK 12232 10 Jouni Seppänen PirMM 321d3 9 Timo Kankkunen P-KMK 13113 9 Teppo Toivola ASMP 21221 8 Sami Hassinen P-KMK 22121 8 Jussi Hytönen P-KMK 21d22 7 Rene Dünki CH 113R0 5 Janne Vilponen A-SMP FRR31 4 Harri Saari IRR 00210 3 Sakari Piirainen OMK 01101 3 Mika Helin ValkMK 10000 1 Sergei Potantsintsev RU 0d000 0 Erä erältä: 1. Järf, Hytönen, Dünki, Vilponen F 2. Seppänen, Malinen, Kankkunen, Saari 3. Lehtinen, Hassinen, Helin, Potantsintsev 4. Aakko, Toivola, Nyrönen, Piirainen 5. Järf, Seppänen, Toivola, Potantsintsev 6. Kankkunen, Hassinen, Piirainen, Vilponen 7. Aakko, Malinen, Dünki, Helin 8. Lehtinen, Nyrönen, Hytönen, Saari 9. Järf, Nyrönen, Kankkunen, Helin 10. Aakko, Lehtinen, Seppänen, Vilponen 11. Dünki, Saari, Piirainen, Potantsintsev 12. Malinen, Toivola, Hassinen, Hytönen d 13. Järf, Lehtinen, Malinen, Piirainen 14. Vilponen, Toivola, Saari, Helin 15. Nyrönen, Hassinen, Dünki R, Seppänen d 16. Aakko, Hytönen, Kankkunen, Potantsintsev 17. Aakko, Järf, Hassinen, Saari 18. Malinen, Nyrönen, Vilponen, Potantsintsev 19. Kankkunen, Lehtinen, Toivola, Dünki 20. Seppänen, Hytönen, Piirainen, Helin

UEM has issued an updated track racing calendar for 2011 (November 30th) and the U19 Nordic final makes a return and Seinäjoki is hosting it on July 2nd. Timo Lahti is a clear candidate for the win, but unless Mika Loppi leaps astronomically during the winter with his performance and bikes it'll as ugly with the rest as it was in 2007. Allocations: DMU 7 SVEMO 6 SML 3+2

That'll get me started, thank you very many!