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And currently he's riding for Newcastle... Impressed me too in Pardubice earlier this season. 80cc is not 500cc speedway... Many riders will fail to break trough and then there are riders that will only start when they are 17. And then there's of course Nicolai Klindt who started with the 50cc micro, won the U19 at 2007 and is U21 finalist this season...

It's Loppi's last season in this one. I've only spoken to him once but he seemed very level headed and aware about the things going on... Heard some good comments about him too after there was a training camp in Finland a few weeks back. All in all this will total in to the fact that he will come good in 500cc too, if given the chance. Regarding this one I'd say he's probably learned a bit today and I wish him all the best for the semi.

Is the wonderkid Sissis in this year?

If we ever get a reward for the favours we do... That'll be a party I really want to be a part of! I actually changed my view on this, dont think that Katajisto will replace Rosen... FIM rules 070.4.6.6 and 070.4.6.3 ...and yes, UEM follows FIM rules in many situations.

Anton Rosen has informed the organizers that he's not coming due to injury. A question follows... Who will take his place!! I'd say Katajisto as the 2nd reserve from the same qualifier that Rosen went through. This is why... : UEM works according to these... 11. RULES The following rules are in force for Track Racing: - UEM Statutes and By-Laws - UEM Annuaire 2009 - UEM Sporting Code 2009 - UEM Disciplinary and Arbitration Code - FIM Track Racing Technical Rules 2009 - FIM Medical Code 2009 - FIM Anti-Doping Code 2009 - FIM Environmental Code 2009 - FIM Track Racing Appendices 2009 - FIM Standards for Track Racing Circuits 2009 And the FIM book says this: 070.4.6.6 Track reserve riders The track reserve rider will be eligible to replace a programmed rider who is unable to compete in a following round and he will become a programmed rider. If time allows, the rider below him from the qualifying meeting concerned becomes the track reserve rider for that round. Opinions???

Appe Mustonen with Katajisto's race jacket and old Kylmäkorpi covers. I think he was very lucky that Gafurov was denied a visa during spring and the Eastbourne team had to be redone (and Mustonen was dropped).

They'll probably start working on the 4th or 5th day after first the hotel and then the city has run out of beer. If you dont have an insider there, then dont hold your breath while waiting official info.

All4back after this one in Finland last weekend. It's about 5 or 6 pics alltogether. I wonder what the referee was doing while it happened?? It was a first bend fall in a semifinal with two going through to the final. It's not just the GP's that the ref's cant take the pressure...

A real shame about Smederna. I'd say it's the best permanent setup (track/stadium) I've ever visited. Speedway in Eskilstuna will not die (I believe/hope), but Elitserien will be poorer without them.

55th Individual Finnish speedway final will be ridden in Pori on August 1st. First heat at 5 PM Finnish time. Seeded straight in to the final are: Juha Hautamäki, Kaj Laukkanen, Tomi Reima, Tero Aarnio, Kake Nieminen, Kalle Katajisto*, Niko Siltaniemi*, Jari Mäkinen*, Timo Lahti* and Appe Mustonen*. * these are in the Finnish U19 team riding in Germany on July 18th, so they were seeded to the final. Qualifier is held at Seinäjoki on sunday, July 19th. 6+2 places are on offer. 15 riders in the qualifier are (also the draw): 1. Petri Koskela (PMK) 2. Joni Kitala (SsMK) 3. Aarni Heikkilä (FMS) 4. Janne Nyman (SsMK) 5. Jani Eerikäinen (KMMK) 6. Teemu Lahti (KMMK) 7. Petteri Koivunen (SeMK) 8. Rene Lehtinen (SeMK) 9. Joni Keskinen (KauhjMK) 10. Markku Autio (KuMaMo) 11. Jouni Viljanen (PMK) 12. Jarkko Palmi (SeMK) 13. Juho Ruuska (HjMK) 14. Teemu Mattila (KauhjMK) 15. Cezary Owizyc (PMK)

Kaupunki Cup 2/6 Haapajärvi collected the win at their hometrack. Haapajärvi 20 Niko Siltaniemi 32333 14 Juho Ruuska 2T112 6 Lahti I 9 Jukka Nieminen 01102 4 Kalle Kivistö 1R22d 5 Kauhajoki 16 Teemu Mattila 233R 8 Jere Mattila 1211 5 Jan-Erik Korkeamäki 21 3 Lahti II 17 Aarni Heikkilä 0032 5 Reima Heikkilä 01 1 Joni Kitala 3323 11 Pori 14 Jouni Viljanen 21FNN 3 Petteri Koivunen 12323 11 Seinäjoki 13 Jari Mäkinen 333NN 9 Jarkko Palmi 01021 4 Erä erältä: 1. Siltaniemi, Ruuska, Kivistö, Nieminen 65,11 2. Kitala, Mattila, J.Mattila, R.Heikkilä 67,54 3. Mäkinen, Viljanen, Koivunen, Palmi 65,32 4. Mäkinen, Siltaniemi, Palmi, Ruuska T 64,59 5. Mattila, J.Mattila, Nieminen, Kivistö R 68,88 6. Kitala, Koivunen, Viljanen, Heikkilä 66,45 7. Koivunen, Korkeamäki, J.Mattila, Viljanen F 66,85 8. Mäkinen, Kivistö, Nieminen, Palmi 65,53 9. Siltaniemi, Kitala, Ruuska, Heikkilä 65,64 10. Heikkilä, Kivistö, R.Heikkilä, Nieminen 66,45 11. Siltaniemi, Koivunen, Ruuska 64,11 12. Mattila, Palmi, J.Mattila 69,9 13. Kitala, Heikkilä, Palmi 66,74 14. Siltaniemi, Ruuska, Korkeamäki, Mattila R 65,84 15. Koivunen, Nieminen, Kivistö d 69,42 Katsojia 200 80cc Suomen Cup 4/6 Niilo Vuolas took his first win today at Haapajärvi. Niilo Vuolas HjMK 223 7 Vili Mattila KauhjMK 232 7 Miikka Hyyryläinen SsMK 33d 6 Antti Vuolas HjMK 33d 6 Aapo Lohvansuu HjMK 121 4 Vikke Kuhanen SsMK 111 3 Erä erältä: 1. Vuolas, Mattila, Lohvansuu 48,91 2. Hyyryläinen, Lohvansuu, Kuhanen 51,36 3. Vuolas, N.Vuolas, Kuhanen 49,36 4. Mattila, N.Vuolas, Lohvansuu 49,65 5. Hyyryläinen, Mattila, Kuhanen 48,34 6. N.Vuolas, Vuolas d, Hyyryläinen d 50,50 Finaali: N.Vuolas, Hyyryläinen d, Vuolas d, Mattila d 50,44

Nicholls vs. Sajfutdinov fight on Youtube has now also been mentioned on the website of #1 Finnish daily newspaper, Iltasanomat! Alltough again for the totally wrong reasons, this is still much better than last time. A year ago speedway was mentioned in every media in Finland after Timo Villanen was paralysed in a track crash at Seinäjoki.

GP is different! So is the the GP qualifier final. It's just one day at Coventry, 16 riders at a track that one messed about or at one moment tired (while watering the the track) track marshall might mess about to suit one or another... IN ALL HONESTY... That is, what is the day to day in our sport! no smiley here for approval.

Kaukos' 1st time in the final! Enough for me, I rate this higher than whatever Laukkanen did. Kauko is your "from rags to riches" in speedway if anyone is! Hard work year after year to make ends meet. He might have stepped up to Elite a year too late, but thankfully it was a year after he was really able to do it and make the steo up! He also had help at the pits (not a given for a FI rider according to my info, hopefully helped him a lot!!!!) The rider shortage in the UK is REAL! We in in Finland are very lucky at the moment to have such level headed people running the show that there's no help given for our youngsters to take the LEAP to change the continent!

A real shame that a track that looked so good early on, proved to be so crap. Timo Lahti took home the honours and the welding machine at Kemppi Speedway today with a touch of track craft and a bucket load of pure luck. Tomi Reima HMK 33332 14 Juha Hautamäki SeMK 32333 14 Timo Lahti KMMK 23323 13 Kalle Katajisto KauhjMK 21332 11 Teemu Lahti KMMK 32123 11 Appe Mustonen VRT 31213 10 Alexander Edberg SE 23031 9 Joni Kitala SsMK 23210 8 Kalle Kivistö SeMK 0222R 6 Janne Nyman SsMK 10212 6 Aarni Heikkilä FMS 11121 6 Jani Eerikäinen KarhMK 1211d 5 Petteri Koivunen SeMK 00102 3 Jukka Nieminen SsMK 01001 2 Reima Heikkilä FMS 100R0 1 Jarmo Tapani FMS 0dNNN 0 Erä erältä: 1. Hautamäki, T.Lahti, Eerikäinen, Kivistö 64,63 2. Mustonen, Katajisto, R.Heikkilä, Tapani 65,66 3. Reima, Edberg, Heikkilä, Koivunen 64,84 4. Lahti, Kitala, Nyman, Nieminen 65,36 5. Kitala, Kivistö, Mustonen, Koivunen 66,16 6. Reima, Hautamäki, Katajisto, Nyman 64,53 7. T.Lahti, Lahti, Heikkilä, R.Heikkilä 64,25 8. Edberg, Eerikäinen, Nieminen, Tapani d 67,78 9. Katajisto, Kivistö, Heikkilä, Nieminen 65,31 10. Hautamäki, Mustonen, Lahti, Edberg 66,50 11. T.Lahti, Nyman, Koivunen, Weckman 65,75 12. Reima, Kitala, Eerikäinen, R.Heikkilä 66,09 13. Edberg, Kivistö, Nyman, R.Heikkilä 67,12 14. Hautamäki, Heikkilä, Kitala, Weckman 65,47 15. Reima, T.Lahti, Mustonen, Nieminen 66,56 16. Katajisto, Lahti, Eerikäinen, Koivunen 66,81 17. Lahti, Reima, Weckman, Kivistö 66,47 18. Hautamäki, Koivunen, Nieminen, R.Heikkilä 65,13 19. T.Lahti, Katajisto, Edberg, Kitala 65,72 20. Mustonen, Nyman, Heikkilä, Eerikäinen 68,38 Semifinaali: Mustonen, T.Lahti, Lahti, Katajisto 67,72 Finaali: T.Lahti, Hautamäki, Mustonen, Reima 65,34 Katsojia: 165 GO KAUKO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.piraterna.se/default.aspx?NodeId=276 Thanks on the Swidders info. Kylmäkorpi is currently first reserve, thats why I asked.

I read from somewhere that when no Brit will qualify, Daugavpils will only send 7+1 forward. Any word on Swiderski, is he riding or not? Hurt his leg on wednesday and didn't ride on thursday. No news on his website 10 minutes ago when I checked.

A few Finns were at Drammen, Norway last weekend for the local longtrack championship. Björn G Hansen NO 445 13 Klaus-Peter Gerdemann DE 525 12 Marius Rökeberg NO 532 10 Sjoerd Rozenberg NL 434 11 Kim Rudi Mortensen NO 153 9 Tommi Ahlgren FI 324 9 Kenneth Borgenhaug NO 313 7 Petri Kärki FI 24R 6 Dave Speight GB 05N 5 Joel Nyström SE 211 4 Stein Roar Pedersen NO 102 3 Arne Andersen DK DNS Erä erältä: 7. Gerdemann, Rosenberg, Borgenhaug, Nyström, Mortensen, Speight 8. Rökeberg, Hansen, Alhgren, Kärki, Pedersen 20. Speight, Hansen, Rökeberg, Gerdemann, Borgenhaug 21. Mortensen, Kärki, Rosenberg, Ahlgren, Nyström, Pedersen 32.Gerdemann, Alhgren, Borgenhaug, Pedersen 33. Hansen, Rosenberg, Mortensen, Rökeberg, Nyström A-finaali: Gerdemann, Hansen, Rökeberg, Rosenberg, Mortensen, Ahlgren

So with the current way that the wind is blowing, Kylmäkorpi will make it to the meeting proper on saturday (rain is promised at Motala I'm told) only to be outruled from the qualifinal by some nobody like Simon Stead or David Howtodoit!!

OK, thanks!

What's the current rule, will Woffy now replace Ulamek in the lineup at Motala or does PZM have the right to nominate a replacement? On another thread they are saying J. Wright gets a place in Daugavpils after two riders had withdrawn. That doesnt sound right...

Wasn't this yours too? www.speedway-grasstrack.nl? Dont suppose you have the results from Norway, the Norwegian Champioship in longtrack and the old timers results from the same meeting??

Now this is teamwork! Having a local trackman holdingthe Russian back laughing and giving Scott a real chance to land one in!

600 dollars for Emil and 500 dollars for Scotty according to last nights Sportspegeln on SVT1 (Swedish BBC). They had their reporters at trackside.

I thought that way too, but there's nothing unexperienced about his main mechanic and manager who was a part of Tricks setup for the last few years Trick was riding. Holloway has also seen his bit in the pits and garage with Nicki and then Karger.