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Flyktman has said that his main focus is to get to the GP as well as to ride in the Finnish and Nordic finals. Think he missed a round last year, maybe the organizers weren't too happy about that. But in sportowefakty.pl they were only talking about Aakko or Seppänen. Aakko did not want to do it so Seppänen got the place.

Nothing much to report, no dates and no nominations... There will be just one league next season called Speedway Extra League. 8 four man teams with 7 matches per team in the regular season and playoffs for top 4. Was a bit disappointed that they didn't give the dates and nominations which they did last year. I do know that the speedway ind. final will be held by Kuusankoski, ice racing final will be held by Oulu (early march, dont book yet! ), Pairs at Lahti and Longtrack at Pori. The U21-ruling for the teams was scrapped and the joker-rule will be re-defined but will most likely stay. There will also be an ice racing training camp in Kuortane a week before christmas where they will decide the riders for the qualifiers.

Jouni Seppänen will represent Finland in the Golden Spike-series while Antti Aakko will concentrate on the GP-qualifiers and possibly the series and the swedish league.

It wasn't me... Says on masarna.nu that Laukkanen has a verbal agreement with Indianerna. He confirmed this last week when I spoke with him.

Just received an email from ticnet saying that Monster Jam will be on show at Ullevi next june. I thought laying the speedway track was too much for the athletics track... http://www.monsterjam.se/ Couple of years ago when they had the MJ at the indoor Globen arena, they had speedway on show as well. Trick, AJ and Sullivan did some show laps for the public.

There's a quote from Matt Ford on speedway+ saying that he heard a top rider getting 4000 £ just to travel... Big country, big money, huge potential. Also heard from a finnish ref who was there as an official in Vladivostok saying that the meeting he was in was brilliant racing wise. Local riders are on top equipment and no money is saved when it comes to the equipment. The world of speedway is changing, I see big trouble for the BSPA in the future unless they are able to find loads of british riders to fill the gap when the poles/swedes/danes and the occasional finn really start to ride outside of UK.

I got it allright, think you said that the meeting only mattered to the top3? Well it actually mattered a whole lot more like iris123 pointed out. Cant see Ferjan getting a one single ride next season, but I'm with you that Stead is a better rider than Ferjan. Results from the qualifier here: Hans Andersen 33333 15 Peter Karlsson 33323 14 Wieslaw Jagus 33132 12 Rune Holta 32313 12 Chris Harris 21332 11 Kai Laukkanen 11223 9 Charlie Gjedde 12032 8 Piotr Protasiewicz 23200 7 Ryan Sullivan 21121 7 Matej Ferjan 12021 6 Simon Stead 22010 5 Renat Gafurov 10202 5 Martin Smolinski d0211 4 Mikael Max 00101 2 Robert Kosiecha 01100 2 David Howe 00010 1 Erä erältä: 1. Karlsson, Harris, Gjedde, Howe 65,8 2. Jagus, Stead, Gafurov, Max 65,9 3. Holta, Sullivan, Laukkanen, Kosiecha 66,1 4. Andersen, Protasiewicz, Ferjan, Smolinski R 67,1 5. Jagus, Holta, Harris, Smolinski 64,3 6. Protasiewicz, Gjedde, Kosiecha, Gafurov 66,0 7. Andersen, Stead, Sullivan, Howe 65,5 8. Karlsson, Ferjan, Laukkanen, Max 67,0 9. Harris, Gafurov, Sullivan, Ferjan 65,8 10. Andersen, Laukkanen, Jagus, Gjedde 65,7 11. Holta, Protasiewicz, Max, Howe 66,7 12. Karlsson, Smolinski, Kosiecha, Stead 66,9 13. Harris, Laukkanen, Stead, Protasiewicz 66,9 14. Gjedde, Sullivan, Smolinski, Max 67,1 15. Jagus, Ferjan, Howe, Kosiecha 67,0 16. Andersen, Karlsson, Holta, Gafurov 67,1 17. Andersen, Harris, Max, Kosiecha 67,4 18. Holta, Gjedde, Ferjan, Stead 67,3 19. Laukkanen, Gafurov, Smolinski, Howe 68,1 20. Karlsson, Jagus, Sullivan, Protasiewicz 67,8 Finaali: Jagus, Holta, Andersen, Karlsson 66,9 Ooops!!!!!!!! Stead lost to Ferjan in heat 18...

Indeed. Like expected the Euro's in ice racing took one of the best weekends of the Finnish season, and we now have two weekend's for the finnish final left in January, 6-7th and 21-22nd . The one left in February is too late in the current finnish climate. Why "left"? Because for the last few years it's been the target to have everyone available for the individual final. A target that failed miserably last year when Aakko was in Sweden for league racing and Flyktman was supposed to be in Divisisov for the Golden Spike (but wasn't). I know Flyktman has an intention to ride in the final this year, havent spoken with Aakko yet this winter. On another note! Dont have the time to check the facts now, but I have recently read in newspapers that Finland has been given the speed skating championhips (Euro or World?) for 2008, but the finnish speed skating federation managed to put them back to 2010. Why tell this.... Aaah... They want to have them indoors, and to do that, you have to build an arena!

OK, thanks. I went trough the UEM site several times only to get the feeling that they are proud to have a congress of their own.

Yep TOP8 Indeed...

The info is now on speedway.org but cant find it from uem-online.org

Where did you find this, please tell.

Actually it mattered if you were in the top8 and Stead didn't make it.

There's nothing wrong in this thread in my opinion, and these were my thoughts yesterday as I read the SS interview in the SS. He was well beaten by Harris in the meeting that actually really counted (racing wise) and that was the Grand Final in Vetlanda. Harris beat him by six points and also in their heat which Harris won and Stead was third behind Laukkanen. So stop whining Simon!

Thats what I thought but also that there's something more behind such a definite posting.

explain please...

I'm a bit surprised I'm beating Conkers in posting these.... But I'm going through them for another reason so I thought why not post them on here. December 9. Sa Sanok-Cup Sanok, Poland 10. Sa Sanok-Cup Sanok, Poland 17. Su National qualifier, Sweden 26. Tu Santa Cup Örnsköldsvik, Sweden 27. We Santa Cup Östersund, Sweden 28. Th Santa Cup Bollnäs, Sweden 29. Fr Santa Cup Gävle, Sweden 30. Sa Hedemora Open Hedemora, Sweden January 6.1. Sa Golden Spike St. Johan, Austria 7.1. Su Golden Spike Steingaden, Germany 14. Su WC-qualifier 1 Saalfelden, Austria 20.1. Sa Golden Spike Flims, Switzerland 21.1. Su Golden Spike Divisov, Tšekki 27-28. Sa-Su Team World Cup, Saransk, Russia February 1-4.2 We-Su Euro Champ's Lukhovitsy, Russia 10-11. Sa-Su WC-qualifier 2 Penza, Russia 10-11. Sa-Su WC-qualifier 3 Inzell, Germany 24-25. Sa-Su WC-finaali 1 Ufa, Russia March 9.3. Fr Golden Spike Assen, Holland 10-11. Sa-Su WC-final 2 Assen, Holland 17-18. Sa-Su WC-final 3 Berlin, Germany 24.3. Sa Individual German Championhips Erfurt, Germany 25.3. Su Golden Spike Erfurt, Germany most of these are from http://www.espeedway.pl/, a pretty good polish site! Also info from http://www.isracing.net/ and the FIM dates are from FIM. Only meetings missing now are the European rounds, I bet they'll be decided in a week or two. The finnish dates are out on november 19th the latest. Most of the russian dates can be found in polish from http://www.espeedway.pl/ EDIT1 After some searching I'm now convinced that the Sanok Cup will be ridden in Sanok, Poland . It's south of Rzeszow and southeast from Tarnow, just over the Carpathean mountains. riders for the Sanok Cup in Poland: JAN KLATOVSKY –CZ ANTONIN KLATOVSKY JR -CZ CLAUDE GADAYNE –F ANTTI AAKKO –FIN TOMMY FLYKTMAN –FIN PETER JANSSON –S TOBIAS AKSTROM –S ZDZISŁAW ŻERDZIŃSKI –PL HANS WEBER –D MARIO SCHWAIGER –A MARKUS SKABRAUT –A SIMON GARTMANN –CH LUKAS ROSTI –CH THOMAS CAVIGELLI –CH Graham Halsall Wielkiej Brytanii Reprezentant Łotwy Wyścigi szkoleniowe: GRZEGORZ KNAPP –PL PIOTR HEJNOWSKI -PL Riders for the Golden Spike series: 1. Antonin Klatovsky, Czhech 2. Markus Skabraut, Austria 3. Sebastian Gegenbauer,Niemcy 4. Jan Klatovsky, Czechy 5. Johnny Tuinstra, Holandia 6. (Günther Bauer lub Stefan Pletschacher),Niemcy 7. Rene Stellingwerf, Holandia 8. Franz Zorn, Austria 9. Simon Gartman, Szwajcaria 10. (Per-Olof Serenius, Stefan Svenson), Szwecja 11. Jouni Seppänen, Finlandia 12. dzika karta dla gospodarza imprezy 13. zwyciêzca kwalifikacji 14. drugi z kwalifikacji 15. trzeci z kwalifikacji 16. czwarty z kwalifikacji Rez. 17. pi±ty z kwalifikacji Rez. 18. szósty z kwalifikacji from. http://www.espeedway.pl/index.php?co=newsy&id=12493

Statistics from the Finnish 80cc league from last summer. I havent received (still) all the results (as in resultsheets/complete results), but this much I have gathered. 28.5. Seinäjoki/SeMK Häjyt 43 (Jarkko Palmi 15, Mika Loppi 14, Niko Siltaniemi 14), Snails 34 (Timo Lahti 12, Tomi Lahti 10, Ville Wasenius 12), Team RAM-AIR 18 (Jukka Nieminen 7, Jiri Nieminen 6, Toni Hemmilä 5), JunioriHaukat 15 (Eero Sankala 4, Vikke Kuhanen 7, Miikka Hyyryläinen 4), Hukat 9 (Reima Heikkilä 2, Mika Tuomisto 2, Jari Tapani 5) 5.8. Varkaus/VRT Häjyt 43 (Mika Loppi 14, Jarkko Palmi 14, Niko Siltaniemi 15), Snails 35 (Timo Lahti 13, Ville Wasenius 10, Kalle Katajisto 12), Team RAM-AIR 19 (Jukka Nieminen 11, Toni Hemmilä 2, Miro Laine 6), JunioriHaukat 16 (Miikka Hyyryläinen 6, Eetu Neuvonen 6, Vikke Kuhanen 4), Hukat 7 (Reima Heikkilä 1, Mika Tuomisto 1, Jari Tapani 5) 6.8. Pori/FMS Snails 39+3 (Tomi Lahti 7, Timo Lahti 15, Kalle Katajisto 17+3), Häjyt 39+2 (Mika Loppi 13, Jarkko Palmi 14, Niko Siltaniemi 12+2), Hukat 16 (Reima Heikkilä 3, Mika Tuomisto 2, Jari Tapani 11), Team RAM-AIR 13 (Jukka Nieminen 6, Jiri Nieminen 5, Miro Laine 2), JunioriHaukat 12 (Miikka Hyyryläinen 3, Eero Sankala 3, Eetu Neuvonen 6) 9.9. Lahti/SsMK Snails 43 (Timo Lahti 13, Appe Mustonen 15, Kalle Katajisto 15), Häjyt 40 (Mika Loppi 14, Jarkko Palmi 8, Niko Siltaniemi 18), Team RAM-AIR 20 (Jukka Nieminen 10, Jiri Nieminen 4, Toni Hemmilä 6), JunioriHaukat 11 (Eetu Neuvonen 1, Miikka Hyyryläinen 6, Vikke Kuhanen 4), Hukat 5 (Reima Heikkilä 0, Mika Tuomisto 0, Jari Tapani 5) 10.9. Lahti/SsMK Snails 43 (Timo Lahti 14, Appe Mustonen 12, Kalle Katajisto 17), Häjyt 41 (Mika Loppi 12, Jarkko Palmi 14, Niko Siltaniemi 15), Team RAM-AIR 21 (Jukka Nieminen 8, Jiri Nieminen 6, Toni Hemmilä 7), JunioriHaukat 8 (Eetu Neuvonen 5, Miikka Hyyryläinen 2, Vikke Kuhanen 1), Hukat 6 (Reima Heikkilä 0, Mika Tuomisto 1, Jari Tapani 5) Scorers: Team...Rider name...meetings/points Häjyt: Jarkko Palmi 5/65, Mika Loppi 5/67, Niko Siltaniemi 5/74 Snails: Timo Lahti 5/67, Tomi Lahti 2/17, Ville Wasenius 2/22, Kalle Katajisto 4/61, Appe Mustonen 2/27 RAM-AIR: Jukka Nieminen 5/42, Jiri Nieminen 4/21, Toni Hemmilä 4/20, Miro Laine 2/8 JunioriHaukat: Eero Sankala 2/7, Vikke Kuhanen 4/16, Miikka Hyyryläinen 5/21, Eetu Neuvonen 4/18 Hukat: Reima Heikkilä 5/6, Mika Tuomisto 5/6, Jari Tapani 5/31 Sarjan tulokset: Team, Club...M...+/-...P Snails, VRT...5...194...28 Häjyt, SeMK...5...206...27 Team RAM-AIR, SsMK...5...91...19 Juniorihaukat, SsMK... 5...62...14 Hukat, FMS...5...43...12

Statistics from the Finnish 1st division from last summer. I havent received (still) all the results, but this much I have gathered. 21.5 Pori/PMK Vaasa 35(Mikko Rahko 18, Tero Villanen 8, Jonne Perälä 9), Lahti 24 (Sami Lahti 11, Kalle Kivistö 13), Kauhajoki 21 (Juho Ruuska 9, J-E Korkeamäki 10, Pasi Räsänen 2), Pori 20 (Petri Meritähti 4, Jouni Viljanen 2, Marko Suojanen, 14), Forssa 8 (Janne Nyman 7, Jani Eerikäinen 1) 28.5. Seinäjoki/SeMK Seinäjoki 35 (Petteri Koivunen 12, Mikko Koskinen 11, Pekka Valo 12), Forssa 24 (Janne Nyman 10, Ari Tuomisto 3, Aarni Heikkilä 11), Lahti 23 (Kalle Kivistö 11, Vesa Hyyryläinen 1, Marko Suojanen 11), Pori 21 (Jari Mäkinen 15, Petri Meritähti 6, Jouni Viljanen 0), Kauhajoki 16 (Markku Autio 4, Juho Ruuska 5, Jan-Erik Korkeamäki 7) 15.7. Hyvinkää/FMS Seinäjoki 30 (Toni Stenberg 5, Petteri Koivunen 13, Panu Karvonen 12), Kauhajoki 28 (J-E Korkeamäki 11, Markku Autio 17, Reino Koivuluoma 0), Forssa 24 (Markus Helin 6, Ari Tuomisto 5, Janne Nyman 13), Vaasa 21 (Timo Villanen 9, Tero Villanen 8, Jonne Perälä 4), Lahti 17 (Kalle Kivistö 14, Markku Weckman 2, Vesa Hyyryläinen 1) 30.7. Kauhajoki/ KauhjMK Seinäjoki 39 (Harri Nieminen 16, Petteri Koivunen 12, Panu Karvonen 11), Vaasa 31 (Tero Villanen 10, Jonne Perälä 3, Mikko Rahko 18), Kauhajoki 26 (Olli Heikkilä 3, J-E Korkeamäki 14, Markku Autio 9), Pori 17 (Tomi Kauppi 7, Petri Meritähti 4, Jouni Viljanen 6), Lahti 7 (Markku Weckman 6, Vesa Hyyryläinen 1, Jarmo Lindström 0) 20.8. Seinäjoki/ VaMK Seinäjoki 38 (Mikko Koskinen 9, Harri Nieminen 15, Petteri Koivunen 14), Forssa 28 (Janne Nyman 8, Ari Tuomisto 7, Aarni Heikkilä 13), Pori 20 (Marko Suojanen 18, Petri Meritähti 0, Jouni Viljanen 2), Kauhajoki 17 (Olli Heikkilä 0, Juho Ruuska 7, Markku Autio 10), Vaasa 16 (Timo Villanen 9, Jonne Perälä 4, Reino Koivuluoma 3) 10.9. Lahti/SsMK Forssa 33 (Aarni Heikkilä 14, Ari Tuomisto 5, Janne Nyman 14), Seinäjoki 29 (Toni Stenberg 7, Harri Nieminen 12, Petteri Koivunen 10), Vaasa 27 (Mikko Rahko 14, Timo Villanen 5, Tero Villanen 8), Lahti 18 (Jarno Lindström 5, Vesa Hyyryläinen 0, Kalle Kivistö 13), Pori 11 (Petri Koskela 2, Jouni Viljanen 9) Top scorers! Team... Rider name meetings/points Vaasa: Mikko Rahko 3/50, Tero Villanen 4/34 Lahti: Kalle Kivistö 4/51 Kauhajoki: Jan-Eric Korkeamäki 4/42 Pori: Marko Suojanen 3/43 Forssa: Janne Nyman 5/52 Aarni Heikkilä 3/38 Seinäjoki: Petteri Koivunen 5/61 Panu Karvonen 2/23 Team...M...+/-...P Seinäjoki...5...171...29 Forssa...5...117...21 Vaasa...5...130...20 Kauhajoki...5...108...18 Lahti...5...89...15 Pori...5...89...14

Our very own Track Racing Parliament will be held on the 19th of November. That's when next year's dates for the qualifiers and finals here in Finland will be announced. On the same day there will be a meeting discussing next year's league speedway. Both of these are annual events with the league meetings taking place 2-4 times a year. But that's when I (or anyone except the "big man") will know more about the dates and nominations for 2007. That info will be given to everyone over here on a thread called... tada-da-dadda-daa!!! Finnish News for 2007!!! This is still this year though, and I heard on tuesday that Kaj Laukkanen has said in his home town newspaper that he's moving to England next year with his newly wed wife. And that is to ride speedway. So there is still some hope yet in Laukkanen. (I'm with you AndyM on matters concerning SpeedyK)

Almost 1900 with 100 crowns a head. 1 £ is about 15 crowns.

I phoned Palomäki on friday and they werent even sure if they would get to ride because of the weather. Looks like they did, hope nothing too serious happened to him when he got excluded in his last ride.

I might sound a bit harsh, but I do hope someone has to pullout at the last minute to give Hautamäki a chance to prove himself as a contender against Laukkanen for the #2 in Finnish speedway.

Around the time of the Eskilstuna GP this year he was in a real mess in Sweden. I think there were 3 or possibly even 4 matches where he managed only 3-5 points.

I shall politely disregard that last sentence, but thank you for the answer.