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Both Finns to go through if they ride on their current level. Kylmäkorpi should do it easily, Laukkanen might struggle. Hope for the best!

I checked it first... I guess I'll have to wait for the star to appear....

Heat times??? Anyone?? Need them quick...

The Individual Finnish Championship will be contested next saturday 1st of July at Seinäjoki. Eight riders have been seeded straight in to the final on saturday: Juha Hautamäki KMMK Kaj Laukkanen SeMK Tero Aarnio KMMK Juha Mäkelä KMMK Joni Keskinen SeMK Rene Lehtinen SeMK Kauko Nieminen SeMK Joonas Kylmäkorpi VRT (participation depends on the state of his collarbone injury) 24 riders in total wanted to ride, so there's a qualifier on friday the 30th of June at the same track. Riders in it are: 1. Jari Mäkinen PirMM (not riding) 2. Jani Eerikäinen KarMK 3. Pekka Valo SeMK 4. Jan-Erik Korkeamäki KauhjMK 5. Teemu Lehti KMMK (not riding, fell last tuesday, length of injury confirmed next wednesday) 6. Juho Ruuska HjMK 7. Janne Nyman FMS 8. Aarni Heikkilä FMS 9. Aki-Pekka Mustonen VRT 10. Kalle Kivistö SsMK 11. Petri Koskela PMK 12. Marko Suojanen PMK 13. Petteri Koivunen SeMK 14. Mikko Koskinen SeMK 15. Toni Stenberg KMMK 16. Markku Autio KauhjMK Jyri Palomäki is absent because of foot injury, and Tomi Reima apparently hasn't enrolled because of official selection. Mikko Mäki-Hakola has been appointed as the referee of the meeting. He's the least popular ref in the sport, and numerous attempts have been made along the years by the riders to have his license revoked. A few riders even took this case to highest of the highest level after last season. And the result, MMH is the top dog at the pinnacle meeting of our finnish season 2006. What to expect? Numerous burned out clutch plates and more tape's exclusion's then there's been so far this season. The tapes are gonna be held looong...

I don't know really, but in my books we've already seen David Ruud. He'll never be a world beater, but has a chance to build a good career around Europe. Same goes for Ljung, alltough I'm not sure about how good his career will ever be... But what do I know...

I really wanted to win this one... I've been looking for good points all the way, not just the 100% a'la Crump and Herbie. Hans was my choice until his score was so watered down... I'm really disappointed for the result I got... I thinking of switching to GM...

I have to admit that I'm a bit surprised about Ruud given a chance. To be honest he's no where near...

5th round of the Finnish league was battled on yesterday. The Daugavpils team managed to arrive after two no-shows this time, but that's not all. They came with three riders and a manager, without any documents of current insurances aka licenses. They were unable to produce the required documents, and it seems likely they weren't willing to pay the 95 € per individual onoff license since they did not ride. So Toni Stenberg rode alone for the Latvian team. The meeting was closely fought between LeijonaHaukat and Keittiöpiste. They were tied going in to the 4 round, and the meeting was won by LeijonaHaukat in heat 18 when Tomi Reima beat Juha Hautamäki. Official results later when I get my hands on them. A norwegian rider was supposed to lineup for the LeijonaHaukat, but had to withdraw when it was made clear to him that one can't ride in another country's 1st league if you ride in the norwegian lower league. Apparently a LONG ban would have waited for him. EDIT: Snails 21 Appe Mustonen 1111 4 Jani Eerikäinen 1H12^12 7 Juho Ruuska H11 2 Aarni Heikkilä 221111 8 SCD 3 Toni Stenberg 02001 3 Keittiöpiste 41 Juha Hautamäki 33332 14 Tero Aarnio 3R32 8 Juha Mäkelä 2223 9 Teemu Lahti 3223X 10 Leijona-Haukat 43 Tomi Reima 23333 14 Kalle Lingren 23323 13 John Larsson 3122 8 Kalle Kivistö 1322 8 1. Hautamäki, Reima, Mustonen, Stenberg 2. Aarnio, Lindgren, Eerikäinen 67,76 3. Larsson. Mäkelä, Ruuska d 65,91 4. Lahti, Heikkilä, Kivistö 67,55 5. Hautamäki, Heikkilä, Larsson 64,58 6. Reima, Mäkelä, Heikkilä 64,99 7. Lindgren, Lahti, Mustonen 66,24 8. Kivistö, Stenberg, Ruuska, Aarnio R 67,77 9. Aarnio, Larsson, Mustonen 65,51 10. Lindgren, Mäkelä, Heikkilä, Stenberg 66,23 11. Hautamäki, Kivistö, Eerikäinen 64,94 12. Reima, Lahti, Ruuska 64,84 13. Hautamäki, Lindgren, Eerikäinen^ 64,77 14. Reima, Aarnio, Heikkilä 65,25 15. Mäkelä, Kivistö, Mustonen 65,36 16. Lahti, Larsson, Eerikäinen, Stenberg 66,01 17. Lindgren, Eerikäinen, Stenberg, Lahti M 66,69 18. Reima, Hautamäki, Heikkilä 65,38 ........................M...MP...P KeittiöPiste ........4...151...16 Kotkat..............3...104...3 Leijona-Haukat..3...112...12 Paholaiset.........3...75...10 Snails...............3...59...9 SCD.................4...44...7 SCD was put on probation after rounds 2 and 3 when they didn't show up for the meetings. Nothing has yet been made official, but it's my understanding that they will be excluded from the league. EDIT2: averages after round 5, need to be ridden in two meetings to qualify! Rider, team....................... M...P...H...CMA Kaj Laukkanen, Kotkat.........2...26...10...10,40 Juha Hautamäki, Keittiöpiste.4...45...18...10,00 Tomi Reima, Leijona-Haukat.3...35...14...10,00 Juha Mäkelä, Keittiöpiste......3...29...14...8,29 Rene Lehtinen, Kotkat .........3...31...16...7,75 Tero Aarnio, Keittiöpiste.......3...23...12...7,67 Jari Mäkinen, Paholaiset........2...17...9...7,56 Kalle Kivistö, Leijona-Haukat.2...14...8...7,00 Teemu Lahti, Keittiöpiste.......4...28...17...6,59 Marko Suojanen, Paholaiset..3...23...15...6,13 Petri Koskela, Paholaiset.......3...14...10...5,60 Jani Eerikäinen, Snails..........3...23...17...5,41 Appe Mustonen, Snails..........3...18...14...5,14 Petteri Koivunen, Snails........2...8...7.......4,57 Pasi Räsänen, SCD...............2...6...7.......3,43

It's saturday, +25 celsius and the sun is shining. summer.... haaaa...

A good crown of around 300 saw the 4th round of the finnish league yesterday at Kuusankoski. Track wasn't all that great, and the racing suffered towards the end. The Swedes for the Helsinki team really stood out. They had the pro kits on display that left some gasping for breath. Not only did they look like the part, they also did their part by both riding 14 from 5. Unlike @ Tampere last night none of the racers died. At the Tampere horse track two horses collapsed and died because of heat exhaustion. LEIJONA-HAUKAT 45 Tomi Reima 3323 11 Emil Lindqvist 23333 14 Richard Sedelius 33233 14 Kalle Kivistö 1122 6 KEITTIÖPISTE 38 Tero Aarnio 22R2 6 Juha Hautamäki 333N2 11 Juha Mäkelä 22134^2 14 Teemu Lahti 3112 7 KOTKAT 26 Benny Johansson 126^111 12 Michael Gustavsson 1F31 5 Harri Nieminen RNNN 0 Rene Lehtinen 221211M 9 PAHOLAISET 4 Marko Suojanen F00F 0 Petri Koskela 00RN 0 Petri Meritähti 10N00 1 Jouni Viljanen 0110001 3 Erä erältä: 1. Reima, Aarnio, Johansson, Suojanen(F) 62,2 2. Hautamäki, Linqvist, Gustavsson, Koskela 62,3 3. Sedelius, Mäkelä, Meritähti, Nieminen® 63,6 4. Lahti, Lehtinen, Kivistö, Viljanen 64,6 5. Linqvist, Johansson, Lahti, Meritähti 64,2 6. Hautamäki, Lehtinen, Kivistö, Suojanen 64,0 7. Sedelius, Aarnio, Lehtinen, Koskela 63,2 8. Reima, Mäkelä, Viljanen, Gustavsson(F) 64,9 9. Gustavsson, Kivistö, Viljanen, Aarnio® 64,6 10. Johansson, Reima, Lahti, Koskela® 65,3 11. Hautamäki, Sedelius, Johansson, Viljanen 65,0 12. Linqvist, Lehtinen, Mäkelä, Suojanen 65,4 13. Mäkelä, Kivistö, Johansson, Viljanen 65,2 14. Sedelius, Lahti, Gustavsson, Suojanen(F) 66,8 15. Linqvist, Aarnio, Lehtinen, Viljanen 67,4 16. Reima, Mäkelä, Lehtinen, Meritähti 65,1 17. Sedelius, Hautamäki, Johansson, Meritähti 64,2 18. Linqvist, Mäkelä, Viljanen, Lehtinen(M) 67,1 Jyri Palomäki gets his leg of the cast in two weeks. His plan is to be there for the SWC practise and take his place in the team. Jari Mäkinen suffered a small fracture on his wrist at Kauhajoki and is out for 2-3 weeks.

A-final 1) Klaus-Peter Gerdemann Saksa 25 SM-pistettä 2) Janne Koivula PirMM 20 3) Mikko Rahko VaMK 18 4) Rene Lehtinen SeMK 16 5) Markus Helin FMS 14 6) Tapio Leppämäki HjMK 13 B-final 7) Nynke De Jong Hollanti 12 8) Jan-Eric Korkeamäki KauhjMK 11 9) Harri Nieminen SeMK 10 10)Markku Weckman SsMK 9 11)Ilmo Suutari HeMK 8 12)Raimo Juntunen HeMK 7 EDIT: Erä erältä: A1. Helin, Lehtinen, Leppämäki, Suutari, Weckman, Juntunen 85,20 A2. Rahko, de Jong, Koivula, Gerdemann, Korkeamäki, Nieminen N 85,36 B3. Perälä, Koskinen, Mattila R 90,87 B4. Lillkåll, Koivuluoma, Villanen R, Rae R 100,08 B5. Annala, Timo Villanen, Palmi, Vehkoo 91,95 A6. Lehtinen, Koivula, Rahko, Korkeamäki, Nieminen, Juntunen 85,65 A7. Gerdemann, Helin, Leppämäki, de Jong, Weckman, Suutari 84,68 B8. Perälä, Palmi, Koivuluoma, Rae X 90,30 B9. Lillkåll, Mattila, Vehkoo 99,12 B10. Annala, Villanen 91,95 A11. Koivula, Lehtinen, Rahko, Leppämäki, Suutari, de Jong R 85,95 A12. Gerdemann, Helin, Korkeamäki, Nieminen, Weckman, Juntunen N 85,12 B13. Koskinen, Annala, Palmi 89,70 B14. Mattila, Rae R 100,11 B15. Perälä, Villanen, Lillkåll, Koivuluoma, Vehkoo 89,85 A16. Gerdemann, Lehtinen, Korkeamäki, Nieminen, de Jong, Juntunen N 85,89 A17. Rahko, Koivula, Helin, Leppämäki, Weckman, Suutari N 85,10 B18 Finaali: Perälä, Annala, Palmi, Villanen, Lillkåll, Mattila 90,37 B-Finaali: de Jong, Korkeamäki, Nieminen, Weckman, Suutari N, Juntunen N 84,22 A-Finaali: Gerdeman, Koivula, Rahko, Lehtinen, Helin, Leppämäki 87,14 This is the best that I could find. I heard De Jong was really terrible from the starts, and alltough had the speed her gating took away her chances. The one start she made was the B-final and she won it with ease. I didn't go, but it apparently was a good meeting. pics: http://ralli.verkkonen.net/kuvat/vesa/2006...vesa/index.html (not mine) video: http://rapidshare.de/files/22973153/bfinaali.mpg.html (not mine)

Another thing that crossed my mind is that they sure have a busy international calendar at Daugavpils! They could try and send a team to the finnish league fixtures too, surely...

They are already advertising him as the wc in Latvia. Tha track at Daugavpils is a home track if there ever was one. At least that's what I've been told by riders that ridden it.

No it wasn't me, but I had this weird feeling that damn do I really sound that stupid. He was asking the obvious if there is such a thing as obvious. I know it's hard when you're in that situation, but he's on tv... Sophie rock's!!

Opening meeting of Kauhajoki's new track "Suupohja's Speedwaypark" GP-format. Juha Hautamäki 33333 15 Rene Lehtinen 23332 13 Juha Mäkelä 13221 9 Teemu Lahti 020320 7 Kalle Kivistö 222031 10 Petri Koskela 332120 11 Jari Mäkinen R33132F 12 Tero Aarnio 332F 8 Marko Suojanen 2211 6 Janne Nyman 203120 8 Joni Keskinen 0031 4 Jani Eerikäinen 312020 8 Aarni Heikkilä 3311 8 Jan-Eric Korkeamäki 2201 5 Petteri Koivunen 31210 7 Toni Stenberg 100 1 Juho Ruuska 021 3 Markku Autio 121 4 Pasi Räsänen 030 3 Jonne Perälä 200 2 Reino Koivuluoma 11 2 Jouni Viljanen 11 2 Olli Heikkilä 00 0 Joni Kitala 0F 0 Erä erältä: 1. A. Heikkilä, Kivistö, Autio, Ruuska 62,13 2. Eerikäinen, Korkeamäki, Koivuluoma, Mäkinen R 64,44 3. Koivunen, Perälä, Viljanen, Räsänen 65,26 4. Koskela, Nyman, Kitala, O.Heikkilä 65,13 5. Mäkinen, Autio, Viljanen, O. Heikkilä 64,95 6. Räsänen, Ruuska, Koivuluoma, Kitala FX 66,75 7. A. Heikkilä, Korkeamäki, Koivunen, Nyman 67,19 8. Koskela, Kivistö, Eerikäinen, Perälä 64,09 9. Hautamäki, Suojanen, Stenberg, Keskinen 59,66 track record! 10. Aarnio, Lehtinen, Mäkelä, Lahti 62,23 11. Mäkinen, Koivunen, Ruuska, Perälä 64,85 12. Nyman, Eerikäinen, Autio, Räsänen 66,66 13. Hautamäki, Lahti, Heikkilä, Eerikäinen 62,49 14. Lehtinen, Koskela, Koivunen, Stenberg 62,92 15. Mäkelä, Suojanen, Nyman, Korkeamäki 62,46 16. Aarnio, Kivistö, Mäkinen, Keskinen 62,90 17. Keskinen, Nyman, A. Heikkilä, Stenberg 64,12 18. Mäkinen, Eerikäinen, Korkeamäki, Koivunen 64,90 19. Hautamäki, Mäkelä, Koskela, Kivistö 60,22 20. Lehtinen, Aarnio, Suojanen, Lahti 62,20 21. Lahti, Koskela, Keskinen, Eerikäinen 63,33 22. Kivistö, Mäkinen, Suojanen, Nyman 64,57 23. Lehtinen, Lahti, Mäkinen FX, Aarnio FX 63,82 24. Hautamäki, Mäkelä, Kivistö, Koskela 63,81 25. Hautamäki, Lehtinen, Mäkelä, Lahti 61,11 FX - fell excluded, eliminated ... Top guys were top guys, but Jari Mäkinen really made my day (and it was loooooooong...) He started in heat 2 and progressed all the way to heat 23. He blew one engine, was involved in one all4back first corner as the one knocked off (I got excellent pics of the incident, Dave Fairbrother better clear his emailbox) and ended his day by getting thrown from his bike as it rocketed from under him exciting turn 2 while challenging Teemu Lahti for a 2nd in semi 1. He wrecked the front end of Joni Keskinen's spare bike in the incident, and boy was he high up in the air! . He's now checking in for x-rays and I'm off to sauna and a few cold ones... Pictures of Mäkinen going down get's tight here touched here we're going here gone here EDIT: they weren't real mikepatrick material after a real close inspection...

I watched some of the Bajen-Rospiggarna match. Now there was an interviewer who was asking the obvious and stupid. Only problem is that he sounded like me...

Go a few post's backwards, there's a link behind/under "Finnish tracks"

Tomi Reima is apparently OK after a crash that made the Swedish press last week. As stated @ speedwayworld.tv Kylmäkorpi is out for a month with a broken collarbone. Jyri Palomäki is also out for at least 4 weeks after breaking his leg yestarday in Sweden. He broke his leg in 3 places and it's now supported with 2 plates and 10 screws. It's NOT LOOKING GOOD for the SWC. But it's good news for the brit's because we would have kicked your ASSH!

It has absolutely no effect to beer prices.

Since this has probably come out of Phillip Rising at the press conference and via tomaszporl to this forum, I'd say this is the accurate amount of sold tickets. Last year there were around 38750 people. That's around 2k more this year, so that make's it 60k £ more sales for BSI ?!

Finns will have: Jani Eerikäinen Aarni Heikkilä Joni Keskinen Teemu Lahti Rene Lehtinen

Finns are tracking Kylmäkorpi and Laukkanen

There are no decisions yet on the finnish team. But the riders will come out from the group that have already represented Finland this year: Lehtinen, Heikkilä, Keskinen, Tuomisto, Kitala+ Jari Mäkinen and Appe Mustonen. They have now turned 16 and are old enough to take part. Also Teemu Lahti has said he'll go if asked.

SM-liiga 3/12 Pori 21.5.2006 Paholaiset, PMK 38 Viktor Bergström 32R32 10 Petri Koskela 2222 8 Marko Suojanen 23232 12 Jari Mäkinen 3122 8 Snails, VRT 16 Petteri Koivunen N2R1 3 Jani Eerikäinen 12111 6 Juho Ruuska 0101R 2 Appe Mustonen 1021 5 SCD, Latvia 10 Pasi Räsänen 20121 6 Toni Stenberg 0010 1 Jan-Erik Korkeamäki 11100 3 Keittiöpiste, KMMK 44 Juha Hautamäki d3333 12 Tero Aarnio 333R 9 Jyri Palomäki 33333 15 Teemu Lahti 2132 8 1. Bergström, Räsänen, Hautamäki d, Koivunen N 69,77 2. Aarnio, Koskela, Eerikäinen, Stenberg 66,67 3. Palomäki, Suojanen, Korkeamäki, Ruuska 65,18 4. Mäkinen, Lahti, Mustonen 66,95 5. Palomäki, Eerikäinen, Mäkinen, Räsänen 64,86 6. Hautamäki, Koskela, Korkeamäki, Mustonen 64,90 7. Aarnio, Bergström, Ruuska 65,06 8. Suojanen, Koivunen, Lahti, Stenberg 67,45 9. Palomäki, Mustonen, Stenberg, Bergström R 64,24 10. Aarnio, Mäkinen, Korkeamäki, Koivunen R 66,40 11. Lahti, Koskela, Räsänen, Ruuska 67,56 12. Hautamäki, Suojanen, Eerikäinen 66,14 13. Suojanen, Räsänen, Mustonen, Aarnio R 67,75 14. Hautamäki, Mäkinen, Ruuska, Stenberg 66,96 15. Bergström, Lahti, Eerikäinen, Korkeamäki 66,94 16. Palomäki, Koskela, Koivunen 67,89 17. Hautamäki, Bergström, Eerikäinen, Korkeamäki 18. Palomäki, Suojanen, Räsänen, Ruuska R SM-liiga, tilanne 21.5, 3/12 Kotkat 2-78-10 KeittiöPiste 2-72-8 Paholaiset 2-71-8 SCD 3-41-6 Snails 2-38-6 Leijona-Haukat 1-24-2 matches, matchpoints, points next round June 13th @ Kuusankoski Averages rider - team, matches, points, rides, cma Robert Eriksson, Kotkat 1 15 5 12,00 Jyri Palomäki, Keittiöpiste 1 15 5 12,00 Denis Saifutdinov, SCD 1 13 5 10,40 Kaj Laukkanen, Kotkat 2 26 10 10,40 Tero Aarnio, Keittiöpiste 1 9 4 9,00 Juha Hautamäki, Keittiöpiste 1 20 9 8,89 Aleksandr Kazionnyi, Keittiöpiste 1 11 5 8,80 Rene Lehtinen, Kotkat 2 22 10 8,80 Marko Suojanen, Paholaiset 1 23 11 8,36 Tomi Reima, Leijona-Haukat 1 10 5 8,00 Petri Koskela, Paholaiset 1 14 7 8,00 Viktor Bergström, Paholaiset 1 10 5 8,00 Jari Mäkinen, Paholaiset 1 17 9 7,56 Panu Karvonen, Paholaiset 1 5 3 6,67 Wiaczeslaw Girutskij, SCD 1 8 5 6,40 Nikolaj Kaminskij, Leijona-Haukat 1 8 5 6,40 Jani Eerikäinen, Snails 1 17 11 6,18 Juha Mäkelä, Keittiöpiste 1 6 4 6,00 Aki-Pekka Mustonen, Snails 1 14 10 5,60 Jevgeni Dretjavnikov, Kotkat 1 7 5 5,60 Teemu Lahti, Keittiöpiste 1 11 8 5,50 Jevgeni Karavatskij, SCD 1 4 3 5,33 Sergei Lazarenko, Leijona-Haukat 1 5 4 5,00 Petteri Koivunen, Snails 1 8 7 4,57 Pasi Räsänen, SCD 1 6 7 3,43 Jevgeni Petuhov, SCD 1 4 5 3,20 Patrik Järnstam, Kotkat 1 3 4 3,00 Jan-Erik Korkeamäki,SCD 1 5 10 2,00 Juho Ruuska, Snails 1 3 7 1,71 Joni Keskinen, Kotkat 1 1 3 1,33 Joni Kitala, Leijona-Haukat 1 1 4 1,00 Toni Stenberg, SCD 1 1 4 1,00 Mikko Koskinen, SCD 1 0 1 0,00