iris123 Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 Finnish riders for the U21 World qualifier @ Holsted are Rene Lehtinen, Joni Keskinen and Aarni Heikkilä. Aarni Heikkilä will also ride in the U19 European semifinal, where ever that'll be. I'm not expecting any success. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was going to ask if you knew the riders for Holsted! I see the swedish qualifier is this weekend and would naturally expect Lindbäck,Lindgren and Aldén to get through..Messing as well.Looks like a battle between the Swedes and the Danes for the top at Holsted.Can't wait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted April 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 I was going to ask if you knew the riders for Holsted! I see the swedish qualifier is this weekend and would naturally expect Lindbäck,Lindgren and Aldén to get through..Messing as well.Looks like a battle between the Swedes and the Danes for the top at Holsted.Can't wait <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This was HOT off the press, I'm not sure even the people at SML knew it yet when I wrote it (or do they even care ). But it is as accurate info as a man who makes the decisions can give! (it wasn't me) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 I see Lehtinen has been nominated for one of the Longtrack qualifiers as well.How good is this guy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted April 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 (edited) Well... If I tell you it's his second season on longtrack and he has one monoshock (+1 older) bike and one FGM tuned GM to take to the qualifier... He's riding in Berlin next sunday, maybe you'll go and check him out and tell me! And he's only 21. Janne Koivula was overlooked because he was unable to take part after being nominated on a 4 day notice last year. Markus Helin declined as well, but he is in this years qualifier's. The nominations were an absolute farce, and since then Koivula tried to argue his case were ever possible in the SML. No luck, and he's called it a day. Edited April 27, 2006 by f-s-p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 No i won't be going to Berlin.Vojens saturday then Brokstedt monday is enough!Will be interesting to see how Joonas gets on monday as he found the track extremly slick last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted May 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 (edited) SM-liiga, 29.4 Daugavpils/Latvia 1) Kotkat, SeMK 30 Kaj Laukkanen 18 S.Drevjatnikov 7 Rene Lehtinen 4 Joni Keskinen 1 2) Speedway-Centrs 29 D. Saifutdinov 13 V. Girutskij 8 E. Karavatskij 3 E. Petuhov 5 3) KeittiöPiste, KMMK 28 A. Kazionnyi 11 Juha Hautamäki 8 Juha Mäkelä 6 Teemu Lahti 3 4)Leijona-Haukat 24 Tomi Reima 10 S.Lazarenko 5 N. Kaminskii 8 Joni Kitala 1 SM-liiga, tilanne 29.4 1/12 Kotkat, SeMK 1 - 30 - 5 Speedway-Centrs,Daugavpils 1 - 29 - 4 KeittiöPiste, KMMK 1 - 28 - 3 Leijona-Haukat, HMK-SsMK 1 - 24 - 2 Paholaiset, PMK 0 - 0 - 0 Snails, VRT 0 - 0 - 0 Rene Lehtinen was 7. at the longtrack meet in Berin yesterday. He blew up his FGM GM in his second ride, and managed to qualify for the A-final with his VT Jawa. FINAALI: 1. Gerd Riss Saksa 2. Robert Eibl Saksa 3. Matthias Kröger Saksa 4. Jörg Tebbe Saksa 5. Enrico Janoschka Saksa 6. Nynke De Jong Hollanti 7. Rene Lehtinen Suomi 8. Jaroslav Ptak Tshekki Ryhmä A: 1. Gerd Riss Saksa 7 7 7 7 28 2. Matthias Kröger Saksa 6 6 6 4 22 3. Jörg Tebbe Saksa 3 4 5 6 18 4. Enrico Janoschka Saksa 4 5 4 5 18 5. Markus Eibl Saksa 5 R 3 3 11 6. Christian Hülshorst Saksa 1 3 2 R 6 7. Kenneth Borgenhaug Norja 2 1 R 2 5 8. Zdenek Schneiderwind Tshekki 0 2 1 1 4 Ryhmä B: 1. Nybke de Jong Hollanti 7 6 5 6 24 2. Jaroslav Ptak Tshekki 5 7 7 R 19 3. Rene Lehtinen Suomi 6 R 4 7 17 4. Sjoerd Rozenbereg Hollanti 4 5 3 5 17 5. Ronny Stüdemann Saksa 2 4 6 4 16 6. Klaus-Peter Gerdemann Saksa 3 2 2 R 7 7. Stefan Bromberg Saksa 0 1 1 3 5 8. John Hartley Englanti 1 3 0 - 4 9. Paul Evitts Englanti - - - 2 2 Edited May 1, 2006 by f-s-p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 And Markus Eibl beat Kelvin Tatums fastest speed to hold the new world record,so i see Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted May 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Some resuffling in the finnish league... I read yesterday that Cesary Owizyc has withdrawn from the Pori team, and also they are having some difficulties with another foreigner. Well they have 3 weeks to get things going again... There's a longtrack meet in Forssa next sunday, saturday is reserved for practise. I was on the phone to Forssa about an hour ago, not much riders to race with but they should have enough to make a couple of full heats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchGrasstrack Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Some resuffling in the finnish league... I read yesterday that Cesary Owizyc has withdrawn from the Pori team, and also they are having some difficulties with another foreigner. Well they have 3 weeks to get things going again... There's a longtrack meet in Forssa next sunday, saturday is reserved for practise. I was on the phone to Forssa about an hour ago, not much riders to race with but they should have enough to make a couple of full heats. Do you now wich driver drive there ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted May 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 No. The clubs in Finland dont usually give the names of the riders until you buy the program and read it there when it happens. Clearly this is something that could be done differently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarabanko Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 No. The clubs in Finland dont usually give the names of the riders until you buy the program and read it there when it happens. Clearly this is something that could be done differently. In which year do they live in?? Its year 2006 now and not the 1800 century! Bad to media and to public, but it is maybe a secret sport in Finland? No offence FSP! Cheers Mikael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted May 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 None detected... I checked their (Forssa club) website before posting just to make sure. One reason I can think of is the fact that this meeting is most likely going to be crap. We have maybe 20-25 riders in this country for longtrack. TOP3 has Karger, Graversen, Lausch, Lantenhammer.... top motors, and the rest have what they get. If the meeting is going to be held in a final format, then the A-final might be a good one with close racing. So they dont want to tell people in advance that they only have the bottom 15 finnish riders. Regarding the finnish league the situation is the same. Teams are obligated to announce their lineup about a week before the round, but not once in past 3 years have I seen them publicly announced. For it to being a secret sport over here, well maybe it is. But we currently have some good people working on it, with stamina to improve on all areas... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted May 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Mikko Rahko, once in the longtrack GP, makes a comeback this season. He's been listed for the Vaasan MK team in the speedway City series (1st division). He's also taking part in the longtrack finnish final to be held at Vaasa (his hometrack) later this summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted May 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 Seinäjoki has announced today that their track is open for practise. They were the first track to do that. Not that anybody give's a duck, but that just to show that our season is a bit short. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchGrasstrack Posted May 6, 2006 Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 Who is Markus Helin ? I saw him in the lineup for the second qualifier for the WC Longtrack. Is he a good rider ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted May 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 If I can I would like to quote you with that all over the finnish press!!! Friend of mine who knows the finnish longtrack scene better than me said that he's gonna pick as many points as the others let him. So I wouldn't make a bet for him. If I get out of bed in time tomorrow, I'll go and see him race at Forssa. Maybe then I'll have more info of him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarabanko Posted May 6, 2006 Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 Hope you will go FSP. Wondering a thing... Are finnish tv sending the GP's? Are the finnish channel sending any speedway at all? Cheers / Mikael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted May 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 When Laukkanen was in the GP, Nelonen+ was sending them live on a digital service. Nelonen also showed 30min highlights the following sunday morning. They got around 70 000 viwers, and the channel was happy. They would have liked to continue showing the GP's, but BSI didn't make them an offer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarabanko Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 When Laukkanen was in the GP, Nelonen+ was sending them live on a digital service. Nelonen also showed 30min highlights the following sunday morning. They got around 70 000 viwers, and the channel was happy. They would have liked to continue showing the GP's, but BSI didn't make them an offer. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ok, why dosent Nelonen talk to BSI? Nothing to loose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted May 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 They have their hands full, more or less. Speedway wouldn't make them so much money that it would be wise to do something to get it. Last time it was practicly given for them. Didn't make it to longtrack, it was such a nice day that I opted for minigolf and cycling instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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