Finnish News

[Vicar]

So there will be also Kaupunki Cup this weekend in Pori?

[f-s-p]

So there will be also Kaupunki Cup this weekend in Pori?

Yes, sunday at 2pm. Admission is free if you have your ticket from saturday. Poster here!

 

EDIT:

Teemu Lahti had surgery on his shoulder last week. All the damage was repaired by no-other than Ilkka Tulikoura himself. The damage was severe enough for even Tulikoura, as he's quoted as saying it was even a challenge for him. Lahti hurt his shoulder in a crash at Pori mid May, when he put his bike down to avoid a crash with Kalle Katajisto who practically braked in the middle of the 2 bend. Lahti fell a bit weird and hit the fence shoulder first. Ilkka Tulikoura is a world famous sports surgeon, seeked to save the careers of pro athletes around the globe.

 

50 views per post here we come...

Edited September 17, 2008 by f-s-p

[Vicar]

It sounds very good, but in this case I should find place for a night and it will be to expensive... So only Saturday. Do you know how to get from Pori railway station to the stadium?

Edited September 16, 2008 by Vicar

[f-s-p]

Extraliiga finished today at Pori for 2008. A few good heats and battles and good heat times on a track that has been really slick all year. Some rain made it wet which produced a fair deal of material and lines enabling the track record holder Kaj Laukkanen to get around 62,5 in one heat, only 1 second from the record. Kalle Katajisto helped Marko Suojanen to crash out of the meeting in a replica crash from the Sky televised meeting where Kylmäkorpi hurt himself in mid June. Jari Mäkinen was quite poor and clearly struggling with something, no idea what. Tomi Reima pinched a second point off Juha Hautamäki's otherwise clean Extraliiga record in heat two. Other than that Hautamäki (and Laukkanen) were clearly above others.

 

I'll start with the results soon, but the fact remains that Kotkat won the league, Keittiöpiste too 2nd place and HaukatRoyals were 3rd.

 

It wasn't a bad season.

 

<b>Paholaiset 29</b>

Appe Mustonen 1222^22 11

Jari Mäkinen 1221 6

Marko Suojanen 11N 2

Cesary Owizyc 310222 10

 

<b>Haukat-Royals 25</b>

Tomi Reima 32131 10

Juha Mäkelä 22211 8

Joni Kitala 0111 3

Aarni Heikkilä 1111 4

 

<b>Kotkat 43</b>

Juha Hautamäki 23333 14

Kaj Laukkanen 33333 15

Rene Lehtinen 3333 12

Petteri Koivunen 200d 2

 

<b>Jokerit 15</b>

Fedor Poptsov DNS

Kalle Katajisto R326^d 11

Jani Eerikäinen 20020 4

Teemu Mattila 000000 0

 

Erä erältä:

1. Reima, Hautamäki, Mustonen, Mattila 65,35

2. Laukkanen, Mäkelä, Mäkinen, Katajisto 62,40

3. Lehtinen, Eerikäinen, Suojanen, Kitala 66,13

4. Owizyc, Koivunen, Heikkilä, Mattila 67,42

5. Hautamäki, Mäkelä, Owizyc, Eerikäinen 65,59

6. Lehtinen, Mäkinen, Heikkilä, Mattila 66,13

7. Katajisto, Mustonen, Kitala, KOivunen 63,18

8. Laukkanen, Reima, Suojanen 62,45

9. Laukkanen, Mustonen, Heikkilä, Eerikäinen 63,34

10. Lehtinen, Katajisto, Reima, Owizyc 65,07

11. Hautamäki, Mäkinen, Kitala, Mattila 64,28

12. Katajisto^, Mäkelä, Mustonen^, Koivunen 65,53

13. Hautamäki, Owizyc, Heikkilä, Katajisto d 64,88

14. Laukkanen, Owizyc, Kitala 64,99

15. Lehtinen, Mustonen, Mäkelä, Mattila 66,28

16. Reima, Eerikäinen, Mäkinen, KOivunen d 66,28

17. Hautamäki, Mustonen, Mäkelä, Mattila 65,69

18. Laukkanen, Owizyc, Reima, Eerikäinen 64,16

Katsojia 185

 

EDIT: Overall classification from the federation... Jokerit was at Pori with a team with only 3 riders so they had one point deducted from their total.

 

KOTKAT_________8 - 303 - 36

KEITTIÖPISTE____8 - 220 - 30

HAUKAT/ROYALS_8 - 223 - 27

PAHOLAISET_____8 - 199 - 24

JOKERIT________ 8 - 182 - 23 (22 with the deduction)

 

The rule says that if you dont have a full team, you will get 1 point taken off from your total. Final points will have to change if they want to go by the rules so that Jokerit will end up with only 22 points.

 

Edited September 24, 2008 by f-s-p

[f-s-p]

The final 80cc Cup standings have now been confirmed as follows.

 

1. Mika Loppi ------------- 175

2. Miikka Hyyryläinen -- 125

3. Vili Hautala ----------- 122

4. Jiri Nieminen ---------- 113

5. Jooa Partanen ------- 106

6. Niilo Vuolas ----------101

7. Jarkko Palmi --------- 98

8. Tomi Lahti ------------77

9. Vikke Kuhanen -------77

10. Vili Mattila ---------- 71

11. Jere Lehtonen ------ 53

12. Antti Vuolas -------- 15

13. Aapo Lohvansuu ---- 8

 

[f-s-p]

Season finisher from Pori, the last round of the Kaupunki Cup. Pori won the series, final standings will be updated later.

 

Pori 24

Jouni Viljanen 221 5

Appe Mustonen 3333 12

Jari Mäkinen 232 7

 

Forssa I 10

Reima Heikkilä 0100 1

Jari Tapani 11331 9

 

Kauhajoki 17

Jere Mattila 33032 11

Teemu Mattila 22120 7

 

Lahti 11

Jukka Nieminen 10012 4

Markku Weckman 01123 7

 

Haapajärvi 21

Niko Siltaniemi 33313 13

Juho Ruuska 22202 8

 

Forssa II 6

Johan Ahponen 11211 6

 

Erä erältä:

1. Mustonen, Viljanen, Tapani, Heikkilä 67,52

2. J.Mattila, Mattila, Nieminen, Weckman 70,35

3. Siltaniemi, Ruuska, Ahponen 67,15

4. Mustonen, Mäkinen, Ahponen 67,49

5. J.Mattila, Mattila, Tapani 70,88

6. Siltaniemi, Ruuska, Weckman, Nieminen 66,59

7. Siltaniemi, Ruuska, Mattila, J.Mattila 66,35

8. Tapani, Ahponen, Heikkilä 74,55

9. Mäkinen, Viljanen, Weckman, Nieminen 67,02

10. Tapani, Weckman, Nieminen, Heikkilä 72,84

11. Mustonen, Mäkinen, Siltaniemi, Ruuska 65,88

12. J.Mattila, Mattila, Ahponen 71,41

13. Weckman, Nieminen, Ahponen 72,42

14. Mustonen, J.Mattila, Viljanen, Mattila 67,85

15. Siltaniemi, Ruuska, Tapani, Heikkilä 66,09

Katsojia 110

 

Kaupunki Cup final table

 

PORI ------------6 - 116 - 39 (väh. 1 sarjapiste 24.8.)

FORSSA-------- 6 - 103 - 33

HAAPAJÄRVI -- 6 - 109 - 31 (väh. 1 sarjapiste 8.6.)

KAUHAJOKI --- 6 - 94 - 27

LAHTI ---------- 6 - 77 - 22

FORSSA II ---- 6 - 53 - 13 (väh. 1 sarjapiste 21.9.)

 

These figures include point deductions from Pori (August 24th, Haapajärvi June 8th and Forssa II September 21st)

 

Racing wise Finnish season 2008, over and out!

Edited September 22, 2008 by f-s-p

[f-s-p]

Vargarna is scouting riders for next season this friday. Three Finns are present in Niko Siltaniemi, Kalle Katajisto and Jari Mäkinen. Siltaniemi and Katajisto were also invited for a similar meeting on sunday at Eskilstuna after the way they performed while riding in Finnish U21 colours against Team Bikab.

 

Kuljettajat:

1. Robert Johansson

2. Kalle Katajisto FI

3. Niklas Klingberg

4. Dennis Fagerkrantz

5. Antonio Lindbäck

6. Robert Hendersson

7. Robin Aspgren

8. Marckus Andrsson

9. Kim Nilsson

10. Sebastian Carlson

11. Pontus Aspgren

12. Niko Siltanemi FI

13. Jonas Andersson

14. Mikael Max

15. Jari Mäkinen FI

16. Daniel Hendersson

17. Eric Andersson

18. Fredrik Johansson

19. Benny Johansson

20. Christian Agö

[Vicar]

Good luck for Katajisto Makinen as you said doesn't show something special in this season. I haven't seen yet Siltaniemi...

[f-s-p]

Since I'll never hit 50 views per post I might as well stop waiting for it to happen... 48,8 is the current figure and that's almost 30 % increase on last year. What this means to me is that people have been much more interested in Finnish news than in previous years I've kept this. And why wouldn't they, there's been all sorts of Finnish "talents" riding on UK tracks this year.

 

Nothing much to report anymore from Finland. Except that I won Timo Lahti in a gokart race last friday in their season ending Gokart GP. Even though I took 34 kg of extraweight's on my car he still wasn't good enough. We wont be doing the race again on a speedway bike though, I'll keep this as one of the positives of my season for good.

 

A couple of notes on Finnnish riders in the UK though. Kauko was a star , Reima is still doing his business as expected , Aarnio managed a very good debut season and is looking forward to come back next year. Mäkinen and Keskinen both managed to spend a van load of money without achieving an actual average and Mäkinen has made it clear he plans to come back next season. Havent spoken to Keskinen about his plans though. Laukkanen was there also, maybe he should have sold a couple of apartments just to keep up with the speed for Mildenhall. Kylmäkorpi did OK I guess, what's there to say. Piled up big points from reserve, managed OK even after that but the injuries came again and took their toll. I think it's fair to say that I expected more.

 

We had an OK+ domestic season too. New blood came through. My ranking for our current U21 riders would be something like: 1. Timo Lahti, 2. Kalle Katajisto, 3. Niko Siltaniemi, 4. Teemu Lahti, 5. Appe Mustonen, 6. Joni Kitala. Timo Lahti gets his 1st position simply because he's the youngest now, just turned 16 halfway to the season. Teemu Lahti is the opposite, he's down to his last season in the U21 I think next year. Mäkinen is missing from the list ince he has nothing to show for himself from this season. Katajisto, Siltaniemi and Mustonen are all pretty even with Mustonen really hitting the jackpot at the Finnish final this season. Hopefully they all have the sense to stay away from UK racing next year. There's a good program going on for their deveploment and in my opinion they should take an advantage of it now. Anyone with a bike and the willingness to travel will get a chance to ride in the UK next season, the later in the year they pick up on it, the better for their progress it will be.

 

It's now been four weeks from the season finishing Extraliiga meeting, but no-official statement has been made regarding the fact that Jokerit took part with only three riders. It's been almost six weeks since the last 80cc round and no-official statement has been made regarding the cup points given in the series, as there are some inconcistensies with them. I expect all off these to be adressed though early in December, after the national federation get-together (November 22nd) for track racing clubs.

 

Thats about it for 2008, hope you enjoyed!

[iris123]

Thats about it for 2008, hope you enjoyed!

One of the best bits of the forum

 

But what about a review of the Longtrack season and a preview of the Ice Racing one

Obvious disappointment that Joonas hasn't managed to challenge Riss for the title.I think that is what Robert Barth was hoping.And i think Lehtinen failed to get into next years GPs

And how will Antti and Tommy go this winter?

[Midnight_Lady]

Since I'll never hit 50 views per post I might as well stop waiting for it to happen... 48,8 is the current figure and that's almost 30 % increase on last year. What this means to me is that people have been much more interested in Finnish news than in previous years I've kept this. And why wouldn't they, there's been all sorts of Finnish "talents" riding on UK tracks this year.....

 

........Thats about it for 2008, hope you enjoyed!

 

I always read your threads/posts re the Finnish riders mainly because I am watching Kalle Katajisto's progress and many Monarchs' fans would love to see Kalle back with us soon.

 

A big thank you fsp

 

[MattyHart]

Thanks for the updates over the year f-s-p

[Greg]

Yes thanks for the update thought the year is Jukka Nieminen Kauko brother ?

[Ghostwalker]

Yes thanks for the update thought the year is Jukka Nieminen Kauko brother ?

 

yeah and what about Jarkko Nieminen

[iris123]

And is this one of Jari's family in this old video?

Tampere 1977

Questions,questions.....

Edited October 20, 2008 by iris123

[f-s-p]

And is this one of Jari's family in this old video?

Tampere 1977

Questions,questions.....

Jep, thats Jari's dad Rauli on the number three bike. You should grow a beard like the one fellow on the green MP-leathers (not 11, thats Olavi Turunen) and have the birds falling on your lap... Now get lost from my thread!

 

The track that they are riding on is the old Hippos. Currently under a highway between Hakametsä ice rink and TAYS (the big university hospital of Tampere).

 

He's not greg.

 

EDIT:The fellow with the very handsome beard is actually Pekka Kortelainen. I saw him yesterday and naturally had to comment this to him. Quite rightly he put me to shame and said it was the only way to have a beard at the time. LOOKED DAFT THOUGH if you ask me!

Edited October 24, 2008 by f-s-p

[Lake Bodom Comet]

Kiitos F-S-P for another year of unrivalled coverage of the Suomi Speedway scene! As other forum members have stated it is much appreciated and the news you post is always entertaining and informative....and certainly more interesting than German Speedway news! (sorry Iris 123)!

 

Will look forward to more of the same next year as well as your usual in depth coverage of the Finnish Ice Speedway happenings. Lets just hope the weather will be cold enough for some meetings to actually be staged this winter. Might be able to make it over in February for some Espoo Blues Jaakiekko action(maybe v Tappara??!) and it would be cool if there was some spike racing on at the same time

 

My wish for 2009 in Finnish Speedway is that the fixtures will be out before May so I can plan a summer trip to a League meeting! Probably more chance though of me winning the EuroMillions lotto and using the winnings to stage a SGP in Helsinki with Kauko Nieminen and Tommi Reima as wildcards!!

[iris123]

....and certainly more interesting than German Speedway news! (sorry Iris 123)!

How much is he paying you?

[f-s-p]

How much is he paying you?

More than I'm paying you!

[iris123]

More than I'm paying you!