f-s-p Posted February 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2009 (edited) Finnish final today at Forssa. Antti Aakko OMK 33333 15 Tommy Flyktman KMMK 33332 14 Kai Lehtinen A-SMP 33331 13 Jouni Seppänen PirMM 32223 12 Janne Vilponen A-SMP 22123 10 Teppo Toivola A-SMP 12312 9 Mats Järf VaMK 13230 9 Timo Kankkunen P-KMK 11023 7 Janne Ruismäki VMK 11112 6 Ari Tuomisto FMS 21201 6 Jussi Hytönen KMMK 00221 5 Jussi Nyrönen P-KMK 00111 3 Markku Weckman SsMK 01010 2 Harri Saari P-KMK 00000 0 Jarmo Malinen FMS 20000 0 Erä erältä: 1. Aakko, Tuomisto, Toivola, Hytönen 52,82 2. Lehtinen, Malinen, Ruismäki, Saari 53,59 3. Flyktman, Vilponen, Kankkunen, Nyrönen 55,03 4. Seppänen, Biskop, Järf, Weckman 57,52 5. Flyktman, Toivola, Weckman, Malinen 56,40 6. Aakko, Biskop, Ruismäki, Nyrönen 54,90 7. Lehtinen, Seppänen, Kankkunen, Hytönen 56,20 8. Järf, Vilponen, Tuomisto, Saari 58,46 9. Toivola, Järf, Ruismäki, Kankkunen 57,85 10. Aakko, Seppänen, Vilponen, Malinen 55,84 11. Flyktman, Hytönen, Biskop, Weckman 56,71 12. Lehtinen, Tuomisto, Nyrönen, Weckman 58,58 13. Lehtinen, Vilponen, Toivola, Biskop 56,96 14. Aakko, Kankkunen, Weckman, Saari 56,83 15. Järf, Hytönen, Nyrönen, Malinen 59,90 16. Flyktman, Seppänen, Ruismäki, Tuomisto 58,16 17. Seppänen, Toivola, Nyrönen, Saari 58,96 18. Aakko, Flyktman, Lehtinen, Järf 55,09 19. Vilponen, Ruismäki, Hytönen, Weckman 59,02 20. Kankkunen, Biskop, Tuomisto, Malinen 61,64 Katsojia 845 Heat 18 was the decider. Aakko was way better from the tapes. After first lap everything was settled because the distances were already around 20 m each. Lehtinen had gearbox problems on the third lap but luckily Järf wasn't able to make a pass. Jouni Seppänen was on fire, as he did "last to 2nd" twice and last to first once and was a well worthy fourth. Edited February 28, 2009 by f-s-p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bream Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 Yeap, meeting wasnt very good. Antti didnt even use full trothle.. Flyktman and Lehtinen where clearly better than the rest. Shame that in heat 18. there was no real action. After first bend everything was over. Few star moments where actualy Jouni Seppänen's great over takes! Im very sad about how ice racing is looking. Most of guys looks like a sausages when they are fitted in their leathers. Not much of summer training done.. like normal speedway riders are doing in the winter to stay fit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted March 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 Yeap, meeting wasnt very good. Antti didnt even use full trothle.. Flyktman and Lehtinen where clearly better than the rest. Shame that in heat 18. there was no real action. After first bend everything was over. Few star moments where actualy Jouni Seppänen's great over takes! Im very sad about how ice racing is looking. Most of guys looks like a sausages when they are fitted in their leathers. Not much of summer training done.. like normal speedway riders are doing in the winter to stay fit. Like I said to a friend, I was happy to just see overtaking. Most of the heats were won from the tapes, but there were enough battles at the back for the meeting to get an OK mention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted March 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 Pictures from the Finnish final here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted March 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 Jääspeedway, Corner’s Open Kokkola (KMK) 7.3.2009 Jouni Seppänen PirMM 33333 15 Janne Vilponen A-SMP 33332 14 Teppo Toivola A-SMP 23233 13 Janne Ruismäki VMK 22323 12 Jussi Nyrönen P-KMK 12232 10 Jussi Hytönen P-KMK 3222F 9 Timo Kankkunen P-KMK 03122 8 Matti Hanninen OMK 11313 8 Christer Biskop KMS 21d22 7 Ari Tuomisto FMS 31111 7 Jani Ahola KMS 220d1 5 Mark Uzzell GB 11011 4 Esko Rantanen PirMM 10111 4 Sakari Piirainen OMK 00200 2 Harri Saari P-KMK 0FFFN 0 Erä erältä: 1. Seppänen, Toivola, Nyrönen, Kankkunen 66,79 2. Tuomisto, Biskop, Uzzell, Piirainen 56,93 3. Hytönen, Ahola, Rantanen, Saari 56,86 4. Vilponen, Ruismäki, Hanninen 54,80 5. Kankkunen, Ahola, Uzzell 57,69 6. Vilponen, Nyrönen, Biskop, Saari F 54,91 7. Toivola, Hytönen, Hanninen, Piirainen 55,91 8. Seppänen, Ruismäki, Tuomisto, Rantanen 55,38 9. Ruismäki Hytönen, Kankkunen, Biskop d 54,67 10. Hanninen, Nyrönen, Rantanen, Uzzell 57,04 11. Vilponen, Toivola, Tuomisto, Ahola 55,53 12. Seppänen, Piirainen, Saari F 60,00 13. Vilponen, Kankkunen, Rantanen, Piirainen 56,51 14. Nyrönen, Hytönen, Tuomisto, 57,35 15. Toivola, Ruismäki, Uzzell, Saari F 56,15 16. Seppänen, Biskop, Hanninen, Ahola d 56,97 17. Hanninen, Kankkunen, Tuomisto 57,67 18. Ruismäki, Nyrönen, Ahola, Piirainen 57,42 19. Toivola, Biskop, Rantanen 57,20 20. Seppänen, Vilponen, Uzzell, Hytönen F 57,25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Just seen that post....but "most of the guys look like sausages...." What with that and f-s-p's classic Franky Zorns mullet not meeting FIM rules post..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted March 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 (edited) Noticed that the Finnish calendar had also made it to the Spar's season preview. Well the word from the spring conference is that practically the whole calendar was re-written and also Haapajärvi lost the U21 final to Kuusankoski. Also the foreigner rule has been changed for this coming season in the Extraliiga. We'll wait for the official press release on the subject. It took almost eight weeks to produce one from the last conference, but hopefully they'll get one done in half the time this time, since the season kick's of in three weeks with a U21 training camp in Hallstavik, Sweden. Jari Mäkinen has signed to ride for Kotkat in the Extraliiga this season. Edited March 24, 2009 by f-s-p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cometsfan2k4 Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 When will the Finnish season start properly? I am hoping to see a meeting before I leave at the end of May. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted March 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 When will the Finnish season start properly? I am hoping to see a meeting before I leave at the end of May. I dont see any reason why they would have messed with Yyteri speedway. Thats on thursday, 21st of May. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cometsfan2k4 Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 I dont see any reason why they would have messed with Yyteri speedway. Thats on thursday, 21st of May. Thanks. I might be able to see this, I leave the week afterwards for a months travelling in Europe. It will be good to see some speedway before I leave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted April 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 (edited) New and final/confirmed Finnish calendar came out yesterday, April 2nd. Good thing it was kept for an extra day! 21.5. ... TO ... 80 cc Suomen Cup 1/6 ... Pori 14.6. ... SU ... 80 cc Suomen Cup 2/6 ... Lahti 23.6. ... TI ... 80 cc Suomen Cup 3/6 ... Kuusankoski 5.7. ... SU ... 80 cc Suomen Cup 4/6 ... Haapajärvi 5.9. ... LA ... 80 cc Suomen Cup 5/6 ... Kauhajoki 13.9. ... SU ... 80 cc Suomen Cup 6/6 ... Lahti 25.7. ... LA ... 80 cc Suomen Cup, team final ... Kuusankoski 31.5. ... SU ... Extraliiga 1/8 ... Kauhajoki 13.6. ... LA ... Extraliiga 2/8 ... Seinäjoki 14.6. ... SU ... Extraliiga 3/8 ... Lahti 23.6. ... TI ... Extraliiga 4/8 ... Kuusankoski 11.7. ... LA ... Extraliiga 5/8 ... Seinäjoki 12.7. ... SU ... Extraliiga 6/8 ... Kauhajoki 22.8. ... LA ... Extraliiga 7/8 ... Kuusankoski 13.9. ... SU ... Extraliiga 8/8 ... Lahti 17.5. ... SU ... Kaupunki Cup 1/6 ... Seinäjoki 5.7. ... SU ... Kaupunki Cup 2/6 ... Haapajärvi 18.7. ... LA ... Kaupunki Cup 3/6 ... Lahti 5.9. ... LA ... Kaupunki Cup 4/6 ... Kauhajoki 6.9. ... SU ... Kaupunki Cup 5/6 ... Lahti 19.9. ... LA ... Kaupunki Cup 6/6 ... Pori 21.5. ... TO ... Yyteri speedway ... Pori, 30.5. ... LA ... Seinäjoki speedway ... Seinäjoki 6.6. ... LA ... Kauhajoki speedway ... Kauhajoki 27.6. ... LA ... Pariajo SM-finaali ... Seinäjoki 4.7. ... LA ... Kemppi speedway ... Lahti 7.7. ... TI ... U21 FINLAND vs. Swedish select ... Kuusankoski 19.7. ... SU ... SM-qualifier ... Seinäjoki 25.7. ... LA ... U21 SM-finaali ... Kuusankoski 1.8. ... LA ... SM-finaali ... Pori 12.9. ... LA ... Individual ... Kuusankoski 8.8. ... LA ... LT ... Nordic final ... Forssa 24.5. ... SU ... LT ... Individual ... Heinola 29.8. ... LA ... LT ... SM-Finaali ... Vaasa EDIT: Couple of notes from the calendar that are no good for Finnish riders. - Qualifier for the Finnish final was put on the same weekend as the U19 team semi in Germany. Thats five riders out from the qualifier, not too good. - Finnish longtrack final at Vaasa is on the same weekend as the European final at Berghaupten. Thats a shame, but I do think that the Vaasa weekend is a set date by the city and the horse racing people and can't be changed. Finnish riders in the EC grasstrack are (nominations to be confirmed) K.Laukkanen, R.Lehtinen and A.Mustonen. Edited April 6, 2009 by f-s-p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted April 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 (edited) The injury to Joonas Kylmäkorpi rules him out for six weeks, and that will include the SWC qualifier in Daugavpils, Latvia on May 2nd. Hopefully he'll be in one piece again for the SGP qualifier in Divisov on June 7th. It's a BIG dent on the Finnish dream to get back in to the "real" SWC. EDIT: Luckily we have Kalle Katajisto and he will replace Kylmäkorpi as our #1 in Daugavpils. Full Finnish team for the SWC qualifier on May 2nd is: 1. Kalle Katajisto, 2. Tomi Reima, 3. Juha Hautamäki, 4. Kaj Laukkanen and 5. Kauko Nieminen. Finland will be riding with white helmet colour against the Yanks in red, CZ in blue and Latvia in yellow. It's no secret that with Kylmäkorpi we lost 10 points from our total, but hopefully Hautamäki can up his came after winning the triple in Finland for two seasons in a row now. Kake looks to be in a good form but Laukkanen is a mystery that wont be solved until the last heat is done in Latvia. Edited April 8, 2009 by f-s-p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bream Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 Hyvä Kalle!!!! But yeap, it is a shame for Team Finland that we lost Kylmäkorpi. I thought he was out for 3 weeks. Six is bad.. What teams "Pätkä" is riding for? Has he rode any meetings yeat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted April 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 (edited) Hyvä Kalle!!!! But yeap, it is a shame for Team Finland that we lost Kylmäkorpi. I thought he was out for 3 weeks. Six is bad.. What teams "Pätkä" is riding for? Has he rode any meetings yeat? The 6 weeks I'm on about is from the time BEFORE he went in to the surgery and BEFORE he gave his own statement to the BSPA website. I'm told (sorry m8 ) that he doesn't even need a cast for the problem he has. Wonders of the current medical world! To my knowledge, and thats underlined because I havent found any info on the internet (anywhere, any country, any club, any rider site) to state otherwise. Is... that Laukkanen is only set to ride for his hometown club Kotkat, eight meetings of speedway in total. He has a few longtrack contracts on the continent though, which that seems to be his main ambition currently... And thats why I mentioned his name in the mystery concerning Latvia. To all my Finnish readers, and you've multiplied like rabbits recently... (LBC included ), Hyvää pääsiäistä, JYPPI RULAA!!! Edited April 10, 2009 by f-s-p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bream Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 At JK's website there is that he is out for 4 weeks. But who knows how healing will go.. "Ameriikan vitamiinejä" and he will be back in 3 weeks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lake Bodom Comet Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 Hauskaa Pitkaperjantai, Hauskaa paasiaista F-S-P And Happy Easter to everyone in the ever expanding Finnish News fan club, we are taking over the world!!!!!!! Here's hope that Team Finland can pull off a shock in the SWC qualifier and take their rightful place in the finals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 Yeah...and kokkolokoloko suunnitaleinen from me too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicar Posted April 13, 2009 Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 Hyvää pääsiäistä So late, becuase I just came from Oulanka, where I spend almost three days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lake Bodom Comet Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 Suprised Tero Aarnio not part of the Team Finland line-up for the SWC qualifier I know he's been struggling at the start of this new season due to a variety of reasons but on Saturday night he showed a glimpse of his true potential when riding for Berwick at Workington. Having trailed round at the back in his 2 opening rides he sensationally beat Comets and probably the Premier League no 1 Kevin Doolan in heat 10 with a terrifically mature and impressive ride. And this was just after Doolan had smashed the Workington track record! Hopefully that win will give Tero the confidence boost he needs to get his season on track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted April 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2009 Suprised Tero Aarnio not part of the Team Finland line-up for the SWC qualifier For what I know and read from Aarnio's blog he's had a nightmare start to the season. Daugavpils is traditionally a very slick track with no banking on the curves. So not really a track for Aarnio. He was doing fine when Berwick was still a mx-track last season, but it's been hard for him to get things going this year. Katajisto on the other is considered to be the next big one in Finnish speedway. His problem on the other hand is gating, but if he gates, he's very fast. He has a very unique yet fast style to ride a bike. If I'm honest, I dont really understand how he's so fast. In my opion he should fall off more often, since he look's like a boiled string of spaghetti on his bike... Even with the heat win in Workington he only got 4 or something from his four rides (didn't even check). There are plenty of places in the Finnish camp to be filled during the season in international meetings still... Qualifier for the Finnish U19 and U21 places in Elgane and Hallstavik will be ridden on saturday. The riders will start with practise on friday. On sunday there's once again a test match between the Finns and Stjärnorna. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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