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This was re-staged Round 1 which was originally rained off and was raced @ PORI

Thank you so much

[f-s-p]

League results from the past two weekends.

 

SM-liiga 4/8, Hyvinkää 16.7.2011

Sand Blowers 37

Jari Mäkinen 11R33 8

Andreas Messing 23322 12+1

Pasi Pulliainen 33203 11+1

Aarni heikkilä 222 6+3

 

Kotkat 36

Juha Hautamäki 3332^33 17

Markku Autio 02212 7+3

Rene Lehtinen 3112 7+1

Mika Loppi 203 5+1

 

Keittiöpiste 22

Tero Aarnio R/R

Teemu Lahti 3213^33 15

David Hillborg 10011 3

Marko Hyyryläinen 1002100 4+1

 

Paholaiset 13

Joni Keskinen 22121 8

Marko Suojanen RR1RR 1

Jiri Nieminen 11001 3

Jere Lehtonen d10 1

 

Erä erältä:

1. Lahti, Keskinen, Hillborg, Suojanen R 64,09

2. Hautamäki, Messing, Mäkinen, Autio 63,16

3. Lehtinen, Loppi, Nieminen, Lehtonen d 67,09

4. Pulliainen, Heikkilä, Hyyryläinen, Hillborg 66,90

5. Messing, Lahti, Mäkinen, Hyyryläinen 64,34

6. Hautamäki, Autio, Nieminen, Suojanen 67,09

7. Messing, Keskinen, Suojanen, Mäkinen R 64,52

8. Pulliainen, Heikkilä, Lehtinen, Loppi 67,28

9. Hautamäki, Autio, Lahti, Hyyryläinen 65,16

10. Lahti^, Hyyryläinen, Lehtonen, Nieminen 67,52

11. Mäkinen, Pulliainen, Keskinen, Suojanen R 65,41

12. Lahti, Hautamäki, Autio, Hillborg 65,40

13. Hautamäki, Messing, Lehtinen, Pulliainen 65,16

14. Lahti, Keskinen, Hyyryläinen, Nieminen 69,34

15. Loppi, Lehtinen, Hillborg, Hyyryläinen 67,47

16. Pulliainen, Heikkilä, Nieminen, Lehtonen 69,23

17. Hautamäki, Autio, Keskinen, Suojanen R 67,04

18. Mäkinen, Messing, Hillborg, Hyyryläinen 66,72

Tuomari: Matti Koivuoja, katsojia 285.

 

SM-liiga 5/8, Seinäjoki 23.7.2011

Meeting ababndoned after 16 heats due to heavy rain. Results will stand as they were after 16 heats.

Sand Blowers 32

Jari Mäkinen 2233 10+1

Andreas Messing 3123 9+2

Pasi Pulliainen 31212 9+2

Aarni heikkilä 103 4

 

Keittiöpiste 30

Timo Lahti 3212 8+2

Tero Aarnio 2333 11+1

David Hillborg 20331 9

Marko Hyyryläinen 020 2+1

 

Kotkat 26

Juha Hautamäki 1310 7

Rene Lehtinen 020 2+1

Markku Autio 23003 8+1

Mika Loppi 3222 9+2

 

Paholaiset 8

Joni Keskinen 1Fn 1

Marko Suojanen 0111^1 4

Jiri Nieminen 1100 2

Jere Lehtonen 000001 1

 

Erä erältä:

1. T.Lahti, Aarnio, Keskinen, Suojanen 64,14

2. Messing, Mäkinen, Hautamäki, Lehtinen 64,43

3. Pulliainen, Hillborg, Heikkilä, Hyyryläinen 64,51

4. Loppi, Autio, Nieminen, Lehtonen 64,24

5. Hautamäki, Lehtinen, Suojanen, Lehtonen 65,21

6. Aarnio, Mäkinen, Messing, Hillborg 64,36

7. Aarnio, T.Lahti, Hautamäki, Lehtinen 65,74

8. Autio, Loppi, Pulliainen, Heikkilä 63,11

9. Mäkinen, Messing, Suojanen, Lehtonen 63,90

10. Hillborg, Hyyryläinen, Nieminen, Lehtonen 66,72

11. Aarnio, Hautamäki, T.Lahti, Autio 64,49

12. Messing, Pulliainen, Suojanen^, Nieminen 65,36

13. Mäkinen, Loppi, Pulliainen, Autio 65,02

14. Hillborg, T.Lahti, Suojanen, Lehtonen 65,80

15. Heikkilä, Pulliainen, Lehtonen, Nieminen 65,96

16. Autio, Loppi, Hillborg, Hyyryläinen 66,10

Ottelu keskeytettiin sateen takia, tulokset jäävät voimaan.

Tuomari: Mika Laukkanen, katsojia 195.

 

Standings after 5/8

Sand Blowers 5 - 159 - 21

Keittiöpiste 5 - 156 - 21

Kotkat 5 - 159 - 18

Paholaiset 5 - 54 - 10

 

Kaupunki Cup results from the past two weekends...

 

Kaupunki Cup 3/6

Hyvinkää, HyMK 17.7.2011

 

Seinäjoki 21

Mika Loppi 23333 14

Pekka Valo 12211 7

 

Pori 18

Jere Lehtonen 0d12 3

Jouni Viljanen 33333 15

 

Lahti 17

Janne Nyman 32223 12

Jiri Nieminen 23d 5

 

Kauhajoki 14

Olli Heikkilä 01020 3

Vili Mattila 12332 11

 

Hyvinkää I 11

Jani Eerikäinen 21221 8

Ari Tuomisto 00102 3

 

Hyvinkää II 6

Marko Toikka 31Fn 4

Tino Turkia 1T0 1

Pekka Toikka 1d 1

 

Erä erältä:

1. Toikka, Eerikäinen, Turkia, Tuomisto 72,84

2. Nyman, Nieminen, Mattila, Heikkilä 88,09

3. Suojanen, Loppi, Valo, Lehtonen 66,39

4. Loppi, Valo, Eerikäinen, Tuomisto 67,01

5. Nieminen, Nyman, Toikka, Turkia T 70,40

6. Suojanen, Mattila, Heikkilä, Lehtonen d 73,62

7. Suojanen, Nyman, Nieminen d 69,82

8. Loppi, Valo, P.Toikka, Turkia 66,75

9. Mattila, Eerikäinen, Tuomisto, Heikkilä 75,25

10. Mattila, Heikkilä, Toikka Fn, P.Toikka d 74,56

11. Suojanen, Eerikäinen, Lehtonen, Tuomisto 71,81

12. Loppi, Nyman, Valo 67,50

13. Loppi, Mattila, Valo, Heikkilä 68,96

14. Nyman, Tuomisto, Eerikäinen 72,62

15. Suojanen, Lehtonen 75,23

Tuomari: Matti Koivuoja, katsojia 65.

 

Kaupunki Cup 4/6

Kauhajoki, Kauhjmk 24.7.2011

 

Seinäjoki 23

Mika Loppi 23333 14

Herman Kenkkilä 32R22 19

 

Lahti 20

Jiri Nieminen 33303 12

Janne Nyman 12212 8

 

Kauhajoki 13+3

Vili Mattila 31331 11+3

Olli Heikkilä 10010 2

 

Pori 13+2

Jere Lehtonen 2T012 5

Jouni Viljanen 01133 8+2

 

Hyvinkää I 11

Jani Eerikäinen 13221 9

Tommi Ahlgren 01100 2

 

Hyvinkää II 10

Marko Toikka 222d 6

Tino Turkia 021 3

Pekka Toikka 010 1

 

Erä erältä:

1. Mattila, Lehtonen, Heikkilä, Viljanen 67,50

2. Kenkkilä, Loppi, Eerikäinen, Ahlgren 65,32

3. Nieminen, Toikka, Nyman, P.Toikka 64,08

4. Nieminen, Nyman, Mattila, Heikkilä 64,18

5. Loppi, Kenkkilä, Viljanen, Lehtonen T 63,54

6. Eerikäinen, Toikka, Ahlgren, Turkia 67,92

7. Loppi, Toikka, P.Toikka, Kenkkilä R 62,70

8. Nieminen, Nyman, Viljanen, Lehtonen 63,75

9. Mattila, Eerikäinen, Ahlgren, Heikkilä 67,61

10. Viljanen, Eerikäinen, Lehtonen, Ahlgren 67,36

11. Mattila, Turkia, Heikkilä, Toikka d 68,15

12. Loppi, Kenkkilä, Nyman, Nieminen 63,00

13. Nieminen, Nyman, Eerikäinen, Ahlgren 63,65

14. Loppi, Kenkkilä, Mattila, Heikkilä 62,18

15. Viljanen, Lehtonen, Turkia, P.Toikka 68,31

Tuomari: Mika Laukkanen, katsojia 70.

 

Standings 4/6

Seinäjoki 4 - 85 - 20

Pori 4 - 68 - 14

Lahti 4 - 66 - 13

Kauhajoki 4 - 40 - 5

Hyvinkää 2 4 - 38 - 4

Hyvinkää 1 4 - 36 - 4

Edited July 25, 2011 by f-s-p

[f-s-p]

The U21 final scheduled for this saturday has been postponed to september 10th due to rider shortage. There are only about a dozen of them with some out with injuries, some with family commitments and some just not interested. Better luck in september.

[f-s-p]

Next meeting in Finland will be the 6th round of SM-liiga at Kuusankoski on Saturday, August 20th.

 

We have a break in domestic racing since the Finnish federation is the main organizer in the Six Days enduro world Cup that starts this week at Kotka/Hamina area. All organized motorcycles races/meetings are forbidden between this friday (5th) and Sunday the 14th.

Edited August 1, 2011 by f-s-p

[f-s-p]

SM-liiga at Kuusankoski last saturday. Hyvinkää won by a point after (I'm told) Lebedev fell while leading A LOT. Also his retirement earlier was from the lead after his chains had snapped. So basically his misfortunes cost Keittiöpiste the meeting win. Sand Blowers are now leading by a point in the series. Next round is Pori this tuesday with Kauko Nieminen, Juha Hautamäki, Jari Mäkinen, Andreas Messing, Aki-Pekka Mustonen, Andrei Lebedev, Tero Aarnio and Timo Lahti on track. It's gonna be really close!!!

 

Sand Blowers 35

Jari Mäkinen 2’311’3 10+2

Andreas Messing 3132’3 12+1

Pasi Pulliainen 22’221 9+1

Aarni Heikkilä 031’ 4+1

 

Keittiöpiste 34

Timo Lahti 2’22’2’2 10+3

Teemu Lahti 3032 8

David Hillborg 112’ 4+1

Andrei Lebedev 333R3F 12

 

Kotkat 26

Markku Autio R/R

Juha Hautamäki 132333 15

Vili Mattila 000010 1

Mika Loppi 032032’ 10+1

 

Paholaiset 13

Jere Lehtonen 100TR 1

Marko Suojanen 02111 5

Jiri Nieminen 21’111 6+1

Jouni Viljanen 1’T00 1+1

 

Erä erältä:

1. Messing, Mäkinen, Lehtonen, Suojanen 64,63

2. Lahti, T.Lahti, Hautamäki, Loppi 64,19

3. Loppi, Nieminen, Viljanen Mattila 65,26

4. Lebedev, Pulliainen, Hillborg, Heikkilä

5. Mäkinen, T.Lahti, Messing, Lahti 64,56

6. Hautamäki, Suojanen, Nieminen, Mattila 65,44

7. Lahti, T.Lahti, Suojanen, Lehtonen 64,44

8. Lebedev, Loppi, Hillborg, Mattila 63,33

9. Messing, Hautamäki, Mäkinen, Loppi 64,00

10. Heikkilä, Pulliainen, Nieminen 66,01

11. Lebedev, T.Lahti, Suojanen, Lehtonen 63,50

12. Hautamäki, Pulliainen, Mäkinen, Mattila 63,88

13. Hautamäki, Lahti, Mattila, Lebedev R 63,88

14. Mäkinen, Messing, Nieminen, Viljanen 66,57

15. Loppi, Pulliainen, Heikkilä, Mattila 64,19

16. Lebedev, Hillborg, Nieminen, Viljanen 63,87

17. Hautamäki, Loppi, Suojanen, Lehtonen 64,96

18. Messing, T.Lahti, Pulliainen, Lebedev F 66,64

Tuomari: Matti Pöysä, katsojia 224.

[f-s-p]

Excellent meeting last night at Pori! I'll add comments and table in the evening.

 

Keittiöpiste 33

Timo Lahti 3102' 6+1

Tero Aarnio 2'3120 8+1

Aki-Pekka Mustonen 32'2' 7+2

Andrei Lebedev T3d333 12

 

Kotkat 32

Kauko Nieminen 32'33'2 13+2

Juha Hautamäki 2'32'1'2 10+3

Vili Mattila 100 1

Mika Loppi 32111 8

 

Sand Blowers 31

Jari Mäkinen 12'33'1' 10+3

Andreas Messing T233^2'2 12+1

Pasi Pulliainen 1'003 4+1

Aarni Heikkilä 0212' 5+1

 

Paholaiset 12

Joni Keskinen 10013 5

Marko Suojanen 01110 3

Jiri Nieminen R1001 2

Jouni Viljanen 200 2

 

Erä erältä:

1. Nieminen, Hautamäki, Mäkinen, Heikkilä 64,28

2. T.Lahti, Aarnio, Keskinen, Suojanen 63,40

3. Mustonen, Heikkilä, Pulliainen, Lebedev T 65,38

4. Loppi, Viljanen, Mattila, J.Nieminen R 64,45

5. Hautamäki, Nieminen, Suojanen, Keskinen 63,60

6. Aarnio, Messing, T.Lahti, Pulliainen 64,03

7. Messing, Mäkinen, Suojanen, Keskinen 64,41

8. Lebedev, Mustonen,J. Nieminen, Viljanen 64,01

9. Nieminen, Hautamäki, Aarnio, T.Lahti 63,24

10. Messing^, Loppi, Heikkilä, Mattila 64,50

11. Mäkinen, Messing, Keskinen, J.Nieminen 64,13

12. Nieminen, Aarnio, Loppi, Lebedev d 64,11

13. Lebedev, T.Lahti, Suojanen, J.Nieminen 63,59

14. Mäkinen, Nieminen, Hautamäki, Pulliainen 64,00

15. Lebedev, Mustonen, Loppi, Mattila 63,91

16. Pulliainen, Heikkilä, J.Nieminen, Viljanen 66,31

17. Lebedev, Messing, Mäkinen, Aarnio 63,49

18. Keskinen, Hautamäki, Loppi, Suojanen 65,42

Tuomari: Harri Heikkilä, katsojia 182

Edited August 24, 2011 by f-s-p

[Icicle]

I note Lebedev nearly blew in for Ketti again (but not quite.).with a tapes & Fall!

Edited August 24, 2011 by icicle

[f-s-p]

I note Lebedev nearly blew in for Ketti again (but not quite.).with a tapes & Fall!

He nearly did, again. I heard today that he was so angry with himself after saturday's fall when he really did cost Keittiöpiste the meeting, that he stopped talking to everyone and just sat quiet... When he fell while challenging Nemo yesterday, he quickly got up, jumped over the fence and gave hell to his toolbox and other gear. But he is really fast and as I understand he only turns 17 this November.

 

I spoke to him after the meeting with the help of his mechanic and he seemed a good bloke (or the mechanic gave his own version of it all ). I wished him all the best and he seemed to appreciate my efforts.

 

The track at Pori was exactly what I like for a Finnish meeting. Rock hard in the beginning with material gathering to the outer third of the track on bends after 6 or so heats. Not dusty at all as all the spray was wet enough to be down on the track before the riders were back at it again on the next lap. There were some really good battles, but the best was Jari Mäkinen's clean pass over Kauko Nieminen in heat 14. He got under him exiting turn 4 and dived again entering turn one and pushed him away. It was great, shame I had to duck when they rode past me, otherwise I'd be R/R for the rest of the season myself. Hyvinkää next saturday with great expectations...

 

Table:

Keittiöpiste +223 / 30

Sand Blowers +225 / 29

Kotkat +217 / 25

Paholaiset +79 / 14

 

If Keittiöpiste wins over Sand Blowers, they are champions. If Sand Blowers win over Keittiöpiste, they are champions by larger amount of heat points.

Edited August 24, 2011 by f-s-p

[f-s-p]

Sand Blowers from Hyvinkää are the SM-liiga champions of 2011. It was really close with SB needing a 4-2 from the final heat of the season against their championship rival Keittiöpiste. A 3-3 draw would have given the title to Keittiöpiste. Messing gated and Mäkinen was left at the back in the first corner. Teemu Lahti kept second for a lap while Aki-Pekka Mustonen tried REALLY hard to keep Mäkinen at the back. He did not succeed though and when Lahti had a near tumble Mäkinen thanked and flew by...

 

The track had improved immensely from July. It still had to be graded every three heats, but it was much better than last time.

 

Speedwayn SM-liiga 8/8 27.8.2011:

 

Sand Blowers 37

Jari Mäkinen 2'3322' 12+2

Andreas Messing 31133 11

Pasi Pulliainen 12'12'3 9+2

Aarni Heikkilä 032' 5+1

 

Keittiöpiste 34

Tero Aarnio 22333 13

Teemu Lahti 102'11 5+1

Aki-Pekka Mustonen 2'32'2'0 9+3

Marko Hyyryläinen 313 7

 

Kotkat 22

Juha Hautamäki 32323 13

Rene Lehtinen 010 1

Vili Mattila 00000 0

Mika Loppi 30212' 8+1

 

Paholaiset 15

Joni Keskinen 1310 5

Marko Suojanen 02'R11 4+1

Jiri Nieminen 11011 4

Jouni Viljanen 2000 2

 

Erä erältä:

1. Hautamäki, Aarnio, Lahti, Lehtinen 64,95

2. Messing, Mäkinen, Keskinen, Suojanen 66,17

3. Loppi, Viljanen, Nieminen, Mattila 65,17

4. Hyyryläinen, Mustonen, Pulliainen, Heikkilä 67,45

5. Mäkinen, Aarnio, Messing, Lahti 64,55

6. Keskinen, Suojanen, Lehtinen, Mattila 66,87

7. Mäkinen, Hautamäki, Messing, Loppi 66,99

8. Heikkilä, Pulliainen, Nieminen, Viljanen 67,41

9. Aarnio, Lehti, Keskinen, Suojanen R 64,83

10. Mustonen, Loppi, Hyyryläinen, Mattila 67,57

11. Hautamäki, Mäkinen, Pulliainen, Lehtinen 66,41

12. Aarnio, Mustonen, Suojanen, Nieminen 67,59

13. Messing, Pulliainen, Nieminen, Keskinen 66,43

14. Aarnio, Hautamäki, Lahti, Mattila 64,85

15. Hyyryläinen, Mustonen, Nieminen, Viljanen 67,57

16. Pulliainen, Heikkilä, Loppi, Mattila 67,77

17. Hautamäki, Loppi, Suojanen, Viljanen 65,29

18. Messing, Mäkinen, Lahti, Mustonen 66,00

Tuomari: Mika Laukkanen, katsojia 335.

 

Final table:

Club M - + - P

Sand Blowers 8 - 262 - 34

Keittiöpiste 8 - 257 - 34

Kotkat 8 - 239 - 28

Paholaiset 8 - 94 - 16

 

8 meetings in a season and it was a last heat decider for the title.

 

Still kind of bummed I did not make the cover on last weeks Spar...

Edited August 28, 2011 by f-s-p

[Puma23]

Something old

 

1972 - Finnish Pairs Championship

 

Tampere - 14.08.1972

 

1 SsMK I 28 Matti Olin, Hannu Kankanen

2 TaMK I 26 Kalevi Lahtinen, Tapio Leppasalko

3 HaMK 19 Pekka Kartelainen, Rauli Makinen

4 TaMK II 17 Kari Vuoristo, Jouko Naskali

5 SsMK II 16 Timo Naskali, Heikki Ahonen

6 KMMK 11 Pekka Paljakka, Teuvo Sirenius

7 SeMK 8 Esko Myllari, Lasse Seppala

Edited September 1, 2011 by Puma23

[f-s-p]

Nemo continues his reign as the Finnish champion. He won the rerun of the final before Juha Hautamäki and Tero Aarnio. First try saw Jari Mäkinen excluded after he was passing Tero Aarnio on the backstraight for third. Controversial is an appropriate term for the decision, since I thought Aarnio turned left on him in the middle of the straight. Mäkinen had already gated and was in control entering the first bend, but hit a rut and lifted allowing everyone pass him.

 

In the semi Mäkinen was first before Hautamäki, Teemu Lahti and Mika Loppi.

 

Kauko Nieminen SeMK 33333 15

Tero Aarnio KMMK 32233 13

Juha Hautamäki SeMK 23331 12

Jari Mäkinen PirMM 23232 12

Mika Loppi SeMK 32123 11

Teemu Lahti KMMK 22312 10

Marko Suojanen PMK 11123 8

Joni Keskinen SeMK 11221 7

Rene Lehtinen SeMK 320R1 6

Pasi Pulliainen VRT 20R22 6

Aarni Heikkilä FMS 10310 5

Jiri Nieminen SsMK 01210 4

Janne Nyman SsMK 01R12 4

Aki-Pekka Mustonen VRT M3NNN 3

Jouni Viljanen PMK 10001 2

 

Erä erältä:

1. Loppi, Pulliainen, Keskinen, J.Nieminen 64,26

2. Aarnio, Mäkinen, Suojanen, Nyman 64,37

3. Lehtinen, Lahti, Heikkilä, Mustonen M 64,19

4. Nieminen, Hautamäki, Viljanen 62,77

5. Hautamäki, Loppi, Suojanen, Heikkilä 63,33

6. Mustonen, Aarnio, Keskinen 64,38

7. Mäkinen, Lehtinen, J.Nieminen, Viljanen 63,68

8. Nieminen, Lahti, Nyman, Pulliainen 62,79

9. Nieminen, Aarnio, Loppi, Lehtinen 62,12

10. Lahti, Keskinen, Suojanen, Viljanen 64,37

11. Heikkilä, J.Nieminen, Nyman 68,57

12. Hautamäki, Mäkinen, Pulliainen R 64,20

13. Mäkinen, Loppi, Lahti 64,12

14. Hautamäki, Keskinen, Nyman, Lehtinen R 63,68

15. Nieminen, Suojanen, J.Nieminen 62,38

16. Aarnio, Pulliainen, Heikkilä, Viljanen 63,36

17. Loppi, Nyman, Viljanen 65,17

18. Nieminen, Mäkinen, Keskinen, Heikkilä 63,01

19. Aarnio, Lahti, Hautamäki, J.Nieminen 63,65

20. Suojanen, Pulliainen, Lehtinen 67,04

Semifinaali: Mäkinen, Hautamäki, Lahti, Loppi 63,82

Finaali: Nieminen, Hautamäki, Aarnio, Mäkinen d 63,38

Tuomari: Matti Pöysä, katsojia 315.

Edited September 4, 2011 by f-s-p

[danish kitty]

Thanks FSP. Was wondering how that went today. Good showing for Scunnys Tero Aarnio. Which running order do we use tho for the 1 2 3? The top 3 in points or top 3 in the Final? Thanks.

Edited September 3, 2011 by danish kitty

[f-s-p]

First shown are points and qualifiers for the finals. Seeded to the final in bold and semifinalists in italic. Final top3 for the history books from the final heat details in bold.

 

EDIT:

The incident between Aarnio and Mäkinen in Youtube by

. This is shot fom maybe 30 meters away towards the second bend from the ref's tower. I'm the black spot in the middle of first bend and saw it from behind. Can almost understand the call by the ref after watching the tape, but having seen it from a "better" angle I do feel the call made was wrong. Edited September 4, 2011 by f-s-p

[f-s-p]

Timo Lahti took his 3rd U21 title in a row yesterday at Kauhajoki. Well done.

 

Timo Lahti KMMK 3333 12

Jiri Nieminen SsMK 3233 11

Herman Kenkkilä SeMK 3321 9

Jere Lehtonen PMK 2132 8

Mika Loppi SeMK 23R2 7

Vili Mattila KauhjMK 2113 7

Jesse Mustonen VRT R222 6

Tino Turkia KarMK 1211 5

Pekka Toikka KarMK 1121 5

 

Erä erältä:

1. Kenkkilä, Lehtonen, Mustonen R 65,48

2. Lahti, Loppi, Turkia 60,35

3. Nieminen, Mattila, Toikka 68,22

4. Loppi, Mustonen, Mattila 63,17

5. Kenkkilä, Turkia, Toikka 64,49

6. Lahti, Nieminen, Lehtonen 60,66

7. Nieminen, Mustonen, Turkia 66,25

8. Lahti, Kenkkilä, Mattila 61,05

9. Lehtonen, Toikka, Loppi R 68,60

10. Lahti, Mustonen, Toikka 60,87

11. Mattila, Lehtonen, Turkia 65,66

12. Nieminen, Loppi, Kenkkilä 63,03

Semifinaali: Loppi, Mattila, Kenkkilä, Lehtonen 62,21

Finaali: Lahti, Loppi, Nieminen, Mattila 61,06

Tuomari: Henna Snellman, katsojia 75.

 

Kaupunki Cup results from Hyvinkää 28th of August. Last match is today at Lahti.

 

Hyvinkää 2 8

Marko Toikka 2d

Tino Turkia 021F2 5

Pekka Toikka 010 1

 

Lahti 17

Jiri Nieminen 33332 14

Anssi Vartiainen 11100 3

 

Kauhajoki 12

Vili Mattila 12133 10

Olli Heikkilä 00011 2

 

Pori 19

Jouni Lehtonen 31223 11

Jere Lehtonen 2d312 8

 

Seinäjoki 24

Mika Loppi 33233 14

Herman Kenkkilä 22321 10

 

Hyvinkää 1 9

Jani Eerikäinen 13221 9

Jarkko Kunnaskari 0Fn 0

 

Erä erältä:

1. Nieminen, M.Toikka, Vartiainen, Turkia 68,23

2. Viljanen, Lehtonen, Mattila, Heikkilä 70,09

3. Loppi, Kenkkilä, Eerikäinen, Kunnaskari 67,20

4. Eerikäinen, Turkia, Kunnaskari Fn, M.Toikka d 75,98

5. Nieminen, Mattila, Vartiainen, Heikkilä 70,24

6. Loppi, Kenkkilä, Viljanen, Lehtonen 67,86

7. Kenkkilä, Loppi, Mattila, Heikkilä 68,68

8. Nieminen, Eerikäinen, Vartiainen 70,20

9. Lehtonen, Viljanen, Turkia, Toikka 72,65

10. Nieminen, Viljanen, Lehtonen, Vartiainen 69,29

11. Loppi, Kenkkilä, Toikka, Turkia R ei aikaa

12. Mattila, Eerikäinen, Heikkilä 70,95

13. Viljanen, Lehtonen, Eerikäinen 70,78

14. Mattila, Turkia, Heikkilä, Toikka 73,93

15. Loppi, Nieminen, Kenkkilä, Vartiainen 67,04

Tuomari: Henna Snellman, katsojia 95.

Edited September 11, 2011 by f-s-p

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Kaupunki Cup 6/6

Lahti, SsMK 11.9.2011

 

Lahti 24

Jiri Nieminen 32333 14

Janne Nyman 23122 10

 

Seinäjoki 22

Mika Loppi 33233 14

Pekka Valo 22022 8

 

Pori 16

Jere Lehtonen 0233d 8

Jouni Viljanen 13121 8

 

Kauhajoki 10+3

Vili Mattila 11313 9+3

Olli Heikkilä 00100 1

 

Hyvinkää 2 10+2

Simo Pulli 311 5+2

Tino Turkia 2d10 3

Pekka Toikka 020 2

 

Hyvinkää 1 8

Jani Eerikäinen 1121 5

Jarkko Kunnaskari 001 1

Ari Tuomisto 002 2

 

Erä erältä:

1. Nieminen, Nyman, Mattila, Heikkilä 67,23

2. Loppi, Valo, Viljanen, Lehtonen 67,41

3. Pulli, Turkia, Eerikäinen, Kunnaskari 70,69

4. Nyman, Nieminen, Pulli, Toikka 68,60

5. Viljanen, Lehtonen, Mattila, Heikkilä 70,38

6. Loppi, Valo, Eerikäinen, Kunnaskari 68,53

7. Lehtonen, Eerikäinen, Viljanen, Tuomisto 72,98

8. Mattila, Toikka, Heikkilä, Turkia d 72,87

9. Nieminen, Loppi, Nyman, Valo 67,37

10. Loppi, Valo, Mattila, Heikkilä 68,44

11. Nieminen, Nyman, Eerikäinen, Tuomisto 68,22

12. Lehtonen, Viljanen, Turkia, Toikka 72,60

13. Loppi, Valo, Pulli, Turkia 68,97

14. Nieminen, Nyman, Viljanen, Lehtonen d 69,19

15. Mattila, Tuomisto, Kunnaskari, Heikkilä 74,41

Uusinta: Mattila, Pulli 73,41

Tuomari: Matti Koivuoja, katsojia 78.

 

Lopullinen sarjataulukko 2011:

1) Seinäjoki 6 (131) 29

2 )Lahti 6 (107) 21

3) Pori 6 (103) 21

4) Kauhajoki 6 (62) 9

5 )Hyvinkää 2 6 (56) 5

6) Hyvinkää 1 6 (53) 5

Edited September 11, 2011 by f-s-p

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Mikko Rahko is the new longtrack Finnish champion after winning the A-final before Rene Lehtinen by a half a bike's lenght. Jani Pirttinen was 3rd and Aarni Heikkilä 4th. I thought it was a good meeting with a couple of excellent races. There was enough good racing and so much drama that I thought this was the best LT meeting I've seen!

 

Rene Lehtinen SeMK 5554 19

Aarni Heikkilä HyMK 5545 19

Pasi Pulliainen VRT 4445 17

Mikko Rahko VaMK 555d 15

Jani Pirttinen SeMK 4434 15

Tommi Ahlgren FMS 4235 13

Raimo Juntunen HeMK 3343 13

Simo Pulli ValkMK 335R 11

Klaus- Peter Gerdemann IRR/DE R414 9

Bernd Dinklage NL F323 8

Jukka Mäiseli SyMK 2213 8

Erkki Silvasti KonnMK 1222 7

Tomi Reima HyMK RNNN 0

 

Erä erältä:

1. Rahko, Ahlgren, Juntunen, Reima R, Dinklage F 95,83

2. Lehtinen, Pirttinen, Pulli, Mäiseli, Silvasti 95,19

3. Heikkilä, Pulliainen, Gerdemann R 96,59

4. Heikkilä, Pulliainen, Juntunen, Mäiseli 96,39

5. Rahko, Gerdemann, Pulli, Ahlgren 95,14

6. Lehtinen, Pirttinen, Dinklage, Silvasti 93,41

7. Lehtinen, Heikkilä, Ahlgren, Dinklage, Mäiseli 92,74

8. Rahko, Pulliainen, Pirttinen, Silvasti, Gerdemann 93,24

9. Pulli, Juntunen 96,29

10. Ahlgren, Pirttinen, Mäiseli, Silvasti 96,85

11. Heikkilä, Gerdemann, Juntunen 95,28

12. Pulliainen, Lehtinen, Dinklage, Pulli R, Rahko d 94,78

Semifinaali: Rahko, Pirttinen, Ahlgren, Juntunen, Pulli R, Gerdemann Fn 95,07

Finaali: Rahko, Lehtinen, Pirttinen, Heikkilä, Ahlgren, Pulliainen R 95,28

Tuomari: Mika Laukkanen, katsojia 865.

Edited September 18, 2011 by f-s-p

[f-s-p]

It seems that the season in Finland has been wrapped up. Kuusankoski, Seinäjoki, Varkaus (back in business) and Hyvinkää have all held their final practise sessions and closed for the season so to speak.

 

I was at Hyvinkää last saturday and had a spin myself after a few years break. I've only done about 40 laps alltogether since 2002 and this was the 4th of 5th time out. It was OK, alltough it must have looked more like cycle speedway than speedway. Did not fall this time, so that was an improvement from last time. I thought I had it sliding, but everytime bottled it and turned the gas off. Thanks to that I'm here writing this and not at the hospital.

 

I thought the season was pretty good. The league was again excellent with a last heat decider for the title. Crowds were up 30 % from last year. Especially Kuusankoski deserves a mention for keeping Timo Lahti, Tero Aarnio and Andre Lebedev in their team despite them actually being foreigners this season. I'll post a short wrap up later, but there will be no results anymore from Finland appearing.

 

The yearly track racing conferences will be held at Tampere on October 29th. Thats when we'll know more about next year and how it'll shape up.

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The Finnish AGM was held a week ago here at Tampere. On top of the agenda were a few rule changes for the SM-liiga, how to open the Kaupunki Cup for possibly all riders and fine tuning a couple of other rules. Last season was the first year I've been in charge of doing the rules and creating the fixture list over here, so I expected some feedback. Especially since during the season I had been getting plenty of stick, but this time everyone was pretty much quiet and kept to their own. I've been a regular in these meetings (missed only 2 of 16 since 2004) lately and to my amazement we had the team building for next years SM-liiga sorted in 30 minutes. SM-liiga rules are:

 

- teams must declare their intention to take part and the riders by December 20th 2011.

- Combined average for the team must not exceed 30,00 when entering the league.

- Riders will take their place in the team according to their averages as the highest on 1 and so on.

- Averages will be updated once half of the meetings are ridden.

- a new (extra) heat will start the meeting with every teams reserve rider in it.

- R/R stays in place

- Foreign U17's will now come on an assessed 7,00 average. (Who's in line on 2012?)

 

Kaupunki Cup was opened to all Finnish riders. The intention of the Cup has been to give riders a crack of racing without anyone lapping them, but it was now opened for everyone. It's both good and bad, only time will tell. The really good ones will more or less likely be out riding abroad, but for riders like Mika Loppi (tight budget) and Niko Siltaniemi (was out for the whole 2011 due to injury) it will make the world of good. Also the organizing club is now allowed to run an extra team in their home match. Further increasing the chance of letting new riders take a spin without having the whole season on their shoulders. Teams must enlist for the Cup until the end of January 2012. I already have one teams list of riders ready.

 

Like mentioned, Niko Siltaniemi was back on the bike a month ago. He had a few spins at Hyvinkää and did OK. No reason not to expect great things of him again next season.

 

SM-liiga was again really tightly contested right till the end. We saw an increase of 30 % in the total crowd in the SM-liiga and 10 % in the KC. It'll be interesting to see how the Finnish format will work in next years league. It had two really good years with average control, now that the rider's on 3 and 4 can be a bit better, we'll see.

 

A new idea of an East vs West meeting was introduced at the AGM. It's sort of stolen from the Finnish baseball, where it's the biggest event of their season. There was also a very interesting sideshow planned to be introduced during the Finnish league and the have it's final at the E vs. W meeting. I think it's an excellent idea, hopefully we can get it going next season.

 

Microspeedway (toddlers on 50cc bikes) is also running in Finland. Vaasa is the benchmark at the moment for anyone interested, since they have around 20 kids riding weekly in their practise sessions. They have 1-3 kids in various cities elsewhere, but Vaasa has been a huge success compared.

 

Also we saw the first Finnish veteran days in speedway, when Harry Lahti (Vaasa) and Risto Flink (Lahti) got their heads together and made it happen. There were 3-4 riding days held and I think they had around 15 different riders taking part. Lahti was very optimistic about the future of these kind of meetings and expects new riders to come along next year.

 

Finnish news for 2011 is now dealt with on my behalf. I'll post iceracing info on the ice racing thread. This thread was on over 80 views per post before this one. Alltough I sort of played it to get it that high, I hope it shows that people are taking more notice of us. With riders like Timo Lahti coming through, You really need to as well...

 

See you!

[Puma23]

Some interesting details about finnish league from 1954.

 

Teams and squads - 1954 (Top3)

 

1. HAUKAT SsMK

 

Aulis Tuominen

Erkki Ala-Sippola

Esko Koponen (father of Ari Koponen)

Ilkka Helminen

Tuulo Olin

Erkki Leiskallio

Ilmari Lahti

 

2. Salamat HäMK

 

Raimo Kallio

Kalevi Lahtinen

Urho Mäkinen

Jonne Rihkajärvi

Eero Ruusila

Kalle Jokinen

 

3. Pääskyt HTM

Kauko Jousanen

Pertti Mikkola

Vilho Höök

T. Koskela

T. Friberg

E. Kero

 

Does anyone have more details about league from 1954 ?