Grand Prix Speedway In Finland 2014-2016

[manchesterpaul]

Here's the link to the story (unfortunately, only in Finnish): http://yle.fi/uutise...suomeen/6769528

 

 

Thanks to MagicOctopus for such welcome news and a very speedy relaying of it. Courtesy of Google Translate here is the story in English (sort of lol) with a few more details.

 

Tampere 08/09/2013 at 10:00 | updated on 08/09/2013 at 11:21

Speedway World Cup race for the first time in Finland

 

Tampere illustrious history Speedway World Cup among greatly influenced by the fact that the Ratinan the stadium will be held next spring speedway World Rally Championship.

 

Ratina stadium will be held next year in May speedway World Championship. Contracts Tampere GP's organization was signed on Wednesday.

 

This is the first time that a World Series run in Finland. Last World Series qualifier is driven in Pori, Finland in 2001. Tampere South Park has been run qualifying races in 1974, 1977 and 1989.

 

Tampere GP for a designated set of Tampere SSP co-operative, which consists of four people: race father of the idea Jarno Kosonen, speedway couple in the familiar father and the son of George and Kaj Laukkanen and Kai Pohjasmäki.

 

Ratina stadium running tracks built on top of the fall speedway track, which makes the winter time to settle down under tarpaulins. Build a land mass of course does not preclude mm. Ilves and Tappara between the outdoor hockey game gaming Ratina.

 

Speedway is a fast motorcycle sport, which runs on sand covered soikioradoilla. The track is surrounded by security fencing. The wheels do not have brakes, so the curves are run sivuluissa to slow down the pace.

 

In Finland, the species is quite a bit of enthusiasts, but for example in Poland Championships will be thousands of spectators.

 

The current race consisting of a series of World Cup has been run since 1995. This season, the series was run 12 rounds. Next year's races in the exact amount has not yet been told.

 

World Cup race for the title each year 15 drivers. In addition, each race organization may designate one of the local wild card driver, which means that the Tampere competition to drive the Finnish driver.

 

The competition televised in Finland, more than 160 countries. Descriptive race day, the TV contract and ticket prices is available later in August.

 

 

Ooops it's also on the SGP site too http://speedwaygp.com/news/article/2766/finland-set-for-grand-prix

Edited August 10, 2013 by manchesterpaul

[garygunson]

what is the speedwaystar travel club like? is it worth travelling with them? how do you get in touch? will they go to finland

[Eglese 19]

Great news for me

[Ghostwalker]

Great news for me

 

Are you from Tammerfors?

[Eglese 19]

No I'm not from Tampere, I live in Kokkola so will certainly be making the trip down all being well

[Mark]

How do fans get there by plane or train and is there anything worth doing in the town

[MagicOctopus]

How do fans get there by plane or train and

 

Ryanair flies directly to Tampere from Stansted airport (also from Frankfurt/Hahn, Kaunas, Bremen, Alicante etc.). If coming from Sweden or Estonia one option is to drive and take the ferry (Tampere is a 2 hour drive from the coast).

 

is there anything worth doing in the town

 

This one's tough to answer without knowing what you're interested in. Tampere is one of the bigger cities in Finland (although small on an international scale), and has all the stuff that comes with that (3D cinemas, great pubs, international restaurants, nightclubs, shops etc.). Historical sightseeing is probably not what to visit Tampere (or Finland!) for, although there is a nice walk-in museum block that displays the way of life from the 1800s.

 

For local flavor, these are my current top 3 for visitors of Tampere:

1) The Plevna Brewery Pub and Restaurant: they brew their own beer and have a good variety of beers and some ales, with a matching kitchen that serves German style food.

2) Pyynikki Observation Tower Café: A tower on top of a ridge next to the city centre with great view of the surrounding lake. The Café is famous for its delicious doughnuts.

3) Tammela market: Nothing out of the ordinary here, but for the full Tampere Experience, you must try the local blood sausage here if you missed it at Plevna.

 

Tampere also has a lively music scene, so when we know the date of the GP one might check out if there are any interesting bands in town.

[manchesterpaul]

How do fans get there by plane or train and is there anything worth doing in the town

 

I would imagine there is with so many people around "Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries.

 

The city has a population of 217,767, growing to 313 058 people in the urban area and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area.Tampere is the second-largest urban area and third most-populous municipality in Finland,"

 

Wiki has some good basic info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampere

[Ghostwalker]

How do fans get there by plane or train and is there anything worth doing in the town

 

There are direct flights from Helsinki, Rovaniemi, Kittilä, Kuusamo (Finland), Stockholm (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark), Riga (Latvia),

Frankfurt, Bremen (Germany), London (UK), Milan (Italy), Malaga, Alicante and Palma de Mallorca (Spain) as well as with Budapest (Hungary).

 

http://www.visittamp...-around-tampere

 

I think from London its Ryanair, if you don't want to go with them you can fly to either Stockholm or Helsinki and change to a flight to Tammerfors.

 

Personally I would probably go by car via the overnight ferry from Stockholm to Åbo and then drive from Åbo to Tammerfors.

Edited August 12, 2013 by Ghostwalker

[Eglese 19]

If in the UK and you don't want to fly from Stansted then you can fly to Helsinki and it's about an hour train journey to Tampere from there.

 

The stadium is quite central to the town and there's a fair few hotels, bars, clubs and restaurants that are all within walking distance so finding something to do before/after the GP should be easy

[Triple.H.]

 

 

 

 

I think from London its Ryanair, if you don't want to go with them you can fly to either Stockholm or Helsinki and change to a flight to Tammerfors.

 

Personally I would probably go by car via the overnight ferry from Stockholm to Åbo and then drive from Åbo to Tammerfors.

I'd rather walk from good old Blighty than fly with Ryanair.

 

 

 

[moomin man 76]

Ryanair did fly from Edinburgh to Tampere until 30th October 2012, but then pulled out of Finland, apart from the aforementioned route from Stansted to Tampere. I just wish they would reinstate the route! If you fly to Helsinki, the train is as good an option as any. It is clean and efficient, with a journey time of one and a half hours.

[Ghostwalker]

If you want to experience something really fantastic and fairly unique, I would fly to Stockholm Arlanda (ARN/ESSA) and rent a car and go with the ferries

between Stockholm and Åbo (Viking Line or Tallink Silja), standing on deck on a larger passenger ship while going through the amazing archipelagos of Stockholm,

Åland and Åbo is memory for life (unless the weather is really poor).

[manchesterpaul]

If you want to experience something really fantastic and fairly unique, I would fly to Stockholm Arlanda (ARN/ESSA) and rent a car and go with the ferries

between Stockholm and Åbo (Viking Line or Tallink Silja), standing on deck on a larger passenger ship while going through the amazing archipelagos of Stockholm,

Åland and Åbo is memory for life (unless the weather is really poor).

 

As one who never gets to see comets or that Perseids meteor shower because of cloud cover i'll be kind to others and not go so as to prevent a thick pea souper fog enveloping the ship from embarking to disembarking lol.

Edited August 12, 2013 by manchesterpaul

[f-s-p]

Ryanair did fly from Edinburgh to Tampere until 30th October 2012, but then pulled out of Finland, apart from the aforementioned route from Stansted to Tampere. I just wish they would reinstate the route! If you fly to Helsinki, the train is as good an option as any. It is clean and efficient, with a journey time of one and a half hours.

I'm not even gonna check, but just say that Ryanair has been flying from TMP yor years and still does. Also for a few years now from Lappeenranta. Routes come and go, Ryanair threatens to quit and all, but they have not pulled out from Finland at any point.

[garygunson]

is it better to travel to finland independently or travel with am organised group, if so who?

[f-s-p]

is it better to travel to finland independently or travel with am organised group, if so who?

Almost everyone under the age 60 speak English so if you get lost, you just ask the first one. Getting to Tampere by any means is easy enough and local busses do a good job of transporting you around. Spiegal might not like this, but Finland is easy to do on your own. Most of the stuff you need to know can be found online.

[Humphrey Appleby]

is it better to travel to finland independently or travel with am organised group, if so who?

 

Why on earth would anyone want to go on an organised tour in this day-and-age? It's the easiest thing in the world to plan and book transport and accommodation online nowadays.

 

As with all Nordic countries, everything in Finland is pretty efficient and just about everyone speaks English.

[Eglese 19]

It'll be more than easy enough to get by yourself if you come to Finland, I managed travelling to my girlfriends alone for many years! English will be widely spoken but you must accept that a lot of Finns aren't so quick to use it and can be quite shy though in tourist offices in the big cities it shouldn't be a problem.

 

For anyone coming over who wanted to spend more than just a day who is concerned that Tampere won't have enough to do (besides bars and restaurants) Tampere has direct rail links to Helsinki, Turku, Oulu and Rovaniemi (from where the arctic circle is just a short bus away) amongst other places so you could certainly see a lot of Finland.

[PHILIPRISING]

Why on earth would anyone want to go on an organised tour in this day-and-age? It's the easiest thing in the world to plan and book transport and accommodation online nowadays.

 

As with all Nordic countries, everything in Finland is pretty efficient and just about everyone speaks English.

 

BECAUSE not everyone wants the hassle or uses the internet. Number of people travelling with TravelPlus to SGP events this year at an all time high. Lots of people obviously like to have travel, accommodation, tickets and add ons arranged for them.