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Back to the topic possibly... I received a good old fashioned letter from a fellow who was touring Russia with some Finnish ice racing riders this spring. He told me that the Lada factory in Togliatti is putting in big money to modernize the current speedway stadium at the city to get (big money already spent??) a SGP round for 2008 or was it 2009... Not that it matters...

30th Kemppi Speedway, Lahti 10.6.2007 Tomi Reima 3333 12 Teemu Lahti 3233 11 Petri Koskela 1331 8 Kalle Katajisto 2312 8 Janne Nyman 2222 8 Aarni Heikkilä 1213 7 Joni Kitala 2102 5 Jouni Viljanen 3R10 4 Kalle Kivistö F121 4 Toni Stenberg dF21 3 Markku Weckman 1000 1 Heikki Tapani dN00 0 1. Lahti, Katajisto, Heikkilä, Stenberg d 66,75 2. Reima, Nyman, Koskela, Kivistö F 68,07 3. Viljanen, Kitala, Weckman, Tapani d 72,69 4. Katajisto, Nyman, Kitala, Viljanen R 66,97 5. Reima, Lahti, Kivistö, Weckman 67,68 6. Koskela, Heikkilä, Stenberg F, Tapani N 68,34 7. Lahti, Kivistö, Katajisto, Kitala 66,63 8. Reima, Nyman, Heikkilä, Weckman (time missing) 9. Koskela, Stenberg, Viljanen, Tapani 69,47 10. Reima, Katajisto, Koskela, Tapani 65,94 11. Heikkilä, Kitala, Kivistö, Viljanen 69,44 12. Lahti, Nyman, Stenberg, Weckman 67,19 Semifinaali: Katajisto, Heikkilä, Koskela, Nyman N 67,56 Finaali: Reima, Lahti, Katajisto, Heikkilä 65,97 The late Kenny Olsson rode for Keittiöpiste in the Finnish Extraliiga and his good friend Emil Lindqvist for Kopparberg Speedway. Rumours are out saying Lindqvist is set to retire, but there's no confirmation to this yet...

Today for starters... He seemed a bit quiet when I spoke with him after the meeting, there might have been some nerves involved... Maybe it was just the "big meeting"...

Kalle's gating is terrible... There's no other word for it. Reactions are great but he doesnt really know what to do next. Need's a lot of practise. Raun was a disappointment yes.

EDIT: Juul Larsen just fell a couple of placings, I had miscalculated his points total. Nicolai Klindt 33333 15 Linus Sundström 23233 13+3 Tomas H Jonasson 32332 13+2 Patrick Hougaard 32322 12 Anders Andersen 13313 11 Klaus Jacobsen 22222 10 Simon Gustavsson 03F33 9 Jonas Raun 32d01 6 Jari Mäkinen 11121 6 Kalle Katajisto 20120 5 Linus Eklöf d12R2 5 Peter Juul Larsen 1121N 5 Robert Pettersson 20011 4 Teemu Lahti 01101 3 Markki Autio 00110 2 Appe Mustonen 100F0 1 Erä erältä: 1. JOnasson, Jakobsen, Larsen, Eklöf d 64,41 2. Klindt, Sundström, Andersen, Gustavsson 63,20 3. Raun, Petterson, Mäkinen, Lahti 63,20 4. Hougaard, Katajisto, Mustonen, Autio 63,97 5. Klindt, Jonasson, Lahti, Autio 62,77 6. Sundström, Hougaard, Eklöf, Petterson 63,50 7. Andersen, Jakobsen, Mäkinen, Katajisto 64,67 8. Gustavsson, Raun, Larsen, Mustonen 63,41 9. Jonasson, Sundström, Mäkinen, Mustonen 64,33 10. Klindt, Eklöf, Katajisto, Raun d 62,59 11. Hougaard, Jakobsen, Lahti, Gustafsson F 64,22 12. Andersen, Larsen, Autio, Petterson 64,60 13. Jonasson, Hougaard, Andersen, Raun 63,95 14. Gustafsson, Mäkinen, Autio, Eklöf R 64,57 15. Klindt, Jakobsen, Petterson, Mustonen F 61,64 16. Sundström, Katajisto, Larsen, Lahti 65,68 17. Gustafsson, Jonasson, Pettersson, Katajisto 64,59 18. Andersen, Eklöf, Lahti, Mustonen 64,53 19. Sundström, Jakobsen, Raun, Autio 63,85 20. Klindt, Hougaard, Mäkinen, Larsen N 63,74 Uusinta: Sundström, Jonasson 64,13 Crowd: 320 Klindt rode 61,64 in heat 15 which is faster than anyone since 2004 when Laukkanen did the track record on his GP bikes on a very soft track. Track was now good alltough a hole between turns 1 and 2 caused a lot of action. Jari rode well, he did what he could. The meeting was filmed by speedway.fi and a "real" TV camera and a 10 minute insert should air next wednesday I think here in Finland. I'll try and get it youtubed or something. The opening night of the meeting in the internet wont happen until July, because of some internet service provider limitations. I am hoping to get some of Jaris heats to the JMS website but we'll see about that. Good meeting, very hot day, clear winner, Gustavsson ruined his chances all by himself. Had the wrong setup for the first, then fell while second on the last lap and finally Jonasson let him win his last one but it wasn't enough.

This is really sad, it's been a very difficult last month for the sport. Journalist's in Sweden are already saying racing should be stopped staightaway until airfences are sorted. Looking at this incident though would airfence have saved him? And Robin Johansson who's now paralyzed. I'm told he flew over the fence and hit a lightpost. Airfence? The Olsson incident can be seen in SVT's internet site, search yourself, I'm not linking it. Loads of bad luck at one short moment... Makes you think... EDIT: took the link away seconds after posting

This is not looking good...This is saying (updated today) that he's in a life support machine and his heart and lungs are not working. He is in a coma and has life threatening injuries. It looks like they will do some kind of operation to ... ???

All so true... In the last 6 weeks we've had Kryzaniak, Johansson, Stead, Matula and now Olsson. Before that we already got Loram...

The U19 EC semifinal 2 at Seinäjoki this saturday, first heat 15.00 local time. 5+1 go through to the final in Chestochowa, Poland August 19th. Riders confirmed so far: 1. Tomas H. Jonasson, Ruotsi 2. Linus Eklöf, Ruotsi 3. , Tanska 4. , Tanska 5. , Tanska 6. Robin Aspegren, Ruotsi 7. , Tanska 8. Simon Gustafsson, Ruotsi 9. Teemu Lahti, Suomi 10. Robert Petterson, Ruotsi 11. Jari Mäkinen, Suomi 12. , Tanska 13. Billy Forsberg, Ruotsi 14. , Tanska 15. Kalle Katajisto, Suomi 16. , Tanska 17. Appe Mustonen, Suomi 18. Markku Autio, Suomi I'm hoping to someday do live updates, but this is not the meeting to start with. I'm there taking pictures and hopefully assisting with filming and even interviews. I've offered my services to a m8 who does it, havent received a reply yet. I'd say the first place to look for the results is the JMS website about 6 hours after the start. Pictures online sunday evening earliest (not taking any pressure )

All the heats now online from Seinäjoki.

3rd round of the Extraliiga 3.6.2007 Keittiöpiste 41 Tero Aarnio 1111 4 Kenny Olsson 32233 13 Juha Mäkelä 21 3 Juha Hautamäki 3333333 21 Kopparberg 37 Tomi Reima 23F12 8 Jyri Palomäki 2222 8 Mikko Rahko 31 4 Emil Lindqvist 2333222 17 Kotkat 31 Rene Lehtinen 31311 9 Joni Keskinen 1220 5 Petteri Koivunen 12 3 Robert Eriksson 12116^21 14 Haukat 1 Janne Nyman 00010 1 Kalle Kivistö 00R0 0 Niko Siltaniemi 00000 0 Aarni Heikkilä 0000 0 Erä erältä: 1. Lehtinen, Reima, Aarnio, Nyman 63,87 2. Olsson, Palomäki, Keskinen, Kivistö 62,47 3. Rahko, Mäkelä, Koivunen, Siltaniemi 65,13 4. Hautamäki, Lindqvist, Eriksson, Heikkilä 62,95 5. Lindqvist, Eriksson, Aarnio, Kivistö 63,11 6. Reima, Keskinen, Mäkelä, Heikkilä 64,31 7. Hautamäki, Palomäki, Lehtinen, Siltaniemi 63,48 8. Lindqvist, Olsson, Eriksson, Nyman 63,73 9. Lehtinen, Olsson, Rahko, Heikkilä 63,43 10. Hautamäki, Palomäki, Eriksson, Nyman 63,91 11. Lindqvist, Keskinen, Aarnio, Siltaniemi 65,02 12. Hautamäki, KOivunen, Kivistö R, Reima F 64,34 13. Eriksson^, Palomäki, Aarnio, Heikkilä 63,77 14. Olsson, Eriksson, Reima, Siltaniemi 63,49 15. Hautamäki, Lindqvist, Lehtinen, Kivistö 63,83 16. Hautamäki, Lindqvist, Nyman, Keskinen 64,45 17. Olsson, Lindqvist, Eriksson, Siltaniemi 63,95 18. Hautamäki, Reima, Lehtinen, Nyman 63,77 Keittiöpiste...2 - 80 - 10 Kotkat..........2 - 77 - 8 Kopparberg...2 - 69 - 8 Paholaiset.....2 - 51 - 6 Jokerit..........2 - 45 - 6 Haukat.........2 - 11 - 4 Mr speedway.fi has done his business, first eight heats in clips here. A few pictures here. 177 spectators present. On a sidenote, a bidding war was won by Kotkat for the services of Robert Eriksson. About a week before I heard that he would ride for Keittiöpiste, but instead turned up for Kotkat. Must have been pretty good (Finnish std) money... But surprisingly he did not win it for Seinäjoki. He only beat Aarnio (twice) and Palomäki+Reima. Disappointment for sure.

Sent you a PM, waiting for email... Cheers!

Been a while since seen anything new on your website. Still doing the busines I gather... Didn't come this year because I havent got over yet from last years bill from Harry's. Be aware me and my new 30D are after your job! Q: Servo or focus..?

Its here But looks worse here http://www.speedwayfoto.com/Bilder/showIma...0Sverige%2026/5

Thats a pretty good reason to make the trip, but unfortunately it doen't seem like I'm coming/going. Looking forward to seeing the individual scores for the riders, Aarnio must have finished each of his heats. I think that would be the first for this season...

2pm local

Looks like there isn't going to be any... Inspeed.de has the German forum, and there's no news yet. Even tomaszporzl is asking if there's gonna be any, so I think we'll just have to wait.

Kylmäkorpi not holding back then?? Coming back from an injury he had and riding in conditions you describe. I take that hailstone's mean "ice" falling from the sky.

I heard that Ilkka Teromaa has a some sort of car business near Helsinki. Both he and his brother Pepe are doing well in life...

Katajisto plans to stay in Finland this season. Palmi has a team place in Sweden for the 80 cc league but his name didn't appear in any of the results I just checked.

Someone asked me about Kalle here earlier... They are just trying to ride as much as possible this season here in Finland. He has two bikes with the other one being brand new for this season. Varkaus has a great track to practise at, but I dont know how often they have practise sessions. Like Anders say's we need new names... We need riders who are gonna really make it, but we also need riders to make up the numbers, so to speak. Hopefully none of these riders in this years resultsheet's so far will be lost in the next five years.

Kaupunki Cup results yesterday from Seinäjoki. The meeting at Lahti was postponed to a later date because of the weather. Seinäjoki 51 Joni Keskinen 3212 8 Niko Siltaniemi 2132 8 Rene Lehtinen 33322 13 Jani Mäkelä DNS Petteri Koivunen 2221 7 Pasi Mattila 000000 0 Kalle Katajisto 3T12333 15 Pori 42 Appe Mustonen 121 4 Tomi Kauppi DNS Petri Koskela 23300 8 Jouni Viljanen 1102 4 Jari Mäkinen 3326^3 17 Alexander Edberg 2101111 7 Roope Mattsson 101 2 Erä erältä: 1. Keskinen, Siltaniemi, Mustonen 64,74 2. Katajisto, Edberg, Mattsson, Mattila 64,34 3. Lehtinen, Koskela, Viljanen, Mattila 64,71 4. Mäkinen, Koivunen, Edberg, Katajisto T 71,03 5. Lehtinen, Mustonen, Katajisto 64,22 6. Mäkinen, Keskinen, Siltaniemi, Edberg 64,24 7. Koskela, Koivunen, Viljanen, Mattila 66,42 8. Siltaniemi, Katajisto, Edberg, Mattsson 66,00 9. Lehtinen, Mäkinen, Edberg, Mattila 10. Koskela, Siltaniemi, Keskinen, Viljanen 66,21 11. Mäkinen^, Koivunen, Mustonen, Mattila 65,84 12. Katajisto, Lehtinen, Edberg, Koskela 66,24 13. Mäkinen, Keskinen, Koivunen 66,74 14. Katajisto, Viljanen, Mattsson, Mattila 67,56 15. Katajisto, Lehtinen, Edberg, Koskela 64,59 35 spectators Another good result for Jari Mäkinen as he collected 17. This is the same track that he will return to in two weeks, when he faces the tough task of trying to qualify from the U19 EC qualifying round. I also heard that they've been doing something with the track, scraping of the material abit that they put in last autumn. Dont know what the track was like now but hopefully they will get it sorted.

I have no idea, didn't hear anything. I have a feeling that they have a very strong culture of motorcycling and things related. I also found a forum with google the other day where they were talking about this meeting too, but cant remember it anymore.

So I went to Tallinna to find a reason why longtrack is so big in Germany for example. Didn't find one and wont go tomorrow to Heinola where the same names are riding again. Size of the crowd was small, they must have been very disappointed about that. Best part of it all was to see and chat with Gerd Riss + Kröger & co. Thats now one thing less left on the "to-do" list.

Read the rules and stick with them. Simple enough? Why bother with this speculation, since it's black and white in the rules. Only bit in the rules considered a laughing stock regarding this particular bit of it is the fact what happened in Austria in the U21 World's final. And it was the first...