European pairs Final Opole Sunday 1st October Live on You tube

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On 5/8/2023 at 5:48 PM, stewmac said:

Roads from Helsinki to Varkaus are excellent, and generally quiet, but there are speed cameras everywhere, and Finns know to their cost that the speed limits must be adhered to. If the limit is 100km/h and you are caught doing 101km/h, you will be charged. Fines are related to income, so the richer you are, the more you are hammered. 

But does all that apply to foreigners as well?

Also, 1 over the limit does not get you fine, whats ever your score, there is a deduction of 3 km/h from that…

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2 hours ago, DutchGrasstrack said:

France also pulled out. So there will now be a mixed pair.

There is only one way my comment will be taken, but who cares. After decades of us sending riders (mostly on their own expense) to Macon, Marmande, Rivne and also Holland for various meetings, this is what we get in return…

Thats not how it’s supposed to work.

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16 minutes ago, f-s-p said:

There is only one way my comment will be taken, but who cares. After decades of us sending riders (mostly on their own expense) to Macon, Marmande, Rivne and also Holland for various meetings, this is what we get in return…

Thats not how it’s supposed to work.

Exactly and as far as i can see DGT has explained the Dutch absence but France are a disgrace - happy to hold the U23 European team final but can`t send 2 riders to Finland !!!!

Edited June 12, 2023 by racers and royals

[iris123 20,994]

18 minutes ago, f-s-p said:

There is only one way my comment will be taken, but who cares. After decades of us sending riders (mostly on their own expense) to Macon, Marmande, Rivne and also Holland for various meetings, this is what we get in return…

Thats not how it’s supposed to work.

But you get all the perks of cheap alcohol and clothes etc. Load up the van...there ain't many perks in going to Finland 

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1 minute ago, iris123 said:

But you get all the perks of cheap alcohol and clothes etc. Load up the van...there ain't many perks in going to Finland 

Saunas?

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38 minutes ago, iris123 said:

But you get all the perks of cheap alcohol and clothes etc. Load up the van...there ain't many perks in going to Finland 

You have bugger all idea how it works…  

But as it happens, I’m currently on the Travemunde ferry to Helsinki with a 6000km driven Polestar2 stacked to the roof with beer on third the price it has in Finland…

But yeah, we expensive and all. But also we different. We only drove about 500km in Germany but it was all boring and flat.

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2 minutes ago, f-s-p said:

You have bugger all idea how it works…  

But as it happens, I’m currently on the Travemunde ferry to Helsinki with a 6000km driven Polestar2 stacked to the roof with beer on third the price it has in Finland…

But yeah, we expensive and all. But also we different. We only drove about 500km in Germany but it was all boring and flat.

Sounds like yu were stuck on a roundabout in North Germany......

We have mountains, skiing and even glaciers in Germany

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well it will be my first experience of Varkaus, a shame teams are pulling out

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2 minutes ago, iris123 said:

Sounds like yu were stuck on a roundabout in North Germany......

We have mountains, skiing and even glaciers in Germany

i thought you say everything is melting

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Just now, stevehone said:

i thought you say everything is melting

And ? Do you ever have a point to make ?

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3 minutes ago, iris123 said:

Sounds like yu were stuck on a roundabout in North Germany......

We have mountains, skiing and even glaciers in Germany

Touchdown in Berlin, then Teterow to Travemunde so U not that far off.

Ive driven down south a well… But yes, I still think we different. 

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2 minutes ago, f-s-p said:

Touchdown in Berlin, then Teterow to Travemunde so U not that far off.

Ive driven down south a well… But yes, I still think we different. 

Last year we drove right down to Freiburg and over the border to France and back. It is certainly different, and different to drive down south. Although we went through the Harz mountains too

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21 hours ago, stevehone said:

well it will be my first experience of Varkaus, a shame teams are pulling out

I'm sure you'll enjoy it Steve. I think it's a great wee venue. It has been improved so much since my first visit in 2007. Ironically I've been in Finland in July every summer since 2006, so normally I'd definitely be there, but this year is the first time we decided as a family to holiday elsewhere, apart from the two Covid years 2020/21 when it was impossible to get there from Scotland. 

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Finnish team

1 Mustonen

2 Vuolas

3 Salonen

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European Pairs Speedway Championship Semi Final 1 IMN 527/01 date: 15.07.2023 venue: Varkaus, Finland

Finland/Latvia

1  SÄYRIÖ Niclas

2 ANSVIESULIS Ricards

13

Sweden

3 HENDERSON Daniel

4 KARLSSON Anton

14 ANDERSSON Joel

Norway

5  MOI Glenn

6 KAMHAUG Truls

15

Denmark

7  HANSEN Mads

8 JENSEN Rasmus

16

GB

9 BRENNAN Tom

10HARRIS Chris

17 JENKINS Jordan

Finland

11 MUSTONEN Jesse

12 VUOLAS Antti

18 SALONEN Timi