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Lindbäck will make the final at Ullevi and get a wild card to both Parken and Vojens.

Kalle Katajisto scored 10 from six rides in yesterdays Allsvenskan opener in Sweden. Timo Lahti got 9 from five. With Simon Gustavsson unfortunately injured the Nordic U21 final (which is the toughest of them all!) looks to have a Finnish favourite for qualifying after eight years waiting...

Jari Mäkinen replaces Appe Mustonen at Stralsund this weekend. Joni Keskinen is our other rider for the EC semi.

I'm a few heat results short from my history on Finnish riders in the SGP qualifiers. I need results from the Intercontinental final held at Holsted, DK on 28th of July 1996, Scandinavian final from Brovst, DK on 11th of June 1995 and again Intercontinental final from Elgane, Norway on 20th of August 1995. This is what I have: Intercontinental 1996 15. Vesa Ylinen (0E002) 2 correct??? 17. Kaj Laukkanen (0) 0 (reserve) correct??? 1995 Skandinavian finaali Brovst, Tanska 11.6.1995 9. Kaj Laukkanen (?????) 7 12. Marko Hyyryläinen (?????) 4 15. Vesa Ylinen (?????) 0 16. Tomi Kalliomäki (?????) 0 Intercontinental finaali Elgane, Norja 20.8.1995 8. Kaj Laukkanen (?????) 8 Not really sure where I got what I already have, but world.speedway.org looks to have closed it's results pages from this era, wikipedia is a no go and speedway.org/history isn't accurate enough... Also was there a qualifier during -94 for the -95 series?

GP2011?

Looking at that lineup it shows a lot of riders that have come through 80cc and I've even seen some of them ride. The question that was asked last sunday though, was that how many riders (and what age they are now) you currently have in the 500cc that have come through the 50cc micro scene?

Kalle Katajisto and Tomi Reima are both fine after their falls in Daugavpils. The track was apparently pretty bad and reruns were plenty. The track conditions were also mostly to blame for their falls. Lots of stuff going on during the meeting. Katajisto was phenomenally fast with his riding, only last in to the 1st bend each time from the gate. He even followed Hancock for the full four laps right in his tailpipe. Nieminen was apparently a class act too managing to beat Hancock and being the top Finnish scorer. The Laukkanen mystery was solved now, more was expected from him for sure. Hautamäki was lost with his setup but improved during the meeting. Better luck next time.

No he's not. The U21 final is later in the season. MUCH later.

Like you said, he's doing well. Only his third meeting yesterday in which he beat Ales Dryml after passing him. There's free practise at Varkaus probably everyday, but no meetings scheduled for this season.

Ljubljana, big fast track that's usually slick... (right? ) Both were at the Finnish training camp in Hallstavik two weeks ago. It was a season starter for Keskinen (three blown engines for starters) where as Mäkinen had already done two visits to Poland. Finnish season starts on thursday before your meeting, so there are not all that much meetings behind them. Keskinen will ride in Stralsund though in the EC semi. Havent seen any of the other pairs, but cant see them doing better than Laukkanen and Mustonen did a year ago.

Nicki got back what he gave away few heats before this incident. From the rerun shown on Canal+ there was nothing dirty in Dobrucki's pass on him...

It's only names and numbers and they are usually live here

This forum has about 15k??? readers, 9k posters and less than 50 people whining about Millard and the other one. Sky GP coverage has about 100-150k paying viewers and more on the side in internet and such... Not all of them no this stuff by heart...

It would have given him a run off against Giruckis. In FIM competitions places 1 to 3 and possible reserves are always solved through a runoff. Heat wins have no role when a podium finish or a reserve slot for the next around are at stake.

We are using the FIM codes currently. Thats the plan anyway at the moment. When going through older results like from 1990 to date they have: K - fell (kaatui) X - excluded H - excluded (hylätty) M - 2 minutes d T - tapes d - - non starter On some very old results (1950-1970) they have sometimes used "-" as a way of saying someone's finished last. Thats not all that good. The European Union should make a directive about all this. As it happens the elections are this year... Maybe I should run for a seat at Strasbourg!!

Excellent!!! This will come very handy. Thank you very much!

It's all about the money...

Appe Mustonen has withdrawn from the U21 qualifier in Elgane and Teemu Lahti will take his place. FINNISH NOMINATIONS 2009 Elgane, U21: Teemu Lahti, Kalle Katajisto, Niko Siltaniemi Hallstavik, U19: Katajisto, Mustonen, Siltaniemi EC at Stralsund: Joni Keskinen and Mustonen EC pairs at Ljubljana: Keskinen and Jari Mäkinen U21 World Cup in Pardubice: Lahti bro's, Siltaniemi, Katajisto and Mäkinen U19 E Cup in Moorwinkelsdamm: Timo Lahti, Mustonen, Katajisto, Siltaniemi and Mäkinen EDIT I Longtrack too, forgot... Artigues de Lussac: Rene Lehtinen Bielefeld: Kaj Laukkanen, Appe Mustonen EC Stadskanaal: Lehtinen, Laukkanen EC Hertingen: Appe Mustonen EDIT II Teemu Lahti is in the Gasarna side on the season opener next thursday in the swedish Allsvenskan. Aarnio has said he'll ride in the Bajen opener and Kalle Katajisto should be starting for Getingarna. Kauko Nieminen and Juha Hautamäki I dont know about, but they are defo starters for their teams in my books. Thats five Finns in the Allsvenskan! They only have 14 Swedes in the Elitserien... EDIT III Heard yesterday that Nemo and Hautamäki are confirmed starters on thursday. Sixth is also confirmed...

It's a problem time to time to follow results from the internet, since people use different "codes" to mean different things. It's a language thing too. But lets now gather these on this thread, so we can check them from this one place if we happen to forget what something meant.

Rules for this years Extraliiga were published today, about four weeks after they were discussed in the spring parlament. Couple of pointers: - A team in a league meeting can be made of four foreign riders. - A foreigner can represent only one team during a season - #4 is always the rider with the lowest average in the team, other than that the team building is free. The change in the foreigner rule was a, how to put this , quite drastic. To go from 1 per team to absolutely free seven weeks after the entry deadline doesn't seem all that rational. But maybe thats just me . There's free practise at Varkaus this weekend. Finnish season starts...

Rospiggarnas p&p is also held today at Hallstavik.

You should keep checking the FIM website. They've changed their style recently and the lineups and SR's are posted there first.

After failing at the qualifier on saturday he was again the top scorer on sunday. It wasn't a Premier league team that they were up against, but that was not the point of the weekend either. Actions of individual riders and practise was the name of the game. After the weekend I've heard a lot of positive feedback on Mäkinen (edit: his riding). If he could just keep his act together and focus on working hard to improve himself... Then he has the chance to pick up on his form as it was 13 months ago.

"Svaerje" would sound great on Sky... NOT No new news regarding Kylmäkorpi and his "ameriikan vitamiinit"/oxygen therapy. Looks like he's a no go for this one.

Test match yesterday at Hallstavik. Mäkinen top scorer on the day and keeping his chances alive of a team place during the year, maybe. U21 Suomi 68 Appe Mustonen 2332 10 Niko Siltaniemi 12232 10 Kalle Katajisto 3323 11 Timo Lahti 2R133 9 Teemu Lahti 33321 12 Jari Mäkinen 33232 13 Joni Kitala 11 2 Aarni Heikkilä 1F 1 Stjärnorna 28 David Hillborg 32113 10 Niklas Larsson 01010 2 Joakim Mårtensson 0001 1 Jens Oskarsson 11201 5 Peter Wall 2110 4 Robin Messing 200 2 Linus Lydin F2020 4 Erä erältä: 1. Hillborg, Mustonen, Siltaniemi, Larsson 2. Mäkinen, Messing, Kitala, Lydin F 3. Katajisto, T.Lahti, Oskarsson, Mårtensson 4. Lahti, Wall, Heikkilä, Messing 5. Mäkinen, Lydin, Larsson, T.Lahti R 6. Mustonen, Siltaniemi, Oskarsson, Mårtensson 7. Katajisto, Hillborg, T.Lahti, Larsson 8. Lahti, Oskarsson, Kitala, Mårtensson 9. Mustonen, Siltaniemi, Wall, Messing 10. Lahti, Mäkinen, Hillborg, Lydin 11. Mäkinen, Lydin, Larsson, Heikkilä F 12. Siltaniemi, Katajisto, Wall, Oskarsson 13. T.Lahti, Mustonen, Mårtensson, Larsson 14. Katajisto, Lahti, Hillborg, Wall 15. T.Lahti, Mäkinen, Oskarsson, Lydin 16. Hillborg, Siltaniemi, Lahti, Wall No time keeping Pictures HERE