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Which also is showed by the attitude of some of the passengers using budget airlines, when they think they'll get the same service from Ryanair or easyjet as they get from the "big" ones. That is of course what makes the easyjet's "airport"-tv show excellent entertainment. "I was on time at the car park..." and all that...

That comment is just not allowed. If you dont know where your plane is landing when you book your ticket, thats your problem. My last Ryanair experience was last weekend between Tampere-Dublin-Tampere. So we payed 20 Euros for a bag full of whisky as we checked it in at the airport, but we could have done it cheaper and we knew it. What really got to me AGAIN was the people back at Tampere when we entered the terminal. Tampere2 which is the one Ryanair uses is one of the poorest there is to my limited knowledge, but I cant stand it that people in designer clothing fly Ryanair to save money and then mock the premises the airline uses.

And that shows us that they indeed are the best at the moment.

I mean to have tinted glasses you need to have tinted glasses... Take a good step back and look at the bigger picture including a few years back... Of course I'm only saying this based on what I've read in the media, we have people here that know what's really going on and they know better if not best.

I guess they'll talk to Oulu again, but who knows about the winter... Why do I think that all this has nothing to do with a cooling system. How much would it cost to protect it so you could ram seven bikes in to it simultaneously and only crash the bikes? If it's OK to host Monster trucks at places like Ullevi and Globen, who really cares if a few bikes could hit one cooling system?

They've now updated the federation website with this information regardin our 80cc competition. This looks to be the final table. N stands for NON-starter and the ones in brackets are not considered for the total score, as only best eight from each rider was taken in to account. 1. Mika Loppi --------- SeMK --- N --- 25 --- 25 --- 25 --- 25 --- 25 --- 25 --- N --- N --- 25 --- 175 2. Mika Hyyryläinen - SsMK --- 20 --- 16 --- (6) -- 20 --- (7) -- 11 --- 20 --- 10 --- 20 --- 8 --- 125 3. Vili Hautala ----- KauhjMK --- N --- 9 --- 16 --- 10 --- 10 --- 20 --- N --- 25 --- 25 --- 7 --- 122 4. Jiri Nieminen ------ SsMK --- 10 --- 13 --- N --- (9) -- 20 --- 13 --- 13 --- 20 --- 13 --- 11 --- 113 5. Jooa Partanen ---- KMMK --- 25 --- (6) -- 7 --- 7 --- 13 --- 9 --- N --- 16 --- 16 --- 13 --- 106 6. Niilo Vuolas -------- HjMK --- 11 --- (10) - 13 --- 11 --- 16 --- (7) -- 16 --- 13 --- 11 --- 10 --- 101 7. Jarkko Palmi ------ SeMK --- N --- 20 --- 10 --- 16 --- 8 --- 16 --- 8 --- N --- N --- 20 --- 98 8. Tomi Lahti -------- KMMK --- 13 --- 11 --- 8 --- 13 --- 6 --- 10 --- N --- N --- N --- 16 --- 77 9. Vikke Kuhanen ---- SsMK --- 16 --- (5) -- 9 --- 6 --- 9 --- 6 --- 10 --- 11 --- 10 --- (5) -- 77 10. Vili Mattila ----- KauhjMK --- 8 --- 7 --- 20 --- 8 --- 11 --- 8 --- 9 --- N --- N --- N --- 71 11. Jere Lehtonen ------ PMK --- 9 --- 8 --- 11 --- 5 --- N --- N --- 11 --- N --- N --- 9 --- 53 12. Antti Vuolas -------- HjMK --- N --- N --- N --- N --- N --- N --- N --- N --- 9 --- 6 --- 15 13. Aapo Lohvansuu --- HjMK --- N --- N --- N --- N --- N --- N --- N --- N --- 8 --- N --- 8 The big mystery in this was the amount of cup points to be given. According to the federation rules a winner should get 25, 2nd 20 and so on. BUT if there was only nine participants or less, you were only gonna get 10 for the win and so on. This was brought up during the season and even that there's been no official statement on this, I'd say they've now decided that each win was worth 25 points.

Poole 2003. Semifinals will be at Daugavpils and Motala, SE.

According to the minutes from the FIM congress, the new silencer is definately on it's way... EDIT: But you can use the old ones until the end of -09. Same applies for the kill switch. If it was OK in -08 it's ok in -09.

Also I'd say thats not grass covering the track but a sheet of somesort. Mystery solved then, thanks!

I've been going through the FIM and UEM calendars just to give you a good headache next month. Elgane looks set for me to see the Finns in the U21's. Also the SWC qualifier sounds good if it's at Daugavpils. The bad thing about the SWC is that it's already in early May. Cant see any meetings being held in Finland before it, so there's not much practise for our guys before it. Good thing is that most of the riders set for a team place have been there before, plenty of times too.

Didn't someone say over here that Wiener Neustadt has closed down?? They have a GP qualifier to organize in June...

Planning, yes.

80cc? District (or similar) Mästerskap meaning local or "some part of the country" champion. Perhaps.

Just for you iris, Joonas Kylmäkorpi looks to get the wild card for next years longtrack GP. This news really made my day.

More than I'm paying you!

Jep, thats Jari's dad Rauli on the number three bike. You should grow a beard like the one fellow on the green MP-leathers (not 11, thats Olavi Turunen) and have the birds falling on your lap... Now get lost from my thread! The track that they are riding on is the old Hippos. Currently under a highway between Hakametsä ice rink and TAYS (the big university hospital of Tampere). He's not greg. EDIT:The fellow with the very handsome beard is actually Pekka Kortelainen. I saw him yesterday and naturally had to comment this to him. Quite rightly he put me to shame and said it was the only way to have a beard at the time. LOOKED DAFT THOUGH if you ask me!

Since I'll never hit 50 views per post I might as well stop waiting for it to happen... 48,8 is the current figure and that's almost 30 % increase on last year. What this means to me is that people have been much more interested in Finnish news than in previous years I've kept this. And why wouldn't they, there's been all sorts of Finnish "talents" riding on UK tracks this year. Nothing much to report anymore from Finland. Except that I won Timo Lahti in a gokart race last friday in their season ending Gokart GP. Even though I took 34 kg of extraweight's on my car he still wasn't good enough. We wont be doing the race again on a speedway bike though, I'll keep this as one of the positives of my season for good. A couple of notes on Finnnish riders in the UK though. Kauko was a star , Reima is still doing his business as expected , Aarnio managed a very good debut season and is looking forward to come back next year. Mäkinen and Keskinen both managed to spend a van load of money without achieving an actual average and Mäkinen has made it clear he plans to come back next season. Havent spoken to Keskinen about his plans though. Laukkanen was there also, maybe he should have sold a couple of apartments just to keep up with the speed for Mildenhall. Kylmäkorpi did OK I guess, what's there to say. Piled up big points from reserve, managed OK even after that but the injuries came again and took their toll. I think it's fair to say that I expected more. We had an OK+ domestic season too. New blood came through. My ranking for our current U21 riders would be something like: 1. Timo Lahti, 2. Kalle Katajisto, 3. Niko Siltaniemi, 4. Teemu Lahti, 5. Appe Mustonen, 6. Joni Kitala. Timo Lahti gets his 1st position simply because he's the youngest now, just turned 16 halfway to the season. Teemu Lahti is the opposite, he's down to his last season in the U21 I think next year. Mäkinen is missing from the list ince he has nothing to show for himself from this season. Katajisto, Siltaniemi and Mustonen are all pretty even with Mustonen really hitting the jackpot at the Finnish final this season. Hopefully they all have the sense to stay away from UK racing next year. There's a good program going on for their deveploment and in my opinion they should take an advantage of it now. Anyone with a bike and the willingness to travel will get a chance to ride in the UK next season, the later in the year they pick up on it, the better for their progress it will be. It's now been four weeks from the season finishing Extraliiga meeting, but no-official statement has been made regarding the fact that Jokerit took part with only three riders. It's been almost six weeks since the last 80cc round and no-official statement has been made regarding the cup points given in the series, as there are some inconcistensies with them. I expect all off these to be adressed though early in December, after the national federation get-together (November 22nd) for track racing clubs. Thats about it for 2008, hope you enjoyed!

Nicholls is fine in my books for next year, but how on earth can Harris get back after the way they treated Andersen a couple of years back...

stu u bästard...

It's a share off the money now! Ole organized it all...

I can see people lining up for the job just looking at Google maps from here!

http://www.justin.tv/thumperstu#

Did you read Egon's side of the story in the SS a week ago?

Like he's quoted as saying in the Speedway Star, the only place he gets to do what he wants with what he wants is indeed Parken.

- "Jeg tager selvfølgelig det fulde ansvar" one out of two ain't that bad...