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Extraliiga today at Kuusankoski. Keittiöpiste 16 Teemu Lahti 10^1120 5 Aleksey Poptsov 010 1 Toni Stenberg 00 0 Timo Lahti 3002212 10 Kotkat 41 Juha Hautamäki 3333 12 Rene Lehtinen 3333 12 Benny Johansson 32231 11 Niko Siltaniemi 23001 6 Jokerit 22 Kalle Katajisto 22d12^0 7 Jani Eerikäinen 21222 9 Markku Autio 2210 5 Jan-Eric Korkeamäki 0M1 1 Paholaiset 31 Cesary Owizyc 0120 3 Petri Koskela 13d 4 Marko Suojanen 1132^3 10 Appe Mustonen 123323 14 Erä erältä: 1. Hautamäki, Katajisto, Lahti, Owizyc 63,2 2. Lehtinen, Eerikäinen, Koskela, Poptsov 64,0 3. Johansson, Autio, Suojanen, Stenberg 64,2 4. T.Lahti, Siltaniemi, Mustonen, Korkeamäki 63,9 5. Lehtinen, Katajisto, Suojanen, T.Lahti 64,6 6. Siltaniemi, Autio, Owizyc, Lahti^ 65,0 7. Koskela, Johansson, Lahti, Korkeamäki M 65,7 8. Hautamäki, Mustonen, Eerikäinen, T.Lahti 64,1 9. Suojanen, Eerikäinen, Lahti, Siltaniemi 65,2 10. Hautamäki, T.Lahti, Autio, Koskela d 64,2 11. Mustonen, Johansson, Poptsov, Katajisto d 66,2 12. Lehtinen, Owizyc, Korkeamäki, Stenberg 66,7 13. Mustonen, T.Lahti, Katajisto, Siltaniemi 63,4 14. Johansson, Eerikäinen, T.Lahti, Owizyc 66,2 15. Lehtinen, Lahti, Suojanen^, Autio 65,2 16. Hautamäki, Mustonen, Katajisto^, Poptsov 62,6 17. Suojanen, Eerikäinen, Siltaniemi, Lahti 65,4 18. Mustonen, T.Lahti, Johansson, Katajisto 64,9 Katsojia 195 Ill get back to you LBC later and more about the meeting during early next week. I hear saturday night calling... Went to see Kylie last friday, still spinning around

The current official table. It looks like it's 8 for a win. I dont know why, smarter people than me have decided on these things. The rules I have have apparently changed after Vaasa pulled out. Haapajärvi has one point taken of because they didn't have a full team at Kauhajoki. PORI...............2 - 40 - 16 KAUHAJOKI.....2 - 35 - 11 FORSSA I........2 - 34 - 11 LAHTI.............2 - 24 - 7 HAAPAJÄRVI...2 - 26 - 6 FORSSA II......2 - 18 - 4

Allsvenskan is the Swedish Premier league with very good riders. OK, Tai won David Howe once and lost to Niklas Klingberg twice so it hasn't been quite a world class performance. But still... Swedish 2nd division is actually the 4th league in Sweden and they ride on weekends.

Who knows, he might do better in Sweden than he does in England as the tracks are very different. I thought Dave Watt pointed that out perfectly last year. Good luck to Danny! I originally deleted my first post in this thread that more or less said that the signing of King is telling more about the situation at Smederna than it does about King's performance's. They are bringing in a new face at an affordable cost hoping things will change. Hopefully for Smedernas sake they do. Good luck to them both...

If he's not good enough a rider, money doesn't change that. Edward Kennet for example has been sacked by Indianerna this season.

Kaupunki Cup 2/6 Kauhajoki/KauhjMK 8.6.2008. Pori 20 Jouni Viljanen 12111 6 Marko Suojanen 23333 14 Kauhajoki 16 Jan-Eric Korkeamäki 22322 11 Jere Mattila F 0 Olli Heikkilä 11201 5 Forssa 15 Aarni Heikkilä 33333 15 Reima Heikkilä N 0 Lahti 13 Jukka Nieminen d 0 Markku Autio 33232 13 Haapajärvi 12 Petteri Koivunen 32223 12 Forssa II 11 Ari Tuomisto 21122 8 Johan Ahponen 10011 3 Erä erältä: 1. Autio, Korkeamäki, O.Heikkilä, Nieminen d 64,71 2. Koivunen, Tuomisto, Ahponen 64,91 3. A.Heikkilä, Suojanen, Viljanen 64,34 4. A.Heikkilä, Korkeamäki, O.Heikkilä 64,05 5. Autio, Koivunen 67,06 6. Suojanen, Viljanen, Tuomisto, Ahponen 62,87 7. Suojanen, Koivunen, Viljanen 64,57 8. A.Heikkilä, Autio 64,43 9. Korkeamäki, O.Heikkilä, Tuomisto, Ahponen 67,17 10. Autio, Tuomisto, Ahponen 64,56 11. Suojanen, Korkeamäki, Viljanen, O.Heikkilä 63,96 12. A.Heikkilä, Koivunen 65,00 13. A.Heikkilä, Tuomisto, Ahponen 64,09 14. Koivunen, Korkeamäki. O.Heikkilä 65,52 15. Suojanen, Autio, Viljanen 64,42 Katsojia 120

3rd Kauhajoki Speedway June 7th 2008 Rene Lehtinen SeMK 33233 14 Markku Autio KuMAMo 32333 14 Timo Lahti KMMK 23323 13 Petri Koskela PMK 21332 11 Aarni Heikkilä FMS 33221 11 Jani Eerikäinen KarhMK 32122 10 Petteri Koivunen SeMK 21232 10 Jan-Eric Korkeamäki KauhjMK 10323 9 Jere Mattila KauhjMK 13111 7 Toni Stenberg KMMK 22011 6 Markku Larronmaa VRT 02210 5 Reima Heikkilä FMS 01110 3 Olli Heikkilä KauhjMK 10002 3 Erä erältä: 1. A.Heikkilä, Lahti, Korkemäki 63,77 2. Eerikäinen, Koivunen, O.Heikkilä, R.Heikkilä 63,90 3. Autio, Koskela, Mattila, Larronmaa 61,69 4. Lehtinen, Stenberg 62,97 5. Lehtinen, Autio, Koivunen, Korkeamäki 61,51 6. Mattila, Stenberg, R.Heikkilä 65,60 7. A.Heikkilä, Larronmaa, O.Heikkilä R 64,21 8. Lahti, Eerikäinen, Koskela 62,68 9. Korkeamäki, Larronmaa, R.Heikkilä 66,23 10. Koskela, Koivunen 64,88 11. Autio, A.Heikkilä, Eerikäinen Stenberg 63,24 12. Lahti, Lehtinen, Mattila, O.Heikkilä 62,51 13. Koskela, Korkeamäki, Stenberg, O.Heikkilä 67,10 14. Lehtinen, Eerikäinen, Larronmaa 64,66 15. Koivunen, A.Heikkilä, Mattila 66,81 16. Autio, Lahti, R.Heikkilä ????? 17. Korkeamäki, Eerikäinen, Mattila 64,52 18. Autio, O.Heikkilä 70,72 19. Lehtinen, Koskela, A.Heikkilä, R,Heikkilä 63,06 20. Lahti, Koivunen, Stenberg, Larronmaa 62,57 B-finaali: Eerikäinen, A.Heikkilä, Koivunen, Korkeamäki 62,20 A-finaali: Lehtinen, Lahti, Autio, Koskela 62,20

Seems that I didnt miss anything by going out yesterday and seeing the result until now. Mäkinen really needs to get his act together.

Only GB

Prize money to the riders is around 7700 £ according to the FIM scale of reimbursement. You can add your normal expenses of running a meeting to that. Also there might be some extra insurances that have to be taken as it's an FIM event. Not sure about that.

Now I know it wasn't a close at all then. I guess my first question should have ended with ...at this track. tomaz, pics will come this evening.

Dont know how close it actually was, but there was a malfunction at the nuclear power plant at Krsko yesterday and they had to shut it down. This years GP could have been the last one...

It's pretty certain the 5th is Juha Hautamäki.

Alltough I have a very good idea what Stekkers thought about track prep at Pori, could someone please translate this to me From the DMU website "Til træningen havde det vist sig at banen var helt perfekt til speedway, og passede godt til de Danske og Svenske kørere, med en god mængde dirt på banen, samt flere linjer. Kørerne fandt sig alle godt tilpas. Til selve løbet var historien dog en helt anden... Det var med stor optimisme at vi ankom til banen idag, men ovalen var så hård som en motorvej. Nogle af mandskaberne havde overnattet på banen og kunne bekræfte at man var begyndt at tromle klokken 4 om morgenen. Og for det ikke skulle være løgn, så blev den vandet efter et par heat, og var nærmest som brun sæbe."

Who cares, they lose anyway.

This is the second time I've "heard" of you today. Thank you very much!

XXI Kemppi Speedway Lahti/SsMK 1.6.2008 Kalle Katajisto VRT 33333 15 Timo Lahti KMMK 33323 14 Robert Hendersson Ruotsi 22233 12 Teemu Lahti KMMK 33312 12 Aarni Heikkilä FMS 32221 10 Joni Kitala SsMK 23T31 9 Aleksei Poptsov Venäjä 21132 9 Jan-Eric Korkeamäki KauhjMK 12302 8 Fedor Poptsov Venäjä dR213 6 Alexander Edberg Ruotsi 2211d 6 Markku Weckman SsMK 01220 5 Jukka Nieminen SsMK 11F2d 4 Reima Heikkilä FMS 1d011 3 Jere Mattila KauhjMK DNS Juha Mäkelä E-PMMK DNS Erä erältä: 1. T.Lahti, Kitala, F.Poptsov d 67,56 2. Katajisto, Hendersson, Nieminen, Weckman 66,43 3. Lahti, Poptsov, Korkeamäki 67,97 4. Heikkilä, Edberg, R.Heikkilä 68,84 5. Katajisto, Heikkilä 67,78 6. Lahti, Edberg, Weckman, F.Poptsov R 69,25 7. T.Lahti, Korkeamäki, Nieminen, R.Heikkilä d 67,28 8. Kitala, Hendersson, Poptsov 68,78 9. Korkeamäki, Weckman 69,56 10. Katajisto, F.Poptsov, Poptsov, R.Heikkilä 66,22 11. T.Lahti, Hendersson, Edberg 66,66 12. Lahti, Heikkilä, Nieminen F, Kitala T 68,57 13. Poptsov, Nieminen, Edberg 68,63 14. Hendersson, Heikkilä, F.Poptsov, Korkeamäki 67,31 15. Katajisto, T.Lahti, Lahti 67,00 16. Kitala, Weckman, R.Heikkilä 71,00 17. Hendersson, Lahti, R.Heikkilä 66,06 18. F.Poptsov, Nieminen d 76,25 19. T.Lahti, Poptsov, Heikkilä, Weckman 68,44 20. Katajisto, Korkeamäki, Kitala, Edberg 69,19 Semifinaali: Henderson, T.Lahti, Heikkilä, Lahti d 65,91 Finaali: Katajisto, Henderson, T.Lahti, Kitala 67,03 Crowd: 300

Courtesy of Jarimakinen.fi Linus EKLÖF SE 23323 13 Ludvig LINDGREN SE 22332 12+3 Morten RISAGER DK 21333 12+2 Simon GUSTAFSSON SE 33321 12+1 Kim NILSSON SE 32323 12+R Nicolai KLINDT DK 20233 10+3 Leon MADSEN DK 31222 10+R Tomas H JONASSON SE 33d11 8 Jan GRAVERSEN DK 12212 8 Peter Juul LARSEN DK 1T13R 5 Robin TÖRNQVIST SE 12110 5 Kalle KATAJISTO FI d3100 4 Niko SILTANIEMI FI 012 3 Tord SOLBERG NO 00101 2 Kenneth HANSEN DK d1NNN 1 Teemu LAHTI SE d1000 1 Jari MÄKINEN FI d0R01 1 Aarni HEIKKILÄ FI 0T 0 Erä erältä: 1. Jonasson, Eklöf, Larsen, Katajisto 68,37 2. Nilsson, Lindgren, Graversen, Solberg 68,43 3. Madsen, Risager, Törnqvist, Hansen 67,88 4. Gustafsson, Klindt, Mäkinen d, Lahti d 67,47 5. Jonasson, Graversen, Hansen, Mäkinen 67,45 6. Gustafsson, Lindgren, Madsen, Siltaniemi 66,85 7. Katajisto, Törnqvist, Lahti, Solberg 66,68 8. Eklöf, Nilsson, Risager, Klindt 66,97 9. Lindgren, Klindt, Törnqvist, Jonasson 67,85 10. Risager, Graversen, Larsen, Lahti 66,56 11. Gustafsson, Nilsson, Katajisto, Heikkilä 66,41 12. Eklöf, Madsen, Solberg, Mäkinen R 65,90 13. Risager, Gustafsson, Jonasson, Solberg 66,09 14. Larsen, Nilsson, Törnqvist, Mäkinen 66,67 15. Klindt, Madsen, Graversen, Katajisto 66,66 16. Lindgren, Eklöf, Siltaniemi, Lahti 66,46 17. Nilsson, Madsen, Jonasson, Lahti 66,23 18. Klindt, Siltaniemi, Solberg, Larsen R 66,56 19. Risager, Lindgren, Mäkinen, Katajisto 69,18 20. Eklöf, Graversen, Gustafsson, Törnqvist 65,55 Uusinta 1: Klindt, Madsen R 66,86 Uusinta 2: Lindgren, Risager, Gustafsson, Nilsson R 65,97 Pictures from Pori here. It says more to follow.

Nordic qualifier today at Pori 1st Linus Eklöf 2nd Ludvig Lindgren 3rd Morten Risager 4th Simon Gustavsson 5th Kim Nilsson 6th Nicolai Klindt runoff for 2nd between Ludvig, Morten, Simon and Kim. Run off for 6th between Nicolai and Leon Madsen. Madsen was leading entering the backstraight but shed a chain. The Finns were still crap.

We just got back from the bar and there was no hope... Looking very bleak for the morning also...

There's gonna be a live internet stream on saturday from the meeting. I've just been told that they will be testing a new wireless system and they are not sure how it'll work. It will be streamed again a week later when the quality will be quaranteed. The stream will most likely be found from www.popula.tv

I've heard of Bjerre, but who is Mads Korneliussen?

I better start doing these with more time on my hands. Thank you for your help. I was at Pori yesterday watching Jari Mäkinen getting some practise and training. On a track all by himself he was riding the same times as Kalle Katajisto and Tomi Reima did more than a week ago. There's still plenty for him to do, but judging by what I saw he only needs a few more push to the right direction.

Some very heated action today at Hyvinkää, Finnish 1st division aka Kaupunki Cup. Pori 20 Jouni Viljanen 2N0N1 3 Appe Mustonen 32N33 11 Petri Koskela 132 6 Forssa I 19+3 Aarni Heikkilä 33233 14+3 Tommi Ahlgren 00N22 4 Reima Heikkilä 1 1 Kauhajoki 19+2 Jan Eric Korkeamäki 13N13 8 Markku Autio 2N222 8+2 Jere Mattila 21 3 Haapajärvi 14 Niko Siltaniemi 33332 14 Juho Ruuska dNNNN 0 Lahti 11 Jukka Nieminen 212d 5 Markku Weckman 1031 6 Forssa II 7 Ari Tuomisto 12111 6 Johan Ahponen 010d0 1 Heat by heat: 1. Heikkilä, Autio, Korkeamäki, Ahlgren 68,10 2. Siltaniemi, Nieminen, Weckman, Ruuska d 66,03 3. Mustonen, Viljanen, Tuomisto, Ahponen 68,34 4. Heikkilä, Mustonen, Koskela, Ahlgren 67,00 5. Korkeamäki, Mattila, Nieminen, Weckman 69,09 6. Siltaniemi, Tuomisto, Ahponen 66,44 7. Weckman, Nieminen, Tuomisto, Ahponen 71,62 8. Koskela, Autio, Mattila, Viljanen 67,91 9. Siltaniemi, Heikkilä, Heikkilä 67,25 10. Siltaniemi, Autio, Korkeamäki 68,03 11. Heikkilä, Ahlgren, Tuomisto, Ahponen 69,59 12. Mustonen, Koskela, Weckman, Nieminen 69,00 13. Mustonen, Siltaniemi, Viljanen 67,91 14. Heikkilä, Ahlgren, Weckman, Nieminen 67,81 15. Korkeamäki, Autio, Tuomisto, Ahponen 69,97 Re-run: Heikkilä, Autio 69,40

Leigh Adams Hans Andersen Greg Hancock Rune Holta Andreas Jonsson Andreas Jonsson to be my captain for Gothengurg.