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Naah... I had it coming... Just thought it would be different... Salmiakki was all gone, someone had beat me to it! But it was a good meeting, alltough the track wasn't that great. Some very interesting development behind the scenes at the moment regarding Finnish Extraliiga speedway. Like said about the Pori meeting in three weeks, that look's to be a real cracker! Teams booking riders from Sweden faster than I can put a name to a face. If the weather permits it will be the meeting of the season. Extraliiga at Pori 27th July, parade starts at 1800 hrs Extraliiga at Kauhajoki 28th July, parade starts 1350 hrs EDIT: Full results from the 2nd Kauhajoki Speedway now online on the bottom of page 9 on this thread.

After a month I just needed a week's break already. Thank god for the possibility of doing the hours "in to the bank". Now that my holiday of nine days is in it's final hours, I have the chance to lift my feet up and put the Cardiff tape on.

Only about 400+... Was too busy defending my opinions about tracks and riders to people who disagreed with my views. Strongly I might add. We took a minibuss load of people there too and raised some money for Jari on the side. We had one potential big sponsor with us also and he really liked what he saw in how Jari rode and acted off track. I have now completed my change of service provider when it comes to my domain and webspace. In practise it means I now have .php support and ready-to-use code to open up a photo gallery of my own. All I now need is a month to sort all my pics and put them online. So stay tuned for the gallery of "The Finnish Mike Patrick"

I've been so busy that I have forgot to post about the fact that the U19 European qualifier is now online in clips here.

Jari Mäkinen is the new Finnish U21 Champion!! He did (I've heard that... ) Jari Mäkinen 33333 15 pic here Teemu Lahti 23333 14 Markku Autio 33322 13 Joni Keskinen 32231 11 Appe Mustonen 13R33 10 Janne Nyman 31203 9 Kalle Katajisto 22122 9 Aarni Heikkilä 12212 8 Timo Villanen 20311 7 Niko Siltaniemi 02T22 6 Jukka Nieminen 20210 5 Jere Mattila 01121 5 Juho Ruuska 111-- 3 Olli Heikkilä 01001 2 Erä erältä: 1. Keskinen, Katajisto, Heikkilä, Siltaniemi 64,81 2. Autio, Villanen, Ruuska, O.Heikkilä 64,84 3. Mäkinen, Lahti, Mustonen, Mattila 64,70 4. Nyman, Nieminen 67,77 5. Mustonen, Keskinen, Nyman, Villanen 65,35 6. Mäkinen, Heikkilä, Ruuska, Nieminen 64,65 7. Lahti, Siltaniemi, O.Heikkilä 65,02 8. Autio, Katajisto, Mattila 65,41 9. Lahti, Keskinen, Ruuska 63,27 10. Villanen, Heikkilä, Mattila 65,91 11. Autio, Nieminen, Mustonen R, Siltaniemi T 69,37 12. Mäkinen, Nyman, Katajisto, O.Heikkilä 65,12 13. Keskinen, Mattila, Nieminen, O.Heikkilä 63,70 14. Lahti, Autio, Heikkilä, Nyman 64,02 15. Mäkinen, Siltaniemi, Villanen 65,84 16. Mustonen, Katajisto 65,93 17. Mäkinen, Autio, Keskinen 64,55 18. Mustonen, Heikkilä, O.Heikkilä 65,78 19. Nyman, Siltaniemi, Mattila 69,44 20. Lahti, Katajisto, Villanen, Nieminen 64,72 Semifinaali: Keskinen, Mustonen, Autio, Nyman 65,13 Finaali: Mäkinen, Lahti, Keskinen, Mustonen 64,53 Mäkinen was just brilliant. Lahti fought well against him but had no chance. Keskinen dropped points in places he shouldnt and then messed up his start in the final. When behind he was ordinary, fast while in front. Katajisto surprisingly lost to Mustonen in their heat. Autio looked very ordinary but got plenty of points in the preli's. Riders to pick and point out today were Mäkinen (of course), Lahti did well, Mustonen rode better (and with courage) than ever. Katajisto looked good but gated badly and could't fight back. Another good meeting for me in a row, alltough racing varied from heat to heat. I was also told that the Extraliiga meeting on friday was the best meeting in Finland this season racing wise. Results from that tomorrow afternoon.

Extraliiga 6.7.2007 Seinäjoki Kotkat 44 Joni Keskinen 21121 7 Benny Johansson 3333 12 Kalle Lindgren 3332 11 Rene Lehtinen 32333 14 Kopparberg Speedway 36 Mikko Rahko 11 2 Jyri Palomäki 2232 9 Tomi Reima R6^3323 17 Thomas Ljung 121211 8 Paholaiset 29 Petri Koskela 3111 6 Marko Suojanen 11220 6 Appe Mustonen 20 2 Jari Mäkinen 222116^1 15 Jokerit 5 Markku Autio 00002 2 Juho Ruuska 0000 0 Olli Heikkilä 1000 1 Kalle Katajisto 02R00 2 Erä erältä: 1. Koskela, Keskinen, Rahko, Autio 2. Johansson, Palomäki, Suojanen, Ruuska 3. Lindgren, Mustonen, Heikkilä, Reima R 4. Lehtinen, Mäkinen, Ljung, Katajisto 5. Lindgren, Ljung, Suojanen, Autio 6. Reima^, Mäkinen, Keskinen, Heikkilä 7. Johansson, Katajisto, Ljung, Mustonen 8. Reima, Lehtinen, Koskela, Ruuska 9. Lindgren, Mäkinen, Rahko, Ruuska 10. Johansson, Ljung, Koskela, Heikkilä 11. Lehtinen, Palomäki, Mäkinen, Autio 12. Reima, Suojanen, Keskinen, Katajisto 13. Johansson, Reima, Mäkinen, Autio 14. Mäkinen^, Keskinen, Ljung, Ruuska 15. Lehtinen, Suojanen, Ljung, Heikkilä 16. Palomäki, Lindgren, Koskela, Katajisto 17. Reima, Autio, Keskinen, Suojanen 18. Lehtinen, Palomäki, Mäkinen, Katajisto Standings after today: Kopparberg...4 - 138 - 16 Keittiöpiste....3 - 123 - 15 Kotkat..........3 - 121 - 13 Paholaiset.....4 - 111 - 12 Jokerit..........3 - 50 - 8 Haukat..........3 - 19 - 6

Might even go as far as saying that it was a very good meeting today at Lahti! Keittiöpiste 43 Tero Aarnio 33122 11 Juha Mäkelä 230 5 Teemu Lahti 3222 9 Juha Hautamäki 333333 18 Kopparberg Speedway 33 Mikko Rahko 020F 2 Tero Villanen 00 0 Tomi Reima 21212 8 Andreas Lekander 32336^33 23 Paholaiset 31 Petri Koskela 226^10 11 Marko Suojanen 1132 7 Appe Mustonen T121 4 Jari Mäkinen 112221 9 Haukat 8 Kalle Kivistö 1R0 1 Niko Siltaniemi 00101 2 Aarni Heikkilä 0111 3 Janne Nyman 002^00 2 Erä erältä: 1. Aarnio, Koskela, Kivistö, Rahko 65,28 2. Lekander, Mäkelä, Suojanen, Siltaniemi 64,13 3. Lahti, Reima, Mäkinen, Heikkilä 65,35 4. Hautamäki, Lekander, Mäkinen, Nyman 65,55 5. Mäkelä, Rahko, Mustonen, Nyman 68,22 6. Hautamäki, Koskela, Reima, Siltaniemi 65,60 7. Lekander, Lahti, Suojanen, Kivistö R 65,60 8. Aarnio, Mäkinen, Heikkilä, Villanen 66,87 9. Hautamäki, Mustonen, Nyman^, Villanen 66,15 10. Suojanen, Reima, Aarnio, Nyman 66,56 11. Koskela^, Lahti, Siltaniemi, Rahko 67,28 12. Lekander, Mäkinen, Heikkilä, Mäkelä 66,42 13. Hautamäki, Suojanen, Heikkilä, Rahko F 65,29 14. Lekander^, Lahti, Koskela, Nyman 66,60 15. Hautamäki, Mäkinen, Reima, Kivistö 66,31 16. Lekander, Aarnio, Mustonen, Siltaniemi 66,97 17. Hautamäki, Reima, Siltaniemi, Koskela 65,94 18. Lekander, Aarnio, Mäkinen, Heikkilä 66,59 More Finnish news late saturday night, I'm off to a short break.

Sorry about that... They never rode it. Without a doubt the biggest thing in Finnish speedway during the new millenium never happened. It will be staged at Seinäjoki this friday. Also the other meeting ment to be ridden at Vaasa will be at Seinäjoki. Here's the Finnish calendar for the rest of the season as I see it, but dont travel without doublechecking through me... I'm going to Lahti today and probably just have time to post the results, then I'll be offline until saturday when I'm coming back from the U21 final in the evening. July 2...MA...Extraliiga: HAU-KEI-KOP-PAH..Lahti, SsMK 6...PE...spw..Extraliiga: KOP-PAH-JOK-KOT..Seinäjoki, VaMK 7...LA...spw..U21 SM Finaali..Seinäjoki, SeMK 14...LA...spw..Kaupunki Cup: Kauhajoki-LahtiForssa..Kauhajoki, KauhjMK 15...SU...spw..Kaupunki Cup: LahtiForssa-Seinäjoki..? 15...SU...spw..Kaupunki Cup: Pori-Kauhajoki..Pori, PMK 21...LA...spw..Extraliiga: KEI-KOT-HAU-JOK..Kuusankoski, KMMK 22...SU...spw..Extraliiga: KOT-KEI-JOK-PAH..Seinäjoki, SeMK 27...PE...spw..Extraliiga: PAH-KOP-KOT-KEI..Pori, PMK (looks like the meeting of the season! 28...LA...spw..Extraliiga: JOK-PAH-HAU-KOT..Kauhajoki, KauhjMK August 3...PE...spw..Extraliiga: KOP-JOK-KEI-HAU..Seinäjoki, VaMK 4...LA...spw..Pairs SM..Lahti, SsMK 12...SU...spw..Extraliiga: HAU-KOT-KOP-JOK..Lahti, SsMK 18...LA...spw..Seinäjoki Speedway..Seinäjoki, SeMK 19...SU...spw..Extraliiga: KEI-HAU-PAH-KOP Kuusankoski, KMMK

I've been to Cardiff twice, and it look's the same. Around 40k

here.

Didn't know sportowefakty makes mistakes? But their story says it's quoted from corren.se, the source that has made me a nervwreck!

The story has changed again... How come we have been getting the info we have???? Through to semifinal: Damian Balinski (12 poäng) Mikael Max (12), Kenneth Bjerre (12), Fredrik Lindgren (11), Tomasz Gapinski (11), Kaj Laukkanen (11) och Jonas Davidsson (10). Reserv blev finländaren Kauko Nieminen (9). EDIT: And 15 minutes ago sportowefakty has published the results where Nieminen is through ann Laukkanen out?? What really has happened?

Dont know the rules so well, and infact I think they have changed too, but I'd say now that there's NO way like will ride in the semi. If reserve, he might have.

or five? I have been fallowing this for the whole season now, Laukkanen hasn't really beaten any of the "big names" this year. For example he rode against Jensen three times in a Danish league meeting about 3 weeks ago. He was telling me how he did so great´and got 18 points in the end. Well he lost to Jensen every time they met. And now once more, when it really counted.

YIIIIIIIHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Balinski won it.

First news in here from Cardiff is that 50k is expected at the Millenium today...

Doesn't it say three HOME riders in the re-run...

"Piratförarna Mikael Max, Damian Balinski och Kenneth Bjerre hamnade alla på 12 poäng i dagens GP-kval. Så nu krävs omkörning om segern. Övriga som är klara för semifinal är Tomasz Gapinski, Jonas Davidsson, Fredrik Lindgren och Jesper B Jensen." Thats it then, Kauko didn't make it

Should be through then... Hometrack advantage???

2nd Kauhajoki Speedway 30.6.2007 Meeting abandoned after heat 16 because of rain. Rene Lehtinen declared winner by a throw of a coin. Rene Lehtinen 3333 12 Joni Keskinen 3333 12 Petri Koskela 3313 10 Markku Autio 2233 10 Kalle Katajisto 1232 8 Aarni Heikkilä 2212 7 Petteri Koivunen 2122 7 Teemu Lahti 132R 6 Tero Aarnio 3F2F 5 Timo Villanen 1211 5 Toni Stenberg 0022 4 Jan-Eric Korkeamäki 0101 2 Heikki Tapani 11FR 2 Esa Yrjölä T101 2 Tero Villanen 2 2 Jere Mattila F010 1 Olli Heikkilä 00R0 0 Erä erältä: 1. Keskinen, Heikkilä, Katajisto, Korkeamäki 63,34 2. Aarnio, Koivunen, Tapani, Mattila F 62,68 3. Koskela, Te.Villanen, Lahti, O.Heikkilä 63,08 4. Lehtinen, Autio, Villanen, Stenberg 62,71 5. Lehtinen, Katajisto, Yrjölä, Aarnio F 63,96 6. Lahti, Villanen, Korkeamäki, Mattila 63,91 7. Keskinen, Autio, Tapani, O.Heikkilä 65,21 8. Koskela, Heikkilä, Koivunen, Stenberg 64,78 9. Katajisto, Stenberg, Mattila, O.Heikkilä R 65,83 10. Autio, Aarnio, Koskela, Korkeamäki 64,70 11. Keskinen, Koivunen, Villanen, Yrjölä 66,50 12. Lehtinen, Lahti, Heikkilä, Tapani F 63,18 13. Koskela, Katajisto, Villanen, Tapani 65,15 14. Lehtinen, Koivunen, Korkeamäki, O.Heikkilä 64,41 15. Keskinen, Stenberg, Lahti R, Aarnio F 70,76 16. Autio, Heikkilä, Yrjölä, Mattila 70,28

Efter fyra omgångar leder Mikael Max med sina 11 poäng närmast före Balinski, Bjerre och Tomasz Gapinski på 9 poäng, Kaj Laukkanen, Jesper B Jensen, Jonas Davidsson och Fredrik Lindgren på 8 och Kauko Nieminen med 7 poäng. De nio slåss just nu om sju platser till en av semifinalerna som går den 7-8 juli. after four heats Max...11 Balinski, Bjerre, Gapinski...9 Laukkanen, Jensen, J.Davidsson, Lindgren 8 Nieminen 7

from here... I paus efter tre omgångar leder Mikael Max med sina 8 poäng närmast före Balinski, Bjerre, Jesper B Jensen som alla har 7 och Tomasz Gapinski, Kauko Nieminen och Fredrik Lindgren på 6 poäng. De sju är just nu de som får en biljett till en av semifinalerna som går den 7-8 juli... After three heats Max...8 Balinski, Bjerre, Jensen...7 Nieminen, Lindgren...6

Thanks but I need more...

Updates from Motala?????

I wonder whats going on with Joonas... At the moment he's riding like Laukkanen, great today and poor the next. I discussed this with someone and a point was made that now that the new avg's are in in Elite league I could expect him to score well again. Same goes for his riding in Sweden, he's been hitting the Laukkanen figures for a month now and even though they've had tight matches he's been allowed to take his four rides anyway with 010 or similar from the first three. Go figure Finland will be slaughtered in Vojens.