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Finns will have: Jani Eerikäinen Aarni Heikkilä Joni Keskinen Teemu Lahti Rene Lehtinen

Finns are tracking Kylmäkorpi and Laukkanen

There are no decisions yet on the finnish team. But the riders will come out from the group that have already represented Finland this year: Lehtinen, Heikkilä, Keskinen, Tuomisto, Kitala+ Jari Mäkinen and Appe Mustonen. They have now turned 16 and are old enough to take part. Also Teemu Lahti has said he'll go if asked.

SM-liiga 3/12 Pori 21.5.2006 Paholaiset, PMK 38 Viktor Bergström 32R32 10 Petri Koskela 2222 8 Marko Suojanen 23232 12 Jari Mäkinen 3122 8 Snails, VRT 16 Petteri Koivunen N2R1 3 Jani Eerikäinen 12111 6 Juho Ruuska 0101R 2 Appe Mustonen 1021 5 SCD, Latvia 10 Pasi Räsänen 20121 6 Toni Stenberg 0010 1 Jan-Erik Korkeamäki 11100 3 Keittiöpiste, KMMK 44 Juha Hautamäki d3333 12 Tero Aarnio 333R 9 Jyri Palomäki 33333 15 Teemu Lahti 2132 8 1. Bergström, Räsänen, Hautamäki d, Koivunen N 69,77 2. Aarnio, Koskela, Eerikäinen, Stenberg 66,67 3. Palomäki, Suojanen, Korkeamäki, Ruuska 65,18 4. Mäkinen, Lahti, Mustonen 66,95 5. Palomäki, Eerikäinen, Mäkinen, Räsänen 64,86 6. Hautamäki, Koskela, Korkeamäki, Mustonen 64,90 7. Aarnio, Bergström, Ruuska 65,06 8. Suojanen, Koivunen, Lahti, Stenberg 67,45 9. Palomäki, Mustonen, Stenberg, Bergström R 64,24 10. Aarnio, Mäkinen, Korkeamäki, Koivunen R 66,40 11. Lahti, Koskela, Räsänen, Ruuska 67,56 12. Hautamäki, Suojanen, Eerikäinen 66,14 13. Suojanen, Räsänen, Mustonen, Aarnio R 67,75 14. Hautamäki, Mäkinen, Ruuska, Stenberg 66,96 15. Bergström, Lahti, Eerikäinen, Korkeamäki 66,94 16. Palomäki, Koskela, Koivunen 67,89 17. Hautamäki, Bergström, Eerikäinen, Korkeamäki 18. Palomäki, Suojanen, Räsänen, Ruuska R SM-liiga, tilanne 21.5, 3/12 Kotkat 2-78-10 KeittiöPiste 2-72-8 Paholaiset 2-71-8 SCD 3-41-6 Snails 2-38-6 Leijona-Haukat 1-24-2 matches, matchpoints, points next round June 13th @ Kuusankoski Averages rider - team, matches, points, rides, cma Robert Eriksson, Kotkat 1 15 5 12,00 Jyri Palomäki, Keittiöpiste 1 15 5 12,00 Denis Saifutdinov, SCD 1 13 5 10,40 Kaj Laukkanen, Kotkat 2 26 10 10,40 Tero Aarnio, Keittiöpiste 1 9 4 9,00 Juha Hautamäki, Keittiöpiste 1 20 9 8,89 Aleksandr Kazionnyi, Keittiöpiste 1 11 5 8,80 Rene Lehtinen, Kotkat 2 22 10 8,80 Marko Suojanen, Paholaiset 1 23 11 8,36 Tomi Reima, Leijona-Haukat 1 10 5 8,00 Petri Koskela, Paholaiset 1 14 7 8,00 Viktor Bergström, Paholaiset 1 10 5 8,00 Jari Mäkinen, Paholaiset 1 17 9 7,56 Panu Karvonen, Paholaiset 1 5 3 6,67 Wiaczeslaw Girutskij, SCD 1 8 5 6,40 Nikolaj Kaminskij, Leijona-Haukat 1 8 5 6,40 Jani Eerikäinen, Snails 1 17 11 6,18 Juha Mäkelä, Keittiöpiste 1 6 4 6,00 Aki-Pekka Mustonen, Snails 1 14 10 5,60 Jevgeni Dretjavnikov, Kotkat 1 7 5 5,60 Teemu Lahti, Keittiöpiste 1 11 8 5,50 Jevgeni Karavatskij, SCD 1 4 3 5,33 Sergei Lazarenko, Leijona-Haukat 1 5 4 5,00 Petteri Koivunen, Snails 1 8 7 4,57 Pasi Räsänen, SCD 1 6 7 3,43 Jevgeni Petuhov, SCD 1 4 5 3,20 Patrik Järnstam, Kotkat 1 3 4 3,00 Jan-Erik Korkeamäki,SCD 1 5 10 2,00 Juho Ruuska, Snails 1 3 7 1,71 Joni Keskinen, Kotkat 1 1 3 1,33 Joni Kitala, Leijona-Haukat 1 1 4 1,00 Toni Stenberg, SCD 1 1 4 1,00 Mikko Koskinen, SCD 1 0 1 0,00

Wild card: Hans Andersen reserves 17. Jesper B Jensen and 18. Kenneth Bjerre. I think these were the right choices.

I was just on the phone to Daugavpils. Weather is sunny and practise had just ended. What ever lap times were clocked, the finns were on the better side. No worries!

Finnish tracks: Nokia - Tampere. Inactive, plans to revive exist Seinäjoki - Routakallio. Active, check out stadia pix from speedwaylus.co.uk Varkaus. Active Haapajärvi. Active Karhula - Kotka. Inactive Kauhajoki - Opened this May Forssa - Opens? Noise tests carried and trees cut, building in progres Kaanaa - Tampere. semi active. holds 1 meeting a year, no organized practise sessions. enviroemental permission under revision. Hyvinkää - Active Lahti - Active Kuusankoski - Active Oulu - Inactive These are the finnish tracks. The inactive one's on the list I can still see revived. There are plenty of closed tracks to be forgotten, they are not listed.

I'll do a map for you tonight. When Ässät from Tampere were riding in the league in the 80's early 90's at Eteläpuisto, right in the middle of the city they had an average crowd of 1000-1500 per meeting. There used to be hundreds watching just the practises during the week. When they had a big international meeting, like a qualifier they had 3000-4000 people.

SM-liiga 1/12, Daugavpils, Latvia 29.4.2006 DAUGAVPILS 29 Denis Saifutdinovs 33232 13 Wiaczeslaw Girutskij 11123 8 Jevgeni Karavatskij F120 3 Jevgeni Petuhov 3011 5 KEITTIöPISTE 28 Aleksandr Kazionnyi 13331 11 Juha Hautamäki 32F21 8 Juha Mäkelä 2202 6 Teemu Lahti 2001 3 LEIJONA-HAUKAT 24 Tomi Reima 23230 10 Sergei Lazarenko 0230 5 Nikolaj Kaminskii 32212 8 Joni Kitala 0010 1 KOTKAT 30 Kaj Laukkanen 036^333 18 Jevgeni Drevjatnikov 21220 7 Rene Lehtinen 1111 4 Joni Keskinen 100 1 Erä erältä 1. Saifutdinov, Reima, Kazionnyi, Laukkanen 2. Hautamäki, Drevjatnikov, Girutskij, Lazarenko 3. Kaminskii, Mäkelä, Lehtinen, Karavatskij 4. Petuhov, Lahti, Keskinen, Kitala 5. Reima, Hautamäki, Lehtinen, Petuhov 6. Laukkanen, Kaminskii, Girutskij, Lahti 7. Saifutdinov, Mäkelä, Drevjatnikov, Kitala 8. Kazionnyi, Lazarenko, Karavatskij, Keskinen 9. Lazarenko, Saifutdinov, Lehtinen, Lahti 10. Kazionnyi, Drevjatnikov, Petuhov, Kaminskii R 11. Laukkanen^, Reima, Girutskij, Mäkelä 12. Laukkanen, Karavatskij, Kitala, Hautamäki F 13. Reima, Drevjatnikov, Lahti, Karavatskij 14. Laukkanen, Mäkelä, Petuhov, Lazarenko 15. Saifutdinov, Hautamäki, Kaminskii, Keskinen 16. Kazionnyi, Girutskij, Lehtinen, Kitala 17. Girutskij, Kaminskii, Hautamäki, Drevjatnikov 18. Laukkanen, Saifutdinov, Kazionnyi, Reima d=Hylätty, T=Hylätty (lähtövirhe), M=Hylätty (2min) R=Keskeyttänyt, F=Kaatunut, N=Ei startannut, ^ = jokeri SM-liiga 1/12 Kotkat 1 30 5 SCD 1 29 4 Keittiöpiste 1 28 3 Leijona-Haukat 1 24 2 Paholaiset 0 0 0 Snails 0 0 0 Seinäjoki 20.5.2006 Kotkat, SeMK 48 Kaj Laukkanen 3233 11 Patrik Järnstam 13R 4 Robert Eriksson 33333 15 Rene Lehtinen 333333 18 Paholaiset, PMK 33 Marko Suojanen 2124^22 13 Petri Koskela 22T2 6 Panu Karvonen 131 5 Jari Mäkinen 22T122 9 Snails, VRT 26 Petteri Koivunen 1121 5 Jani Eerikäinen 32222^0 11 Juho Ruuska T01 1 Appe Mustonen 213111 9 DAUGAVPILS 2 J-E Korkeamäki 01001 2 Mikko Koskinen FNNN 0 Pasi Räsänen 00NN 0 Erä erältä 1. Laukkanen, Suojanen, Koivunen, Korkeamäki 65,52 2. Eerikäinen, Koskela, Järnstam, Koskinen F 68,08 3. Eriksson, Mustonen, Karvonen, Räsänen 64,49 4. Lehtinen, Mäkinen, Mustonen 65,52 5. Lehtinen, Koskela, Koivunen, Räsänen 67,28 6. Järnstam, Mäkinen, Korkeamäki, Ruuska 68,20 7. Mustonen, Laukkanen, Mäkinen T 72,07 8. Eriksson, Eerikäinen, Suojanen 64,71 9. Laukkanen, Eerikäinen, Mäkinen 63,67 10. Lehtinen, Suojanen, Ruuska 66,57 11. Karvonen, Koivunen, Järnstam R69,40 12. Eriksson, Mäkinen, Mustonen, Korkeamäki 65,06 13. Eriksson, Suojanen^, Koivunen 64,05 14. Lehtinen, Eerikäinen, Karvonen, Korkeamäki 66,31 15. Laukkanen, Koskela, Eerikäinen^ 64,15 16. Lehtinen, Suojanen, Mustonen 67,76 17. Eriksson, Mäkinen, Mustonen 64,18 18. Lehtinen, Suojanen, Korkeamäki, Eerikäinen 67,54 d=Hylätty, T=Hylätty (lähtövirhe), M=Hylätty (2min) R=Keskeyttänyt, F=Kaatunut, N=Ei startannut, ^ = jokeri SM-liiga, tilanne 20.5.2006, 2/12 Kotkat 2-78-10 SCD 2-31-5 Paholaiset 1-33-4 KeittiöPiste 1-28-3 Snails 1-26-3 Leijona-Haukat 1-24-2 So Kotkat leads with a strong team. The Latvian riders didn't turn up in Finland at all for the 2nd and 3rd round, havent yet discovered why. Also dont know about the attendance and heat times for the first match in Latvia. The 2nd round in Seinäjoki attracted 67! people (paid the ticket) while the 3rd round in Pori saw around 100 sold tickets. The Pori club had done a big job and given out around 6000 free tickets around the city. Around 600 of them were received back at the turnstiles + the traffic by the track was so big that they just let the cars in. Best estimate would be around 1000 people in attendance. There was also a film crew present, and a 6 camera DVD production will be out next month. HUGE credit has to be given for the Pori club. They have worked hard along the years, when the sport has been it's lowest. Seinäjoki too, well, every club... But Pori the most! When I get the results from Pori I'll post them as well and the averages too.

Did you just copypaste this from last year?

Bridger is too young, he wont be 17 until November? Kennett has been named as a replacement.

Well you wont see him riding in Cardiff this year in the SGP.

This was the last time I put anything on Scott... to hit the tapes... unbelievable! Nicki is such a t""d, but he knows how to ride the bike. Thank's for the point's...

You didn't by any chance accidentally take a safetycopy of the kandysfoft .xls did you..

We went to Harry's, on advice of No Fear. It was nice to be in a bar where people didn't smoke, alltough it sucked big time when the lights came on at 2AM? or similar... tequila shooters for 100 kr each... EDIT: just read from swedish press that O'learys would have been a better choice. Scotty was there... Crump is just looking so good at the moment... SO GOOD! Hancock rode brilliantly against him in ht 17? defending his lead all the way. Yet in the final he should have closed the gap entering lap 2 by the tapes... Hancock was so pleased with his performance that he was running around in the pits like a little kid afterwards ! Quote of the meeting goes to Gollob:" Thank you Jawa factory, GM is better!" He was seriously saying it's all GM onwards. Maybe even the special Jawa for Bydgoszcs might be facing the axe?

I didn't check this year but like I said, last year... There were 2 different kinds of pickup points, and the tickets said you can only pick em up at the one that wasn't in Eskilstuna. Anyway, tickets sorted all around! What is the official speedway party-bar after the meeting in Eskilstuna tomorrow? I've heard rumours that the Brasserie would be a safe bet????

Good call... He never quit

Nothing like that ever happens on these Nordic extravaganzas...

Well thats nice. Last year I checked the internet, and found plenty of them in Södertälje (50 km from Eskilstuna?) but none from Eskilstuna. We drove straight to Södertälje from our ferry, found out they were closed because of a public holiday and drove back to Stockholm Globen to get the tickets. This time I got our tickets a month ago when we had a short holiday in Stockholm, so I bought them and they are already in my wallet.

Practise usually starts at 15.00. From last year I remember that there is no ticnet pickup point at Eskilstuna. Södertälje has a few of them. Check ticnet.se

I was happy to see that Joonas got the hang of Gubbangen, and Laukkanen scored some points as well, and beat Rune Holta too.

Weather is not looking all that great...

Lehtinen and Keskinen both had mechanical problems, engines and clutchs being the biggest problems. Not that it mattered, a semi slot would have been sensational! 1. Henrik Möller Tanska 12+3 2. Fredrik Lindgren Ruotsi 14+2 3. Antonio Lindbäck Ruotsi 13+1 4. Sebastian Alden Ruotsi 14+0 5. Morten Risager Tanska 11 6. Robert Pettersson Ruotsi 11 7. Ricky Kling Ruotsi 9 8. Lars Hansen Tanska 8 ------------------------------------- 9. Patrick Hougaard Tanska 7 ------------------------------------- 10. Kenneth Hansen Tanska 6 11. Sebastian Bengtsson Ruotsi 5 12. Rene Lehtinen Suomi 3 13. Jan Graversen Tanska 3 14. Joni Keskinen Suomi 2 15. Remi Ueland Norja 1 16. Klaus Jakobsen Tanska 1 17. Aarni Heikkilä Suomi 0 18. Jesper Kristiansen Tanska 0

I watched the GP last night, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING! I hope I get the chance to ask Olsen's opinion about track prep at Eskilstuna. I really want to know whats his guiding light. I do understand that a league meeting is for 15 heats and a GP 23, but still...

I've noticed the same. But in all honesty it doesn't really matter, it's the points that count. When deciding who's riding in the semi's it goes: wins, second's, third's, fourth's. A zero is better than a F, X or similar. When deciding the final results, it goes: first's, second's, thirds, fourth's, when met.