He won the G-27 warm-up race last year at the Finnish championship and now he took the step and won the G-7 race and by that becomes the new Finnish Champion.
Who are we talking about?

It’s Sauli Hjerppe. Another top slotracer that Finland has produced. When does it end?

 So what happend?
In qualifying most of the people had problem to produce a good lap with a few exceptions like Heikki Pohjola who went below the 2 second mark in both his runs.
In the end it was a totoal of five racers that went below 2 second, unfortunately I do not have their times or their qualifying order but the top 4 were Einari Fyhr, Juha Yli-Sipola, Kimmo Rautama and Heikki Pohjola.
I was fifth.

 After qualifying we ate. The organizers had arranged with tables close to the track and served food and beverages and when we were done with eating and that we walked a few meters to the sauna and then to bed.

 On Sunday, after practise at 06.30 the quarters and semis were run and to the main 7 Finns and 1 swede, Per Persson, went.
After the first heat Mika Silventoinen and Einari Fyhr led closed follow by Antti Immonen, Kimmo Rautama and Per Persson.
In the second heat Sauli had picked up the speed and were now third behind Einari Fyhr and Kimmo.
Sauli continued with the speed he ahd and took the lead in heat three.
Behind him the places changed around depending who were in the pits changing motors

Halfway into the last heat Per Persson was second with Juha, Kimmo and Veli-Matti Kantamma following him.
In a crash he nocked out his motor and now second place were up for any of thoose to grab.
Just after that both Kimmo and Veli-Mattis motors lost speed (and gained heat:-[ and they both had to add choke and just hope it would last the last minute and a half to secure the places they had and it worked.
Poor Per Persson fell from second to sixth in the last minutes.

 Mika Silventoinen was for me a big surprise, being in both finals. Here with some motor problems but driving well.

G-7

Driver	lane	Total
Sauli Hjerppe	8	903	105	115	116	113	112	119	111	112
Juha Yli-Sipola	1	851	95	113	117	116	109	115	73	113
Kimmo Rautama	4	840	112	110	109	110	110	117	69	103
Veli-Matti Kantamaa	7	831	105	109	111	87	111	103	101	104
Einari Fyhr	3	820	113	111	102	102	115	74	107	96
Per Persson	5	818	111	108	102	109	114	101	103	70
Antti Immonen	2	795	112	95	120	117	88	49	94	120
Mika Silventoinen	6	614	113	53	112	106	99	112	19	0s

 

 
G-27 warmup on Saturday

This race saw some nice surprises.
That Juha won isn’t a surprise realy but Mika Silventoinen second and Tuomo Iso-Aho third was nice.
Last year Simo Kairistola’s speed was new for me and now he proved again to be someone to watch out for.
Matti Fyhr, after his good racing in Seinäjokis European Championship has already proved what he can do.
 

	Driver	Club/Team	Qual	Quart	Semi	Final
1	Juha Yli-Sipola	LisUA	2,193		498	840
2	Mika Silventoinen	SMC	2,215	316	491	824
3	Tuomo Iso-Aho	MRT	2,192		490	809
4	Lasse Åberg	Koford	2,414	314	490	808
5	Matti Fyhr	AnkUA	2,287	316	478	790
6	Simo Kairistola	KouPAK	2,381	314	486	768
7	Einari Fyhr	AnkUA	2,346	291	478	744
8	Jari Porttinen	SRC	2,318	314	481	728

 

Lasse