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Finnish Wing car championships
23-25 September 2009
Just a few weeks after the ISRA worlds the Finnish Wing car
Championships was held at the same location on their fast King track.
Not being there before I was surprised over the size of the place.
Leo Hongisto picket me up at the airport and when I arrived on Friday
afternoon it was no time to waste and I went quickly into testing the
few G-27 motors I had and then I went into the G-7 motors quickly since
we started the G-27 race at 7 pm that evening.
It was a field of nine drivers (round robin all in the main)
which suited me fine since I had not driven for a long time and really
needed to have cars around me.
Jari Porttinen took the lead in the first heat and held it on to
victory.
André Eriksson drove to a second place and I came into third
place.
Result at autorataharrastajat.fi here.
On Saturday morning the Box Stock G-12 race was driven and Niko Sorsa
won ahead of Ville and Jonas Hongisto
Result at autorataharrastajat.fi here.
After BoxStock12 the G7 OMO (one motor open) race was held.
From qualifying drivers were put into three main finals with the top
qualifiers in the A and the slowest in C.
The A main was, of course, the quickest and there it looked like Jyri
Ville Pouttu was going to win but in the middle of the last head, while
in lead, his motor gave up and the Leo Hongisto quickly passed him.
Leo Hongisto won ahead of Per Persson and Jyri-Ville Pouttu.
Result at autorataharrastajat.fi here.
After G7 OMO there was some praxes and then the G7 qualifying
for the main race was driven.
With 17 drivers 9 drivers were moved directly into semi-finals and the
8 rest had to fight for seven spots. The unlucky driver was Per Persson
who got eliminated from the Sunday racing.
Mikael Siléns concourse
winning body
After the two semi-finals on Sunday the main started.
When the first heat was run it was Mikael Silén who had taken a
lead in front of Leo Hongisto.
Mikael ran into a lot of crashes in the third heat and broke three
axles! in one heat.
The race was won by Juha Yli-Sipola in front of Jari Porttinen and
Petteri Pirhonen.
Result at autorataharrastajat.fi here
Race results and a lot of really good pictures can be found at
the 
autorataharrastajat.fi
site here.