In this blog we will tell you about the racing seasons of our sidecar team starting from 2011 . We are Stephan Koppenol and Mikael Kärkkäinen. A Dutch-Finnish father & son duo driving together since September 2005. When we started it was just for fun, having a ride at the local tracks but everything changed after 2 years. First we did enter only some Finnish races but now this will be our fourth full season with races in Finland, Estonia and Latvia.
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
First training session in the snow
Hello everyone,
last Saturday we were out on the track with the sidecar for the first time. Never before have we finished the preparations of the bike this early ;-). not so many changes either.
We went for Orimattila and with 7 sidecar teams it was a nice start of the season. The sun was shining and that took away some of the cold. As everywhere in Europe it's a long winter. We had fitted tires with studs in the front and rear. For me this was the first time I used them and especially the front tire has a very good grip.
No technical problems during the sessions and we had actually a very nice afternoon at the track. Coming weekend we go again and probably to Orimattila again.
Maria took some pictures, here some of them:
last Saturday we were out on the track with the sidecar for the first time. Never before have we finished the preparations of the bike this early ;-). not so many changes either.
We went for Orimattila and with 7 sidecar teams it was a nice start of the season. The sun was shining and that took away some of the cold. As everywhere in Europe it's a long winter. We had fitted tires with studs in the front and rear. For me this was the first time I used them and especially the front tire has a very good grip.
No technical problems during the sessions and we had actually a very nice afternoon at the track. Coming weekend we go again and probably to Orimattila again.
Maria took some pictures, here some of them:
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