No races this weekend and we used the time to visit tracks in Salo at Saturday and Hyvinkää at Sunday. Salo is one of the two tracks in Finland that has organized sidecar GP's in the past. The last GP was in 1991 and I was there as a race mechanic helping the team of Suominen/Hietala.
The track has a lot of climbs and descents made from hard packed clay but the lower part of the track is soft sand.
We'll have a race here for the Finnish Championship June 19th and it was good to practice at this technical track.
Sunday we spent in the deep sand of the Hyvinkää track. Good track to build up some endurance. Next Saturday the first race for the Finnish Championship at Iisalmi. Let's hope things will work out better this time then the first four races of this season.
Regards,
Stephan
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.
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