Race reports & news 2007

2007 Friendship Race in Eskilstuna, Sweden

Traditional Friendship Race in Eskilstuna, Sweden was raced from 23th to 25th November 2007. In 1/12th scale class all the best drivers from Finland and Sweden were competing for the title at the Euro's 2007 venue.

Team V-Dez had a good weekend with Vesa finishing 5th after missing Friday's practice and first qualifiers on Saturday due to electronic problems.  Henry Salmen took victory in C-final with his brand new CR'07.

Simo and Sakke Ahoniemi made the podium with V-Dez painted rides. 

10/2007

Vesa Yli wins Rebellion Race 2007

Vesa Yli won the Rebellion Race 2007 in 1/12th modified class held in Mäntsälä, Finland from 19th to 21st October. Vesa won all practice and qualifying heats and TQ'd ahead of  Simo Ahoniemi and Teemu Saarinen. CR'07 driver Henry Salmen took 4th place after qualifying with Jukka Penttinen bringing the third Ripper to the A-main.

Vesa lead first two finals from start to finish and took Rebellion Race victory second time in a row! Jukka finished 8th and Henry took 9th place after finals.

The entry list saw some of the best drivers in Europe with Euros A finalists Marc Fisher, Simo Ahoniemi, Teemu Saarinen and Vesa Yli participating the 12th scale class.

Final results:

1 2 Vesa Yli 2 1 1 10 V-Dezign CR'07
2 4 Teemu Saarinen 4 3 3 1
3 1 Simo Ahoniemi 4 2 2 9
4 8 Ari Salminen 6 4 4 2
5 39 Ari Lappi 8 6 5 3
6 7 Veini Mäkinen 10 7 6 4
7 22 Nappe Fager 10 5 8 5
8 91 Jukka Penttinen 13 9 7 6 V-Dezign CR'07
9 32 Henry Salmen 15 8 10 7  V-Dezign CR'07
10 3 Tony Raikas 17 10 9 8

03/2007

Carpet Ripper TQ'd & won the 3rd round of FinTrack nationals

3rd round of FinTrack Nationals took place in Mäntsälä, southern Finland in the end of March. The venue is well-known as the Rebellion Race is held there every October. Expectations were high in V-Dezign 1/12 team as Vesa dominated the Rebellion Race in last October with prototype Carpet Ripper by taking the victory at the race.

All top drivers attended the race this time as it was a good place for a warm-up meeting for the Euro's held only week after in Sweden. After qualifying V-Dezign driver Vesa Yli TQ'd with amazing 1,5 laps gap before Teemu Saarinen who qualified 2nd !

In finals Vesa ripped the competition and took clear victories in each leg of A final.

C-12 A-fin
Pos   No.   Name   Total Points   Seura   Lähtö 1   Lähtö 2   Lähtö 3
1   2   Vesa Yli   2   OUA   1   1   1
2   3   Tony Raikas   4   KyPak   2   2   3
3   69   Teppo Kauppinen   6   VAU   3   3   7
4   13   Viljami Kutvonen   9   VAU   5   4   5
5   24   Jani Hovi   9   HyUA   4   5   9
6   9   Sakke Ahoniemi   10   HyUA   9   8   2
7   4   Teemu Saarinen   10   HyUA   10   6   4
8   1   Simo Ahoniemi   13   HyUA   7   9   6
9   35   Jarno Siltanen   13   Jkl srk   6   7   10
10   8   Ari Salminen   16   RiiUA   8   10   8

C-12 B-fin
Pos   No.   Name   Total Points   Seura   Lähtö 1   Lähtö 2
1   22   Carl-Magnus Fager   3   VAU   2   1
2   31   Mika Silvasti   5   JärvSRK   3   2
3   12   Pekka Heikkilä   7   MäntsMK   4   3
4   36   Jarkko Mustonen   8   VAU   1   7
5   39   Ari Lappi   10   MMRC   5   5
6   14   Niko Putkonen   14   TamUA   10   4
7   5   Joni Mielonen   14   LMM   8   6
8   7   Veini Mäkinen   16   JärvSRK   6   10
9   30   Jesse Kähkönen   16   SRC   7   9
10   29   Matias Kuusinen   17   VAU   9   8

C-12 C-fin.
Pos   No.   Name   Total Points   Seura   Lähtö 1   Lähtö 2
1   32   Henry Salmen   2   LahUA   1   1
2   15   Risto Bloigu   4   OUA   2   2
3   28   Satu Harmokivi   9   LahUA   6   3
4   37   Risto Rönnqvist   9   MMRC   4   5
5   38   Marko Vähäkuopus   10   OUA   3   7
6   27   Matti Iivonen   11   KyPak   5   6
7   21   Miika Kaukovalta   12   JärvSRK   8   4
8   19   Matti Korvenmaa   15   MikUA   7   8

04/2007

1/12 Euro's 2007 in Eskilstuna, Sweden

Team drivers Andy Griffiths and Vesa Yli finished A-main at 2007 Euro's!
The most prestigiuos 1/12th scale race in Europe, 2007 European Championship race, was held in Eskilstuna, Sweden from 30th March to 1st April.

Andy Griffiths from Great Britain qualified 3rd and Vesa Yli made his first Euro's A-main by qualifying 9th. After finals Andy finished 4th and Vesa took 10th place. Already from practice it was clear that Carpet Ripper '07 was dialled to the track as Vesa and Andy were in top 6 all the time already during practice rounds.

Thanks Andy and congrats for the great result!