TIAINEN RACING

Summer Nats 2002
Gardermoen, Norway
June 1st to 2nd 2002
Last updated June 11th 2002
Finally a nice sunny summer weekend here in Norway. Our first round in the Nordic series (NDRS).
12 drivers showed up to compete in Super Gas.
After 7 rounds of qualifying on saturday we were 4th qualifyer with a 9,913. Since it’s now clear that we are back to Sportsman ladders this year, this meant we would meet Håkan Mattsson of Sweden in the first round. He is always running strong and going many rounds, which you can also see by his start-number SG 5. But he managed only a 9,986 today.
First Qualifyer was ”Ålands-Pelle” Eriksson on a 9,904. His nickname comes from the fact that he lives on the island Åland between Sweden and Finland. So every time he goes racing he has to spend a few hours on a ferry!
Sunday saw two more rounds of qualifying. Petter Sukkestad improved to a 9,908 and bumped us down to 5th. But this only meant that Petter got the tough task to meet Håkan Mattsson in the first round and left us with a bye-run! We should have met Kjell Skrede, but he overdid his usual wheelstand act in his ex- SuperStock Firebird and were out with a broken oil-pan (or something). Thank you Petter!
Qualification SUPER GAS
Place Name Country No. Car   Year Engine CID Comment Reaction ET kph mph
1 Per Olov  Eriksson FI SG2 Pontiac Grand Prix 92 Chevrolet 516   0,033 9,904 240 149
2 Tom W  Nilsen NO 2727 Chevrolet Camaro 69 Chevrolet 454   0,450 9,905 200 124
3 Petter  Sukkestad NO 1224 Ford Mustang 79 Ford 514     9,908 196 122
4 Vesa  Raiski FI SG1 Chevrolet Nomad 55 Chevrolet 600   3,116 9,908 233 145
5 Morten  Tianen NO SG8 Pontiac Firebird 85 Chevrolet 461   0,080 9,913 170 106
6 Terje  Håkonsson NO 1484 Dodge Challenger 70 HEMI 438 Lenco 0,209 9,921 191 119
7 Roy Jonny  Ödegård NO 1206 Chevrolet Camaro 81 Chev. BB 461   0,236 9,938 202 126
8 Ola Asle  Övstetun NO 1200 Chevrolet Camaro 69 Chevrolet 436     9,942 200 124
9 Håkan  Mattsson SE SG5 Pontiac Firebird 85 Chevrolet 535     9,950 236 147
10 Björn Terje  Nordin NO 1207 AMC Javelin 71 AMC 401 Blower -0,293 9,958 219 136
11 Kjell  Skrede NO 1386 Pontiac Firebird 67   455   0,303 9,968 218 135
12 Rune  Wiig NO 2964 AMC Gremlin         0,583 11,114 186 116
NO= Norway
SE= Sweden
FI= Finland
Eliminations started with the sun still shining. The weather-gods must have mistaken this for a monday …………
Our first round solo-run went without problems.
Our next opponent was Olav ”Asse” Øvstetun. Another competitor that insists on doing wheelstands like a Super Stocker. He came fresh from a win at Frøya but we were able to beat him!
But in the semi-final we had to face Håkan Mattsson after all. He runs a Pontiac ex- Pro Stocker like ours so this round became like a flash-back to an 85-86 Pro Stock race.
But it beacame no real race. Morten saw some stange blinks on the Christmas three and didn’t get a proper start. So Håkan ran to an easy win. Maybe it was the low sun who played us a trick.
In the all-Finnish quarter-final ”Ålands-Pelle” lost fire and gave the win to Vesa Raiski. Thereby giving Vesa a bye-run to the final. Vesa is Nordic SG 1 for the past three years, but crashed his ’34 Ford in the last race of last season. He is now back with a ’55 Nomad and will of course have a more difficult task keeping his SG 1 next year with a new car.
The final also became a little bit of an anti-climax because Håkan Mattsson had some staging-problems and got a red-light.
So a beautiful race weekend ended with Vesa Raiski’s first win in his new car. Congratulations Vesa!
Eliminations SUPER GAS
1 Eriksson   Driver
   0,095 9,844 240,000   React.  ET   Km/t W 1224 1 Petter Sukkestad Raufoss NO 0 0,084 9,915 198,529 WINNER
  Eriksson   BYE    BYE
   1,205 9,916 231,759   W SG2 10 Håkan Mattson Järfälla SE 0 0,179 10,068 216,867 WINNER
7 Ødegård       L 1386 11 Kjell Skrede Bö NO 0 0,218 10,116 216 FINISH
   -0,382 10,368 199,630   W 1200 5 Ola Asle Övstetun Songdal NO 0 0,294 10,357 163,884 WINNER
    Raiski   L 2784 --- 16 Geir Solheim Halden NO 0 -0,4 0 0 STOPPED
   0,172 9,977 234,273   W SG450 6 Heikki Neimi Harjavatta FI 0 0,027 9,988 215,139 WINNER
4 Raiski       L 1290 15 Morten Tiainen Oslo NO 0 0,057 9,964 171,974 FINISH
   0,035 9,877 228,329       W SG6 2 Per Olov Eriksson Mariehamn ÅL 0 0,016 9,995 234,782 WINNER
  Raiski     L 2337 19 Asgeir Borgemoen Oslo NO 0 0,194 9,826 211,35 FINISH
   0,054 9,925 232,258   W SG5 9 Mats Lindkvist Sollentuna SE 0 0,019 9,99 218,181 WINNER
10 Nordin       L 1205 12 Petter Szlagor Halden NO 0 0,159 9,898 205,323 FINISH
   0,182 9,817 217,741   L 1484 3 Terje Håkonsen Bö NO 0 0,37 9,877 197,44 FINISH
    Raiski   W 1207 18 Björn Terje Nordin Frogner NO 0 0,12 9,948 197,802 WINNER
   0,241 9,943 229,299   W 1299 8 Åke Hedberg Bandhagen SE 0 0,048 9,966 204,158 WINNER
X BYE       L 1291 13 Jan Arne Johansen Hommelvik NO 0 0,196 10,304 217,741 FINISH
        W SG1 4 Vesa Raiski Espoo FI 0 0,016 10,035 183,986 WINNER
  BYE       L 2291 17 Hans Petter Kverneng Vestby NO 0 0,312 10,589 204,933 FINISH
          L SG7 7 Pelle Norén Kungsängen 0 -0,4 0 0 STOPPED
X BYE           L 1585 14 Richard Bugge Andersen Oppegård NO 0 -0,4 11,344 198,895 FAILSTAGE
         
    BYE    
     
X BYE      
         
  BYE    
     
X BYE      
    Winner Super Gas:
    Vesa Raiski
  Finland
2 Nilsen     Chevrolet Noamd 55
 0,443 9,501 202,626    
  Øvstetun    
   0,192 9,853 191,150    
8 Øvstetun        
 0,093 9,879 212,180    
    Tiainen    
   0,214 11,206 148,555    
5 Tiainen        
 0,115 9,888 176,182        
  Tiainen      
   0,048 9,948 169,811    
11 Skrede        
 No Show    
    Mattssson  
   Failstage
3 Sukkestad    
 0,204 9,854 197,080    
  Mattsson    
   0,065 10,141 208,092    
9 Mattsson        
 0,036 9,942 203,389    
    Mattsson  
   0,074 10,151 186,528
6 Håkonsen    
 0,275 10,057 177,049    
  Håkonsen  
   0,469 9,938 189,141
12 Wiig    
 No Show
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