TIAINEN RACING

Thunder Valle(y) 2001
22nd-24th June
OUR FIRST WIN !
Last updated June 26th 2001

Our first win came Sunday June 24th 2001 in Valle.
But first we will go back to friday.
Since this race only was for Street Legal, Bracket and the Super Classes, the guys in JDRK decided to arrange two races the same weekend. A new and interesting approach.
Qualification for the first race started friday evening and continued saturday morning.
Henrik Serrano got his first No. 1 spot in qualifying with a 9.908 in his 68 Camaro and we were third with a 9.975, only three thousands behind Richard Bugge-Andersen.
Qualification SUPER GAS, Race 1
Place Name Country Car   Year 60' 1/8 1/4 kph mph
1 Henrik Serrano NO Chevrolet Camaro 68 1,494 6,386 9,908 225,00 139,84
2 Richard Bugge-Andersen NO Ford Mustang 67 1,524 6,456 9,972 208,49 129,58
3 Morten Tiainen NO Pontiac Firebird 85 1,391 5,978 9,975 163,14 101,39
4 Bjørn Terje Nordin NO AMC Javelin 71 1,452 6,397 9,999 219,51 136,43
5 Roger Skansen NO Volvo 142 71 1,610 6,683 10,344 195,65 121,60
6 Øyvind Marheim NO AMC AMX 69 2,025 6,889 10,670 197,08 122,49
7 Jan Birkenes NO Chevrolet Camaro 69 1,991 7,368 11,199 199,26 123,84
8 Peter Sukkestad NO Ford Mustang 79 1,400 6,162 9,893 210,12 130,59
We met Øyvind Marheim in the first round, and as usual he won, on a 10.020 against Morten's 9.998. So he beat us on the startingline with a 0.452 reaction against Morten's 0.480. A tight race!
Last qualifier Petter Sukkestad beat No. 1 qualifier Serrano. Petter ran only break-outs in the qualifications, but his closest was only 7 thousands too fast!
Nordin beat Skansen and Bugge-Andersen beat newcomer Birkenes (his first race in Super Gas).
In the semi-final, Sukkestad beat Nordin and was in the final from the last qualifying spot!
In the other semi-final Øyvind Marheim had stagingproblems in his AMX. As far as everyone could see he was correctly staged with both pre-stage and stage lamps lit. But as soon as the starter pressed the buttom he got a Redlight. The Timing team scratched their heads and checked the lights but found nothing wrong. But the officials called for a re-run. Again, the drivers staged, and again the same strange thing happened!
This time the judges declared that the timing-system was OK so Richard Bugge-Andersen was declared the winner.
Eliminations SUPER GAS Race 1

Driver  
Serrano   React. E.T.
0.692 9.978  
  Sukkestad  
  0.539 10.196  
Sukkestad      
0.522 10.021  
    Sukkestad  
  0.564 10.023  
Nordin      
0.537 10.374      
  Nordin    
  0.559 10.237  
Skansen      
0.570 10.418   Winner Super Gas:
    Thunder Valle June 23rd 2001
  Richard Bugge-Andersen
Andersen     67 Mustang
0.612 10.496    
  Andersen    
  0.604 9.664    
Birkenes        
0.694 10.716    
    Andersen  
  0.485 10.020
Tiainen    
0.480 9.998    
  Marheim  
  Foul -
Marheim    
0.452 10.020
The first race was a dissapointment for us, but we had a new race to look foreward to, and the qualification started already saturday evening. Go to Sunday -->