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 H�kan 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 ��lands-Pelle� Eriksson on a 9,904. His nickname comes from the fact that he lives on the island �land 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 H�kan 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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