Finntrack round 2 was held at Vantaa on February 19/20. The turnout for this race was pretty good with about 130 drivers in total. On Saturday they ran the TSS-10 class (Stock) and on Sunday they ran the TSP-10 (ProStock) and TSM-10 (Modified) classes.
In Stock class qualifying, Joel Valander drove his XRAY to the TQ spot. There were 4 XRAY cars in the 8 cars of the A-final. In Stock finals, Joel drove well and took home the win.
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Final result in Stock:
1. Joel Valander XRAY T3'11
2. Jaakko Louhi
3. Petteri Jäntti 4. Lauri Malinen XRAY T3
5. Marko Jussila 6. Petteri Kauppinen XRAY T3
7. Antti Laurinkoski
8. Matti Iivone
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In Prostock class, Arto Heinonen was on fire with his T3â 11 and took TQ spot after qualifying, closely followed by Markku "HOKE" Honkanen. There were some great battles in the finals. Arto and Hoke had a good battle from the start, and in the end Arto made fewer mistakes and so took the win.
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Final results in Prostock:
1. Arto Heinonen XRAY T3'11
2. Markku Honkanen XRAY T3'11
3. Janne Valtanen 4. Jomi Pulli XRAY T3
5. Thomas Sojakka XRAY T3
6. Alexey Egorov
7. Alexander Naumov
8. Joni Hiltunen
9. Jonni Kotola 10. Niko Lindvall XRAY T3
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In Modified class, Teemu Leino took TQ ahead of Viljami Kutvonen and Matias Kuusinen. Teemu took the win in the finals. For 2nd place there was a good battle between Viljami, Matias and Ari Heinonen. Matias was the strongest of these three in the end. Ari had good chance to take 2nd place, but those orange DOTS got in the way.
