F3 in Finland????

[Daisy]

I read on a german site (formel3.com) that there is a F3 championship in Finland. Can somebody give me some information about it. About the tracks, drivers, teams, cars?

[Fan]

Take a look at http://www.clarinet.fi/~spitkane/index.htm

[Bleu]

Last year there wasn't official Finnish championship, because there were too few participants.

Jussi Pinomäki won Cup with 435 points in 10 races (2 in every weekend).
Female driver Sanna Pinola was second (388 pts) , Jari Koivisto third (364 pts), Aki Rask 4th (335 pts) and Henri Niskanen 5th (322 pts). Only 9 drivers took part in every race.

Points system for top 25 (same system is used in all track championship series in Finland)

50-45-40-36-32-29-26-24-22-20-18-16-14-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1

Sport 2000 (Touring cars) have in addition 5-4-3-2-1 for best in qualifying.

Cars were mostly the Dallaras of 1993 or 1994. (Not sure but the models tell that)

Last year following tracks were used: Ahvenisto (Hämeenlinna), Motopark (Virtasalmi), Alastaro and Botniaring (Jurva). In Ahvenisto there were two different races.

For the track profiles look this:
http://www.racingcircuits.net/Finland/_tracks.html

[429CJ]

Here's the calendar:
24.-25.5. Sport 2000 Tour Dunlop Alastaro Race
14.-15.6. Sport 2000 Tour Motopark
28.-29.6. Sport 2000 Tour Botniaring
12.-13.7. Sport 2000 Tour Kemora
1.-3.8. European Truck Race/Sport 2000 Tour
6.-7.9. Sport 2000 Tour Dunlop Ahvenisto Race

These are the drivers:
3 Jari Koivisto Dallara F393
6 Jaakko Ruotsalainen Dallara F395
9 Mikko Polameri Dallara F395
10 Urmas Uusneem (EE) Dallara F394
12 Pauli Talikka Dallara F397
14 Anssi Kela Dallara F394
15 Simo Santapukki Dallara F394
16 Mika Korhonen Dallara F395
18 Ari Kalliola Reynard-Mugen 923
17 Esa Harklin Ralt RT36
19 Jari Nieminen Dallara F394
20 Vesa Liukkonen Reynard 913
21 Arto Taimi n/a
22 Esko Kumpulainen Reynard 913
23 Alexey Pavlovskiy (RUS) Dallara F399
24 Andrea Bellicchi (ITA) Dallara F399
25 Teemu Tanninen Ralt RT35

[Daisy]

Thanks!

Pretty old cars btw...

[JR Ewing]

The F399 was the first car to be any better than the F393 Daisy. The 395/6 was worse and the 397/8 was just about as good.

[Daisy]

I didn't knew that, I'm just follow F3 about 3 years.

[climb]

By the way F393 was an excellent chassis, the one who let Dallara conquer the monopoly in British championship

[Charlex]

The F394 is as good as the F399, and the F397/98 is a bit slower than the others. Here in the southamerican championship in the year 2000, the F394 almost win the championship to the F300 (the same chassis than the F399 and F301) The team with more budjet (with the F300) had to bring the best engineer of Dallara to the last race, because of the pressure that Joao Paulo de Oliveira was making with the F394. He won the first race and in the second had problems, he almost won the two races!! The F300 became champion, but suffering a lot. By the next year the 1994 chasis were banned and the discussion closed.

[Charlex]

The main reason for the excellence of the F394 is the flat floor, and the good aerodinamics. Because of the deaths of Senna and Ratzenberger the flat floor was banned, that is the reason why the F395/96 and F397/98 are slowers than the F393/94. 4 years took Dallara to improve the lack of the flat floor.