I'm an American, but I always found it strange Formula 1 never raced in Finland since Finnish racecar drivers like Mika Hakinnen, Keke Rosberg, Kimi Raikonnen and Heikki Kovaleinnen found success in F1. If F1 ever races in Finland, they should do it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahvenisto_Race_Circuit

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=ahvenisto+race+circuit&hl=en&emb=0#

I'm just making a suggestion.

newi - 25 August 2008 03:40 PM

I'm an American, but I always found it strange Formula 1 never raced in Finland since Finnish racecar drivers like Mika Hakinnen, Keke Rosberg, Kimi Raikonnen and Heikki Kovaleinnen found success in F1. If F1 ever races in Finland, they should do it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahvenisto_Race_Circuit

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=ahvenisto+race+circuit&hl=en&emb=0#

I'm just making a suggestion.

Sorry about the double post. I accidentally clicked on "Quote" when I really wanted to edit it.

newi - 25 August 2008 03:40 PM

I'm just making a suggestion.

Cute, but I don't see the support facilities, or the runoff coming available anytime soon. There has to be a reason to go to Finland, and the only reason that modern F1 seem to think of as reasonable is cash. When you gather the nine figures together, they'll prolly race anywhere you want 'em too,

Psyd - 25 August 2008 03:52 PM

newi - 25 August 2008 03:40 PM

I'm just making a suggestion.

Cute, but I don't see the support facilities, or the runoff coming available anytime soon. There has to be a reason to go to Finland, and the only reason that modern F1 seem to think of as reasonable is cash. When you gather the nine figures together, they'll prolly race anywhere you want 'em too,

and it's too short. Doesn't Formula 1 have a rule that tracks must be 2.5 miles or something like that, with Monaco getting an exception?

New venues don't get races because of the circuit they already have. They get the race because they promise to build top notch facilities (bahrein, malaysia, abu dhabi etc). Now if Finland is to have a F1 race, its because someone over there have several millions $ to invest on a facility as good as the one mentioned above. Show bernie the money and he'll listen to you.

charlaje - 25 August 2008 05:19 PM

New venues don't get races because of the circuit they already have. They get the race because they promise to build top notch facilities (bahrein, malaysia, abu dhabi etc). Now if Finland is to have a F1 race, its because someone over there have several millions $ to invest on a facility as good as the one mentioned above. Show bernie the money and he'll listen to you.

Better make that ...... several $100 million.

The nightmare is that they do get this done while both Kimi and Kovalainen are still active (maybe a Helsinki street race?), then at their first trip up there they wreck on Lap 1 and the stands empty.

Has something like that ever happened before anywhere?

This question was covered a bit in this thread as well:

http://www.speedtv.com/forums/viewthread/124150/

A GP in Scandinavia would be awesome.

Cheers

The nightmare is that they do get this done while both Kimi and Kovalainen are still active (maybe a Helsinki street race?), then at their first trip up there they wreck on Lap 1 and the stands empty.

Has something like that ever happened before anywhere?

Why as a matter of fact it happened last weekend