Hanaa Expo 2019 - 28th of November - Lahti, Finland

Last November I went to check to out second annual Hanaa Expo, a Motorsport trade fair, held in convention center of Lahti. In addition to wide range of Motorsport vehicles and teams, which I mainly wanted to see, there were vast group of different vendors and event organizers as exhibitors. Interviews and discussions related to different forms of motorsports from rally to drifting were held in the stage right across the entrance. Check out how it looked 😎

Renault 5 Turbo Group B

Venetsia Drifting 2018 - 25th of August - Kokkola, Finland

Venetsia Drifting is an annual drifting competition held in the city centre of Kokkola, Finland. Track is a street circuit closed off from public traffic. Around 40 drivers with different levels of experience participated to this year's competition.

Day started with free practice and continued with qualification which determined who went to battle who in the bracket. Each driver had two attempts which were scored. Actual competition began shortly after qualification. Two drivers competed against each other driving in tandem. Both drivers had to lead and follow. Driver with a better score continued to the next round. Power2Drift Team Finland's Juha Pöytalaakso ended up taking the first place. Henri Haanpää from Haanpää Motorsport was second and Juha Rintanen of Juha Rintanen Motorsport was third.

Unfortunately I didn't get to see to whole competition since my train left a bit earlier than it finished. Curbs were packed with visitors and it was nice to see a lot of people attending the event. Only downside was that there weren't any grandstands near the track and it was a bit hard to see what happened there if you didn't have a good viewing spot.

I uploaded few clips (#1 & #2) to my Instagram account. Please check them out as well 😎

Vauhtiajot Drifting & Tuning Show 2018 @ Kapernaumi - 21st of July - Seinäjoki, Finland

Here's photos from a one day trip I made to Seinäjoki in July to their local racing event called Vauhtiajot. Vauhtiajot is a festival which combines motorsports and music. It is held in two locations. Street circuit where all of the racing takes place is build to the industrial area of Kapernaumi near the city center of Seinäjoki. I visited the event on Saturday and only bought tickets for that day's track event. The track event continued also on Sunday but since I only stayed there for one day I had to skip it 😐

Five classes, which are Legends, BMW Extreme, V1600, Touring Cars and Gran Turismo, competed at the track during the weekend. There was also a car show and few exhibitions such as drifting and drag racing during breaks. Most of the photos I took are from the car show and pit area. I felt that it was a bit too difficult to spectate the races and see what is going on at the track if you weren't sitting in a grandstand. So I wish there would have been more of them. I uploaded one clip of the Gran Turismo cars driving in the circuit when they had their practice session to my Instagram account. I'll see if I can make another one of the drifting exhibition. Look out for that 😊

Legends cars lining up for practice

American Car Show 2018 - 30th of March - Helsinki, Finland - Part 3/4 - Motorsport & Offroad

And here's a peek to the Motorsport division of the event 😎 A lot of drag cars and drifters were on display this year. I really liked to look of the 1965 Plymouth Valiant Pro Street drag car. Unfortunately there were lots of people around it all the time and it attracted a lot of attention so I wasn't able to get photo of the front end and engine bay of it 😞 Maybe next time!

Morris Mini LS1 Twin Turbo

MP 18 Motorcycle Expo - 3rd of February 2018 - Helsinki, Finland - Part 2 - Road racing & MX

Modern racing motorcycles had also strong present at the expo and there were bikes from many different categories of racing. Here are some which caught my attention and interest.

Red Bull Ajo Motorsport 2010 Derbi 125 #93 Marc Marquez

American Car Show 2017, 40th Anniversary - Helsinki, Finland - 14th of April - Part 1/4 - Motorsport

Here's part 1 of my trip to 40th anniversary American Car Show held by Finnish Hot Rod Association , FHRA, in Messukeskus, Pasila. This part will cover wide variety of motor sport vehicles. Stay tuned for more 😎

1967 Chevrolet Camaro by Headworth Racing