SCANDINAVIAN FINAL |
Finland's Hannu Helinen overcame an opening ride 3rd place to go through the rest of the meeting unbeaten and claim the title by a 2-point margin. With last year's champion Steen Eriksen and 3rd placed Rudi Juritzen having crashed out of this year's competition at the Semi Final stage the field had a different look about it, in fact Sven Svensson, 2nd last season, was the only GP rider in the field but he made a slow start and never looked like challenging the leaders. Former Scandinavian Champion Olle Bjorn Thoresen beat Jens Prydtz to decide the other rostrum places. In addition to the top 3 the qualifiers went all the way down to Wallborg Matsdotter in 11th, with 10 places up for grabs. As always with these meetings there are hard-luck stories and they belonged to Eric Bjork and Victor Henriksen. Bjork was highly fancied and started solidly but a couple of falls clearly knocked him and he finished 3 points short of Matsdotter to crash out of the chase for a GP series place. Henriksen wasn't tipped to challenge and had started with 2 blanks riders but had picked up 5 points to go into heat 19 with a real chance of causing an upset - it was a tough looking heat but he never got the chance to find out if he could get the point or two he needed to have a chance of qualifying when his bike gave up the ghost on the start line, meaning he finished a point short of the qualifying bunch. |
1. Hannu Helinen............. 1 3 3 3 3 13 --- QUALIFIED |
2. Olle Bjorn Thoresen....... 1 3 3 2 2 11 --- QUALIFIED |
3. Jens Prydtz............... 2 2 2 2 3 11 --- QUALIFIED |
4. Gote Nordvall............. 3 2 1 2 2 10 --- QUALIFIED |
5. Carsten Ostenstad......... 3 3 2 0 1 9 --- QUALIFIED |
6. Kenni Algreen............. 2 3 3 1 0 9 --- QUALIFIED |
7. Sven Svensson (GP)........ 2 0 0 3 3 8 |
8. Ila Niemi................. 3 1 3 0 0 7 --- QUALIFIED |
9. Brage Moller-Bech......... 0 2 0 3 2 7 --- QUALIFIED |
10. Ove Dalasen............... 3 1 N2 2 1 7 --- QUALIFIED |
11. Wallborg Matsdotter....... 2 1 0 1 2 6 --- QUALIFIED |
12. Victor Henriksen.......... 0 0 2 3 R 5 |
13. Leon Jeppesen............. 0 1 2 1 1 5 |
14. Leo Olsson................ 0 0 1 0 3 4 |
15. Olle Nyman................ 1 X 1 1 1 4 |
16. Eric Bjork................ 1 2 F Fx 0 3 |
17. Olle Runeberg............. 1 - - - - 1 |
18. Jens Rosencrans........... Did not ride |
No. Results |
1: Ove Dalasen, Wallborg Matsdotter, Olle Bjorn Thoresen, Victor Henriksen |
2: Carsten Ostenstad, Sven Svensson (GP), Eric Bjork, Brage Moller-Bech |
3: Ila Niemi, Jens Prydtz, Olle Nyman, Leo Olsson |
4: Gote Nordvall, Kenni Algreen, Hannu Helinen, Leon Jeppesen |
5: Carsten Ostenstad, Gote Nordvall, Ove Dalasen, Leo Olsson |
6: Hannu Helinen, Jens Prydtz, Wallborg Matsdotter, Sven Svensson (GP) |
7: Kenni Algreen, Eric Bjork, Ila Niemi, Victor Henriksen |
8: Olle Bjorn Thoresen, Brage Moller-Bech, Leon Jeppesen, Olle Nyman (X) |
9: Ila Niemi, Leon Jeppesen, Olle Runeberg, Sven Svensson (GP) |
10: Kenni Algreen, Carsten Ostenstad, Olle Nyman, Wallborg Matsdotter |
11: Hannu Helinen, Victor Henriksen, Leo Olsson, Brage Moller-Bech |
12: Olle Bjorn Thoresen, Jens Prydtz, Gote Nordvall, Eric Bjork (F) |
13: Hannu Helinen, Ove Dalasen, Olle Nyman, Eric Bjork (Fx) |
14: Brage Moller-Bech, Gote Nordvall, Wallborg Matsdotter, Ila Niemi |
15: Victor Henriksen, Jens Prydtz, Leon Jeppesen, Carsten Ostenstad |
16: Sven Svensson (GP), Olle Bjorn Thoresen, Kenni Algreen, Leo Olsson |
17: Jens Prydtz, Brage Moller-Bech, Ove Dalasen, Kenni Algreen |
18: Leo Olsson, Wallborg Matsdotter, Leon Jeppesen, Eric Bjork |
19: Sven Svensson (GP), Gote Nordvall, Olle Nyman, Victor Henriksen (R) |
20: Hannu Helinen, Olle Bjorn Thoresen, Carsten Ostenstad, Ila Niemi |
21: Olle Bjorn Thoresen, Jens Prydtz |