FIM-Europe Top Fuel Bike

While the track was someway off holding five second passes in FIM-Europe Top Fuel Bike, Ian King produced a series of numbers that often exceeded those set last year and a 6.164 was on track record pace to head qualifying. King’s first round victory over Jan Sturla Hegre saw both bikes in the sixes with King prevailing in the all Puma match up with a 6.159. Against Rikard Gustafsson’s Suzuki Funnybike, the Gulf Oil/GPO team looked to improve on the first round numbers but the top end performance fell away to a 6.261 whilst Gustafsson was caught out by the auto start when trying to hit the sweet spot during staging.

FIM-Europe Super Twin Bike

The Black Seven team of Christian Jager were on pretty solid form in Finland, with the German recording a 6.692 to take second on the qualifying sheets behind reigning champion Ronny Aasen’s 6.508. A slight stumble against Kenji Valimaki in the opener dropped Jager out of the six second bracket, but having gained the win light a pair of high sixes placed Jager into the winner’s circle (and the traditional water bath) after seeing off Petri Mattsson and Samu Kemppainen to take his first event trophy since 2012.