The championship race will be run this weekend on an ice rink in Piitime in northern Sweden. On Saturday it was the turn of the team competition.
Today The team competition of the Champions of Motorsport in Northern Sweden, Sweden, ended in Mika Häkkinen and Emma Kimiläinen from the Finnish team in the semi-finals.
The surprise team of the United States, led by the Nascar legend, turned out to be better than the Finnish two in the semi-finals Jimmie Johnson and a young Indycar star Colton Herta. However, the ice track conditions did not provide Finland with a strong enough home field advantage.
Such an advantage was probably given to the Norwegian team that won the team competition. The winning team consisted of a father-son pair, as Norway was represented by the 2003 World Rally Champion Petter Solberg and his son, the World Series of Hyundai currently touring Oliver Solberg.
“Doing this with Oliver was a big dream. The championship race is so special, ”senior Solberg glowed.
Semi-finals to reach Häkkinen and Kimiläinen defeated the British team.
The decisive start was a real explosion of nostalgia, as Häkkinen measured his superiority with his teammate of McLaren’s time. David Coulthardia against.
“Like the good old days, isn’t that McLaren,” the race organizer glowed on Twitter.
According to the original plan, Häkkinen’s pair would have been the current F1 star Valtteri Bottas, who, however, had to leave the race at the last minute.
The most notable stars of this year’s event include F1 actives representing Germany Sebastian Vettel and Mick Schumacher as well as a French rally legend who recently won the Monte Carlo Rally at the age of 47 Sébastien Loeb.
Masters the race was held for the first time in 1988, in honor of those who died two years earlier in Corsica To Henri Toivonen. The last event was allowed to run in the real world in January 2019, when the race was held in Mexico.
Finland has won the team competition held for the first time in 1999 twice, in 1999 and 2006.
On Sunday, a personal competition will be run in Piitime, the victory of which has been celebrated six times by a Finnish driver. The previous Finnish winner is Heikki Kovalainen from 2004.
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