Huge success for Team Associated Finland in 2012!

Monday, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:00am UTC

Summer season is now over in Finland and Team Associated had an awesome season! There were four races during the summer season and top driver Petri Ström won almost everything. Petri won Finnish Championships in Modified 2WD and 4WD classes, Nordic championship title in 2WD Modified, and he almost made it to the A Mains in 1/10 Euro Champs in 2WD and 4WD.

Another superstar at the moment, Joona Haatanen (9 years old), also had the best season of his career this far! His best result in 2012 was third place in Nordic Champs 2WD Modified. The media here already loves the boy! The only thing he cannot do is to open a Champagne bottle.

Here is the summary of Championship race results in Finland in 2012:

1/10 2WD Modified
Finnish Championship series (overall results)
 
1.    Petri Ström Team Associated
3.    Tommi Torikka Team Associated
4.    Jussi Luopajärvi Team Associated
5.    Samuli Kesseli Team Associated
8.    Joona Haatanen Team Associated
 
Nordic Championship Race (Kiiminki, Finland)
1.    Petri Ström Team Associated
2.    Tommi Torikka Team Associated
3.    Joona Haatanen Team Associated
6.    Jarno Siltanen Team Associated
7.    Jussi Luopajärvi Team Associated
9.    Ketil Pettersen Team Associated

1/10 4WD Modified
Finnish Championship series (overall results)

1.    Petri Ström Team Associated
6.    Tommi Torikka Team Associated
8.    Kalle Lehto Team Associated
10.    Samuli Kesseli Team Associated

Nordic Championship Race
3    Joakim Nicolaisen Team Associated
5    Petri Ström Team Associated
7    Ketil Pettersen Team Associated
9    Andreas Daving Team Associated

Short Course Summer Series (Finnish Championships)
SC-10 2WD

1.    Riku Tolonen Team Associated
2.    Miro Simonen Team Associated

Thanks to Matti of RCM.fi for this report and Janne of finRC.com for the photos.


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