| Gelleråsen is a hometrack for
the RN team, it´s only 2.5 hours travel from the teams home location in Håtuna outside Bålsta. |
On the weekend of the 16-17 of August the Swedish Championships third round
where held at Gelleråsen . The track is located 5 km north of Karlskoga, a lap on
the partly resurfaced track measures 2530m.
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At the opening practice session on Saturday morning the decided to try a different gearing
than we usually run at this track. The purpose of this change was to make Reijos smooth
riding-style a fraction more aggressive. The outfit we run has a heavier engine than most of our
competitors, that makes this bike more sensitive of digresses from the ideal line.
For the qualification Reijo decided to keep the gearing that had felt good. our mechanics had
made some suspension and wheel-angel changes, and that together with a slightly softer
reartire made it possible for Reijo and Nicke to set their fastest laptime ever.
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Shoot of Reijo and Nicke during qualifying working hard to not miss the apex of the corner on a hot lap resulting in a 1.13.62 |
Then qualifying was over RN Racing was second fastest, just twotenth behind
GrandPrix driver Billy Gällros on his 500cc twostroke machine. This gave a boost to the
team knowing that they are one of the fastest in the start, and if everything went well, they
could hold the lead for all the 15 laps on the quite narrow track.
Then red turned into green Reijo powered his Kawasaki-LCR to the front and managed to
exteend the lead with 5-6 bikelength on the first couple of laps. On lap 7 Billy passed second
place man Leif Aurosell and started his hunt for the lead, 2 laps later Reijo missed a gear
going in to the righthander after the straight, resulting in less enginebreak and a wider line
through the corner and second place was a fact.
Four laps from the end our team-meats Lasse and Sören manage to outbreak third-
placed man Ingemar Eriksson and take their first podiumfinish ever.
The happy boys from left to right:
Nicke Lindberg, Reijo Nurmi. Billy Gällros, Peter Berglund. Sören Eriksson, Lasse Lindberg
