Kuovola, Finland, 16. - 20. 9. 2004 – European Championship G27, G7

Super references about this track and the will of Pilsners organizers, they should to host the EC race this year, moved the race to Finish Kuovola. I must say one of 4 -5 world best tracks. Jari Portinnen made here the qualifying world record with 1.548. We expected if the track is so fast and if somebody could make the 40 minutes world record. I must say yes, it is fast very fast. The winner Vladimir Horky came with 1124 laps close to Chicky's 1133 from Warm Up race in Port Jeff.
My racing began with G27 race. I didn't run Warm Up, because always I run it I made good result, but my performance go down in following races.
This tactics was successful; I won Quali and finished 3rd. Chassis SMF, Body Peugeot 138/28, tires Koford WX.
The open race began badly with very short practice Saturday morning. I tested 2 cars and chose the better one of course. (Zap 4.450; Peugeot 139/30). But the car sounds bad, some stupid husky sound. And it didn't disappear with motor or gears change. First bye I run 1.741 and destroyed the gear after first lap. The second bye second motor slowed down, I lost a twine from commutator and run 2.000
My quarter began fine for me, I led the group on blue lane but some crashes pushed me back to 4th, but with close gap. Purple was fine, but on the black I heated Pekka's car under the bridge. I finished the heat and changed the gear and tires, but gears problems continued. After change in the heat I gave some bad tire and can't go around the track. After third gear I give up and didn't continue. In the pits I found mistake. The motor was broken under pinion from chassis, but kept on the motor brace.  And the husky sound came from bad bearing…
See you here on the Worlds 2005.

Vlado