M\u00f6\u00f6dunud n\u00e4dalavahetusel toimus Soomes Lahtis drifti P\u00f5hja-Euroopa meistriv\u00f5istluste esimene etapp, mille pjedestaali k\u00f5rgeimale astmele t\u00f5usis Eesti s\u00f5itja Graig Meriloo.<\/p>\n
Lahti messikeskuse ja selle k\u00f5rval oleva staadioni parklasse mahutati \u00e4ra driftirada, \u00fcheteistk\u00fcmnele tuhandele k\u00fclastajale trib\u00fc\u00fcnid, boksiala ja f\u00e4nnikaupade m\u00fc\u00fcgikohad. Kuigi rada v\u00f5is esmapilgul tunduda lihtne betoonseinte vahele paigutatud kaheksa, siis tegelikult oli tegemist \u00fcpris tehnilise ja pingutust n\u00f5udva rajaga, vahendab autosport.ee.<\/p>\n
Kokku osales v\u00f5istlusel 60 s\u00f5itjat, kellest seitse eestlased: Karel Piiroja, Simon Suvemaa, Saimon K\u00f6st, Kristjan Salmre, Siim Oskar H\u00e4\u00e4l, Ragnar Viinapuu \u00a0ja Graig Meriloo.<\/p>\n
Esimesel kvalifikatsiooni p\u00e4eval said k\u00f5ik s\u00f5itjad \u00fche kvalifikatsiooniringi, kus parima eestlasena teenis Graig Meriloo 91 punkti. Kvalifikatsiooni esimest ja teist kohta j\u00e4id jagama Soome s\u00f5itjad Paulus Perkki\u00f6 ja Teemu Asunmaa 94 punktiga.<\/p>\n
32 parema hulka p\u00e4\u00e4ses neli eestlast. Tandems\u00f5itudes alustas Siim-Oskar H\u00e4\u00e4l esimesena Filip Josefssoni vastu. H\u00e4\u00e4l l\u00e4ks algul s\u00f5itma ees. Kuid viimases kurvis, m\u00f5nik\u00fcmmend meetrit enne fini\u0161ijoont, l\u00e4ks katki roolilatt, mille t\u00f5ttu kaotas auto juhitavuse ning s\u00f5itis vastu betoonseina. Sellega oli ka H\u00e4\u00e4l alistatud. Karel Piiroja langes v\u00e4lja p\u00e4rast teist korduss\u00f5itu Lauri Heinoneni vastu. Suvemaa kaotas oma esimeses s\u00f5idus l\u00e4tlasele Martins Immermanisele. Ka seal vedas tehnika Suvemaad alt.<\/p>\n
M\u00e4ngu j\u00e4igi veel Graig Meriloo, kes seljatas seej\u00e4rel Niklas Wiki, Juha P\u00f6yt\u00e4laakso, Lauri Heinoneni, Paulus Perkki\u00f6 ning Edgars Krogerise. Eestlase s\u00f5nul oli konkurents tugev ja tase v\u00e4ga k\u00f5rge, mis teeb selle tulemuse eriti v\u00e4\u00e4rtuslikuks. Plaan on tal samas tempos edasi t\u00f6\u00f6tada ning proovida p\u00e4\u00e4seda ka Drift Mastersi etappidele Riias ja Soomes. J\u00e4rgmisena n\u00e4eb teda juba sel n\u00e4dalavahetusel Riias Grand Openil v\u00f5istlemas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"M\u00f6\u00f6dunud n\u00e4dalavahetusel toimus Soomes Lahtis drifti P\u00f5hja-Euroopa meistriv\u00f5istluste esimene etapp, mille pjedestaali k\u00f5rgeimale astmele t\u00f5usis Eesti s\u00f5itja Graig…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[18],"tags":[37,33,35,34,36,79743,159,158],"class_list":["post-176896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sport","tag-ee","tag-eesti","tag-eesti-keel","tag-estonia","tag-estonian","tag-graig-meriloo","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ee\/116566807384869470","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}