Hard times in Pärnu | 22/07/2010 One race of Finnish championship serie is driven in Pärnu, Estonia. The track is very bumpu which caused a lot of harm to Mäkelä Racing Team. Miikka drove into a pile of tyres once in practise and in the same place he went out of the track again, only this time he managed to dirve into a ditch instead of the tyrewall. These happened when a bolt form his front lower wishbones attachment broke. The mounting had had damages earlier and the repairment had held this far. All this led to the chassis to brake. Miikka was the fastest on Wednesday, then he hit the tyrewall, and he went to the ditch and then the laptimes started to get worse and worse. In the second start he was over four seconds behind his best laptimes. Results were sixth and seventh. Milla found trust to her car again, when all the setups were changed after Alastaro. She had some problems with traffic in qualifying and first race. In second race she spinned, but after that she caught the others and got pass them. Even Miikka was really close, but one lap was missing. Results 8th and 8th. To the next race in Botniaring we will build a new car for Miikka. It will be the first Finnish one. Image gallery Miikka two times second in Alastaro | 22/07/2010 The second race of the season was driven in Alastaro on 11th and 12th June. The first race was driven on wet track and Mäkelä Racing hasn't had the opportunity to test the new Dunlop wet tyres. Miikka was third in qualifying and he missed the first start. He dropped to last place, but after only one lap he was back in his own place. Milla had some technical problems and she spinned several times. In the end Miikka was second and Milla was 9th. The second race was dry and Miikka was second again, with no bigger problems. Milla didn't get the car to work the way she had wanted and ended up in 9th place again. Image gallery Car was good, but race was bad | 16/05/2010 Season 2010 started in Kemora on 14th-15th May. The race was bit disapointment if you look at the results, but overall we can be quite satisfyed. Mtec was proven to be fast when Miikka Mäkelä took the poleposition in qualifying and broke old laprecord for Formula Ford in the first race. Miikka was forced out of the track during a tough fight for 2nd place and dropped a few positions. At the finish line he was 6th. Milla Mäkelä had problems with understeering during test days. The solution was simple when we discovered it on the last night before the race. The car changed completely and there was only one session before qualifying to get used to it. In the qulifying rain and trafic affected quite a lot. Result was 7th. Milla spinned during the race, and ended up finishing 8th. On Saturday in the second race Miikka was hit by a cocompetitor and he couldn't finish the race. Milla had a problem with the clutch and had to start from the pitlane. Forunately safetycar came in and she caught the others. The down side was that the safety car was on track almost the whole time. In the end there was only one lap time to get past the others. After all timepenalities etc Milla was 6th. Image gallery Pictures from Mtec factory | 18/04/2010 Picture gallery from Mtec Formula Ford Factory Wallius supports Mtec and Mäkelä Racing team | 23/01/2010 Finnish weldingmachine-manufacturer, Wallius, has 60 years experience from welding and weldingmachines. Wallius provides the latest weldingmachines, their wide knowledge of welding and Magmawelds welding materials for Mäkelä Racing teams use. Wallius has tested in their own laboratory what is the best way to weld 4130 steel with TIG and they will deliver this information to Mäkelä Racing team. The contract between Wallius and Mäkelä Racing team was signed and published on January 16th in VM Motorsportshow in Helsinki, where Mäkelä Racing Team was introducing their first chassis which is made completely in Finland. Wallius was also presenting a wide range of their weldingmachines on Mäkelä Racings stand. Mäkelä Racing has also started a new project with Oulu university. The project is about welding CrMo (4130) tubes. The university will test the strenght of the weldings and do some microscopical research about the chance of the material during the welding.Through this information Mäkelä Racing Team can be sure of the top quality of their products. www.wallius.com www.magmaweld.com Triple win for Mtec in Falkenberg! | 2009 Miikka borrwed his littlesisters Mtec for the two remaining NEZ races so there were three Mtecs In Falkenberg; Miikka Mäkelä, Miika Hirsimäki and Antti Buri. Hirsimäki was the fastest in the qulifying and took the pole position, but unfortunately he crashed his car in the end of the qualifying session so he was out from the first race. At the first race Antti Buri won and Miikka Mäkelä was second. In the second race Mtec took a triple win when Antti Buri won, Miikka Mäkelä in the second place and Miika Hirsimäki on the third. In the last race of the NEZ series in Padborg Denmark Antti Buri was having a tough fight with Danish drivers but he managed to keep his lead on the NEZ serie. Miikka Mäkelä wasn't in good shape, because he had a terrible flu and high fever. Still he managed to get third place on the NEZ serie. Hirsimäki didn't participate in Denmark, because the earlier accidents dropped him out of the top places in the NEZ points. Finnish Championship second round in Alastaro | 16/06/2009 Alastaro NEZ race had 3 Mtec FD09 cars. Antti Buri and Miika Hirsimäki were two fastest cars on the track during the practise. In qualifying Buri was the fastest. Hirsimäki had a problem with throttle cable. He managed to drive only two laps and was 6th. Before the race problems were solved. In the first race Buri took an easy win. Hirsimäki had a bad start and lost few positions. But after 3 laps he managed to get to the 3rd place, but then one car behind him hit to his lower rear wishbone and bent it. He still managed to keep the 3rd place all the way across the finishline. So Mtec took 1st and 3rd places and Milla Mäkelä in her 3rd race ever was 8th. At second race Buri was the only one with slick tyres on half wet track and spinned once. He still managed to take the 2nd place. Hirsimäki had very bad luck with rear antirollbar pushrod which was taken off because of the weather and jumped to the wrong place. It made driving allmost impossible. He had to make a pit stop which dropped him to the last place but before the end he passed couple cars and was 7th. Miikka Mäkelä with his old zetec car finished 3rd on sundays race. It was a good result when you notice that there were many problems with the car. During the weekend Miikka had to fix pedal-box gearleveler, radiator, catalysator, rear wheelbearing and the floor plate. So there wasn't much time to practise. After the weekend Miikka is 3rd in the finish championship points. And Milla is 2nd in years rookie points, but because she is driving a duratec car she doesn't get any finish championship points. Antti Buri is leading the NEZ serie and Miikka and Miika share the third place and Milla is 9th. NEZ serie continues in Falkenberg, Sweden on 11th and 12th of July. Image gallery Mtec on track for the first time in Finland | 27/04/2009 Friday 24th and Saturday 25th of April Milla Mäkelä drove two days test in Alastaro. Milla was very happy with the new car. It feels bit more sensitive than her old Van Diemen. There appeared no technical problems during the test period. These first tests were driven only to get used to the new car. In next test session we will try to find suitable set ups to finnish tracks. Miikka had also a chance to test the car for few laps. Miikka was fast from the start. After 7 laps he drove time 1.20.01, which is only about 2 seconds slower than last summers best qualifying times in Alastaro. Miikka told that the gears weren't the best ones, because we used the same gears that we have been using with Zetec. Next test will be driven in Botniaring before a national race on 8.-9. of May. That race will give a good practise before the first race of Finnish championship that starts one week later in Ahvenisto. Image gallery Development of environmental friendly Motorsport | 04/03/2009 The Formula Ford bioethanol project was carried out as a co-operation with Mäkelä Racing Team and Oulu University of Applied Sciences. Finnish foundation of Henry Ford and Formula Ford Finland were the major supporters for the project. Project info in pdf-format Image gallery Mäkela Racing new Mtec out in shows | 09/02/2009 Millas next years Formula Ford Mtec was first time out in "Legends on ice" race show area in Oulu (see photos). Later the car was out in Biofuel press conference in Oulu (see photos). |
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