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Ahvenisto Race Circuit's track profile.

The Ahvenisto Race Circuit (official Finnish title: Ahveniston moottorirata), commonly referred to as Ahvenisto, is a 3,040 metres long auto racing track in Hämeenlinna, Finland. The track's home straight is 280 metres long and the track is run clockwise. The difference in altitude along the track is 32 metres, and the width varies from nine to 17 metres.

Ahvenisto Race Circuit was finished in 1967 and has hosted several international racing competitions since. In the 1960s and the 1970s, the track hosted Formula Two and road racing events, along with rallycross events in the FIA European Championships for Rallycross Drivers. Currently, several national and Nordic championships, such as the Finnish Formula Three Championship and Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, include races at Ahvenisto.

The track's unofficial lap record, 1:10.000, is held by the 1982 Formula One World Champion Keke Rosberg. Rosberg drove the time as a show run with his Williams F1 car in 1984. The official lap record is 1:13.671, a time driven by Teemu Tanninen in a Formula Three car on September 15, 2003. Two-time Formula One champion Mika Häkkinen broke the lap record for Carrera Cup class on May 29, 2004, recording a time of 1:19.905 with his Porsche Carrera. Another former Formula One driver to break a class-specific lap record is Mika Salo, who completed the track with his Audi A4 in a time of 1:23.682, setting a new record for Super 2000, the Finnish touring car championship class.^[1]

1 History
2 References

[edit] History

[edit] 1960s–1970s

Ahvenisto Race Circuit was finished on July 15, 1967. "I Hämeenlinnan ajot 1967" was the second event competed on the track, and the first international one. The Formula Two race was won by Jochen Rindt ahead of Jack Brabham and Jim Clark's Lotus 48. The Formula Three race was a battle between Finnish and Swedish drivers, with Sweden's Freddy Kottulinsky taking the win. Other entrants included Leo Kinnunen, Ronnie Peterson and Reine Wisell.^[2]

Turn 1 during a race on a wet track.

[edit] I Hämeenlinnan Ajot 1967 - F2 results summary

Pos	Driver	Team	Laps	Time
1	Jochen Rindt	Roy Winkelmann Racing	20	27:05.53
2	Jack Brabham	Motor Racing Developments	20	27:07.71
3	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	20	27:31.14
4	Frank Gardner	Motor Racing Developments	20	27:33.65
5	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	20	28.02.27
6	Alan Rees	Roy Winkelmann Racing	19	+1 lap

[edit] 1980s–present

The track reached its crowd record in 1985, when over 40,000 people arrived to watch Tähtien kisat ("Race of Stars"). Since the 1990s, the track has mostly hosted races in national and Nordic championships and cups, including Historic Race Finland, Super 2000, Super Rallicross and Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia.