Speedway of Nations 2022: 'That was really wild!' - Timi Salonen makes huge impact as Finland reach surprise final

It was an eventful night for Finland at the first Speedway of Nations semi-final in Vojens as they took a shock second place to reach the final. Team-mates Timi Salonen and Timi Lahti were in inspired form as they racked up 34 points to finish behind Australia and force pre-race favourites Poland into a playoff against Germany. Ad/> But aside from their impressive riding as a team, Salonen was involved in a couple of notable incidents on the night as he and his partner announced themselves on the big stage.

/> Speedway'When the chips were down they came up trumps' — Poland into Speedway of Nations finalAN HOUR AGO On the first lap of Heat 10, as Lahti streaked ahead on his way to his eventual victory, Salonen was caught up in a tussle with Ukraine’s Mrako Levishyn on the back straight. The young Finn attempted to recover an error as his front wheel came up and almost shunted Levishyn into the advertising hoardings on the side of the track — ripping off a banner in the process. “Timi Salonen makes a terrible start,” said Chris Louis on commentary.

“There was nothing intentional. But Timi Salonen just gets a little bit of unwanted grip. Poland, Finland, Australia into Speedway of Nations final after thrilling night in Vojens Norway to replace Slovakia at Speedway of Nations following Vaculik injury “The bike just drives out to the right hand side, both legs up, not ideal.

“Levishyn had every right to go down and that would have been a big, big crash. Done extremely well to hang on. “Bang! Wallops him really hard.” “Do you think the referee could have done something about that?” asked Kelvin Tatum.