Scandinavian Classic Racing Cup is on the way

[rolf j]

Two weeks ago a fantastic classic racing weekend took place at legendary Anderstorp Raceway in Sweden, hot weather, great track and a looong straight of 1,1 km. Sundays race saw a great Guzzi win by Eskil Tin(13 in the pic below) in the very fast and competitive Formula80-87 class. His bike - especially the frame - is a piece of art in homespun engineering and a well thought-of design. Probably lacking more than 50 Hp to the competition he lead by a fraction from the start to the finishing line. Great racing!


I cooked my 1082 engine at Anderstorp and had to borrow a Polizia 844 standard street engine for the Våler Raceway competition in Norway the following weekend (78 in the pic below), no time for spannering beyond swapping an engine... I'm racing in the class Forgotten Era72-79


Out of 14 on the grid in the Forgotten Era class, seven were Guzzis. We've grown to become quite a bunch of us at the races here! Knut Holte (14 in the pic below) came third on a 959 bike that had hardly been tested before the race, great effort!



Myself?...can't complain about an eighth place and my best lap time at this track, but I've got a long way up to reach the faster riders. I want my race engine back into the frame and perhaps chop-off a couple of seconds with help from the grunt in the ol'mill!

Next is two races in Sweden and one in Denmark, all in August. Time to spanner in July! Forza!

rolf j

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Great stuff. Keep the pictures coming.

[rolf j]

Thanks, more will come.
Coming weekend is the so called "46-years race" (increments of 1 per year since the first race) at Sviestad near the town of Linkoping, Sweden. Great venue, includes road racing, oval gravel track and moto-cross, all for classic bikes!

I've managed to put together a 949 engine in a hurry out of the spoils of the Anderstorp disaster and whatever parts that were found in the garage. Megacycle 620x8 cam has gone in, ports are not wonderful but fits the PHM40s well enough, valves (midvalve) are sunk in the heads to accommodate the overlap so the comp ended up at a low 9,6 in the smaller bore, but you'll just have to grab what you have! At best it probably has the grunt of an average lm4 stock, and that'll have to do the job!

[rolf j]

Sviestad "46-years race" in Sweden was a great weekend that proved the 948cc engine can do the job quite well despite a low comp of 9,6:1. It really went like stink and giving zero problems. Dropped my laptime by 4 seconds since my last year visit there so something must have worked out ok. Didn't touch the engine after the race and neither while waiting for the next race in Denmark......

Last weekend was the fantastic Ring Djursland International Classic-TT in Denmark. An incredible racetrack that can take your breath in up&down steep hills in and before corners. You really have to work hard on keeping the wheels on the deck in several places even with the relatively modest power of a Guzzi mill! Quite hairy to end the straight by being half airborne only to land up in the middle of the breaking zone for a 180 degree left waiting in a hill going the opposite way.
An unbelievable track you should visit if you ever get the chance!

This was my first attempt at Ring Djursland, the entire weekend in great sunny weather, highly professional organisers and a good size crowd, talks about 2-3000. The ol'Guzzi mill seems to run like clockwork now!! About 20 in the class, and I got an 8th and an 11th place, actually way beyond what I had dared to hope for as there was strong visitors from the UK on the grid in addition to the Scandinavian riders. Hope to get back there to race some other time!



Karlskoga, Sweden, coming up this weekend, last race for the season!! FORZA!

rolf j

[rolf j]

Some of the racing at Ring Djursland, Denmark, the "Roadracing rollercoaster!" this summer. As usual I had my 1973 Guzzi V7-Sport on the track, this time with the trusty 948cc engine that actualle did a great job despite a touring-like comp of 9,6:1. The Megacycle 620x8 camshaft, but with a modest midvalve size and not very great channels, seemed to give surprisingly good punch. Perhaps a very good valve-seat job carried out by a friend of mine here in Norway was part of the ticket...? The rest of the bike is pretty straight forward, Carillos and crank balancing done, sunk-in valves to accommodate the 620x8 cam, set the squish and valve/piston clearances quite concervatively, braced the front of the engine to the frame and braced the swingarm (overweight rider! ). The gearbox is de-dogged and shimmed up, but standard 5'type, original and crazily over-tall V7-Sport rear drive 8:35 !!










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