Autumn 2015 report (updated 12.10.2015)

Equine

We have been working hard with the horses in last few months. There has not been many races but lot of training has been done. Sadly with Super Pearl we had small setback as the horse was startled by a dog that came from nowhere and she fell to tarmac. No major injuries but few small bruises and cuts. Next day the horse was lame and we was forced to cancel our test race and FEI race in Lithuania.

However normal training continued with other horses and soon also with Super Pearl. Super Pearl and Lauri completed second level one (59 km) qualification for Lauri and for now Super Pearl feels really good. In few weeks Super Pearl and Lauri are going to first last level (80+ km) qualification race for FEI level. In same race we will also see Farid Ibn Shadwan with Marja. We will update this post after that race!

Update 12.10.2015

Lauri / Super Pearl and Marja / Farid Ibn Shadwan completed 81 km in Kõrvemaa! Well done! Team SunRacing got total 162 km in one day! Now Lauri needs only one 80+ km more for FEI level. We will aim Lauri to FEI level and to FEI competition(s) at 2016. That would give us two FEI level riders for year 2016!


Motocross

Last race for Korvikunnid Cup in Põlva was great success for Jarmo / Lauri! In both heats Jarmo / Lauri was first from the start to the finish. Thus gaining enough points to get past Stephan / Jukka and ensuring total victory in Korvikunnid Cup in the class of 50+. Well done Jarmo / Lauri and really good finish for the season 2015!

The season for motocross is over for us. We are making arrangements for the future of motocross in Team SunRacing. For now we are focusing more to the equine part and the motocross will be more in background. However we are going to return in season 2016 with solo races and we hope to participate to sidecar races again in 2016 or 2017!


Upcoming, stay tuned!

There is upcoming major news from Team SunRacing. We will give more information in the last update for 2015.

Mid 2015 report and reporting

Hello again! For now we will be committed to make quarterly reports here. Twitter and Facebook gives weekly short reports and our blog will give longer more detailed reports at least four times per year.

Motocross

Due to the slow recovery of the injuries from the ice road racing from early this year there has not been so much of motocross races as usually. However the sidecar team has been very active and Team SunRacing has been visible very often in the events. Team Jarmo / Artur has been very successful during the year and currently they are second in the class of 50+. Last two races in Kose Lauri was the passenger instead of Artur. Artur was the replacement for Lauri during Lauri's recovery. Next weekend there will be decisive race in Põlva where points are doubled and team Jarmo / Lauri is trying to go past team Stephan / Jukka.

For now there has been total 12 sidecar races this year in which team SunRacing has attended. Also team SunRacing is sponsoring Sidecarcross team Kunnas which has been very successful in many races this year. Specially in the very hard world championship races in Stelpe (11th), Kiviõli (10th) and Kegums (18th).

Equine

Where motocross has been somewhat disappointing in this season the equine team has been however very successful! Team SunRacing's Marja / Super Pearl completed FEI 2* 120km in Haanjamaa! This was the first 2* 120km for team SunRacing. Soon after that Marja / Farid Ibn Shadwan completed the first level 1 qualification for the FEI level.

Marja / Super Pearl was in the team Finland in the Nordic Baltic Championship but sadly was not able to finish due injury to the front leg of the Super Pearl. This injury is now behind but we are still going slowly with Super Pear to make sure she has been fully recovered. During that time Marja / Farid Ibn Shadwan completed the second level 1 qualification and first level 2 qualification for the FEI level! Also Lauri / Super Pearl finished starter qualification for Lauri! This was first test race for Super Pearl which ended well and the past injury did not show any sings.

Team SunRacing was crewing Ines Beilmann / Vandah El Aryes who became the Finnish Champion 2015! Soon after that Marja / Farid Ibn Shadwan completed the second level 2 qualification for FEI level. Now Farid Ibn Shadwan is qualified for FEI level after the compulsory time has elapsed. Farid Ibn Shadwan can start at FEI level at mid 2016. Also Lauri / Super Pearl completed first level 1 qualification for Lauri. Our youngest horse Jiicee Superstar also completed starter qualification with Marja!

For equine team lot has been happened and there has been great success during the year! We only hope that rest of the year can be as good as it has been now. Soon there will be second level 1 qualification for Lauri / Super Pearl and FEI 2* 120km for Marja / Super Pearl. If everything goes well then also first level 1 qualification for Jiicee Superstar.

Soon we will also add race log where you can see our races and kilometer totals!

See you in races!

Start of 2015 not so good but still good

Hello again for long time.

We had great hopes to make year 2015 first blog post early after the first ice road racing race but sadly it didn't go well. Our team member was injured during the first training session in the season's first ice road race. His acromioclavicular joint was badly dislocated and all the acromioclavicular ligaments was ruptured. It was operated in Finland but the recuperation takes lot of time. That left us without ice road races at season 2015. Also the first half of the year will be with less races that we aimed for. However first two sidecar races in the Korvikunnid cup the Team SunRacing is attending with another sidecar passenger. So even with the injury the Team SunRacing is still represented in different events. We also try to add some solo races as much as we can. It is anticipated that we can return to follow the racing calendar normally at June. Sadly that leaves us only about half to the races we wanted for the year 2015.

That left us with the hard choice, we will not be participating to any quad races during year 2015 as there is not enough time to train for the season events. However that means that we are going to focus more to solo motocross and equine events during the year.

The happy news come from our equine racing. The seasons first so called testing race went really well for team SunRacing. Our team was racing in though crowd in 81 km endurance event in Kiviloo Estonia. The race was supposed to be only the first test of the current fitness of the horse but everything went really well from the first leg to the finish. To our surprise we got really good time and finished first! Now we have really high hopes for next international FEI event in Kurgjärve Estonia at May 25th.