Keimola Motor Stadium

The Keimolan Moottoristadion is a former race track in Finland. It was opened on 12 June 1966 in Vantaa near Helsinki in Keimola district, not far from Helsinki airport. The track had a length of 3.3 miles and was built by one of Finland's most famous racers of the 1950s, Curt Lincoln. This was also the father of Jochen Rindt.

The first big race was the Formula 2 and Formula 3 you counted as Grand Prix Finland. In 1969, the Nordic Challenge after Keimola. This was the technical regulations of a previous series of the Inter series that made 1971 stop there. The Nordic Challenge wore from 1970 to 1972 their Finnish scoring run on this route. In addition to long-distance races for sports cars and Formula V and touring cars, as well as motorcycles and sidecars on the fast slopes were traveling.

Due to financial problems they tried to lure with Drag Racing, Rallycross events or rock concerts in the 1970s, more viewers. A total of five FIA Rallycross European Championship races were in Keimola extended, on June 9, 1974 ( Winner: Björn Waldegård, Sweden, Porsche Carrera RSR ), June 1, 1975 ( Winner: Dick Riefel, Netherlands, VW 1303S with Porsche Carrera engine ), May 30, 1976 ( winner: Franz Wurz, Austria, Lancia Stratos HF), May 29, 1977 ( winner: Herbert Grünsteidl, Austria, Renault Alpine A310 V6 ) and on 28 May 1978 ( winner TW - Division: Per -Inge Walfridsson, Sweden, Volvo 343 Turbo, GT- Division champion: Olle Arnesson, Sweden, Porsche Carrera ). However, since no other international and crowd-pulling race could be organized, the route had to close their doors in 1978.

However, the go-kart, built in the 1970s remained open and was training area of the later Finnish Grand Prix Stars Mika Salo and Mika Häkkinen.

In the years 1987 and 1988 also illegal motorcycle races were conducted on the closed track. The press became aware of precisely this spectacle by a collision of a motorcyclist with a moose. That's why they made soon after the route through deep ravines impassable. The racetrack is still existent, but forfeit more and more. Thus, destroyed in 2004, laid by playing with firecrackers adolescents fire that could be brought under control only after 3 days, large parts of the former paddock.