Timo Laine

Timo Laine
Born (1934-07-05) 5 July 1934 (age 92)
Turku, Finland
NationalityFinnish
Individual honours
1961European Longtrack Champion
1961, 1962, 1963Finland National Champion

Timo Aleksander Laine (born 5 July 1934) is a former international Speedway longtrack and motorcycle speedway rider from Finland. He was a three-time champion of Finland.

Speedway career

Laine won the gold medal at the European Longtrack Championship in the 1961 Individual Long Track European Championship. In addition, he won the Nordic Longtrack Championship three times (1964, 1965, 1966) and the Finish Longtrack Championship seven times (1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1972).

Laine was also a prominent rider in conventional speedway and won the Finnish Individual Speedway Championship on three occasions in 1961, 1962 and 1963.

Laine did not ride in the British leagues for a team, which was rare for the leading riders of the time but did visit the United Kingdom to take part in several meetings.

References

  1. ↑ "SpeedwayChampionship". Liverpool Daily Post. 8 September 1961. Retrieved 25 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. 1 2 "Timo Laine". GrasstrackGB. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  3. ↑ "SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK". Speedway.org. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  4. ↑ "World Longtrack World Champions". Grasstrack GB. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  5. ↑ "European Long Track Championship". Edinburgh Speedway. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  6. ↑ "Speedway Individual Finnish Championship". Speedway Sanomat. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  7. ↑ "Finnish Speedway Star's Visit". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 16 June 1961. Retrieved 25 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.