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01.07.2010

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12.05.2010

The winner from 46 years is coming back to Imatra.

Luigi Taveri, the winner of the first World Championship race in Imatra in
1964, is participating in Memories of Imatranajo 2010. The three times world
champion is 80 years old, but he’s still going strong for the sport.

The victory in Imatra in the class 125 cc in 1964 was not a coincidence, as
Luigi Taveri achieved the title of World Champion the same year.  He also
won the World Championship in 1962 and 1966.

You can sense the history by the motorcycle that Luigi Taveri is riding.  It
is a rear  four- cylinder factory-made 1961 Honda.

Only seven riders in the world have achieved World Championship points in
solo classes 50 cc, 125 cc, 250 cc, 350 cc and 500 cc. Luigi Taveri is one
of them.  Finnish Matti Salonen, who will be seen in Memories of Imatranajo
again in his well-known yellow-black colours, is also one of them. The rest
of them are Stuart Graham, Alberto Pagani, Tommy Robb, Dave Simmonds and
Bruno Kneubühler.

06.05.2010

Miss Imatranajo-contest. Winner is Elisa Kamunen from Imatra. Photo here.

1.4.2010

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29.4.2010

Dieter Braun, Rod Gould and Steve Baker have agreed that they will participate in the Memories of Imatranajo as members of Yamaha Classic Racing Team.

During his career Dieter Braun won two World Championship-titles: 125 cc in 1970 and 250 cc  in 1973. He also achieved three silver and one bronze medal at 125-, 250- and 350-classes in 1969, -74 and -75.
In Imatra Braun raced eight times and his best results were three times second in 1971, -73 and -76.
Braun´s career ended in Austrian GP 1977 because of racing-accident.
Nowadays Braun rides as a member of  the Yamaha Classic Racing Team. In Imatra his bike will be 1972 Yamaha YZ 634 .

Rod Gould started racing in 1961. The top of his career was winning the World Championship at 250 cc in 1970 with Yamaha. In 1971 and -72 he won silver and bronze also with 250 cc Yamaha. Gould won Finnish GP Imatranajo twice in 1971 and -72.
In 1972 Gould ended his career and became Yamaha´s racing manager.
Gould has been a member of  the Yamaha Classic Racing Team since 2007. In Imatra he will ride a 1972 Yamaha YZ 635.

Steve Baker was the first American to win Word Championship in Road Racing . He did it in 1977 at 750 cc  Yamaha. The same year he also won the legendary Daytona 200-race and was the second after Barry Sheene in 500 cc World Championship with Yamaha.
Before starting to race in Europe, Baker had won three Canadien Road Racing championships.
Baker participated in the Finnish GP Imatranajo in 1977 and finished 12.
Baker joined the Yamaha Classic Racing Team in 2007. In the Memories of Imatranajo he will ride a 1978 Yamaha OW 45.

 

1.4.2010

The local newspaper Uutisvuoksi and Motorclub Imatra organizes Miss Imatranajo-contest. In the Contest they are looking for a representative girl above 18 years old with knowledge of several languages and positive attitude.

The duties of Miss Imatranajo will be working  with Miss Finland 2008 Satu Tuomisto as PR- and VIP-hostess in the Memories of Imatranajo on 24.- 25.7.2010.
  

31.3.2010

Motorclub Imatra has agreed with Jean-François Baldé, Gianfranco Bonera and Roland Fraymond on participating in the Memories of Imatranajo.

Baldé is a five times World Championship medalist at 250 and 350 cc, silver and four bronze with Kawasaki in 1980-82. Bonera achieved silver for  MV-Agusta factory team at 500 cc in 1974 and bronze with Harley-Davidson at 250 cc in 1975. Freumond is two times World Championship bronze medalist with 250 cc Morbidelli in 1981-82.
    

15.03.2010

New webshop has been launched. Click Here

12.03.2010

There are additional hotel accommodation packages available in Imatra Spa Hotel and Hotel Karjalan Portti. Further information: Event information page.

28.02.2010

Imatra Motorcycle Touring Concentration pages opened in  Facebook.

16.02.2010

Friday the 5th of February a Press Conference was held during the Motorcycle Show in Lahti (Finland) to promote the Imatra 2010 event. Without a doubt all signs are there that this years event will be even bigger than the 2008 one (25.000 spectators).

Yamaha Importer Kone Kesko is one of the major sponsors of the event and they will make absolutely sure that the 35th anniversarry of Yamaha's first ever 500cc Worldchampionship by Giacomo Agostini will be celebrated in the most fantastic way. The original 0W23 on which Ago won the 1975 500cc Finish GP at Imatra will be flown over from Japan for Ago to ride. YCRT will be present with many machines, amongst them also Finish GP winners.
Sami Backman President of IMK ( Imatra Club) and his staff are working very hard to make this event an unforgettable one.
YCRT are really looking forward to be at Imatra and with two Finish riders Pentti Korhonen and Tepi Länsivuori in the Team that weekend is unique.

05.02.2010

The VIP-tickets and entrance tickets to the event are sold in the web and phone service and in the ticket offices of Lippupalvelu and in all R-kiosks allover Finland.

20.01.2010

Event pages opened in  Facebook.

19.10.2009

Konekesko Oy/Yamaha Motor and Yamaha Classic Racing Team have made a contract with Imatran Moottorikerho of the next summer's "Memories of Imatranajo 2010" event. Konekesko with Yamaha is the principal partner in cooperation at the event.

Konekesko Oy, Yamaha Classic Racing Team and  Motorclub Imatra made a contract of cooperation of the next summer's "Memories of Imatranajo" event which will be held at 24.-25.7.2010. Yamaha is the principal partner in cooperation of the 2-wheelers and will bring the Yamaha Classic Racing Team to the event.

Yamaha Classic Racing Team is the only classic bike team in the world, which is supported by the manufacturer. The team has been founded around 2000 and it goes round Europe joining the classic bike races. The riders of the team are all legends, who have been raced in the Yamaha Factory Team 1960 - 1970, including also Finnish Pentti Korhonen. The manager of the team is Ferry Brouwer, who has been working as a mechanic in the Yamaha Racing Team for e.g. Tepi Länsivuori.

In the next summer's event there will be some really special and unique classic bikes and also some very well-known riders have been preliminarily agreed to race at the Imatra. The final list of the bikes and riders will be published at spring 2010.