Young Guns on target

Teenage Finnish racers Teemu Suninen and Joni Wiman have quit the fledgling JRX series and will start in Super1600 this weekend, the pair remaining with Set Promotion but moving out of the one-make Junior series and into Renault Clio S1600 cars.

Set promotion boss Jussi Pinomäki explained the move, “I think JRX is a good idea but there are still some issues with the car and the best option is to get these guys into something else,” he said, before predicting that the pair could deliver some surprises over the next two weekends. “The cars are real Super1600 cars, we have four Clios here now [including the cars for regular team members Jussi-Petteri Leppihalme and Timur Shigabutdinov] and they are all the same specification, same engine, same dampers, everything is the same. Wiman is driving the car that Leppihalme raced last year and the one Suninen has is a car we have rented from France. We did a test at Kouvola recently and they both drove the ex-Leppihalme car. They only had 20 laps each so it was not a lot of time but it was enough for them to get used to the car. They are both so fast, I think they will surprise a lot people.”

The Finnish pair will continue to race in Super1600 for the remaining events in this year’s championship. Set Promotion will also enter run a JRX car for Marat Knazev, but the Russian teen has been ruled out of the Belgian and Dutch event as he recently suffered a broken wrist. He is expected to return to the track for the Finnish and German events in September.

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