Soili Saarinen was an advisor during the production of the series.
Due to budget restrictions, most of the Finnish and Swedish riders characters were greatly reduced during filming. Rasmus Blomqvist (Börje Jansson), Johan Mörn (Kent Andersson) and Pontus Linder (Bo Granath) are glimpsed in some shots of the scenes in Imatra and in the final funeral sequence. Ferandi Yennas, who plays Japanese biker Hideo Kanaya, is visible in a few shots from the first episode.
The characters of Marlene and Frans, the Stasi officers played by Marijana Prokl and Pasko Vukasovic, were mostly cut in editing.
Originally, the idea was to make a generic fiction about the world of the Continental Circus, but then, when Soili Saarinen started to collaborate with the production, it was decided to focus solely on Jarno's story.
Filmed under a budget of EUR 9m, it is one of the most expensive series in the history of Finnish public television.