First we headed to German Supercrawl with an open mind and full of confidence. First let's look some pics:
Here is the rig on course two.
Course two as well. I was the first to make the tight turn without a reverse.
Same course. Going for the bonus.
Course three where my driving finally improved.
Video corner!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlFXR0A7kAY
Course 1 - I may had been over confident of my skills and waaay too condifent of the grip, cause this course did let me down bad time...
On gate four at first I falled of from the rocks, but was able to climb back again. On the second try I managed to stay on the rocks, but rolled over to the gate. Then I tried to drive it up and the steering link let loose and I had to take repair. I just thought there, that is this one of these comps... 
When I finally got it back on the course I got stuck in small hole and took another reposition. Luckily I was able to drive it to the finishing gate. Not my course, not at all.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig50M9nhuik
Course 2 - This course went a lot better than the first. All that I'm not so happy about is the hitting the gate five. But it was tricky gate with narrow tires thought.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tOJIQIw5pY
Course 3 - This course I'm really proud of. No bigger drama there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEr5XBVZrJ8
Course 4 - The Stubby course I would say!
It was way too fun to make full throttle turns in this course. Really good one!
The results. I'm still pissed off from that course one. Just stupid mistakes one after another. Good thing is I managed to keep my head cold on the rest of the courses and did not fall too much on the scoresheet. Timo and Stephan were better this time. Can't wait for the next time!
Here's top three. 1.Timo 2.Stephan 3.Me
Overall I'm happy that I made the trip to Germany. Was really refreshing to see familiar faces and good friends over the weekend. Big thanks to the organization who made an awesome comp.
Next challenge was to go for The 2014 Nordics in Finland. 20 drivers from all over the Europe attending to this comp. This was going to be a really high level comp with tight results.
Saturday morning wasn't sunny. But it was not raining either.
Let's start!
Course one. Easy!
"Guys you see, you have no chance, I'm the best driver in the world..."
Course three. This was the tricky course of the day.
Stubby making it fly!
Gate four was too tricky for me this time.
Fourth course was challenging but not impossible for sure. I did hit one gate on the way.
Finals course!
Look at the rig you dumbass!!
I was really happy about the finals course performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMrjrIdJVVw
offipaita.fi course (-30/-30) - This course was a good warm up. That's all I have to say about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GSi5H5KPRo
Krawler Konceptz course (-30/-30) - Another warm up course?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfLrahan2Tc
Team Ottsix course (-11/-30) - This was by far the hardest course of the day. I was the first to go and was nervous of it without a reason. I had plenty of time after gate nine, but still wasn't confident enough to clear bonus 2. I hit the gate four, since it was really tricky to get the rig in good position to hit the throttle. But other than that, I'm happy of this performance as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK-4ELw1b0A
Nordic Crawler Designs course (-20/-30) - It was all going really well until the gate four. I was driving too fast and the rig started to roll, and then there was nothing I could do. "Hurry up, but don't screw the lines man!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf-zGLShP04
RC4WD Final course (-27/-50) - I'm satisfied of how this course turned out as well. Only thing is yet again the gate four. Didn't have enough speed to climb it at the first try. I came to the finals from fifth position and managed to climb to the second position, so I'm really happy about that of course! And this was a proper final course, no shootout.
Here are the results. Sven was way better this time. Huge congrats dude, and it was really nice to comp with you again!
Top three. 1.Sven 2.Me 3.Manu.
This rig has now position one from 2011 and two from 2014 in The Nordics!
I had awesome weekend with the mates from Finland, Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands, Estonia, Switzerland and Germany! Thanks to all who was able to come in the cold north!
See you in the Nationals in RI!Next comp will be our local club comp on saturday. Until then!
I was really nervous and didn't think too wisely in there. First 4 gates were ok, but after that a rollover and a long way to come back to gate five. I decided to ride it over since there was only some two minutes left. When I finally reached gate nine I had only 45 seconds left. I wasn't obviously thinking straight, when I tried and tried to go without the gate. Where I should've just ride it over. A little fustration was reliesed after the time runned out. ***K! 
At least there would not be any shaking on the rest of the courses...
