Koppensneller

[Hadesbear]

https://youtu.be/voY7kbHzDm0

I'll just leave this here.

Jäätävää ajoa, onnittelut vielä kerran!
Osu se kuvaus edes keskinkertasesti kohdalleen ja palkintojenjaot kannatti kuvata, hyvä kokonaisuus videolta   ;)

[Zarizi Tech]

Jäätävää ajoa, onnittelut vielä kerran!
Osu se kuvaus edes keskinkertasesti kohdalleen ja palkintojenjaot kannatti kuvata, hyvä kokonaisuus videolta   ;)

Kiitokset ja kiitokset kuvauksista!!   8)

A little story coming up to you what happened last weekend in Norway.


Saturday morning in was the turn of the tech.


Here is my rig on course two.


There were three courses in the morning and three in the afternoon.


First three courses were quite easy with only few harder gates. You don't wanna mess here!


Rig was working without single incident the whole weekend. Just like it should!


Going for the last gates of course two.


I was able to squeeze myself into the semi finals. (top 10) Here is the course in question.


Tactical driving to make it to the finish line.


All is going as planned.


I got really good touch in terms of driving the rig in both of the final courses. Everything went smooth, without bigger mistakes.


Going for the tenth gate of the semi final course.


Hangover before the finals?


The final course was named "Arve's revenge two". Is seemed to be extremely tough.


Gate two cleared.


At first gate three seemed to be one of the trickiest on the course. Luckily my idea of the line and approach worked.


Gate five soon to be progressed.


On the way to gate seven. I have been driving quite a lot in this sort of terrain, and I think that helped me a lot in there.


Yet again my idea of approach worked out just the way I planned. Can it go any better?!


On the way to gate eight my front tire grabbed a little bit on the big rock. Nothing to be worry about though.


Gate nine.


Working for the line to gate ten.


It's going, IT'S GOING!!


This has to be one of the best performances I have ever made. The feeling was beyond reach after the course, let me tell you.

Time to show the courses in moving picture!

Course 1 - (-20/-20)
https://youtu.be/Taf3up8AcKg
The first three courses in the morning was made to be easy. This first one had only one really tricky gate. Gate five, where some of the drivers took one gate, others even two. I didn't have any issues on this one and was able to clear it without penalties.

Course 2 - (-20/-20)
https://youtu.be/eSiGPqAYq5E
This course two, if possible was even easier than the first one. Absolutely no drama there what so ever. Gate nine was a problem for few drivers, but mainly the scores were clean.

Course 3 - (-20/-20)
https://youtu.be/pJPla5kc1Y0
Course three was the hardest of the morning courses. Some tricky gates, which were suprisingly exact about the line. In this course, I had no problems and the mood was good on the driving. After the three first courses I was in the lead with LaaLaa on -60 points. So only two guys went all three without mistakes.

Course 4 - (+16/-20)
https://youtu.be/x2dul4-2I-Y
This course was the hardest one of all weekend. For us when we turned down there, the wind and the waves had grown a lot. The sea was coming in for the course. Salty ocean water was practicly raining horizontally and that's why the lens of the camera is so poor at this and the rest of the courses. I even had to do the same thing, than in the Worlds last year. Drive without my glasses. This course relly didn't go as planned. One reverse all the way to the gate five, which was really tricky to clear. Got roll over and a straddle from there, and that was only the start of things. On gate seven I hit a stupid marker and on the way to gate ten I falled off the cliff and had 40 seconds left on the watch, so another straddle. My points were only positive thing in this course. Nuff said.

Course 5 - (-20/-20)
https://youtu.be/5G3w98clmdA
This course was basically on the highest point of the comp site we drove in. The wind had to be somewhere round 20m/s, cause at some points you really had troble to stand. After this course the microfone of the camera is a wreck. Course was yet another tough one. Luckily it was good for me. Only panic was on gate seven, where I couldn't reach the top at first time on a proper line. Then the rig rolled over and almost hit a gate. After all I managed to go without penalties and that's the main thing. I already lost my lead on the fourth course.

Course 6 - (+5/-20)
As it turned out we had one classic example how not to use the camera. It has started recording this course when I was in the finish line. So no video from this one. I was the first of our little crew to go for this course. Gate one - no problem. On gate two there was few "steps" to go for the gate. Steps were just in the right angle for the rigs wheelbase to not carry enough width for making it. Tried couple of times and rolled on to the first gate. Then I decided it would be safer way to straddle it and continue for the rest of the course. All the other gates went well except for two reverses and I ended up with positive five points from this course. Could have gone better... Main thing though, was to get to the semi finals (top ten). That I was able to do with -59 total points, that I had after the qualification.

Semi Final Course - (0/-20)
https://youtu.be/RoVBTX59-Og
Semi final course was up next. I think I was fifth after qualification, but that didn't have any effect on the semi finals other than driving order. Allthought that didn't really matter either, cause the drivers were not able to see other perfomances. I went to the course and after seeing it, I decided to straddle gate three. There was too big risk of falling down from the rock and that would take some time to continue. All did go as planned to gate nine, but there I paniced when the   rig started to roll and floored it on gate nine. Another straddle. Made it to finish and asked from the guys how did I do. At that point zero points was the best result and actually it stayed like that. So I carried two point lead over BOLT and 14 point lead over LaaLaa before the final course.

Final Course - (-20/-20)
https://youtu.be/voY7kbHzDm0
I didn't have too much time to inspect the course closer, cause I was running straight from the sporty finals to this. I only had two point lead, which meant all or nothing. Worst case, I would be third. Driving was way too easy to be final course. Every sigle line went straight from the first try and just as I planned. Unreal feeling to finnish final course without penalties. That was one of the greatest moments for me in this hobby. Unreal and epic.


Feels good to take the Nordic Championship second year in row.


First three guys are with the points of final. 4-10 are the points from semi finals and rest of the guys have their points from qualification. Top three SuDu Pros. That says a lot of the chassis as well.


Our battles with LaaLaa will soon continue I hope. It's gonna be tight season!


My result from the weekend. Three times number one and only one time second. I can be proud of the rigs!


This is what salty seawater will do for brand new motors.


Something unfamiliar was found on the knuckleweights too.

Now it's couple of weeks till the next comp. Now I at least have my self confidence as it was last year. I still would like to thank the norwegians for setting an awesome weekend in Norway!

[Zarizi Tech]

Time to go to the garage and prepare the rig for our tradition comp on next friday.


Rust everywhere after Nordics.


It seems to be part of this rigs charichter though.


Just cleaning it up a little and it's ready for another one.


Motors don't look so good, but at least they are working as they should.


So the next comp will be driven next friday as a night comp. For now it seems, that there will be only two pro class starters. Another words people are too scared to sleep in their cars for one night as we are heading to a foff comp in the morning. Well, if it's only me and my brother we should make tough courses at least.

[Zarizi Tech]

Comp on last friday is done and it was another success for Koppensneller.


Beautiful finnish lake scenery on the way to the comp.


First course on the way!


Not any difficulties so far.


This was a really tough gate. Rock was like ice. Insanely slippery.


Had to try few times before I got it.


Going for bonus.


Gate nine and after that the final bonus.


Which turned out to be impossible with 2.2 crawlers.


Do not try to jump... And down we go.


Time stopped and off to get the rig.


Not many seconds left. Finishing gate.

https://youtu.be/7Y9Ml6OUL1I
Here is the fourth course on video. I decided to make "international" level course. It was a really tough one. Just made it myself.


Had a good comp and was able to pull off another victory!


Here are the results. Made a huge difference on the hard last course.

Next comps will be driven next weekend on saturday and sunday. Just tightening some screws and loading the batteries.


Tomorrow we are driving the second Finnish RC Crawling Series competition in Kirkkonummi.


All is set to challenge LaaLaa for the victory. Epic battle continues.


On sunday we will drive next RFOT's Crawl Cup competition in Inkoo. Same spot where we arranged the Nordics last year. Good place for me.

Hopefully everything holds and driver doesn't do anything stupid. At least the weather should be fantastic on both days. Pics and vids will eventually follow.

[Zarizi Tech]

Another pair of comps behind, let's see what happened.


First we had the second round of Finnish National Crawling Series in southern part of Finland, Kirkkonummi. Epic new spot to crawl on.


Yet again it was a battle with LaaLaa for the victory.


Here is Koppensneller on course two.


No problem so far. Tried the first bonus twice, but couldn't make it, so I decided to continue on.


Approaching bonus number two my front axle got stuck in the bush. It was quite a job to drive it out of it.


Managed to do that and drove the rig up with one reverse.


Approaching gate nine.


Had to take another reverse there to save time. Then I rushed into the first bonus.


Third time I tried and now I was able to clear it!


I want to throw a big thanks to MP Taito, who loaned the spot to us for racing. We will be back on that spot for sure!

https://youtu.be/SD2Gurb6nqc
Here we have video from third course. The only course in the whole weekend, which I was able to clear without penalties!


LaaLaa had some problems with the durability of rod ends and that is partial reason for me to take the victory this time! But it was really close competing once again! We will continue the fight next weekend on the third round of the series.


Here are the results. The last course was really tough. I got the furthest by reaching the gate nine. I think, that might have been the most difficult course of the year.

After the comp we went to hotel and next morning the competing would continue in Inkoo.


Sundays competition was part of RFOT's Crawl Cup 2015.


A new sunny day is ahead of us!


Calm sea with no clouds in the sky.


And a world class comp site!


Couple of poser shots.


Skins have remaned in perfect condition!


Second course on the way!


Got myself one bonus. Had to take a long route back to the course.


Tight gate three.


Had to do a little hop to the fourth gate. Otherwise the rig would just slide down on the gate.


Shiny bonus time!


Gates were quite close to each other on this course.


Final bonus. Dropped down from it at the first try.


Two more gates to go.


One reverse to gate nine to get the best approach for it.

https://youtu.be/Pr7BTCTlmiI
Here is the fourth and last course on video. Got some air at the last bonus!


Victory with clear numbers! Good comp with hard courses!


The third course was another DNF for me on that weekend. But it really was a hard one. Using my brains would have help though...

So, the next comp is third round of Finnish National Series in my home rocks basically next week. Nothing much to do till then. Maybe training?

[Zarizi Tech]

Tomorrow is yet again big day for this rig.


Third round of Finnish National Series. Currently after two comps I'm tied with LaaLaa as one victory and one second position. Tomorrow will be another epic fight in my home rocks. Hopefully rig can take the heat, cause I'm ready for it!

[Zarizi Tech]

The third round of Finnish National Series is behind.


What an awesome weather in the morning when we started.


A lot of drivers attended to this comp. Everyone was feeling thrilled before the competition.


Starting the course number two.


LaaLaa doing some intense judging. Yet again it was a tight comp with not only two, but three guys!


Going for the "pick your line well" gate two.


Approaching gate three.


Ready to point and shoot!


Gate four soon to be progressed.


Gates four and five were easy.


Gate six and the massive drop.


Trying to make it clean.


One minute left. Bonus bonus!


Not ideal line, but let's see...


YES!!


Course three starting. Rig was working like a dream again for the whole day.


Trying to clear gate three several times, but no luck...


After that I screwed up this course quite badly and just made it to the finish.

PICTURES: Heikki Halme & Arttu Ahtiainen

https://youtu.be/4ORSK3IUHEs
Here is the second course on video. Still happy about this performance, even with touching the second gate.


This kind of driving is enough for the second place. This means that LaaLaa is leading the championship and can   ensure the title in the next competition if he wins. So I gotta fight for it after few weeks.

Nothing to do to the rig though. Driver just need a lot of practice to be competitive against LaaLaa.

[Zarizi Tech]

Tomorrow will be a big day for the title hunt of 2015 Finnish National Championship.


All set. Did some training last weekend and got more comfortable with the rig. Tomorrows comp will be located on a tricky rock pit in south-east part of Finland. The battle will start for the Finnish National Champion title. I have to beat LaaLaa, if I want to be on the game. So it's gonna be victory or death!

[Zarizi Tech]

National Series round four is now behind.


Good amount of rigs showed on the line. This would be the decider of the victory in Pro class of Finnish RC Crawling Series 2015. If I would've wanted to keep in the game, I would've have to beat Laalaa.


Comp started well. I made the best score to the first course and was still leading by seven points after the second.


This is the start of the last course.


On third course it all went wrong for me. Started and got stuck straight away to a deep hole on really easy bit of the course. Had to take a repo and lost a lot of time...


Second try on the same spot. Tried to master it with speed. That didn't go as planned either. Falled down from the rock and as I tried to drive the car up again I broke my front shaft. Completely shattered in pieces. A repair.


After the repair I had lost two minutes and twenty points before I even had reached the gate one.


I thought it will be all or nothing and went for it.


With a good run after the first gate I was going like hell with only 30 second in the stop watch. Dropped down from gate nine and had to take another repo.


Back to gate eight and 15 seconds to spare. Unfortunately I only managed to reach the nineth gate and that was it. I knew the championship was over for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drF58f_fHv8
Course one in video. This was by far the best course for me. Pretty happy about it after all.


My feelings irl!


In five competition series better ALWAYS wins. So my congratulations to Lasse. It's hard to find a better driver in the world to drive against and get better.


Here are the points after four courses.

We will still have one more finnish series comp after three weeks and we can get a one off comp there first time, now that the championship is clear. Before that though our local series will continue on saturday.

[Zarizi Tech]

Next comp tomorrow!


All set for it! Just hoping to continue with good mood of driving so I could challenge LaaLaa in the last comp of Finnish Series.


This will be the frist time for us comping in that location. One of the most scenic comp grounds, that Finland has to offer.

Pics and video will follow of course.

[Zarizi Tech]

Time to sum up the last comp now.


Comp was arranged for the first time in south-western part of Finland, Naantali. This spot is one of a kind in Finland. Quite possible Nordics location for future years.


Competition courses were really tough.


The location offered really techical spots, so it was tempting to use as many as possible.


These pics are from the last course.


First three courses went well. Without any bigger mistakes.


Rig was working flawlessy for the whole day.


Reversing to the tricky gate six.


Unfortunately I hit a gate there.


As you can see, the weather was absolutely spot on!


Gate seven soon to be cleared.


I do hope we can secure this spot for 2017 Nordics.


Going for the bonus.


Gate nine on the way.


Finished with some time to spare.


Had all of my rigs down there. It was awesome spot for supers too.


Straight after the comp it was time for some relaxation in summer cottage. Swimming, sauna, bbq, beers..... vodka. Seriously, what else do you need?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIHOorrSMwU
Video from the last couse. Loved this one even though I got two dumb gates.


Another victory in RFOT's Crawl Cup!


Good gap to the second. Happy with my results.

Next comp will be on saturday. The final competition of our National Series. Time for the battle against LaaLaa again!

[Zarizi Tech]

Time to make a little update for this rig.


Old knuckle weight.


New.


A bit heavier. Should be good thing considering the grip that will be offered in spanish rocks.


Time to start training with heavy rig.


All set for the final competition of our national series. Not much to gain there, except some confidence to the rig's new setup. Hopefully everything will hold. I also changed the shafts from the front axle.

[Zarizi Tech]

The last comp of Finnish RC Crawling Series is now driven.


Good amount of entries to all classes.


The weather was a bit rainy at first, but then this came.


Gotta love finnish summer!!


After the rain was gone, it was time to make the final adjustments.


Drink few beers....


And go!


Was even with LaaLaa after first two courses. These pics are from course three.


As you can see, there has been some raining!


This was suprisingly difficult gate.


It just would now go like that. I had to drive it on it's roof and try like that.


Straight for the bonus!


Childs play really.


Here it went wrong for me. Hit the right gate...


After that, straight for the next bonus gate.


Aaand finish!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtRR_CXmWAw
Here is the final course on video. It went really well actually. Took six reverses and was able to floor through the gate ten with all that those Conflux's had to offer!


Victory with four point marginal to LaaLaa!! YES!


This was a tight one for sure! Happy to end this series with a victory!


In the overall standings though LaaLaa was the one to wear the smug face.


Really good season with tight competitions. Congrats to Lasse, it was fair fight all the way! Hopefully same battle continues next year!

Next comp will be driven on saturday. Gotta make the rig compworthy tomorrow.

[Zarizi Tech]

Yet again time for comp setup!


Adding some weight was a great improvement for the rig. Let's see if I will be able to test it in dry weather tomorrow!


Time to go east! Almost to the Russian border. I've only been there couple of times, so I'm really looking forward for tomorrow. Should be a good comp yet again!

[Zarizi Tech]

RFOT's Crawl Cup #9/12 is behind in sunny weather!


Completely new comp spot offered great new lines and grippy rocks.


At the start of course one.


First three gates went well without mistakes.


Skins are still looking pretty awesome in sunlight.


Here is the first mistake. Wrong amount of throttle to that cliff...


After that I hit another gate. Then rushed off to take bonuses.


Finishing gate on sight!


Time for short break after two courses.


Course three was really good for me. I was the only one to make it to finish. There I gained a good lead before course four.


First bonus of course four. Tried it five times. Nobody made it. Just not enough grip to pull it up.


Got the other gates progressed in the mean time.


Then back on there trying it.


From this view it surely looks like it's gonna climb. But no.


No matter how hard I tried!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoU9xIAbxF4
Course three on video. Really happy about this performance!!


Another great comp behind before one month break.


Proper victory. No room for explanations.

Now it's time to take a little brake from crawling. Next comp will be 17th of October. Till then my plan is to make new front tires.

[Zarizi Tech]

Time to get ready for the next comp on 17th.


Rig needed just basic screw tightening, so nothing suprising there. Smashed a couple of gold VooDoos on my sporty in the last competition and I wanted to make good use for them.


Two non-slidy MT-4's done!


This will be probably the last proper comp without ice or snow before EuroCrawl. Gotta make most of the training! Hopefully the weather is warm and everything stays in one piece.

[Zarizi Tech]

Another comp behind with Koppensneller. Driving feels awesome still and I can't wait for Spain!


RFOT's Crawl Cup 2015 #10/12 was driven in Lahti.


These pics are from the last course. This was impossible gate in this comp.


Wasn't do able from this line either.


Tried this bonus few times. Could not make it.


The courses went relatively well for me in this comp. Rig is working excellent and I still have the touch for it.


I'm beginning to feel really confident before heading down to Spain.


Another try of the second bonus. Dropped down straight on a gate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50uAr_fK5yU
Here is the second course. One of the trickiest of the day. This course went extremely well and I'm really happy about this performance!


One and two for Team Zarizi Tech!


Clear victory this time. And really good training for EuroCrawl. With this victory I was able to secure the RFOT's Crawl Cup 2015 victory! Let's take one for that!

One more comp to go before leaving to Spain. After two weeks. Till then I will replace the front tires of this rig.

[Zarizi Tech]

Time to add new rubber under the front axle!


These Dlux wheels will certainly last another two years!


Foam setup for my fronts. 6.0" CC Narrow inner and soft outer, with soft tuning ring.


Trying to be wise and vent the tires from on the tire this time.


First one glued!


I'll use this pattern again. It has been really good for the past months.


Here are the old foams. Probably time to change em.


Shiny new fronts under the rig!


Big thanks to Purpmart for fixing these tires for me!


All set for the comp on next weekend. I should have the grip in there!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... qU/pubhtml
Here you can follow live scoring of the comp. It'll begin at 09:00AM CET on 7th of November. Let's get some practise!

[Zarizi Tech]

Well, last comp before EuroCrawl is now done, with mixed feelings.


Day was extremely tough. Conditions were extreme to have a crawling competition.


These pics are from third course.


We got to drive first course without lights. And bigger rain.


Second course was just brutal for the last starters. Heavy rain and difficult gates even in dry conditions meant DNF for me.


In third course rain got even worse.


I had tons of luck in this course.


And enough wheelspeed for some of the gates.


You can see the surface of the rock there. Not too grippy.


I had to take two straddles to be able to finish this one.


The last course was so slippery, that we had to cancel it. It would've been too dangerous to drive it in that weather.


I was able to take one bonus in the thrid course too.


Tight finishing gate.


That's a progress. I was the only one to clear this course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPoqhWdv-OY
Here is the first course on video. I don't know what I was thinking of when I chose the line for the first gate. That was basically the deciding factor for me not to win this time. Stupid, stupid, stupid....


Results. Lost this one by six points to Saku. He had one amazing performance on the second course and the victory is well deserved! Congrats!

After this difficult comp it's time to make final preaparations for Spain. Just two weeks left before we leave!

[Zarizi Tech]

Last update before leaving to Spain.


Time for extra care service.


Rear axle pins were completely binded. Both of em. Replaced them with Axial ones in this rig as well.


Rear axle ready and shocks filled.


Hot glued the shock caps to prevent possible leaking.


Front axle done now as well. Everything except the pins were in order. Gotta love the bullies.


Tires now washed as well. I will be doing a lot of training before the comp. It's been a while since I have driven in such grippy spot as Almuñécar is.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... lI/pubhtml#
Here is the link to live scoring of the comp. Pro class will be driven on saturday.


Plane will take off on sunday morning. Can't wait! My goal is to drive in the finals of EuroCrawl. The higher, the better.