Koppensneller

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29N-9GfwnM4
Here we have the finals course of EuroCrawl. Thanks to Antonio for filming it. I'll get back to EuroCrawl later. Now it's time to prepare Koppensneller for the last comp of the year.


First I had to unpack everything from the trip.


Nothing more to do than just screw tightening.


It's ready for the final challenge of the year. RFOT's Crawl Cup #12/12. First crawling comp in Finland to be driven in December.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... LA/pubhtml
Here is the link to the live scoring tomorrow. The comp will start at 08:00AM CET. I'm hoping to continue, where I left in Spain.

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Ok, finally I have enough time to sum up the weekend in Spain.


First night was pure holiday feelings! Epic times!


We arrived on sunday and got training with the pro's on tuesday. First stop was in the beach bar.


Now that I have been running two years with this rig, my confidence towards it is beginning to show.


Pic from thursday night, when the other guys started to arrive. I had pretty good training days with Koppensneller. Only broke my old CVD shaft during harsh landing on thursday.


It's the comp day. I was in same group with my sister. There was also two guys from Spain and two from Portugal. So pretty good mix!


I went first on the first course. I was suprisingly calm.


This course was going good till gate six.


Where I tried throttling a really steep sidehill gate and went over the lower one.


Luckily nothing bigger problems than that wasn't occuring, so I think it was ok.


On the first gate of Fanatic RC Course.


This course was already a lot better for me. Managed to get clean performance with both bonuses.


Second bonus was a bit trickier than first though.


On the hardest gate of course four. This course could have been better for me as you will see from video soon.


Course five went really well and this photo is already from sixth course.


Another flawless course. Two of the qualification courses done without penalties. Pretty happy with that!


Final gate of sixth course!


After hearing that I'm in the lead before the finals, I prepared my rig to go for it first.


First finals course turned out to be too hard and dangerous, so we did another one which included five (-10 point) bonus gates and ten regular ones. Six minutes was the time limit.


First five gates - no problems. Approaching first bonus.


I managed to drive it without a marker.


Before gate six I tried another bonus, where I took one gate. And on the first try to clear sixth gate, I had to reverse once.


Drove one more bonus and made it to finish in time!

Time to get on with the video analysis!

Krawler Konceptz Course (-29/-40)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=antmSHCQx2s

First course. Didn't feel myself really nervous. I knew, that basic performing what I had done in this season is enough for the finals. First four gates went without problems. On fifth gate I figured, that my rig could just fit in there without lifting the tires on the other rock. Genious reverse with rear dig allowed me to pass it with only one penalty point. It all went wrong on the next gate where I tried to shoot myself though the gate without success. After that rest of the course went well. Stupid gate anyhow.

Fanatic RC Course (-40/-40)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4v1qd4d738

Yet again I was able to succeed on my own course. Everything went as planned except a little panic throttle on fifth gate. Nothing to be worried about though.

Holmes Hobbies Course (-16/-40)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL9t6KUn3Q8

This was easily the hardest pro course of the day. My plan was to try both bonuses. Plan went ok till I was on the nineth gate. Wideness of my rig didn't go well with the crack and I was badly stuck with only 20 seconds on the watch. Took a gate and somehow the rig positioned itself on the right side of the crack. With only ten seconds left I didn't take any chances and straddled the final gate. I think without the misery on second to last gate, it went really well.

Crawler Keller Course (-30/-40)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2t3esD03Ss

From the looks of this course, it looked like a piece of cake from all gates except gate three. I managed to drive without mistakes all the way to gate nine and then took both of the bonuses. After the second bonus there was (and I'm not lying) four meters to finish gate. That point I notced, that I have empty battery. Rushing off to say Sofi, that go and get a battery. Time was running and I was able to make it in the minute, what I had left. Apprently after the lunch break I hadn't switched the battery to a new one. This was stupid ten points to loose.

Team Ottsix Course (-28/-40)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKRAYfWLmp4

I can say, that this was the performance, that I'm really proud of. Only one to clear both of the bonuses. First bonus a little bit air time with bully! Second one turned out to be really extreme. But luckily I made it. To the second to last gate I didn't have enough time to progress it on a proper line, so I decided to straddle it. One more reverse on gate ten and finished five seconds early. Really, really good course for me.

RcBros Course (-40/-40)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1R3974SqbY

The last qualification course. I knew this to be one of the easy courses, so I tried to go for a perfect score. On the second bonus gate my line was really close to the right gate, but somehow it passed it without a marker. Otherwise the whole course was pretty straight forward. Another perfect score!

DravTech Finals (-39/-70)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtE8hKLpvgI

At this point, I knew that my lead to Fred is so big, that finishing the finals course would be enough. But when you are in comp mode, there's no room for hand brake. So I decided to go the best I could. I got this similiar feeling in Nordics on the last finals course, where everything went as planned. Now it was almost the same, but I had to take one gate and one reverse. I drove three bonus gates from the five. I'm really happy about this performance as well. I was able to reduce my lead to Fred even more, which was good as well. And after the finals, champagne always tastes excellent!!


So happy to be able to drive best performances here, in the most important competition of the whole year. Big congratulations to Fred and Chris for the podiums. These guys will be definately hungry for more next time.


Pure joy!


Here are the final results. The gap got really big after the finals.


Beautiful spanish night offered some hardcore crawling and right after that a really good night on the bar!


All in all my trip to Spain was yet again a huge success.


Finnish, German, Spanish, Nordic and now - European Champion!!


Yet again, huge shout out to the supporters of EuroCrawl 2015! It was great to have you on board!


Me and Arttu went on top of Almuñécar to see the final sunrise before we left from Spain. Pretty breathtaking scenery indeed. Last of all big thanks to everyone involved in this great weekend of fun! Thanks to Sofi, who is filming these performances. It's so awesome to look afterwards! And biggest thanks to all of my present and previous sponsors in this season! It would definately not be the same without your continuous support!

DravTech
RC4WD
Team Ottsix
PURPMART
Offipaita.fi
Krawler Konceptz
Team Brood Racing
E.Y. Designs

PICTURES: Jorge Teixeira & João Gurreiro


From the heat of Spain to the slippery RFOT's Crawl Cup finals of 2015, which were held on the next weekend after EuroCrawl.


Weather was really good bearing in mind, that it is already December.


I decided to change nothing from the comp setup of Spain.


Rig worked really well, but it was really hard to adapt the driving style back to finnish rocks. They were this time too, insanely slippery!


We ran four courses. First two went ok. Mistakes here and there. On third course I had really stupid mistakes after gate nine. Drived straight into a stick and didn't want to reverse. Rolled over on some plants and I had to take a roll over. Got stuck on the freakin' plant and reversed straight to my feet. Hahahahhahaaa. One point switched to sixteen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CouT1C5rdNQ
Video from the last course of season 2015. Other than hitting the fifth gate it was really good. No perfect performances on these rocks.


Driving against my main rival Saku again. I was able to pull off the victory even with the terrible mastakes on third course.

Quite good last competition behind. The rig has been stayed on the shelf after this comp. Soon it's time to dig it back on the table and start conversing it to SuDu Pro Mod 3D chassis. More of that later.

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Time for the last message of the season 2015.


In RFOT's Crawl Cup 2015 Koppensneller was able to take the title for second year in row. Congrats to Saku and Lasse, who were able to take the other victories. There were some pretty intense competitions!


This was the second season for me with this rig. It's beginning to show as a massive confidence during the competitions. Now it's time to do a little change with the new chassis, but mainly it'll stay the same. Why changing a good setup?


Absolute highlight of the season was this epic finals course during the Nordics. I still belive, it's the best performance I have ever made. Sick courses, tight competition and the awesome company gives the most in this hobby!

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Today I managed to get myself to garage.


Found some new stuff on the table.


Started working with this thingy.


It's good, that I had some red hardware left!


"Just a dab of glue" done wrong.


Step up in the game!

Tomorrow I'd like to see this thing already mounted. Hopefully I have time to do so.

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Second day in row for me at garage! Cross in tha wall!


Sad to do this.


But let's tear this beast down.


Another set of these to my collection.


Old vs. new.


I thought I had a set of Jato rod ends lying around, but didn't find any. Have to grab them from my foff. "Just loaning".


Old chassis removed, time to install the game changer!


Highly needed components to make it going.


Rear axle istalled. It's gonna have some clearance!


And tons of squat!


Front axle is now installed as well.


It's got the same clearance at full droop as the old one in ride height.


I could barely fit my ESC's and BEC in the chassis. Receiver sits nicely in the electronic plate.


Now we need just few finishing touches before it's ready for testing and tuning!

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THIRD NIGHT in the garage I'm really pacing up here!


First job was to get shock setup better from the rear. That's how I ended up.


That was the setup in the old chassis.


Looks good, feels even better.


Front suspension was up for change too. On the right the new setup and on the left old setup.


I guess threading the chassis didn't go all that well after all....


Here you can see finished skid setup and my shortened electronics plate.


It all sits there nicely!


After a quick test that everything is working on the garage floor, it's time for some more poser pics. This is the suspension all the way up.


Full droop.


Pretty pleased how that turned out.


That squad is something we didn't have in the old chassis.


Electronics at full droop. Nice and tight.


Here is the flex. Almost Voodoo height.


Next weekend I will have possibility to go and test this thing indoors. Can't   wait to see the performance!


It surely looks like a performer! Now I'm just waiting for the skins to arrive and then it's complete.

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Yesterday I was able to test Koppensneller with the new chassis in The Bunker.


First some comparation between the new and old chassis.


Front of the chassis seemed to be exactly the same.


I need to do minor adjustments for the front suspension to get full squat.


Plenty of room under the roof.


The whole day I was tinkering with the suspension. It got improvements during the day.


Time to see how it does.


We did one tricky course to see the performance. Bully weight + Voodoo pins was suprisingly not that good on the wooden surface. I really had to fight my lines through there.


Thank god I don't have to drive on wooden surface all that often.


Tight turns were just as easy with this chassis as they've been with the old one.


Spots like this, I really found out I need to adjust the suspension more. Ride was quite bouncy.


The performance changed quite a lot between different spots.


After the testing I managed to get the rear suspension working quite well.


This was really difficult course.


And I didn't feel all that ready behind the wheel after one month break.


But good enough, I managed to clear all the gates of the course, which was my goal. This gate was especially tricky.


Finally LaaLaa found quite interesting line to it and I managed to climb it too.


We also found few things to improve from the chassis. Rear bit of the cf sideplate could be moved to the front. It's too vonuarable in there. Here is good pic, that it will be in high stress areas at times. This time inside the course element.


All in all performance felt slightly improved from the SuDu Pro. Just needs a little bit more time and testing and it will be even better.

https://youtu.be/5xmDatU_XOQ
Here is a little video of it running. I also wanted to know if the chassis can survive my driving style. Look at the video and you'll find if it did.

Building continues tomorrow.

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Some more tuning done!


Dlux knuckles and XR universals.


Got quite a lot of more steering after stealing that stuff from my old shafty.


Loved them in the shafty, so it's about time to get these in action.


New skins came down quickly! Thanks Michelle!


Pretty small side panel attached.


Hood with THE flag.


This thing does stand out!


Michelle got quite fresh looking view designing these updated Koppensneller skins. Love em!


Maximum steering without grabbing the lower links.


I just love the way it looks so dangerous.


I'm gonna start with maximum weight on the knuckles.


Switched from Losi MRC silver springs to Losi Mini-T silvers. Front end feels way better now.


My current setup coming here. In front the link/shock attachement is on outer holes. Shock and link is attached inside.


Lower links are on the lowest hole and shock is on the third.


Using OG SCX10 shock cap in the middle hole of the chassis. Uppers are attached on second lowest holes on the chassis axle side.


Uppers are on the top hole of upper link attachement of the axle. The mount itself is on the highest possible holes.


Rear shocks are attached on the second hole. I'm using axial rod end as a shock caps in the rear shocks.


Rear link/shock attachement is inside of the axle and shock and link are outside of the attachement.


Links again in the lowest hole and shocks on the third.


Upper links are on the second highest hole and the mount is on high position in the axle.


Rear upper are attached on the upper axle side hole.


Overall setup on rear axle.


I had to trim a little bit off from the skid to make long rod ends to fit without preassure on flex.


Running 40wt oil both front and rear.


First comp with these two are on saturday. Wintersnertcrawl in The Netherlands.

Douwe........................

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Okey, back from The Netherlands!


Serge was kind enough to offer me a place to sleep and transportation for the weekend. Big thanks to him and his wonderful family!


Little tuning on friday night before the comp.


Beautiful morning in Spaarnwoude just outside of Amsterdam opened for us.


First comp with the new chassis ahead!


Skins are definately top notch for this rig!


No scratches. Yet.


Apparently this was some sort of training park for these. Us fat kids were just playing with toy trucks!


Really good looking spot this.


Guys making the second course of the day.


That tag misses letters "o" and "d".


In the middle of the comp spot there was these stairs, which were used for training quite a lot during the day.


My skins after the comp. Few scratches now here and there.


But the whole rig is looking so damn good in my eyes. And it really performs as well.


Really good comp for me. Nothing broke and I'm semi happy with the courses as well.

Let's see them in video corner, shall we!

Course 1 - (-30/-30)

https://youtu.be/kwXrGk4kqKc
First course with the new chassis. Was excited to see the performance. Rocks were suprisingly slick out there, but I managed to get through without penalties. Good course for me, no reason to be upset.

Course 2 - (-17/-30)

https://youtu.be/oVMdFCmaPkQ
This was the hardest course of the day. First two gates were relatively easy. Third one was really narrow, but perfectly do able with the new chassis. Then off to the first bonus which took a lot of time to tackle through. Gate seven was this time my point eater. Took three reverses there, where I could just drive it straight from the first try with a right line. Oh well.... Rest of the course went well though.

Course 3 - (-30/-30)

https://youtu.be/_Y8ijcWw7vs
Course three turned out to be the easiest of the day for me. No problems on the way. Nothing at all. Driving was silky smooth. Just the way it should be!

Course 4 - (-30/-30)

https://youtu.be/JJQPUCiLXmU
The last course was a really long one. On the second gate the new improved steering got in use. Gotta love it now! Dropped off from the cliff with panicing on the throttle, but luckily I didn't brake anything or loose points. I was on the roof quite a few times in there, I have to admit that. But no mistakes and another perfect run.


Took home the victory with a good gap to the second! It was pleasure to run with these folks. It's been ages since the last time we met.

Big thanks to the competitors of the day. I had really good time in The Netherlands! Hoping to see these fellas in the Worlds!

Next comp for me will be on 20th of february in The Bunker. So it'll be indoor comp once again. Not my strongest area, but I will try to improve from last year!

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Time to get set for the first competition of 2016 in Finland.


Just making sure everything is nice and tight.


Comp will be arranged in The Bunker, Lahti. Definately not my favorite terrain, but I'll try to make it better than it was last year when I ended up fourth after miserable competition.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... zg/pubhtml
Behind that Link you can follow live scoring. We will begin at 10AM CET on saturday. It will also be a real high level comp, when two vikings from Norway are attending. Good times lies ahead!

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First comp of the year in Finland is in the books.


Had great company with the top drivers of Finland and few pretty good ones from Norway and Estonia!


Rig was working without problems for the whole day. It was just little bit too heavy to the stairs of The Bunker.


I had really hard time progressing those. But I wasn't the only one.


Still managed to do finished scores on two of the courses, which automatically put me on the podium.

https://youtu.be/OZE7Sjhz1Tg
Here is my best performance of the day. Course two. Even in there was two stupid gates, but still I managed to finish. Im happy how the rig performes in terrain like that.


But as years before have shown, this time either I was no match for the locals of Lahti. Congrats again guys!!


It's a pretty clear third spot. Happy that I managed to improve from last years fourth spot.

Next comp will be on the end of this month outdoors. Can't wait!

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Finally back in business. Switched my job and it's awfully difficult to find time to do my topics.


Few weeks back we started the outdoor season in Finland.


In the first course I wasn't quite able to make it to the finish. The last gate turned out to be really hard and I just couldn't find way through it.


Here I am on the start of the second course.


Weather was damp, but not wet.


Rig feels easier to control with the new chassis. Still needs more driving though.


Start of the course went really well.


Now when I see them motors from the pics, it's probably time to take one step back and get me a nice set of Stubbies again.


Everything is still going as planned.


We had only four competitors on that day.


Then it was turn of this nightmare gate.


I wasn't quite able to drive it like a planned and it all went wrong so fast.


Two gates from the top of the rock. Nice job duuuude!


With relatively easy courses as these were, I knew that I had to take all the bonuses available.


So I went for the second one.


And there my luck didn't turn. Got stuck so badly, that I had to take a repo.


That's the point where I realized, that this isn't my day.


Some pics after the comp. Third and fourth course went really well, but the score from the second course ruined my day completely.


Rig feels astonishing to drive still. Makes smile on my face time after time.

https://youtu.be/9sg2FVU--mE
Here we have the third course shooted on video. This course went well without bigger mistakes.


At the end with better driving my brother took the win leaving me and my dad second and third. Not the best day for me, but spring is coming.


From the results you can see the difference in course two.


It was spectacular sunset in the night and I thought I'd like to take a promotion pic of the rig on the ice.


MAYBE YES.

Next comp coming on next sunday, I hope to get some better results on there.

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The third outdoor comp of the year for me was held two weeks ago.


Sunny day started with tasty beer.


Terrain looked mercyless.


Overall I had good comp. Managed to finish all four courses.


Second course was really hard and I even managed to secure one bonus in there.


Rig is working best when you drive it slowly and controlled. The new chassis doesn't give you the chance to mess around.


And that's a really good thing. I just need to find time to do training and be at my best on the competitions.


It's all in that package. I just need to find the flow.

https://youtu.be/ZDDhZ33G7I4
Here is third course on video. There you can see some serious bonus gates, which were not success for me this time.


Clear victory with calm driving. Just need to improve the driving itself and I'm back in the form.


Scores tell everything. Can't wait to get driving in the big comps again.

Next comp will be held on saturday and it will be the second leg of RFOT's Crawl Cup 2016. Good amount of entries so far, so I'm waiting for a high level rock crawling.

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Due to my previous job (which just ended) I haven't been able to post any updates for a long time. Now it's time to catch things up.


Starting with RFOT's Crawl Cup Comp three on early may.


New spot to drive on. Possibly the location of 2017 Nordics. Really good spot with a lot of pure grippy rock.


Here are pics from the third course.


Going up the bonus gate. I had good first two courses with perfect scores.


This was good practise for the Finnish Series opener, that would be next weekend from this.


Rig worked stunningly well in there. Just loving the new chassis.


Closing in the nineth gate.


There you can really see the ground clearance that this thing is offering!


First try was a fail.


Second bonus gate. Tried to jump to the finishing gate without luck.


Got this one perfect as well, but on the last course I finally had to take couple of straddles to finish.

https://youtu.be/sV9WUJ4F-vU
Here is the third course on video. Really happy about this performance.


Best score from all four courses made me a happy guy after the comp. The confidence to this rig is raising comp by comp.

Next update will be about the first comp of Finnish RC Crawling Series.

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Next it was time to head to east. Almost in the Russian border was held the first of total five rounds of Finnish RC Crawling Series.


What a beautiful place and weather.


First day in this year, that all the crawler and scale enthusiast come together to have fun.


First course behind with perfect score!


These photos are from the second course, which was the easiest of the day.


My Dlux knuckle upper part cracked during harsh landing on this course. Luckily I managed to keep it in one part for the whole comp.


This chassis still offers a lot of eye candy. Haven't yet ruined it completely.


All the time I'm getting more and more familiar with the edges of the performance in this.


Tricky gate eight mastered nicely.


Tried first this gate from the bottom. Not too easy to reach. Then just jumped it from the side like everyone else.


Only one reverse on this course. Course three went well too with only two reverses.

https://youtu.be/YtzpLmG10KQ
Here is the most difficult course of the day. I was the only one to make it to the finishing line. I even had time to try one of the bonuses. Few gates on the start were really hard to drive, so you'de have to make many straddles. Happy about my performance on this one!


And here are the results. Good start for the season indeed. It's gonna be one heck of a fight with LaaLaa again this year!

Next comp to catch up is RFOT's Crawl Cup 2016 Comp 3. Stay tuned for more updates!

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Ok, next update and last for the day. On the end of may we had third round of RFOT's Crawl Cup 2016 in Rauma.


This was the last comp before leaving to The Nordics.


We made good and hard courses to practise.


Yet again, the weather was spot on. Forecast promised rain, but we only saw the sun.


These pics are from the last course. This didn't go so well for me. Three gates including this one.


Luckily first three courses had went well, so I was well in the lead before this one.


This second bonus came really slippery in the end.


Like this climb. Too steep to try straight from below.


Tried several times from different directions and have to gave up.

https://youtu.be/0D-i182wsvM
Here is the third course on video. This was quite nice one! Only took one reverse in there.


Another win in the series. Pretty confident feeling before the big comp.


Here are the results. No need for excitement before the last course.


After the comp we went up on the water tower, which had a nice restaurant on it. The comp place was right below the tower. From the top you can see the whole city, which was nice.


Cool spot, I have to say!

Next update will be tomorrow from The 2016 Nordics!

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Then it was time to prepare for the Nordics 2016.


Filled the shocks and changed the grease on the axles.


Weather was pretty stunning at the comp area for the whole weekend.


Thursday night was basic Nordics stuff! Sober arm wrestling.

Didn't find any pics of my rig from the comp and unfortunately didn't have time to take any, so we'll go straight to the video corner!

Krawler Konceptz Course - (-19/-20)
https://youtu.be/5bxDLhglySs
Semi hard course to start, but from the first meters I had good confident feeling on the rig. Every spot went just as I planned. Only one tactical reverse, to avoid unnecassary risks. This was a good one.

Dlux Fab Course - (-20/-20)
https://youtu.be/CyD483g17HY
The hardest course in paper of the whole competition. I was the only one to make it to the finishing gate. With perfect score. I think this was my kind of course, with a lot of jumping and testing the rigs durability.

DravTech Course - (-19/-20)
https://youtu.be/j1pgcEfG55Y
This course as well had it's tricky spots, where one could easily get a lot of points. Somehow I managed to avoid them pretty well and got to gate nine without mistakes. That turned out to be extremely tricky for me somehow. Tried to make a little jump, so the rig wouldn't fall down, but failed both times. On the third attempt I succeed, but had to take one reverse to pull it off completely.

RcBros Course - (-7/-20)
https://youtu.be/HtRrQrkgwTg
This course didn't look too hard from the start, but it turned out to be the hardest for me in the whole competition. Already reverse before the first gate and marker from gate three. Allthough as far as I know nobody wasn't able to clear it without marker. Two more reverses approaching gate nine, but both of them were worth it.

Crawler Innvations Course - (-10/-20)
https://youtu.be/0VRc0Hx2FAM
This course was built by me. It's always 50/50 chances to get your own course right. This time it went really well except for stupid and completely unnecassary gate five. Luckily this marker was the only stupid marker I had in the competition. Fun course all in all.

Holmes Hobbies Course - (-9/-20)
https://youtu.be/ME-sjbDV0dM
Too bad the battery of our camera died just after two gates. This was hard course as you will see from the points, but I was able to clear it pretty well. Only one gate on the way and yet again it was a gate, that nobody wasn't able to clear.

Finals Course - (-47/-50)
https://youtu.be/LBKTm4t-Hcw
This course design was different from the others. Ten regular gates and three bonus gates everyone worth -10 points. I had a good feeling after qualification and I drove the finals last since I was in the lead. Fun but challenging course and I was able to make it with only three reverses. One of the runs, that I will remember.


First place ahead of Arve and Jukka! Felt good to return third year in a row to the first place. With a same rig!


Here are the scores. No need for any words this.


And what an awesome trophy!


Other classes went quite well for me as well. Very, very cool weekend in Sweden! Thanks for everyone who was involved!

Next up will be the last update, before we are on date!

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[QUOTE=Snatch;5527154]Huge congrats Samu,again a monumental performance [/QUOTE]

Thanks Chris! Hoping this to continue, can't wait for France!

Ok, last update. Three weeks ago we had the second round of Finnish National Series in Kirkkonummi.


Before starting on course, I noted that I have crushed bearing on the knuckle. So I switched the whole upper part to aluminium one, so it would hold.


Starting course three here.


Again the rig had been working flawless all of the day and I managed to   get good scores from the courses.


This was one of the tricky courses of the day.


Here I am, going on the bonus nobody had made so far. I was able to pull it off with patience.


This bit got me in trouble. I spent over a minute trying to climb that spot.


Stuck from the axles. Eventually I managed to break free and got to the finishing line five second before running out of time.

https://youtu.be/sU-n5Jzsw0I
Here is the first course on video. Again course built by me. This time I got it right and made best score on this one. Allthough the grip suprised us after the Nordics, which didn't offer too good grip.


Another victory in Finnish Series! This season has started way better than I dared to dream!


Point difference isn't like the one in The Nordics, but it is enough!


This rivalry continues after few weeks, when we will be driving the third round of championship.

Now, off to the garage to get the rig ready for some training.

[Zarizi Tech]

Oh deary me. I feel bit ashamed of my updatings in this season. I have been just so busy, that I had to give up for something. I'll catch up all the comps before it turns to 2017, and that's a promise.   ;D

Rig has been pretty freakin epic this season. It got me win in the Nordics, title in Finnish National Series and title in RFOT's Crawl Cup. Basically all of it.

There's only one comp left.   ;) Total rebuild before that is ahead.