Arttu Ahtiainen kirjoitti:
Hei onneks olkoon dominoidusta vuodesta, kaikki voitettiin mitä voitettavissa oli parempaan ei olis pystyny. Itsekkin sain koittaan espanjassa kaitsua finaalin jälkeen ja onhan se aika peli menemään verrattuna omaan saftyyn, mut tälleen meni tämä vuosi ja ensi vuonna samukin joutuu palaamaan kuolevasten joukkoon 8)
Hei, tänks! Ensi kaudella joutuu taas ajamaan. :-[
Finally time for a little sum up of the trip in Spain!
Weather was like this for the whole trip!
We arrived on sunday and got straight on the rocks!
After a little fuzzy training we "stopped by" at the beach bar. Left from there at the night.
Another training session was held on tuesday night with the local drivers.
Rambo, yacos and Litri were really good company to do few training courses!
Even by night the weather was excellent. I was really enjoying the trip so far.
Thursday morning. Going to the rocks with The Lizard!
Sunday morning opened up beautiful just like the ones before it. Comp day!
Progress from the first bonus of Krawler Konceptz course.
I was in the same group with my sister and three portugese guys. We had so much fun out there.
Another bonus on the way!
In the first course I had to take three reverses. It was really good one for me.
On the second course I was able to get a perfect run!
Epic picture from the third course!
Before the competition I already had a guess of my main rivals. I thought TotoRax would be the main contender. And he surely was!
Bonus time on Holmes Hobbies course!
Another perfect run! So, in total three reverses from the first three courses.
Crawler Keller course number four. This was the worst of the day for me.
Managed to make this gate with one reverse.
Here was the mistake. First gate of the day.
Had to take multiple reverses to this bonus.
Enjoyed the driving of the day. It was great to see the portugese chaps getting better and better course by course!
First comp in many years to connect so many nationalities!
It was honestly fun weekend from the start to the end. Only happy faces to be seen.
Sun was setting and it was time to hit the finals course!
Since TotoRax had one DNF, I was the one to start it as the leader.
10 gate course with five (-10 point) bonuses. In this class as well, I knew that basic performing to finish would be enough to secure the title. But in comp mode it's all or nothing. Drove all of the bonuses!
Full speculation as the finals were progressing forwards.
Then it's time for one last video corner from Spain!
Krawler Konceptz Course (-37/-40)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZZuEg6yBvc
First course of the day. This went almost as planned. One non planned reverse on the second bonus gate, when the front end got light. Other than that, it was pretty basic stuff for this rig.
Fanatic RC Course (-40/-40)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=helDiNrWWy0
Another course build by me. I just drove it like a meant it to be driven.
Not often you get to say that though. Perfect.
Holmes Hobbies Course (-40/-40)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7qW_h02luA
Another really good run. Before I went to this course, I was prepared for a couple of reverses. Neither one of those were necassary at the end. And I even had plenty of time to spare in the finish. Fun course, at least with this rig.
Crawler Keller Course (-24/-40)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIz_WV3rywI
This was the worst course of the day for me. Took one reverse to clear gate two and approaching to the third gate, I took the "I'm a crawler god"-line and ended up rolling.
With a massive luck I was able to make it with only one reverse.
Next problem was on the drop to gate seven. First time I tried, I dropped over the gate. Got no penalties, but didn't make it clean. Tried another time and rolled on the gate. Bummer! First gate of the comp.
Managed to drive it on it's wheels again and progressed the gate. Went for another bonus and took I scrappy reverse, which ended up me taking plenty of more.
Mistakes, mistakes... Well rest of the course went ok, and I managed to finish it.
Team Ottsix Course (-20/-40)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqDrR63Ge6M
Actually, now when I look the points, this turned out to be my worst course.
Second gate was really tricky. Didn't see anyone making it in my time. Probably somebody did though. Tried to give it some nexus throttle, but stopped too early to make the gate clean.
Then on sixth gate my rig bounced back on the gate after progressing it and my frustration roar came out.
Should have been driving slower... Rest of the course was easy, but two big mistakes on this course. One completely stupid one.
RcBros Course (-28/-40)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxJ4wdCCyA8
This was longer course that it looks in the video. I tried to go from different line to gate two to avoid reversing, but that plan didn't work out too well. Rolled over on the way and at the end still had to reverse.
On the gate four I couldn't see the correct line and accidentally hit the marker.
Then I got my driving back on good mood, and drove perfectly till the last gate, where I had to take another reverse. It was pretty good course for me. No bigger complains.
DravTech Finals (-57/-70)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWShNiF4oRk
Finals course. Before this one, I had over fourty point lead, so I knew that finishing it would probably be enough. Bonuses looked fun, so I decided to go all in. Made a plan for my route on the course and managed to drive all of the five bonuses!
Took gate number three, when my rig started to roll saved it on the gate. Three reverses all together. I was really suprised how well it went. Really fun finals course!
And again, champagne crowned this weekend!
Big congratulations to Stephan and Gabriele for the podium. Too bad, that Stephan had that one DNF, it would definately have been really close without that.
Here are the results. Stunningly happy about the finals!
Perfect season so far. Really pleased of my performances in Spain!
All of them!
This picture really sums up well the nights after the long days on the rocks. It was just epic to hang out with all the my friends out there. So many good memories!!
I've said this on all of my threads already and will say it again. Major thanks to all of the supporters of the first EuroCrawl! The raffle prizes were bang on!!
On the departure day we went on top of the mountain to see sunrise.
Pretty astonishing sight for finnish people.
Last of all I want to give big thanks to my current and earlier sponsors. Without you, it would've been different!
DravTech
RC4WD
Team Ottsix
PURPMART
Offipaita.fi
Krawler Konceptz
Team Brood Racing
E.Y. Designs
PICTURES: João Gurreiro
Now it's time to see what happened on our last competition of the season 2015.
RFOT's Crawl Cup #12/12 was held in Pirkkala a week after EuroCrawl. This was to be the last competition in Kai-modosu's career.
I removed some of the weights from spanish setup, cause it was no needed on these slippy rocks.
We had four tricky courses and I was able to finish all of them. Mistakes here and there, but nothing too bad compared to my rival.
Eighteen competitions. Eighteen victories. This is some rig.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe1p-Qfm-_g
Here is my third course performance on video. This was maybe the toughest course of the day. I managed to drive both of the bonuses, but also took two gates. The rocks really were stunningly slippery.
Another clear victory for this rig. It's so sad to not be able to compete with it anymore.
After this comp it has been on the shelf and I'm aiming to do one more message about it before the year changes. Then I will tare it apart and move some of it's parts to my pro. I will start building new shafty next year.
