Finnish national electric outdoor championship series a.k.a Maastosarja

[AiR]

Maastosarja 2011 #1 - Jyvaskyla

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_0sQShRNSxEg/TdAw8UWSRoI/AAAAAAAAKfs/qrPb7gVSITM/s640/JKL_Panorama.jpg
Larger image (https://picasaweb.google.com/janne.aspinen/Maastosarja20111Jyvaskyla#5607035348888733314)

Our first outdoor event was held last weekend in Jyvaskyla (Central Finland). 2WD and 4WD classes was run as practice race and official race. On saturdays we run 2WD official race and 4WD practice race and on sunday vice versa. All classes combined there were over 100 entries.

Here is playlist of videos. Enjoy!
finRC.com: Youtube playlist: Maastosarja 2011 #1 - Jyvaskyla (http://bit.ly/finRC_m11_1_vids)

Next weekend I'll be in Vaasa, racing in Worlds Warm-Up event. Hopefully I'll get some video from there too. Second event in Maastosarja will be on 20.-21. of august in Kiiminki (Northern Finland).

Older topics related to Finnish RC-Racing in oOple:
- Maastosarja 2010 & Winter Jumps 2009-2010 & Winter Jumps 2010-2011 (http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26128)
- FinTrack 2010 (http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39086)

Thanks!
-Janne A

[JensK]

Nice video...
That seems like a real challanging track :thumbsup:

[Highjumper]

WOW, What a Track! Great!!

Have a nice Race!

Greets Kim

[footey]

the link for the track dont work for me :(

[AiR]

the link for the track dont work for me :(

U mean this one?
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/b6tcgO-wuXdDX_2azC49gw?feat=directlink

And thanks for the comments! :)

[AiR]

After the dust had settled from The Worlds, second round of our national series was driven last weekend in Kiiminki, 600 km to north from Helsinki. Bad weather was playing with us and friday's free practice was canceled due to rain.

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Kiiminki, Finland: View from rostrum on friday. Wet wet wet.

Saturday: 2WD:
On saturday 2WD was run with 4WD practice race. Weather turned out
fine, but moist track created its challenges. Grip was different on every
round and drivers were battling with their setups.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-bC2-wb3bneo/TlIhgWspTuI/AAAAAAAAM1E/8uZApu8F7SM/s640/_DSC0823.JPG
2WD A-finalists: 1. Karri Salmela (Lower row middle), 2. Henry Salmén (Lower row left), 3. Vesa Yli (Lower row right). First they were posing like this...

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-XmFnOAGjO44/TlIhjZd6VwI/AAAAAAAAM0Q/cfmklTH0wMY/s640/_DSC0829.JPG
...But then they were like...

Sunday 4WD:
On sunday 4WD was run with 2WD practice race. The Track was more
consistent and drivers could concentrate to driving instead of setup.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4ZH_w9G48TI/TlIifldeF_I/AAAAAAAAMjQ/7dG978N1pIk/s640/_DSC0863.JPG
Defending Finnish Champion Harri Kervola taking good care of his DEX410.

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4WD A-finalists: 1. Harri Kervola (Lower row middle), 2. Janne Aspinen (Lower row left), 3. Henry Salmén (Lower row right).

Third and last event of the series will be run on 3rd and 4th of september.

Results (http://rc10.fi/index.php?topic=59751.0)
Standings (http://rc10.fi/index.php?topic=58125.0)
See pictures here. (https://picasaweb.google.com/janne.aspinen/Maastosarja20112Kiiminki?authuser=0&feat=directlink)
See videos here. (http://bit.ly/finRC_M11_2_Vids)

[AiR]

http://www.team-durango.com/blog/wp-content/gallery/cache/1235__600x666_title.jpg

Team Durango: Harri Kervola wins 2nd round Finnish Championships with DEX410 (http://www.team-durango.com/blog/2011/08/30/harri-kervola-wins-2nd-round-finnish-championships-with-dex410/)

[AiR]

Race report

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-lKCiFUcL3kU/TmKDa5n_ErI/AAAAAAAANxc/LUvLtjZiB-A/s640/286725_254296591268108_123074341057001_825801_5568 084_o.jpg
Profile - More pics (http://bit.ly/finRC_M11_3_pics)

Last event of the series was run in Hyvinkää, 60 km to north from Helsinki. Track was in similiar shape as in yesteryears with an exception of large elevated corner on the right hand side. Friday's practice wasn't very active 'cause of wet weather.

On saturday, first practice was run with layout seen in the picture, but after the round drivers gathered up and vote was held for changes in layout. New layout was agreed and it didn't have this blind spot under the elevated corner (as seen in videos).

2WD and 4WD's practice race was run and young Karri Salmela took his first Finnish Championship by winning the 2WD class. Harri Kervola won the 4WD's practice race.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-l8vKzyLEAyU/TmSNfgAC46I/AAAAAAAAOmg/dd-E8KZEE3k/s400/_DSC0297.JPG
2WD: Top three: 1. Karri Salmela (middle), 2. Petri Ström (right), 3. Harri Kervola

On sunday 4WD and 2WD's practice race was run. Defending champion Harri Kervola started to the 4WD race with good lead in series, in worst case 9th spot in the race would be needed for him to win the championship. Harri didn't give any changes in qualifyings to others and he TQ'd the class. In finals Harri managed to place in 4th after few unfortunate moves, but with the result he won second championship.

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4WD: Top three: 1. Harri Kervola (middle), 2. Karri Salmela (left), 3. Henry Salmén


https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-QR1glLLXHhI/TmSNjpidAcI/AAAAAAAAN8s/c8pqvfSe7dk/s400/_DSC0308.JPG
Miro enjoying his sausages.

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Heikki's magical goggles.


Videos:

QgN0rFweXv0
2WD A1

zTtcT7LYNk8
4WD A1

See rest of videos: finRC.com: Youtube playlist: Maastosarja 2011 #3 (http://bit.ly/finRC_M11_3_vids)

[Ritchie T]

Karri Salmelas got skillsss

[AiR]

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3453719/RC/iMaastosarja.jpg

Had to bump up this topic to give shout out to a new web site dedicated to videos of Maastosarja.

The site was created to promote our national series. I believe it's pretty unique archive of videos when you compare it to any other rc series in the world?

Check out: http://www.finRC.com/imaastosarja

Comments and feedback is welcome. :)