"Lost in Frost" Finland, 26-28 februari

[Malin]

Har fått ett preliminärt datum för "Lost In Frost" i Finland, nära Helsingfors!

Är det några där ute i stugorna som ska me´?
För tre år sedan hade de -27 grader tydligen (men i år "bara" -8 )

Vi som börjat fundera:
http://www.4x4oas.se/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=521

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[calle-fas]

Låter skitkul. Lite långt för oss i väst, men ska fundera på det.

[Mylppy]

Now Finnish version of race invitation has been published and I'm trying to get English version also ready. Time table is quite normal. Starting in saturday morning and finish in sunday morning. Price is that old 140€.

Registration is allready open and if you register before 31.1 competition fee includes 2 shirts. (It has not made decision yet, which kind. It depends how many competitors have been registered before that)

Important places in Google maps: here

[Mylppy]

Now English race invitation is ready and English version of rules 2010 will be ready in this weekend.

You can find English race invitation here.

Important places in Google maps: Here.

Registered competitors: Here.

Registration to race as normal: http://registration.4x4cup.com/

Edit:
Little reminder about about race. If you sign in race 31.1 or earlier then two hoodies are included in competition fee. After that no hoodies;)

If you want to buy hoodies separately it's 32€/hoodie. Also in that situation you should order them beforehand (31.1). We are not ordering so many extras for selling in race center.

Competiton fees etc. can be paid when arriving to Askola in cash. And last day to sign up in normal fee is 17.2.2010.

And race information:
http://4x4cup.com/index.php?sivu=talvieksytys2010

[Mylppy]

Famous high quality Haikko Manor is donating price which is suffled between class winners. There is also special price if you are going to accomodate there during race. 120€ / 2 person room / night and there is included food ans something else when you mention that you are goming to off-road race;)

http://www.haikko.fi/sv_SE/

[Mylppy]

Now race has held and it well very well in overall. Everything went smoothly and weather was more than great. In the beginning snow was very loose and there was much of it. More than 70cm and many places even much more. Because race day was first day in 2,5 months which was over 0c, snow got more easy to drive during race as driving paths get more hard. First hours everybody just winch their cars to racing areas. There was cars with 42" tires and portal axles who was winching in normal flat field.

Race was more difficult than organizer ever excepted just because snow. For example in ATV-Park was like 30 control points which no one took. In that area there was snow something like 1m and clear cutting area in stony hill. (Before you get there you had to drive almost 4km path in forest in atv tracks and take quite many control points;) Normally winter challenges has been quite easy race, but I'm sure that this race is maybe most challenging in this year. I have never seen so small amount control point pictures / team when there was 335 control points.

Nice thing to see was once again that smaller classes shows that you don't need 42" tires and portal axles, because highest total points was in standard class, racer called Ypyrin Ylittäjät who was racing with number S01. They have highly modified Toyota LJ with Suzuki body, Toyota Axles, 33" Boggers and Volkswagen diesel engine. (if I Remember right:) So maybe it's same in off road cars as in normal cars, bigger cars smaller balls....

But results can be found from this zip archive:
http://www.4x4cup.com/tiedostot/talviek ... esults.zip

Race control point pictures can be found:
http://4x4.ruijanpallas.com/

Pictures from race can be found from Offipalsta.com topic starting here:
http://forums.offipalsta.com/showthread ... post646536