Scandinavian rock crawling

[markil]

hey all,
i'm currently in Finland travelling around and went to spectate at a competition here, "NORT TRIAL 2006" last saturday (see link with more pics)

They have some wild cars over here, as most of you probly know. Mog and volvo axles with 4 wheel steer and hydraulics aren't uncommon at all. The comp had similar rules to WE rock, 5 mins to finish the course and you were penalised for stopping, reversing or going off the course. However, I found it interesting I didn't see one navi get out of the car but instead they were asssiting the driver use hydraulics, cutting brakes or rear steer etc. I'll try posting a few pics and maybe a video clip or 2 in a moment too but here's a link with some pics.
http://www.petrisimolin.com/ThePalsta/t ... C_ID=27201

Mark.

[stuee]

This setup is pretty cool. Always wanted to see something like this on a 4wd. I wonder how effective it is? Bring on the videos they will be awsome to watch

[nicbeer]

Sweeet. how far out of helsinki is it? as i will be in finland in early august for the finland WRC.

Nic

[markil]

That's my old man standing next to this zook wearing my TTC hat I think he's gonna catch the 4x4 bug soon too


This thing had wooden panels, made it stand out from the others and the driver was wearing a full racing style suite and slippers

Someone mentioned this "mini" was a crowd favourite. The driver was quite a character

If any one has watched the scandinavian video which was posted a while back, they'll recognize this rig from it. He was doin donuts at the start of it



Inside of the "mini"

Inside of the zook


I think this guy had his wheelbase stolen It was a tall, short WB machine that surprised me a little but went quite well from what i saw



volvo anyone?



And a few action pics









Heres a pic of the front of the zooks suspension


And 1 close pic from the front of the mini too

I have a heap of pics but it's taking me too long to post them up from this connection

I'm gonna have a go at putting some of the video footage together that i got. But I probly won't have that up for a while.

[markil]

This setup is pretty cool. Always wanted to see something like this on a 4wd. I wonder how effective it is? Bring on the videos they will be awsome to watch

This setup performed very well from what i saw. As soon as I learn how to use the video editing software I'll get something up soon

Can someone give me a link to somewhere to host videos at home i have a site saved in my favourites but i don't rememeber it off the top of my head

Sweeet. how far out of helsinki is it? as i will be in finland in early august for the finland WRC.

Nic

It was at about 3-4hrs north-west from Helsinki. I'll be goin to as many events as I can get to around here including some of the WRC events hopefully too. PM me if you want, might be able to come say G´day and have a beer at 1 of the events