Not so serious racing

[pokkis]

Please note this story here is not for serius racing, rather something between it and NASTAR racing :rolleyes:

Some background

Finland is small country with long distances and relative small resorts.

Arranging races has allways been PIA for resorts due slope needs to be reserved for relative small ammount people and for organicers there is plenty of work with small compensation.

Solution

Few years ago, when Ojankaivajat was founded, we started plan race concept which would allow us to have fun races without too much hassle for us and anyone who wanted race.

Idea was to have concept which allows riders have several runs, but still make sure that whole race does not require too much time or special equipments.

Race concept

Single GS-type track, with short poles and triangle flags, is build as very carvable and for average carver-joe, more technical than speedy so riding is closer normal free carving than pure racing.

We allow only riders over 18 years due liability reasons but no other restrictions. And have separate age divisions for over 35 but count also all riders to open division which so covers all riders.

Each rider has three runs and final result is time of two best runs. For DSQ, FNF or DNS runs rider will get result as 200 sec :D

First run is according seeded order, second one is reverse of first one and third run so that slowest one of two first rounds counted together comes first and fastest as last.

Does it work ?

Following weekend starts our third season with this concept and we have had blasted time to race and both resorts and organicers are quite happy.

So if you are around here, you are welcome to join race

[felix]

Hey I would love to see that in Austria too. Good format.

Here I have the eastcup (only like 5-6 races a year) with a very bad level and not much fun. Next step up is already FIS races with all that blody expensive insurance so if you don't race at least like 10 races for the season it's not even worth thinking much about it.

Something like your "flegmatic racing" sounds fun.

[pokkis]

Costs and lack of races made us to start our own race-series

plus me personally i dont like dual-GS, it requires dual timing, is too time consuming and it is not even as fun as real (carving)GS

Paying lisence fees just for few races did not sound good and races were also too far away, so now we organize our races where we like and cost is only 10 euros per race for racer.:D

We have had like 30 person on race which is not bad for small country :rolleyes: