Lassi Nurila has reached the finals and 8th place at the F3A World Championship in Duebendor, Switzerland. He is also the first Finnish pilot to ever reach the worlds top 10 in the long history of the championships dating back to 1960.
The F3A Nordic championship 2015 was held in Karlstad, Sweden.
Lassi Nurila secured his third Nordic Champion -tittle after winning each round in both the preliminaries and the finals. Ola Fremming (NOR) second, Kjell-Tore Pettersen (NOR) third.
Lassi Nurila from Finland has won the F3A World Cup 2014! Participating in 4 world cup contests in Belgium, UK, Germany and Italy he took 2x 1st place, one 3rd place and one 4th place finish. The world cup consisted of 14 competitions with a total of 198 pilots participating.
The Finnish national team for RC-aerobatics has been successful at the F3A European Championships in Liechtenstein. Several times Finnish and Nordic Champion Lassi Nurila made history by being the first Finnish pilot ever to reach the European championship finals. After the two knowns and two unknown schedules, Lassi’s final placing was 7th.
The open Finnish championships for indoor aerobatics was flown in Iittala-hall on March 8th, 2014. This years event was the biggest so far, with 25 competitors representing 6 nations; Belarus, France, Lithuania, Russia, Sweden and of course, Finland.
The winner of the open international competition in both F3P FAI and F3P-AFM is Donatas Pauzuolis from Lithuania. Second place in both classes for the Finnish champion Janne Lappi. Third place in F3P FAI Nicolas Pietu, France and in F3P-AFM Fabien Turpaud, France. Felix Scander from Sweden was awarded the best junior. Congratulations to all!
International Indoor Tournament of Paris was organized for the 5th time in February 21st-23rd, 2014. Team Finland consisted of three pilots; Janne Lappi, Iiro Lehto and Kimmo Kaukoranta. Esa Eirola was invited as one of the judges. Placings Janne 6th, Iiro 12th and Kimmo 26th. In the team ranking Finland achieved second place, right after the host country France, third place for Germany. Janne also placed 5th in the aeromusicals.
Official site of the competition: http://iitop.fr/
The fouth and last competition of the F3A season 2013 was flown in Hämeenkyrö airfield on august 31st – september 1st. Saturday had nice but windy weather, but sunday we had a low clouds and some rain.
Lassi Nurila has placed 11th at the F3A World Championships in South-Africa. His placing is the highest achieved by a Finish pilot in the history of the sport since the first world championships in 1960. Lassi is also 7 time Finnish champion and 2 time Nordic champion.
Jämin F3A PM-kisat päättyivät Suomen mitallisateeseen. Lassi Nurila on uusi pohjoismaiden mestari! Suomelle kultaa joukkuekilpailussa, sekä Nordic että FAI luokissa! Nordicissa hopeaa Janne Lapille.
Because of the very bad weather conditions saturday’s competitions was cancelled. Cloud height was around 200m and worst measured wind about 16m/s. Finally, sunday afternoon weather was better and three three rounds was compleated after hard waiting.
Final results of the first national championships: