Events
DLS Revolution world tour, preliminary list of events:
2010
- American Car Show 2.-5.4.2010 (Helsinki, Finland)
Tuning Car Top ten trophy & GTI recognition award by press>
- Amicom 9.-14.4.2010 (Leipzig, Germany)
No competition
- Hot Rod & Rock Show 24.-25.4.2010 (Tampere, Finland)
1. Styling class
- EMMA Car Audio competition 07.08.2010 (Ahvenisto, Finland)
1. Master Unlimited, sound 279p, installation 221p, total 500p.
1. RADALLE.COM Best of ICE
- EMMA Car Audio competition 20.-22.08.2010, Swedish Finals (Vallåkraträffen Helsingborg, Sweden)
1. Master 7, sound 284p, inst. 207p (w/o bonus), total 491p.
1. Best of Sound
1. Best Interior of Show
- EMMA Car Audio competition 28.08.2010 (Pietarsaari, Finland)
1. Master Unlimited, sound 273p, inst. 223p, total 496p.
1. Best of Sound
1. Jeppi´s Tuning show
- Hifi & Tuning Show 11.-12.09.2010 (Oulu, Finland)
- European Car Audio Championships, 6.-10.10.2010 (Rotterdam, Holland)
- Auto Zürich Car Show, 11.-14.11.2010 (Zürich, Switzerland)
2011
- CES (Las Vegas, USA)
- American Car Show (Helsinki, Finland)
- Car & Sound Messe (Germany)
- Bilsport Performance & Custom Motor Show (Sweden)
- Hot Rod & Rock Show (Tampere, Finland)
- Hifi & Tuning Show (Oulu, Finland)
- X-treme Car Show (Helsinki, Finland)
- European Car Audio Championships
- SEMA Show (Las Vegas, USA)
EMMA Car Audio Competition 07.08.2010 (Ahvenisto, Finland)
DLS Revolution had its first EMMA competition during the weekend and it was great success!
Schedule was very tight and whole team worked 16 hours nonstop before the competition to get everything working properly. There were also couple of helping hands in the garage during the last night before the competition.
DLS Revolution made a new Finnish record, it was the first car which got total of 500 points!
Sound: 279 points, installation: 221 points, total: 500 points.
Sound was 286 points but there were problems during the judging and car didn´t start, so it got -6 points because of that and -1 point for some extra noise.
Despite the challenges during the competition Team ReVolution is very happy about the first competition, since lot of things were not ready, like all grills, documentation and couple of smaller issues. This is a good start and now we will improve the car for the next competition which will be the Swedish Finals in two weeks.
EMMA Car Audio competition 20.-22.08.2010, Swedish Finals (Vallåkraträffen Helsingborg, Sweden)
Revolution did it, first Finnish competition car which has ever won the Swedish Finals!!!
During the last weekend there was Swedish Finals kept in Vallåkra near by Helsinborg. Approximately 500 cars, including EMMA cars, were in the outdoor show on the grass field.
Competition started on saturday by judging the sound with two judges separately from the driver side. Both judges were giving only couple of comments about the sound and it was not possible to see score sheet.
When the sound judging was finished we had installation judging. We were still expecting deduction from total points, since grills were not ready for this competition either so, it was not suprise that we didn´t score full.
Overall, Judging was very very tough, but fair, just like it should be in the finals. Both jugding was executed in very professional way and we didn´t have anything negative to say about it. To be honest this kind of sound judging would be much more convenient for other countries and euro finals, since usually the car´s are tuned for driver side only...
Trophy ceremony was on Sunday at noon and I have to admit that it was very exciting moment since there were many good cars in our class. We got 284 points from sound and 207 points from the installation. Installation didn´t have bonus points because in Sweden there is only Master 7 class which is not having bonuses.
After that Best of Sound cars were announced and judging started right away. 3 Judges were judging sound separately from the driver side and average of those was the final score. DLS Revolution won the the Best of Sound as well!
Last but not least was the tuning show competition and Mini was competing in best Interior of show category against 2 Volvo´s. This time engine was running smoothly so no problem with that but D was broken...so we have to reverse to the podium. :)
So, 3 trophies from the Vallåkra was very very good result for DLS Revolution. Team wants to thanks everybody who has been helping with the project!!!
Special thanks goes to EMMA Sweden and to all competitors who were really friendly and helpfull. We were treated as a VIP during the whole weekend, thank you!!! :)
EMMA Car Audio Competition 28.08.2010 (Pietarsaari, Finland)
DLS Revolution visited in Pietarsaari where EMMA had competition together with Jeppi´s tuning show.
Our plan was to put Mini and all show material into trailer on Thursday already, so that everything would be ready when working day is over on Friday. But...once again the plan was changed due to techinal difficulties. on Thursday evening when we started the car, one of our control box blew and it was impossible to move the car.
So our electronic guy had to fix the box on Friday morning and we installed it to Mini on afternoon and after that we were able to get on the road.
We were only car in Master Unlimited class, so we got first place, but we also won best of sound and tuning competition trophy.
Wheather was very cold during the day, around 10 degrees, so we had to use amplifier preheating most of the day to be able to keep them warm enough. Judging was started with sound and this time we got a little bit lower points and we had very interesting discussion with the judges when they gave feedback for us.
Installation went pretty much how we expected, since we still didn´t have speaker grills inplace. Only thing that came behind the tree was that there was small issue with one speaker cable and that caused -5 points. Otherwise everything was ok.
This was last competition before the Finnish finals, so now we have 1,5 weeks time to get everything ready. That work has already been started... :)
Sound: 273p, Installation: 223p, Total: 496p.