Welcome to the first of our live reports from Mantsala and the Indoor 1/10th Electric touring car European Championships! Finland is a winter wonderland at the moment following recent snow!.

Cameraman Mat (well he's the editor as well) is well prepared for the conditions, though perhaps he omitted to read the part that said "Indoor championship".

Today sees 4 more rounds of controlled practice followed by 2 rounds of qualifying, Tomorrow there will be a further 4 rounds of qualifying with each drivers best 3 scores from the 6 rounds to count. We'll be back with more reports later in the day including a video round up! To watch the live streaming of the event provided by the organisers just click on "Live cam" on the right hand side of the page.