Yeah, I must admit he does have a soft touch. The only guy I know that doesn't use exponential on his throttle. He's got about 9 trophies for racing nitro off-road since beginning a little over 18mths ago.
Two of our sponsered drivers came 1st & 3rd in our MT State titles recently, he was 3rd due to some issues with his truck. The winner drive a heavily modified LST, OS 28, custom single speed, Muggy shocks, etc. it's pretty fast.
The motors always got me, as mine keeps running in reverse.
The gutter, was a gutter, vertical edge with a slight angle on the lead up, he was testing durability.