Three friends, two apps, one toolkit for Combined Driving
Easy Driving began at the showground, not the drawing board. It grew out of the everyday needs of drivers who wanted their numbers to add up before they left the collecting ring.
One home for the whole competition
Easy Driving is a free, browser-based toolkit for FEI Combined Driving athletes, built to work on the phone in your pocket at the event. It brings together two tools that used to live in separate apps: Easy Cones for the cones phase and Easy Marathon for the marathon phase. Both are here now, in six languages — English, Italian, Dutch, German, French and Hungarian. A dressage tool is planned to join them later.
Easy Cones — the cones phase
Easy Cones turns a course walk into a plan. You walk the track with a measuring wheel and record the distance to each gate, and the app works out gate-by-gate target split times from the FEI class speed for your competition level. It produces clean, print-ready briefing and scoresheets with a course map, ready to hand to a driver, trainer or official. Because it runs in the browser and works offline, it keeps working when the showground Wi-Fi does not.
Easy Marathon — the marathon phase
Easy Marathon is built for live use at the obstacle or in the timing booth. It handles timing, section and split tracking, and penalties — both time faults and fixed-penalty incidents — so the picture stays clear as the round unfolds. From that it produces a printable groom roadmap, giving the whole team one sheet to work from. Like the cones tool, it runs offline so you can rely on it out on course.
Answers to real problems on course
Neither tool started as a product. Each began as an answer to a practical problem that kept coming up in the sport. On the cones side, the challenge was turning a course walk into trustworthy split times without a pocketful of scribbled notes and mental arithmetic under pressure. On the marathon side, it was keeping timing, sections and penalties straight in the heat of a live round, then getting a roadmap into a groom's hands that everyone could read. Both tools were shaped by people who do this for real, and refined by using them at events rather than imagining how events work.
Why two apps are becoming one
Combined Driving is one competition, so it makes sense for the tools to live in one place. Easy Driving brings the cones and marathon tools under a single toolkit, so you move between phases without hopping between separate apps. A dressage tool is planned to join them, completing the set for the whole competition.
The people behind the tools
Easy Driving exists because three friends joined forces: two horsemen whose real-world needs on course shaped what the tools had to do, and a developer who turned those needs into working apps. Their experience — and their frustrations — run through every part of it.
Claudio Fumagalli
The cones phase
Easy Cones grew out of the experience and ideas of Claudio Fumagalli, whose work at RIANT Equestrian Centre shaped how the tool turns a course walk into reliable split times. His practical view of what a driver actually needs on cones day runs through every part of it.
Antonio Rigamonti
The marathon phase
Easy Marathon was developed from the needs of Antonio Rigamonti, whose demands at Rigamonti Sport Horses defined how the tool handles timing, penalties and the groom roadmap. It was built to answer the questions he faces out on the marathon course.
Matteo Brambilla
Design & development
Easy Driving is designed, built and maintained by Matteo Brambilla. He turned Claudio's and Antonio's needs into two apps — Easy Cones and Easy Marathon — then merged them into a single toolkit, and keeps it running free on the open web.
What we are trying to do
The goal is simple: replace handwritten notes, manual calculations and paper-based workflows with practical digital tools that are genuinely easy to use in real event conditions. That means tools that are fast to read, work offline, and hold up under the pressure of competition day. Nothing fancy for its own sake — just the numbers you need, when you need them.
Free, and made for the showground
Easy Driving is free to use and runs right in your browser, with nothing to install. It is built mobile-first, so it works on the phone you already carry, and it keeps working offline when the connection at the venue drops. The whole toolkit is available in six languages: English, Italian, Dutch, German, French and Hungarian.
Frequently asked questions
Who created Easy Driving?
Easy Driving is made and published by Brambilla ME. It is the work of three friends: Claudio Fumagalli shaped the cones phase, Antonio Rigamonti shaped the marathon phase, and Matteo Brambilla designed and built the apps — all refined through use at real competitions.
Is Easy Driving free?
Yes. Easy Driving is completely free to use. It runs in your browser, with nothing to buy and nothing to install.
What happened to Easy Cones and Easy Marathon?
They are both here — they have simply come together under one roof. Easy Driving is the unified toolkit that combines Easy Cones for the cones phase and Easy Marathon for the marathon phase, so you no longer need two separate apps. A dressage tool is planned to join them later.
Which languages does Easy Driving support?
Easy Driving is available in six languages: English, Italian, Dutch, German, French and Hungarian. The full toolkit, including both the cones and marathon tools, is translated so you can work in the language you are most comfortable with.
Do I need to install anything?
No. Easy Driving is a web app, so it opens straight in your browser on a phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to download. It is built to work offline too, so it keeps running at the showground even when the connection drops.
Who are Claudio Fumagalli and Antonio Rigamonti?
They are two friends in the sport whose experience shaped the tools. Claudio Fumagalli, associated with RIANT Equestrian Centre, inspired and shaped the cones tool. Antonio Rigamonti, associated with Rigamonti Sport Horses, inspired and shaped the marathon tool.
Try the tools for yourself
The best way to understand Easy Driving is to open it. Take the cones tool on your next course walk, or set up the marathon tool for your next round — both are free and ready to use.