Time for the picturesque review of the rally!
It started really well on SS1. I felt like I was being too careful having only done one single short practice stage before the rally, and it wasn't even SS1 I did as a warm-up. That would be too smart and logical to do... However, the stagetime in relation to my competitors were a lot better than expected.
The Easter-BMW was flying!
The problem was, as can be seen far in the distance, on SS2 it was literally flying... Doing my best to emulate Tony Hawk and sliding on the rail. Not very effective.
This caused a front right puncture, and with a very fast section of the stage remaining, this wasn't good. But taking a minute to change it would be even worse. The BMW did look a bit sad though.
Here captured just mere tenths of a second before going off, again!
And then on it's side, luckily it fell down to it wheels, so I could continue with only standing still for 2-3 seconds. Shorter than calling for help. I guess trying to jump down from the banking on the right side wasn't the smartest call I've done.
With the short service coming up, I was only able to fix the radiator, lights and the bodywork. Fixing the wheel geometry or exhaust would give me a huge penalty. So the BMW looked good, but didn't drive as good or have as much power as it should've had.
But as I said. It looked good!
Really good
Then after the overnight service, the whole car got fixed. And the rest of the rally was pretty much uneventful. No real mistake, no amazing stages. Just getting through the rally on a surface I don't enjoy too much.
Nailing the hairpin though!
Then came the last stage. The power stage. It was the stage where I had pretended to be Tony Hawk and ruined my car at the start of the rally. I was more focused on not doing that than I was on pushing hard. The car behaved a lot differently at the end of the stage with 4 non-damaged tyres and no wheel geometry issues! Where I went off at the end of SS2 (notice the Mexican flag on the upper right side, same as my second picture), it now went sideways! Send it!
No issues though, full control and I even managed to score some bonus points! Woop Woop!
Now I should start figuring out sponsors for NZ!