Rally - MINI Monte 2012 - Monday 30th & Tuesday 31st January 2012

And NO RED INK too.
Show-off!!!

ooh yes. Damien he is the man thanks. ill do a better one.

Hi, the brightness of my computer broke and i had to take it to repair, sorry i couldn't participate

Just out of curiosity, what tyres do you people use in the good condition stages? Do you make a run for the dry sections with dry tarmac tyres or take wet ones to prevent surprises on the snow? Or even snow tyres?

12th place overall!
I didn't feel too good after the session as I used two CFH's and spun a couple of times.. Still made it 12th... No complaints

Yes! In the top 10. I only tried to stay on the road and it worked out pretty well. No CFH's or any major mistakes. I am very pleased with the result. And the best part is that I beat my friend Tapio.

I used Snow tyres on the stages, which set to the Monte-Carlo mod.

Tyre choice is a good (and key) question. Last season in RDRC, I think, the first rally was based on the Monte-Carlo mod, and you had to make three stages with the same tyre. And because of this, I tried every compound of the tyres; for example, on the first part of Joux Verte, the tarmac intermediate tires were much faster, but in the second part of the stage, it has no grip. But on this stage, it was well worth to use Snow tires, instead of tarmac intermediate - or at least, I could be faster with the Snow tires.

So a little bit depends on your driving style, I think.

Can't give a better answer than Senad, I'm exactly the same. I think I only tried wets once and didn't feel comfy, so I just stick to the default Snows.
I know others have used wets before and found them faster at times, but it is a pretty big risk if you put a wheel off track.

I have to say that this confuses me a lot. I can only drive comfortably with snow tires in monte carlo mod, i've tried wets and drys and they just feel completely horrible and with no grip compared to the snow tires for me

I also drive with snow tyres, but I think that in some stages tarmac tyres are faster when there is more pure tarmac than there is tarmac with snow. I have compared the split times. BUT still I wouldn`t ever dry with anything else but snow tyres because I just can´t keep the car on the road with tarmac tyres. So to be more "not" clear (lol) I think that if someone can make through the snow parts of the track without losing too much time, they can easily take the time back and even more in the tarmac parts.

And very good result from you too Warren, Pretty good battle up there

I had dry tarmac on the first stage, i think it was the fastest option there but it was very slipery on the snow. On the restof the monte stages i used snow.

So that's why suddenly you've managed to close the gap on me after the second split time check! I was really wondering where I went wrong

Wow, P6! Chuffed with that! Even more pleased that I finished over 1 minute behind P5 because that means my total cock up of the last stage didn't effect my overal position

I lost time here and there with a few spins exiting hairpins (Trying to get waaay to sideways) and as I am unfamiliar with the stages in France I was very cautious in the high speed corners, so I know where there is room for improvement. Hopefully with a few more rallys under my belt I'll be challenging for podiums in the not too distant future!

Thanks again RD and Warran for the event

another try out of the mini. Airtel version. thanks to Damien..