Old RBR Articles (merged)

[Bram Hengeveld]

Zaxxon released the v1.0 version of his track Olocau-Gátova for Richard Burns Rally. Made with Bob's Tracks Builder it's another masterpiece for rally lovers!

Zaxxon commented on the release: "At the end of last summer my brother and I took a car and had a nice time driving on roads near the town where we were born. We were looking for a track to model and the route from Olocau to Gátova was exactly what we were looking for: narrow, twisty and the typical look from our homeland. So it is not a real rally stage, it is just a nice place 20Km away from where I was born."

Click here to download the track

 

[Warren Dawes]

Wasn't the Corolla a full-blown WRC car back in the day?

Yes, and there is a WRC version included in the Game. However, this Corolla is a detuned FWD one.

Warren is there somewhere where you can change the Brake bias.

Yep, it is under the Brake setup section somewhere, but you need to adjust Front and Rear Brake pressures separately to change the balance.

 

[Warren Dawes]

BTW guys, I'd like feedback on this Rally when it is finished. I'm thinking of running something very similar the following week, same cars, but with some other default Stages from various countries again.

Main reasons:
1. To give one more intro for newer drivers
2. These should be nice cars and could give us another chance to try other cars in this class.
3. I'm lazy and need more time to develop the next Rally ideas.

 

[Cam Wedgwood]

3. I'm lazy and need more time to develop the next Rally ideas.

Yugo versus Lada - Six week championship.

 

[Rick Bamford]

Yugo versus Lada - Six week championship.

I'd laugh, but i know your serious:frown:

Please, Warren....don't give in to the madness!!!!!!!!!

 

[Damien Jones]

Yugo versus Lada - Six week championship.

I laughed!

nah....all 2CV hillclimb championship is the way to go. Pop it in gear, foot to floor......5km/h ascent! Plenty of time to admire the trees as they glide lazily past your windows.

 

[Warren Dawes]

Ok guys, it was a good laugh, but getting :offtopic:.

Back to this Rally now please. :fwd2:

 

[Glenn Morris]

*GASP*

Where was I during this discussion!?!?!

In other news - this is harder than I remember. If I could get FRAPS working, I'd have a classic video of a 106 barrel rolling straight down the road! :-D

 

[Robb Kulcsar]

Thanks Warren for the reminder and for the work of setting up this events by the week now.
Sign me up RobbKul(r27kul) EU time zone.

 

[Warren Dawes]

I just took a few cars for a test run around Noiker (my nemesis), and a word of warning - there is a nastyt bump just after the start, if you get it wrong in some cars (some seemed better than others) you can get a nasty surprise.
My Suzy test resulted in launching it almost over trees, even with about 3 restarts. :eek:

EDIT: I must say, the test runs for these Rallys is even more fun than the actual Rally, some of the crashes are so spectacular, they are a barrel of laughs. These cars promise to be a ton of fun, you can chuck them into and out of some amazing situations. They seem harder to kill too, but I've been trying to do it.

 

[Ramon van Rijn]

Ha, I already killed some cars. The Polo was a 1 hit dead horse. After the crash the engine was running and the force feedback felt strange. Only 50 meter after overheat and dead.

And I noticed the wooden guardrail it attracting my cars. Every-time I seen them, my car is into an instant stop. Think I started Stage 01 about 30+ times and could finish it twice Promising for next Monday
Next on my list, the next 7 stages hahaha

 

[Pedro Melim]

Pedro Melim [depor] EU Slot......will try to deliver the best i can

 

[Warren Dawes]

Welcome to the Rally Club, Pedro, we are glad to have you with us.

 

[Nigel Atkins]

1st thing i found with these cars, is throw everthing out the window what i had learned with the 4x4 cars lol

anyone got any tips on doing handbrake turns with these cars?

 

[Senad Subasic]

1st thing i found with these cars, is throw everthing out the window what i had learned with the 4x4 cars lol

anyone got any tips on doing handbrake turns with these cars?

Damn, I only tried the rally school stage with these cars, to pick one I like, and see how they run. Didn't even think about handbrake turns, better practice a bit after all, or France will be a complete fail :o

 

[Ryan Callan]

France only has three hairpin turns so it's not so bad. But err, yeh, these are almost as tricky as the AWD. And Ramon I know exactly what you mean with those collapsible wooden railings - whatever happened to good old fashioned armco you can just run along?
Have a video coming up of my difficulties on a particular corner

 

[Nigel Atkins]

you`ve not attempted stage 2 then ryo

 

[Ryan Callan]

Heh, noope. I've already wrecked around 20 106s and had to rescucitate and generally weld back together my co-driver 20 times in SS1 alone

 

[Ryan Callan]

Here we are. I'm learning, I gotz the proof! Apologies for the flicker, no idea where that came from but it's not big and I can't be bothered doing it again

 

[Mark A Warmington]

Sign me up please. Just need to make sure I am home in time from work. .

 

[Eddie Mann]

I can see my radiator overheating already..

Back for more of the same.. book me in!

(oceania)