Rally - Escort Mk 2 Take 2 - Mon 28th & Tues 29th November 2011

Roy Magnes · Nov 28, 2011

Sebastien Levret said:
I saw Senad sending replay, did someone will do a video for this round ?

Roy Magnes said:
If Senad put me on the startinglist, I will try to make a video of the event. Anyone who have a preferred skin for the video, please PM me. Will not make anything fancy, but try out some ideas ahead of the upcoming season

John Cunningham · Nov 28, 2011

Aaaaaaaah that was great fun. I had a couple of stupid offs and a cfh, but loved it!

My replays:
http://speedy.sh/gkgkM/HHBF1-Mk2-Replays.rar

Thanks yet again to all who organised and all the competitors, cheers!
jc

Ole Marius Myrvold · Nov 28, 2011

Oh well, not run a metre since last time I drove here, that is some time ago... Roy reminded me about the rally 21:10 local time, so I had to kick out the guest I had, and assemble the wheel.

SS1: Very fun, guess the drifters and McRae would be proud, over 20 sec behind SuperSeb, but, best of the rest!

SS2: Fastest in EU - whaaaat???

I found myself very nervous, as I haven't tried the game for months, and not the car since last time it was in the club rally.

SS3: Even more nervous, I have no idea where the grip is, or how much grip there might be in the car, very careful driving, and quite a bit tip-toe, still best of the rest.

SS4: Straight ahead in the first 90-left. Got stuck on... uhm, grass, without a hill or bushes or anything that kept my car there, still it wouldn't move. So i stood there for 30 seconds, and then used call for help, when I left the first 90 degrees the time was on 1.25 or something... Then I forgot that I should be "afraid" of not knowing the grip so I got plain lucky that I didn't loose the car again. I guess the rear of the car was halfway to New Zealand...

SS5: Hit the rocks in the second left turn, and the rest of the stage is business as usual, lots of sideways, and I hate the stage!

SS6: Two CFH, one after 4.6km and one with 0.0 left.

SS7: Argh, the tree at the last corner...

SS8: Spun early, and retired. Decided I didn't want to drive anymore.

At the end: Well, I always, no matter how much or little practice I have, aim for victory (or 2nd when SuperSeb is here), but with this little driving I might get a stage win, and that is more than good enough. Brilliant little car, not so brilliant (or little) man driving.

Chelton Nunes · Nov 28, 2011

Had to run this rally on the keyboard --'. So it wasn't good at all, it was so hard to control the car.
Only finished 4 stages, rolled on one of them (Diamond Creek), had to CFH on some others, so, yeaah...

Although, I had great fun with the Escort

Here are replays of the 3stages (didn't include Diamond's): http://speedy.sh/uRuY5/Replays.rar

Senad Subasic · Nov 28, 2011

Sebastien Levret said:
Do you know if the behavior of th RWD are as realistic as the other cars in this game ? One of my teammate tell me that for the RWD they do the same physical as the FWD but for the rear wheel.

As Ondrej said, no RWD cars in RBR, it's a hack, FWD car turned backwards.

Don't know if it's realistic, no experience. But from my point of view, I was working the wheel and gas pedal in a very similar fashion to rally guys in Escorts on YouTube

Jimi Hughes · Nov 28, 2011

well i had a great time in my first ever online RBR rally, no DNF's, albeit with about 3 CFH's and 2 high speed rolls!

Great fun, I believe i was P3 in the EU server so far, pretty happy with that although that will change with the overal results im sure!

Roy Magnes · Nov 28, 2011

My rally was like the usual ones - crash on ss1, and then try to salvage a result. A CFH on SS3 was the most dramatic with the rest of my rally, keeping it steady to the end. I did end up 4th in the EU-session, but somewhere around 7 minutes behind Seb (did you have 4wd on your Escort today?

).

I have a livery that resemble Colin McRaes Escort, and today the driving matched it very well

Tomas Reinicke · Nov 28, 2011

Senad Subasic said:
Long time no see, welcome back to the rally club

Thanks, I haven't had much time for RBR lately, but I couldn't miss the Escort

One retirement on Shepherd, hit the bridge

otherwiswe great fun

Replays and skin used http://sprend.com/download.jsp?FileId=9YSjjbcYGePauzdVrt6e

Corey Twyman · Nov 28, 2011

Corey Twyman - (theFlash) - US

Michael Hausknecht · Nov 28, 2011

Geez, looks like I'm running alone tonight. Where are all the damn Yanks?

Chris Williamson · Nov 28, 2011

Definitely great fun, although this rally was so unforgiving - the slightest mistake and you'll lose so much time unless you're very lucky. I was having so fun pushing the car that rather predictably I retired on all but 3 stages, but I'm not too bothered. Had a clean run on Mineshaft though which I'm pretty proud of.

My replays: http://speedy.sh/fp7mP/Chris-Williamson-Escort-Rally2.rar (Includes Chirdonhead with rolling the car and Mineshaft which was pretty clean)

Michael Hausknecht · Nov 28, 2011

There is Corey. Cool! I won't feel quite so lonely.

Jeff Feaker · Nov 29, 2011

I might join you Michael, but I normally don't drive that late. Only ran the car for a few stages, it will be a ruff rally, especially with the blue windshield.

Jeff Feaker · Nov 29, 2011

Jeff Feaker - bigbobross - US

Michael Hausknecht · Nov 29, 2011

My second car was a 1966 Lotus Cortina. This Escort is very similar, just a little heavier and with more motor. Was great fun tonight. Everything went well until the final stage. I ran the first seven stages cleanly, if not particularly fast. Final stage went well, right up until I ran head on into a small tree 2/3 of the way through the stage. Sheesh. Killed it dead.

Senad Subasic · Nov 29, 2011

Jeff Feaker said:
I might join you Michael, but I normally don't drive that late. Only ran the car for a few stages, it will be a ruff rally, especially with the blue windshield.

CamHack to the rescue.

Also, feel free to ask for an earlier session.

Keegan Buckley · Nov 29, 2011

Keegan Buckley - kbuckley - OC

Sebastien Levret · Nov 29, 2011

Roy Magnes said:
My rally was like the usual ones - crash on ss1, and then try to salvage a result. A CFH on SS3 was the most dramatic with the rest of my rally, keeping it steady to the end. I did end up 4th in the EU-session, but somewhere around 7 minutes behind Seb (did you have 4wd on your Escort today? ).

I have a livery that resemble Colin McRaes Escort, and today the driving matched it very well

When I tried the car, just before the event on Sikakama, I saw that if I go out of the track with my car stopped, it is impossible to get back on the track. And the CFH make you loss 35s instead of the 20s for the other cars (excluding the times your are loosing before and after the CFH). So with realistic damage, I really try to stay always on the track, this maybe help me to do these times.

Here is a replay of the stage 4
http://www.2shared.com/file/LDspBPSw/Stage4.html

Thanks

Gundars · Nov 29, 2011

Gundars Brigis - guncha - OC

Viesturs Priede · Nov 29, 2011

Joined OC session as well but I knew I wont have time to do all stages. Im really disappointed about what happened yesterday (EU & EUX sessions). Wanted to do first 3 stages clean. Started first stage and realized I have no FFB and the degrees of rotation was 900, not 200 + H shifter was acting weird. Well, decided to retire first stage and do well on 2nd and 3rd stages. 2nd stage was OK, nothing impressive, could have been way better. 3rd stage.. well, the begginig was OK but then made few small mistakes and decided its not worth to drive further. Really sad, I was waiting this rally.