lol to whoever said somewhere earlier "Eckhart was first in N4", that was only because tonight I did stage after stage with no break because the rally was nice and compact. As usual a great rally layout, well done organizers!
s01 zero concentration landed me smack on a stone coming out of the second little river, steering twisted like ... after only 30secs of the whole rally
s02 steering turned from bad to worse so a couple of offs, dead last in the standings, dreadful
s03 misery continued, 1CFH, close to leaving the event ...
s04 finally figured out what the steering wanted me to do, first realistic stage time, will continue.
first leg: lost about 100secs to my times the night before
s05 what the .... banged up front right again, again after only a couple of seconds into the stage? received big golden trophy labelled "idiot of the night"
s06 one way or the other did a new PB, don't ask how
s07 pretty good run under these circumstances, only one minor off in the last 90 degree turn
s08 same time as in preparation, happy with this, beat Simone by 1 sec, probably never done that before
overall in 11th after this leg and feeling way better than after first leg (85 secs faster!)
s09 my favourite English stage, an almost good run
s10 went smoothly until a little off got me stuck on one of those stumps, tried for an eternity to get off and finally had to CFH, overall time loss about 50 secs
ended with my funniest RBR time ever: 4:44:44
s11 nice run to finish off this leg
s12 another nice one
s13 trying to make up for last time's disaster, but it was not to be: this time I hit a log going through a fast righthander and flipped the car four or five times, landed on wheels but facing backwards, overall loss about 15 secs
s14 rough ride but did almost the same time as third leg and secured 7th for this stage, my best result of the night
overall I ended up in pos10, with a tad of luck it might just be worth one point in class, let's see.
great night again, fantastic season, looking forward to the final points tables, cu all next season, thx to all involved!