RDRC S8 Round 2 - Rally Sweden (13th - 19th February 2017)

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After a DNF in round 1, I was glad to finish in Sweden. I had to hold back a little and still made mistakes but it feels good to complete the rally.
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2h to go stats 2wd-
  1. KingSmug Opel Kadett GT/E 16v 01:08:32.093 +05:35.620
  2. Mr.C Opel Kadett GT/E 16v 01:10:07.708 +07:11.235
  3. 35. K Johansson Opel Kadett GT/E 16v 01:10:16.306 +07:19.833
  4. Myrvold Ford Escort Mk II 01:10:44.721 +07:48.248
  5. Kieran Poole Opel Kadett GT/E 16v 01:10:54.004 +07:57.531
  6. cflotsios Opel Kadett GT/E 16v 01:11:55.019 +08:58.546
  7. Navitori Fiat 131 Abarth 01:12:36.068 +09:39.595
  8. R TapFord Escort Mk II 01:13:04.231 +10:07.758
  9. RacingIvysaur Opel Kadett GT/E 16v 01:13:44.114 +10:47.641
  10. 28. F. Carlen Svensk Motormedia Fiat 131 Abarth 01:13:51.562 +10:55.089
  11. Peter Lee Fiat 131 Abarth 01:13:52.700 +10:56.227
  12. Grasser233 Ford Escort Mk II 01:14:26.712 +11:30.239
  13. DreamSpark Opel Kadett GT/E 16v 01:15:03.009 +12:06.536
  14. TTupsi Lancia Stratos 01:15:57.477 +13:01.004
  15. Nobkins Ford Escort Mk II 01:16:12.661 +13:16.188
  16. Death Pod Opel Kadett GT/E 16v 01:16:37.992 +13:41.519
  17. Daryl Willcox Lancia Stratos 01:18:01.621 +15:05.148
  18. RubenM_ Lancia Stratos 01:18:01.856 +15:05.383
  19. Stephen.Hvila Lancia Stratos 01:18:26.468 +15:29.995
  20. MacKor95 Ford Escort Mk II 01:18:48.087 +15:51.614
  21. RallyRoland Fiat 131 Abarth 01:18:56.655 +16:00.182
  22. erwin1229 Lancia Stratos 01:19:19.237 +16:22.764
  23. svt4cam Opel Kadett GT/E 16v 01:19:57.367 +17:00.894
  24. nOc75 Ford Escort Mk II 01:20:29.716 +17:33.243
  25. BeanieRally Fiat 131 Abarth 01:21:13.631 +18:17.158
  26. santi_glza Ford Escort Mk II 01:21:29.148 +18:32.675
  27. Roberto de Filippis Lancia Stratos 01:22:11.995 +19:15.522
  28. brian_paterson Fiat 131 Abarth 01:23:34.458 +20:37.985
  29. Paul Darke Renault Alpine A110 01:26:10.036 +23:13.563
  30. jambar87 MINI Cooper S 01:27:18.948 +24:22.475
  31. geroppa MINI Cooper S 01:27:19.648 +24:23.175
  32. Zetoyoc Renault Alpine A110 01:27:24.867 +24:28.394
  33. Ninja Schnitzel is so true© MINI Cooper S 01:27:44.816 +24:48.343
  34. augiewaz Renault Alpine A110 01:30:01.430 +27:04.957
  35. funnelweb10 MINI Cooper S 01:32:57.467 +30:00.994
  36. DryMartini MINI Cooper S 01:38:28.128 +35:31.655

Stage winners :
KingSmug - 13
K. Johansson - 2
Peter Lee - 1
Mr.c - 1
 
Basically the same as retry.
Yeah, I didn't realise save & exit wasn't a checkpoint... not sure why they're there. Dropping to theatre in oculus, in snow, is almost impossible for me. I tried to start from the start again but Oculus went into theatre mode in SS3, lost huge amounts of time (on a favourite stage), tried to make it up and got worse... gutted. Will be more aware next time!
 
Well done to everyone who finished, really though conditions. Was glad I could find the time to give the stage a try today, although I was extremely off points scoring pace and the visibility of S5 just linked me up on some magnificent rolls and some trees. There was no point in carrying on after the damage I had.
 
:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

I missed out on completing the final stage by a few minutes... :( I thought that it started this week but was told with only about 90 minutes to go that is started last week...

I even have the time I set in the final stage too.

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Provisional Results are out. You can find them here
Again some RaceNet name-issues (as we never got time to manually click on to each driver profile and write down RaceNet ID's between Monte and Sweden).

All drivers on this list have until Wednesday 22nd, 23:59GMT to notify us on who you are, if not you will be removed from the results and the league.
Code:
Unrecognized RaceNet: (GR) GEorGE
Unrecognized RaceNet: bertalev83
Unrecognized RaceNet: Bot Tomba
Unrecognized RaceNet: celiodavid2b
Unrecognized RaceNet: gianodriver1
Unrecognized RaceNet: GinoBestia
Unrecognized RaceNet: Heino Hinterseer
Unrecognized RaceNet: IchStopfdichaus
Unrecognized RaceNet: iordanis2777
Unrecognized RaceNet: karpfingertomas
Unrecognized RaceNet: loucas-sti
Unrecognized RaceNet: martinpereyra2
Unrecognized RaceNet: Maverick
Unrecognized RaceNet: mc342ui
Unrecognized RaceNet: mihalis1919
Unrecognized RaceNet: mohp
Unrecognized RaceNet: Muffin
Unrecognized RaceNet: othonas
Unrecognized RaceNet: panrok90
Unrecognized RaceNet: ra67se
Unrecognized RaceNet: REdOx.
Unrecognized RaceNet: Ricardo Almeida
Unrecognized RaceNet: Rubens
Unrecognized RaceNet: Scheisenberg
Unrecognized RaceNet: Toikkari_37
Unrecognized RaceNet: Tsunami_Sam
Unrecognized RaceNet: TypeS_80
Unrecognized RaceNet: vivalabam922
Unrecognized RaceNet: waltcynt
Unrecognized RaceNet: zefe

Additional Notes to the results:
The following drivers are listed as "Unrecognized RaceNet" in the results, but are drivers we already know who are, but that haven't been fixed by us in time (or we made a typo when we thought we fixed it):
  • 33. Joakim Stenström (Joakim Stenström)
  • DetectiveGnu932 [BE] (Jens Verly)
  • privat8037sen (Kim Andre Strøm)
  • Stephen.Hvila (Stephen Hvila)
  • TrustDDPC BitSkins.com (Dalibor Prusak)
So, to the 5 drivers on the list above, no need to worry. We will fix it for the official results :)
 
Wow, that's really unlucky @MrRandom287 :(

I finished the rally with about 45 minutes to spare (but was very nervous a few stages before the end when I thought it might finish at midnight CET!). Glad it's over tbh, but it went generally better than I had been expecting for the last few days. My bug hasn't shifted yet so still feeling rubbish but practice today had gone slightly better after I did some more tweaking on the settings of the new monitor.

Managed to spin on the very first real turn of SS1 (!) but then somehow found a rhythm and set a time 4 seconds quicker than my PB (LOL!), possibly assisted by the fact that all of my previous attempts had really sucked despite my best efforts. Nuther spin in SS2 and then some clean stages. Bizarrely the snow on the second pass of Norraskoga (SS5) seems to have made me quicker, by a couple more seconds, despite more mistakes (no spins tho).
Was in P40+ until SS5 lifted me up the rankings, then P32-34 for most of the rest of the rally (on the PC league anyway), so never exactly endangering the points positions.
Managed to be pretty much spin-free until SS12, when I got a bit careless. Then the long shadows and also the sunlight in my eyes on SS13 made it feel very tricky, and I had another fairly poor stage with another spin, but didn't lose too much ground to the people around me and made it to the checkpoint safely.
By now though I was feeling really tired and would have rested for a couple of hours if I hadn't been almost out of time.
SS14-15 felt slow, but I held on to P33 - just. Then SS16 went rather badly - first a spin, and then just before the end, a roll which left me stranded on my roof a few car-lengths from the finish post! Ouch, but shockingly I only dropped three places with that pair of screwups. SS17 put the seal on it though - an early spin, plus another messy spin on Colin's crest, despite slowing right down for it because I was so tired I was almost seeing double. Sheesh...
P41 in PC league at the end - musta been a cluster of people just behind me waiting to pounce :)

Hopefully I'll find either a good setup or some skillz before Greece starts, or preferably both! :D
 
Wow, what a Rally!!!!
Even though the results are provisional, they tell me I'm in 9th position in 4WD- class :thumbsup:

But what even more excites me, is the result of SS4 in 4WD- class...especially as I remember what I wrote 6 days ago:
After calming down with a cigarette and a beer and having his mobile on "flight mode", he continued with SS4 in a tremendous way - 5 sec. under his PB in a clean run.

Well, the result says I finished 2nd in class there :O_o::O_o::O_o: What a run...:laugh:
So my new aim for the season is to win a stage as I definitely won't be able to win a whole rally - some guys are just way to fast!!!
But for my own self-esteem I can say, that I've been the fastest Group A car in SS4 at Sweden in RDRC Season 8...:thumbsup:

What a motovation for the coming events...!!!
 
Objective completed i hope as the results are still provisional... the aim was a top 10 in the class 4WD- at this rally and after a great fight with @LuMue for the last stages of the rally i finish in 10th in 4WD- class... It really is a surface i struggle a lot so very happy... time to start practice for the next event...
 
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