RaceDepartment Rally Championship : Season 1

Rick Bamford · Aug 30, 2010

OK, less than 12 hours to go before the kick-off of the first RDRC. I'm really looking for ward to this as the team (Senad, Ondrej and myself) have put in a lot of work into making this come off as smoothly as Warrens Club rallies. Thanks to the team for all their work and thank you to everyone running in both the A League and the Premier League. I hope you all enjoy the championship.

Good luck to everyone, and as i used to say before the start of a RL rally, Keep it on the planet!

Eddie Mann · Aug 30, 2010

Out of interest.. do the replays sent to John Low show stage times?

Previously i have not been in the habit of saving replays, but i will now.

Sebastien Levret · Aug 30, 2010

But to be sure, when your copilot said "cut" in the pacenote, this means that there are no danger (stone ...) in the turn. Is it considered as a cheat, if you cut this turn ?

BTW : I hope also good luck to everyone for this first event

Łukasz Demolin · Aug 30, 2010

Sebastien, in many leagues there is a gentleman rule of "one wheel on the road at all times". Cutting is an integral part of rallying, it's just that in RBR you could memorize ridiculous shortcuts and make it non fun at all

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Jakub Sulej · Aug 30, 2010

Yes, absouleutly, look at some stages in Rally of Deutchland, they are sometimes cutting by having whole car off the road. Cutting in rally is more like driving for your own risk.

Rick Bamford · Aug 30, 2010

Sebastien Levret said:
But to be sure, when your copilot said "cut" in the pacenote, this means that there are no danger (stone ...) in the turn. Is it considered as a cheat, if you cut this turn ?

BTW : I hope also good luck to everyone for this first event

Yes Seb, the rule is one wheel on the road at all times. It is the rule in the club rallies and the rule on RSRBR anyway. It's not something we have introduced just for this championship. If the notes say cut most of the time it just means you can use the ditch or something else on the inside of the corner.

Edit: I think in an RSRBR offical championship you have to send in ALL of your replays for them to view, but we wont go down that track. If someone is taking HUGH amounts of time out of the field it becomes obvious that they are doing something different. In Cote DÁbrous(?) you could cut some of the early hairpins by 10-20 meters, it is those type of cuts that are the real issue. But even if you do it is a BIG risk. Like I said, i don't think anyone does this here.

Rick Bamford · Aug 30, 2010

Eddie Mann said:
Out of interest.. do the replays sent to John Low show stage times?

Previously i have not been in the habit of saving replays, but i will now.

Replays show the time your time at the start of the stage, the split times and at the end.

Jakub Sulej · Aug 30, 2010

Can I make a shakedown session, only one stage and 19.30 GMT time?

Rick Bamford · Aug 30, 2010

Jakub Sulej said:
Can I make a shakedown session, only one stage and 19.30 GMT time?

I don't understand Jakub

Jakub Sulej · Aug 30, 2010

I mean in real rally there is a shakedown with one stage, but the results are not counted into a generall rally calssification, so a shakedown sessin just before real rally event

Sebastien Levret · Aug 30, 2010

Rick Bamford said:
Yes Seb, the rule is one wheel on the road at all times. It is the rule in the club rallies and the rule on RSRBR anyway. It's not something we have introduced just for this championship. If the notes say cut most of the time it just means you can use the ditch or something else on the inside of the corner.

Edit: I think in an RSRBR offical championship you have to send in ALL of your replays for them to view, but we wont go down that track. If someone is taking HUGH amounts of time out of the field it becomes obvious that they are doing something different. In Cote DÁbrous(?) you could cut some of the early hairpins by 10-20 meters, it is those type of cuts that are the real issue. But even if you do it is a BIG risk. Like I said, i don't think anyone does this here.

I hope that nobody will do that.
For my point of view, I didn't make enought training to know where it is possible to cut, I only listened to my copilot, if he tell me that I can cut a turn (and it is always a easy turn, you never listened cut for a hard turn), I know that I can put a little bit my wheels on the grass (not the full car, because a cut note doesn't means that it is not risky to cut to much a turn) and that there are not stones or trees, that will break my car.

Dariusz Swiderski · Aug 30, 2010

Good luck guys

Lee Palmer · Aug 30, 2010

Indeed goodluck guys. Looking forward to this.

Sebastien Levret · Aug 31, 2010

Can I ask you a question about the setup ?
Did you modified the setup of your car for the different stages ? I didn't do it, but I would like to have your feedback of the behavior of your car without the default setup ?

Did you won lot of time with it ?

Eckhart von Glan · Aug 31, 2010

I just did the minor modification of lowering the chassis front and rear and of lowering break pressure mto not be caught spinning under breaking. This I saved as TARMAC and used on every stage.

Lee Palmer · Aug 31, 2010

I was with default all stages.

John Low · Aug 31, 2010

Red Chicken Racing announce a vehicle change for their Premier League driver. John Low will now be in a Subaru N12, simply because Mitsubishi couldn't come up with Castrol paint jobs to suit the Evo 9. John is delighted, taking into account what he did with the last Subaru he was given.

Cheers