Rally - Fernando's Rally Challenge - Monday 2nd & Tuesday 3rd April 2012

Fernando Agapito · Apr 3, 2012

Alasdair Beck said:
Beginners luck I think Senad. I did an incredible thing known as staying on the road!

Really enjoyed myself, particularly beating Fernando on the last stage, would never have predicted that in a million years. Looking forward to the next one, thanks to the guys for putting it together

New on RD Rally Club yes...but for making it on the podium on this very challenging rally means that you're obviously not a "Beginner"

Warren Dawes · Apr 4, 2012

A very interesting set of results.

Congratulations to Fernando, winning his own Rally too.

Well done to Alisdair, that was a great result to get a podium in your first Club Rally. More impressive considering that this one had very tricky stages.

Nice result for Jack too, I think your best so far. I was noting your nice times during our OC Session.

Great to see the Stage wins spread around, we seem to see more of that when the Stages are so varied.

Welcome to our new driver, Andris, also a very good debut Rally with us. You sure picked a tough one to begin with, but you showed that you can match the times of the front drivers here.

This Rally proved that it is not necessary to have over-powered cars to be a challenge, it can be all about the Stages and their variety. This probably had more RED INK than any other I can recall, only 5 drivers came through unscathed. :eek:

Huge thanks to Fernando for his planning, preparation, and providing the nifty Podium graphic for this rally. I'm sure we'd love to see more ideas and Rallys from you.
Thanks as usual to Senad for his Admin work with the results and Server, and thanks always to Damien for his great Banners.

Next week we have another member inspired Rally, with Andrew Fearby dreaming up something slightly different again, something we haven't tried in the Club. Details soon.

Warren Dawes · Apr 4, 2012

Erik Tveit said:
Last stage, tarmac tyres on monte carlo Joux Plane 2.
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Kabooom baaaaaaa, co-driver dies when the tree gets inside the car in the impact and Erik, yet he survived.

Erik, that was a very "brave" tyre choice (I'm being kind, lol

). I'm not surprised with the Kaboooom ending.

Jack Hintz · Apr 4, 2012

wow O_o thats the first and last time I'll ever be that high up on the results! LOL

Viesturs Priede · Apr 4, 2012

Congrats to Fernando, Warren and Alasdair, well done guys!

Happy with a stage win, not far from another one but Gundars still managed to beat me there.

Less than 1 second behind my good friend - Andris. Damn..

I`ll beat him next time anyways

It was fun rally, really. Even though I retired most of it. Thank you and see you all next week

Andrew Koojo · Apr 4, 2012

woow. that is what is called not paying Attention to Detail. Sorry about that Guys. i didnt realise till now. that i was using the Wrong Car.. well it wont happen again. i lost a nice Race.. And no one even noticed that.. it was a nice race for sure.. Bad i didn't pay much Attention.

Senad Subasic · Apr 4, 2012

Yup, shame, would've been a podium. URT is slightly faster apparently.

Andrew Koojo · Apr 4, 2012

yeah For sure.the URT is fast. like on peaks pikes.. damn it was soo smooth... well lets wait for the other one. i had a stressfull last week and didnt get time to go through the details much..

Teemu Toikka · Apr 4, 2012

So close to winning Pikes Peak stage, I had a couple of offs that stage and with longest gearing I would have had much more straight line speed

Btw I joined just before SS3 but decided to continue as this was the last session of the rally. Still 14th :o

Senad Subasic · Apr 4, 2012

Deadly rally. I just noticed I'm the 5th fastest evo, with 5 retired stages

Erik Tveit · Apr 4, 2012

Warren Dawes said:
Erik, that was a very "brave" tyre choice (I'm being kind, lol ). I'm not surprised with the Kaboooom ending.

I just remembered from previous experience with Monte Carlo mod the tarmac tires is gripper at the tarmac, but on the ice, woah.

Ole Marius Myrvold · Apr 4, 2012

Yeah, I still think with a test or two on the last stage, in the day, with tarmac-tyres, it would've been faster!

Ole Marius Myrvold · Apr 4, 2012

Teemu Toikka said:
So close to winning Pikes Peak stage, I had a couple of offs that stage and with longest gearing I would have had much more straight line speed
Btw I joined just before SS3 but decided to continue as this was the last session of the rally. Still 14th :eek:

I had the longest gearing, but got lower top speed. The car just doesn't have the power to use that last gear with long gearing.

Warren Dawes · Apr 4, 2012

Ole Marius Myrvold said:
I had the longest gearing, but got lower top speed. The car just doesn't have the power to use that last gear with long gearing.

Yep, I was thinking the same thing. I used the longest gearing, and I know I made a few small mistakes, but looking at the time differences, I suspect that the really quick guys up the mountain were using Shorter gears.

Alasdair Beck · Apr 4, 2012

Fernando Agapito said:
New on RD Rally Club yes...but for making it on the podium on this very challenging rally means that you're obviously not a "Beginner"

I wouldn't say I was a beginner. I had Richard Burns Rally on the PS2 when it came out so I know my way around it not too bad. I've only just started using a steering wheel though. Also if you look at my times I'm hardly setting the world on fire, I just tried to not crash.

Viesturs Priede · Apr 4, 2012

Teemu Toikka said:
So close to winning Pikes Peak stage, I had a couple of offs that stage and with longest gearing I would have had much more straight line speed

That was exactly what I was going to point out - Teemu almost won Pikes Peak. Really close, well done mate!

Florin Palade · Apr 9, 2012

Florin Palade - Mexer - EU

I hope I can run the BTB tracks.. (some of em just freeze up at loading ingame)

Viesturs Priede · Apr 9, 2012

Florin Palade said:
Florin Palade - Mexer - EU

I hope I can run the BTB tracks.. (some of em just freeze up at loading ingame)

Welcome to the Rally Club, Im not sure if you are new here but at least I havent seen you before.

The thing is, we have finished this rally already. But you can sign up for the next one which we are going to held today and tomorrow.

Check it out here:

http://www.racedepartment.com/forum...monday-9th-and-tuesday-10th-april-2012.49470/