Rally Finland Sno-Job Mon 17th & Tues 18th May 2010

[John Low]

Sign me up please

hi all,

another one please

John Low / elmomarty / oceania

thanks

 

[Łukasz Demolin]

Damn, I just realized that the timeslot collides with WTM@Suzuka on Monday. Is there any way to do something about this fact? (I'd hate to play the "it wouldn't happen with the Czech plugin card ). I probably will be able to make it home @11GMT Tuesday. And there is a nice group participating :/. Maybe an addendum slot on Tuesday, 18 or 19 GMT? Am I asking for too much?

 

[Warren Dawes]

Is there any way to do something about this fact? ........................... Maybe an addendum slot on Tuesday, 18 or 19 GMT? Am I asking for too much?

Yep, I can set up an additional Rally on Tuesday in a European slot. I'll make it 19GMT but if you prefer 18GMT, please let me know ASAP.

 

[Łukasz Demolin]

19:00 GMT is fine, I'm getting used to racing online at this particular hour . Thanks a lot for understanding .

 

[Robb Kulcsar]

I have recce all the stages, will be a good fun rally ,can't wait :wink:

 

[Cam Wedgwood]

Decisions, decisions...

Do I run the Ford (which one of my students has informed me stands for, 'Found On Rubbish Dump'), or the Citreon...

 

[Warren Dawes]

Decisions, decisions...

Do I run the Ford (which one of my students has informed me stands for, 'Found On Rubbish Dump'), or the Citreon...

...or the Suby or the Evo????

G'on, wreck another Ford Cam, you are getting quite handy at destroying them.

I'm going to plough the "blue" car through the fluffy stuff this Rally. :tongue:

 

[Cam Wedgwood]

...or the Suby or the Evo????
:tongue:

They just aren't pretty enough!

 

[Senad Subasic]

I wanted to drive the Subaru, but the steering sensitivity was horrifyingly high for some reason. In other cars, it was okay.

I found the sensitivity settings in the game just now, not a very logical place to put them, but okay. So I'm probably gonna bring shame to the Subaru today.

 

[Senad Subasic]

That was fun . Not sure how this works, should I wait for Oceania and USA to finish before posting, or?

I was actually quite fast on some stages. And could've been the fastest of the people in the EU rally, but I failed badly twice.
First on stage one, in the first couple of turns, I did something to the car, no idea what. No power at all. Near the end, I got the water temperature warning. Lost a lot of time there...
But then I started to recover, posted some fastest times (of the people there), but then a catastrophe on stage 4. Middle of the stage, hairpin left, I messed it up a bit. Started driving again, and got the wrong way message, even though I was going in the right direction . Tried to turn around, go the other way, again wrong way message. Eventually, stopped and did the call for help thing, which put me right back where I was the first time! Anyway, lost over a minute just on that stage...

Loved the last gravel stage, nice and flowing, epic fun

Quite happy overall, considering the fact that I never saw most of the stages before tonight . Thank you Warren, can't wait for the next one :rally:

 

[Mark A Warmington]

Damn missed it. Crappy Internet connection has been up the swanny all evening. I'm here on my iPhone (again). This is becoming depressing.

Sorry.

 

[Warren Dawes]

Not sure how this works, should I wait for Oceania and USA to finish before posting, or?

You can post your reports when you finish your Rally, always good to hear how others went.

Damn missed it. Crappy Internet connection has been up the swanny all evening.

Mark, there is another Rally set up for Tuesday night European time, maybe you can try for that one.

 

[Warren Dawes]

I made a movie from my test run when planning this Rally for Racedepartment, but it has taken me until now to figure out how to make and post the movie. Please excuse the Video quality, it's my first attempt, but it should give an idea of how i drive in the snow.

Maybe some will find it useful.

 

[Robb Kulcsar]

Great race, lots of fun, maybe sometime to much slide put me in the snow. Great fight with Senad, some stages, the times are allmost the same, on two of them I needed the help to be put again on wheels. Subaru WRC'09 to quick for me:wink:.

 

[Cam Wedgwood]

Don't forget ts Oceanians!

 

[Senad Subasic]

Nice driving there.

I recorded my first snow experience the other day, twas much worse, hit a couple of things

EDIT: agreed Robb, was great fun. I feared it might not be as interesting, as you're alone on the track, but I was wrong. Finish the stage, get back to the application, and maniacally refresh the page, cross fingers, and hope the others come in slower than you .

The Subaru was a joy to drive, after the sensitivity adjustments. Now I just have to see how far off the pace I am.
Oceania started half an hour ago, good luck chaps, have fun!

 

[Cam Wedgwood]

Great racing and fantastic to have 5 drivers in OC alone! :woot:

Thanks loads Warren!

 

[Rick Bamford]

......and in the end!

Well guys. That was great fun. Thanks to everyone in the Oceanina rally but most of all Warren. I WILL see YOU next time (insert evil laugh here)

 

[John Low]

What a blast. Thanks Warren heaps. Those marshals need to be a metre further away tho

 

[Warren Dawes]

Wow, that was a truely great night of Rallying. 5 drivers in the Oceania zone, all of us running stage times that were very close indeed, it just depended on who coiuld keep it together and not make mistakes. We were all sharing Stage wins within our group, very competitive and tense. I have never concentrated so hard and was totally spent by the end, which is when I made my mistakes.
Great racing guys, lots of fun. Special thanks to Cam and Damien for the TS chat, we always have some fun chatting. It would be great to have the other drivers on TS too, if you want to join in, John and Rick.

I really loved the snow driving, probably my favourite surface, gently controlling the sliding turns with the accelerator and brake in left foot braking manner. When you get in a rhythm it works so well, but as soon as you get out of synch it is hard to get back again.

Thanks again to all of the guys in the Oceania Rally.