Rally - Gravel Galore - Mon 4th & Tues 5th October 2010

[Tony Hutchins]

Tony Hutchins ( FOG-TinTops) - OC

Citroen C4 this week please - I haven't driven it yet at all so stand well back speccies!!

 

[Brandon Warren]

I thought i already replied to this thread....


Brandon Warren (Brandon Warren) - US

 

[Senad Subasic]

11PM EDST works for you then? Cool.

 

[Brandon Warren]

yes

 

[Dariusz Swiderski]

Those are the replays:
http://www.speedyshare.com/files/24550017/GG_ss2.rpl
http://www.speedyshare.com/files/24550018/GG_ss3.rpl
http://www.speedyshare.com/files/24550019/GG_ss6.rpl
http://www.speedyshare.com/files/24550020/GG_ss8.rpl

 

[Aaron DeMarre]

I thought i already replied to this thread....


Brandon Warren (Brandon Warren) - US

Cool, will be fun to have someone else in the session

 

[Brandon Warren]

I started off conservatively and did quite well in the first few stages. The rally started later at night for me so i was tired to begin with. As the rally progressed i slowly became more and more tired until i began nodding off in the past few stages (my times will refect it!). Hopefully next time i will get better sleep!

 

[Robb Kulcsar]

One hell of a ride :goat:, All stages I manage to finish them, not to retire, but at least one CFH per stage or 2 or 3 rock or trees were hit, strange no people involved . No practice at all, nearly missed the start of the event, in one SS I missed a 90 degrees left hand turn and hit full speed a fence(road was closed) and those night stages were my nightmare .
Anyway, a little bit of Monday night fun, only 3 EU driver and I finally manage to reach the podium :tongue:.
Thanks for everyone for participating and creating this.

 

[Senad Subasic]

I started off conservatively and did quite well in the first few stages. The rally started later at night for me so i was tired to begin with. As the rally progressed i slowly became more and more tired until i began nodding off in the past few stages (my times will refect it!). Hopefully next time i will get better sleep!

Gah, you can drive at any time you want, just let me know in advance
Glad everything worked fine at least.

 

[Senad Subasic]

SS1 - C4
SS2 - Impreza

Both horrible. The Citroen was really unstable, and had a huuuuuuuuuuuuge steering sensitivity. The Subaru had an even huger one (sic). No idea why.
I couldn't keep it in a straight line. Will look funny in the replays.

SS3 - Lancer :love:. Had a huge crash, and my engine temperature was higher than my speed for half the stage
SS4 - fails again, and I finished the stage going in reverse
SS5 - engine died
SS6 - nooo, had an awesome fail at that first jump at the start, got so disoriented, ended up going the wrong way . But my engine died 1km before the end, so no replay
SS7 - biggest crash ever
SS8 - slowest crash ever

That was... hard

 

[Senad Subasic]

Eddie, I'm guessing you missed the session? I was told daylight savings time started in Australia last week, so the OC session was moved 1 hour earlier. I can set up another one for you in a couple of minutes, if you want?

 

[Eddie Mann]

Just hopped out of the shower 8.25pm, prepped all set to go for 8.30.. the penny dropped at 8.35.. Ahh, yeah.. Brisbane does not observe DST, therefore my pc clock won't either, what a turkey!

Senad, if it's not to much of pain, i wouldn't mind having a run tonight.. is it possible to set one up in 15min? or whateva suits you?

Cheers

 

[Senad Subasic]

I'll set one up 15 minutes from now, hope you see it.

Sry for being 25 min late, had to do something away from the computer.

 

[Eddie Mann]

Thanks, i'm off to punish the lancer now.. i have no idea what to expect!:eek:

 

[Aaron DeMarre]

This one was more challenging than I was expecting for sure. I always have issues with the WRC cars tho, and I only ran one stage as warm up, so I was really struggling to get the car to do what I wanted it to.

Bisanne especially kicked my butt, I am not sure how I trashed the car to that point without DNF

Somehow I missed the last stage as well, I got up to get a drink and got distracted helping the wife with something and must have lost track of time. Came back and I had missed the start deadline. Oh well, I wasn't all that great of a rally for me anyway. Great fun tho!

 

[Senad Subasic]

Bisanne was my fault, apologies . I thought Bisanne was the long, nice one, without hairpins

Results in a couple of hours, have to go out for a bit, sorry.

 

[Brandon Warren]

Bisanne was a ton of fun... it felt like a rally stage from the backroads of my area. Very narrow gravel roads with hardly any room to slide and you gotta be extremely careful. A lot of fun.


Entering into the rally i had no warm up so i am surprised i didn't DNF.

 

[Łukasz Demolin]

Both horrible. The Citroen was really unstable, and had a huuuuuuuuuuuuge steering sensitivity. The Subaru had an even huger one (sic). No idea why.
I couldn't keep it in a straight line. Will look funny in the replays.

Try increasing the Steering Lock in the vehicle settings (even as high as maximum, 792 degrees) and/or wheel's degrees of rotation. Those WRCs were extremely twitchy to me at the beginning too .

 

[Senad Subasic]

Overall Rally Results

Congrats Brandon, Robb and Eddie :good:
First rally here, and a win :eek:


Stage wins
Lukasz Demolin: 3 stage wins :star::star::star:
Dariusz Swiderski: 3 stage wins :star::star::star:
Eddie Mann: 1 stage win :star:
Rick Bamford: 1 stage win :star:

If Lukasz hadn't missed the start of SS1, he would've won the rally by 2-3 minutes, bad luck there.
I didn't retire on the first 2 stages (almost a stage win on SS1 actually, no idea how, TBH :eek, but I gave myself default times, because I changed cars.

Hope you had some fun, and I hope Warren will get better for next weeks rally :eek:

If anyone has any replays they'd like to share, please send them to senad.subasic@gmail.com

Click on the attached thumbnail for a better view.


Let me know if you notice any mistakes, or have any suggestions.

 

[Brandon Warren]

lol not bad for dosing off in the final stages!