SS1: Going into the rally with one thing in mind: to finish with the new car.
Took the stage at a cautious pace, clipped a bank slightly about 3/4 of the way through but apart from that no issues.
SS2: Misheard the caution I made on recce into a 3 right and had a big spin, luckily I was able to carry on but I lost about 10 seconds in the process as the car stalled!
SS3: So that plan turned to a pile of
....great feeling in the car, right up until it understeered into a tree and killed the engine.
SS4: Managed to salvage quite a decent run finally, no mistakes and overall a good feel in the car.
SS5: Need to tweak the setup for the afternoon stages, car is understeering quite a bit at low revs. Stage was like driving on ice though, and i bet that didn't help!
SS6: Fantastic feeling in that stage, no mistakes and managed to go at about 90% pace which is good for the new car.
SS7: Changing setup payed off, great performance from the car as it absorbed all the bumps with no issues. Only issues came from the ignorant driver than resulted in a half spin and and most going off into the trees from a misheard note (Evgeny style, replay will look fantastic I hope)
Just going at our own pace now as this rally was always going to be about getting some competitive seat time with the new car and not trying to go flat out.
SS8: Great little stage, too bad the driver was careless and spun about 500m into it
SS9: Should have been a good stage, but at this stage I'm just too damn tired to concentrate..
Reminder:
BUY SOME RED BULL.
Ended up going off the stage more than once and resulting in an CFH :\ But hey, at least it wasn't a retirement. And my HUD decided to run out of power too near the end
SS10: Ugh. Nearing the finish and bounces off a corner and understeers into a tree again. Starting to get real tired of your , understeer.
SS11: Sunday drive to the finish, have nothing to prove, but did manage to save the car from imminent death near the finish by using the handbrake and making the rear absorb the impact instead. apart from that it wasn't a bad stage.
SS12: Quick blast through the final SS, probably not enough for a spot on the podium as I went wide a few times, but please with it.
On the whole it was a bag of mixed outcomes really, main point is managed to get valuable seat time in the car competitively. Wasn't looking for podium positions, but over the next few rallies I hope I can build up to it.
Good luck to everyone else that is yet to compete, can't wait to see highlights.