RDRC S8 Round 0 - Test Rally (9th - 15th January 2017)

[UMC 22]

Well, I finished. That's about all there is to say about my attempt! Greece, I hate you.

 

[Evilsmurf]

Hats off for you! I love this car, and loved to take it to RDRC (was my first option) but its really hard to not make a mistake or spin with it. If you have been able to "master the beast" is really a good performance!

Not sure about "master", I'm fairly certain it's going to bite me in the ass soon!

 

[Enpassant]

I've made it! Not so great result but in rehearsal achievement is not so important. For now 36 participants finished the event... C'mon guys!

 

[UMC 22]

I think I was 24th of 25 when I eventually finished yesterday. But another way of looking at it is that I was 24th of over 200. Yeah, that's how I'm going to look at it. There'll probably be an influx of people finishing soon though with the weekend approaching.

 

[Thomas Hinss]

Well that was a pretty poor run from me. As expected asphalt is where my strength lies, being pretty much on the pace for stages there. But everywhere else was pretty poor, averaging around fifteen or so seconds off the pace which is a damn awful showing really.

Had a puncture on the fifth stage which I feel a bit duped by, as sometimes that sort of contact doesn't give one and then sometimes it does, got unlucky this time. With a good thirty seconds or so lost from that and a sluggish last stage I think I've got some work to do to give a proper showing for this.

Anyway, a few pics from Sweden and Finland below for those interested.

 

[UMC 22]

Not to worry buddy, I did most of a stage with no tyre at all. Finally gave up and got it repaired for a 90 second penalty, then found the finish line 10 seconds way around the very next corner! Doh!

 

[Thomas Hinss]

Not to worry buddy, I did most of a stage with no tyre at all. Finally gave up and got it repaired for a 90 second penalty, then found the finish line 10 seconds way around the very next corner! Doh!

Ah, yeah gotta hate that! I was going to repair mine but I figured I wouldn't make up the time from repairing it over just limping through with the puncture, happened just after the first split too so was a dicing rest of the stage!

 

[TobiasR]

Three flips, two falls of a cliff and countless spins later, I finished with my car still somehow running

 

[Troy Uyan]

Long break from Rally for me, enjoyed this a lot - looking forward to the championship!

Slow start but it picked up for me, lots to learn.

So I do highlight videos of my races, giving a Rally highlight video a shot as well...

Link to Rally World post: http://www.racedepartment.com/threa...ason-8-rally-world.129111/page-8#post-2376813

 

[Thomas Lambaerts]

I absolutely loved these stages. I had a pretty good run. A couple walltaps on monaco, lost around 30secs per stage on sweden. Just as expected. Then onto Greece, all went well until naar the end of second stage where i got sideways on the narrowest part of the stage. Rockwall in front, Cliff behind... Lost at least 30 sec there. Finland: love IT. On germany, i was flabbergasted, my times were only 5 and 7 sec slower than leader according to racenet. I went seriously up in the leaderboard. But then Wales... 3rd corner i understeered into tree's and got stuck. Had to reset. Finished overall not to bad but hats off to the guy from Greece who did a blistering good rally in a grp A car.

 

[Neilski]

Can't complain too much about my run.
In crashes and general lack of practice I probably wasted about a minute, but that wouldn't have changed my finishing position very much

To my surprise, despite the stages being short and servicing every second one, my car got steadily more damaged and the turbo was in really bad shape at the end. Doesn't normally happen to me so maybe I was just screwing up more often

 

[Aidan Keranen]

@Ole Marius Myrvold I've not chosen a car specifically, but can I use this to test a car that I'm most likely going to use?

 

[Matheus Machado]

Much to learn. Did rather well on the tarmac stages and on Snow, dumb mistakes on Greece and Wales didn't help as well, I hope I can prepare myself better for the actual stages.

Even if not, a fun experience to learn something new

 

[Michael Nelson]

@Ole Marius Myrvold I've not chosen a car specifically, but can I use this to test a car that I'm most likely going to use?

Sure can, that's partly the reason for a test rally. On our end, we can test our procedures. On your end, you can test the cars

 

[Aaron DeMarre]

Thanks to the organizers for a great test, it was really nice running someone else's roadbook for a change!

Took out the 2007 Focus for testing, even tho I will be running the 306 Maxi this season. It has been quite a while since I ran that car and I forgot how much fun it is to drive. Since there was no pressure I ran it completely flat out.

Took me a bit to get into the swing of things in the French Alps, but kept it clean thru those stages. In Sweden I just let loose and I was just ripping thru the first stage, until I drifted into the snow just enough to send my car into a massive roll (see rally world). Finland was much the same, I usually brake at the tops of jumps, this time I was going for max hangtime (and max in-the-trees-time).

The rest of the rally was much the same, just really pushing past my limit, something I don't do much of. Feeling like a hero for half a stage until the inevitable mistake. It was really fun since there was no pressure, and I really enjoyed just going flat out in a WRC car.

 

[Caramidaru Andrei Bogdan]

I believe the drivers in the seventies class may have to go and "seed" the roads with nails and drywall screws before Mr.C and Baddog do their runs.

I presume you forgot the guy's from Dirt Central team and Ole's team also and definitely some of the guy's with "isky" in their name
But would happily go for a top 10

 

[Thomas Lambaerts]

To my surprise, despite the stages being short and servicing every second one, my car got steadily more damaged and the turbo was in really bad shape at the end. Doesn't normally happen to me so maybe I was just screwing up more often

Might be because the team of mechanics is alot worse than your career mechanics, who can rebuild 50% of your car in under 30 minutes

 

[David Ross]

My test went well managed most of the first stage clean and then hit a wall, flipped out it and ended up with a dnf. Need more practice I think.

 

[Neilski]

Might be because the team of mechanics is alot worse than your career mechanics, who can rebuild 50% of your car in under 30 minutes

Ahh yes, I was wondering about that
I had been thinking I should go back to my screenshots and double-check the "skill" column... I just did it and oh dear - indeed they are a useless bunch of cretins with skill levels in the 50s. That explains it nicely, cheers!

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Ahh yes, I was wondering about that
I had been thinking I should go back to my screenshots and double-check the "skill" column... I just did it and oh dear - indeed they are a useless bunch of cretins with skill levels in the 50s. That explains it nicely, cheers!

Yes. This is a choice we've made. No career engineers and no career cars. This makes it more equal. I don't feel that offline driving should impact an online league