RDRC S8 Round 3 - Rally Greece (6th - 12th March 2017)

[Balazs Toldi]

Misery, suffuring, ill, less concentration, rolling, damaged car, upset.....

 

[Norbert Leitner]

Done the rally.
Again, surprised by the Kit Cars speed, very fast. I can't keep up with them with the BMW.
My goal was finish the rally, and I did it, so I am happy now. I'm not like greece rallies at all.

I was in 4th place in category so I'll be hapy if it stays like this

Here is my whole onboard:

 

[Balazs Toldi]

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[Thomas Lambaerts]

Great Scott! After not realising the Greek rally was this week. I was unprepaired at the start of the week. No setup yet. I spend a couple hours trying to build one. Yesterday i was like, nope setup not working, let's try something completely different. Seeing my times in the leaderboard above top 100, i was sceptical i would score any points at all in Greece. After my great Sweden rally i was really bummed that Greece was not going so great.
How could i be more wrong?
After a warmup, I decided to run day 1 in one go.
I was a bit cautious in stage 1 because of the narrow road with massive cliff. Got to the first service alright. Got my car back up to 100%.
On stage 4 i think i took a shortcut somewhere. I was flying! Next 2 stages i was a bit more cautious. Getting dark and all. No major issues so far. And thus endeth day 1. Leading group A ( top 5 4wd- but only 133 starters so far ), i decided to push on. I didn't want to lose my vibe.
Day 2 started, time to go like hell! and drive like hell i did! After stage 8... 3 to 5 only 0.75sec apart. Place 2 to 6 only 7 seconds apart. Anything could still happen. After the last service, i needed 7 seconds to second place ( only 78 drivers completed to last service). I lost 2 seconds in stage 10. Full on attack for stage 11. Second place made a mistake and dropped behind me. Only 2 seconds ahead of me, my new target. All or nothing for the last long stage. Was doing the drive of my life. Until the last sector... In the slow Right 1, left 1 and right 1. I made a mistake, i tried to do the left 1 in 2nd gear and slid of the road. With my nose pointed against a pole. Reversed and climbed back onto the road. Really bummed by my mistake, i dropped a place. Lost 5 seconds to 2nd. So i think i might have passed him if i had not gone off.
After this, I do believe my setup works. Don't you think? It's been over an hour ago and i can still feel the adrenaline flowing!
Great rally guys, thanks for everything. Now the agonizing wait for everyone to finish.

 

[fedoricoFH]

So, Rally Greece finished! A few BIG slides and and a few stops ( when I had revs to low/wrong gear ) but in general I'am satisfied No way I can compete with the top drivers ( in the 4wd+ class ) but hey, this IS FUN ! Thanks to the organisers for making this championship possible

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Seems like your screenshots got inspired by the driving man!

So, Rally Greece finished! A few BIG slides and and a few stops ( when I had revs to low/wrong gear ) but in general I'am satisfied No way I can compete with the top drivers ( in the 4wd+ class ) but hey, this IS FUN ! Thanks to the organisers for making this championship possible

How do you feel the Ford-Upgrade worked? ^^,

 

[Haris82]

Greece completed!
My pace was around 20 sec behind the Top Pilots, and that`s a win in my rally career!
Except on SS4, where i got puncture and lost around 2 min! But all together - Great Rally of Greece was fun to drive, Thanks to RD Staff who made it happen!!! See you all in next event!
Some screens from me!

 

[bogani]

Greece completed!
My pace was around 20 sec behind the Top Pilots, and that`s a win in my rally career!
Except on SS3, where i got puncture and lost around 2 min! But all together - Great Rally of Greece was fun to drive, Thanks to RD Staff who made it happen!!! See you all in next event!
Some screens from me! View attachment 178457 View attachment 178458 View attachment 178459
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Picture 2 looks like a photo! For being such an old engine DR can look really good. The lightning in Greece is impressive

 

[bogani]

Done the rally.
Again, surprised by the Kit Cars speed, very fast. I can't keep up with them with the BMW.
My goal was finish the rally, and I did it, so I am happy now. I'm not like greece rallies at all.

I was in 4th place in category so I'll be hapy if it stays like this

Here is my whole onboard:

Always great to watch a good run in the M3. SS2 was a joy watch

 

[fedoricoFH]

Seems like your screenshots got inspired by the driving man!



How do you feel the Ford-Upgrade worked? ^^,

It worked OK, but I can't seem to get the damper settings to my liking but that's just tiny tiny issues

 

[Reg LeBlanc]

Sooooo.....
I had a felling I should do some test runs with an "early" co-driver setting...

So I hired an auctioneer....
Couldn't do it. He talked too far ahead.

So I stuck with trusty, yet questionable regular slower-thinking co-driver and hoped for the best.

Stage 4 : I get to a corner, he starts droning on, then eventually tells me about not cutting, (as I am cutting) so I hit something solid, get ping-ponged across the road, bounced off the side of a mountain on the other side, and was thrown across the wonderful greek countryside (and at this point, my co-driver was still talking...)

I think he got a concussion (if he hadn't, I would have given him one anyway once he got out of the car). At least I might have an excuse to get a new co-driver for next round

 

[Jared Meade]

Can we all agree that codemasters are useless and have no business producing a competitive racing sim

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Can we all agree that codemasters are useless and have no business producing a competitive racing sim

Nope.

 

[John Gouzouassis]

Hi Ole. Where can i see my placement in the cross platform results? are the cross platform rankings accessible yet or not?

 

[Aaron DeMarre]

Can we all agree that codemasters are useless and have no business producing a competitive racing sim

Not in the slightest. They made the best rally sim to date in Dirt Rally. It isn't without flaws, but it is so far ahead of the competition, it isn't even a contest.

 

[TTupsi]

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Tune in for my take on Rally Greece

 

[UMC 22]

In DiRT Rally, I hate Greece. Never do well, never enjoy the stages. I almost skipped this event but thought I'd give it a go anyway. This is how my day went:

I'd had enough and voluntarily retired during stage four. Goodbye Greece, and good riddance!

 

[Kieran Poole]

Just finished the Rally, was close between me and Racing Ivysaur, loosing out to him by about 1 second in the final stage. Although, overall it was a fun rally being on gravel

 

[TTupsi]

I'm relatively happy with how my rally went. Had to call for help four times after some stupid mistakes but still I'm sitting fifth overall at the moment

I had a very good flow most of the time, I like these technical stages and the Stratos suits here waaaayyy better than between the snowbanks. Just gotta concentrate for the whole rally to really threaten the top guys.

 

[Eckhart von Glan]

stratos at greece! there's a German saying: "Nur die Harten komm in Garten" which translates roughly as "Only the diehard are out in the garden". It's what comes to mind when I read about that combination, man of steel!