Stage 4, coasting along nice and relaxed, dry track, sunny weather and think I’m on for a good time. Then big mouth next to me announces a water splash is round next bend!
Panic … splash …. “HOW DO I TURN MY WIPERS ON?” … blind…. tree … smash, in that order. Limped to the end, next stage I will change the co-pilot in repair section.
I drove into the water too fast and the car spun around.
Lost a lot of time but fortunately didn’t hit a tree.
I still lost two minutes or so with repairs because I did some dumb things. Twice they happened right before the finish line just to shave off a second or so, and it wasn’t worth it…
That was a badass run chip! About the 3:30 mark looked like a ebrake turn, really nice looking. Without having sports, this mudspike rally challenge has become my sports.
Well that’s last time I ask someone if they are using a gamepad. @keets is taking no prisoners and driving like a madman. And the guy who posted the e-brake instructional video has suddenly forgotten how to do them Will be fun to watch Keets and Elby finishing up the rally. Not ruling out @TeTeT, who is also blistering fast. I predict those 3 on the podium.
So things were going well enough, I missed a turn in stage 3 which cost me a good 30 seconds cause I didn’t recover and just drove myself out of it, which was a stupid move on my part, but I popped a few green sections throughout so maybe I’d be able to make up the time.
Stage 4 rolls along and somehow managed to get through the first section 6 seconds faster, the second section another 5 seconds faster, so I shaved 11 seconds off the lead, all is not lost… Then I clipped a rock hard enough to puncture my tire.
Decision time, to repair or not to repair… I chose not to repair hoping to just make it to the end without losing more time than the penalty. It was close but a funny thing happened 10 feet from the finish line
TERMINAL DAMAGE
WHEELS
My car easily breezed over the line but that didn’t matter I guess, I’m out
Best of luck, seems everyone is a lot more competitive this week
Moral of the story, just take the tire change penalty
3 (not something i can change), I should probably split out rally info announcements into an info thread, it gets buried fast and thanks, I’m just glad people signed up and are enjoying them.
You’ve made me wonder about the FF on my wheel and whether it’s behaving properly. In GT legends and Project Cars you can feel oversteer starting and can catch it before it progresses to a spin.
I can’t seem to get the old Logitech S/W on download, so will try the new S/W and see if it supports the Momo.
The low quality videos are due to the streaming services lowering quality to avoid internet breakdown because of many more online users in these stay at home times.
I have a couple of projects before I can get into this DR 2.0 league.
Like a photoscan of a Leopard 1A5-DK Gunner grip, building a kabinet for my 3D printer/Laser engraver/cutter and figuring out all of the electronics and safetyfeatures for it and other stuff.
Another no finish here. On Stage 7 I was playing catch-up and hit a rock with 170 km/h after a jump that went a bit wild …
After two very good stages at the start, I had to recover my vehicle with 40 seconds penalty in stage 3. Then in stage 5 engine was down on power after some contact with a tree. Before stage 7 the engine was fixed again and I tried to go as fast as possible to defend my fourth place. Ultimately this was too fast for my skill level and hence the terminal damage upon contact with one of those boulders.
@TeTeT that’s a pity. I seriously couldn’t believe your times during the first few stages (especially stage 2. More than six seconds faster than @chipwich and Elby ), great driving. You might want to slow down a tiny bit so you can finish, you are way faster than most of us anyway.
In other rally news:
Yesterday I was bored so I took an Opel Manta (Group B RWD, which means 400hp that I cannot properly control) and went to a stage of Monte Carlo (yeah I am masochistic apparently).
As I had expected it turned out to be a colossal s***show. I finished the stage but barely.
After that, just for laughs I hopped into my Seat Ibiza kit car and finished the stage way faster.
Btw that’s a feature I miss in Dirt Rally: comparisons between classes. I am sure that I can beat a LOT of my times I made (badly) driving really fast cars by just taking a slower car that I can actually drive.
Drove the first three stages this morning. Packed a picnic and stopped at some hairpins for mimosas and to take some photos. Gorgeous scenery. Quite noisy though with all those brrt brrt cars running about.