Take her away!
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That’s Argentina done for me, chasing 4th position over the last 2 legs and I overcooked it both times.
Ended up just hanging on to 5th. I’ve improved as this goes on but I think not enough compared to most folks. Picked up all the bits that fell off my car during this brutal event, packed them in a crate and heading for Germany next, bring it on 
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Boy, it’s been a long time since I was in a Rally car and I never was good. Finished Argentina which I consider a success 
I don’t know what I’m doing. The car is all over the place and after having it wrecked in the first stage I switch to grandma style.
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Oh my word. I was having a decent rally, running in mid-pack after stage 3. I got a 1/3 into stage 4, at the bridge and slid down the hill trying to make that left hander onto the bridge. Terminal.
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Did you wave to Beach on your way down? 
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If we get enough of us down here, the stack will reach up to the bridge and we can escape…
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I’m a bit surprised you guys are having trouble with the bridges. I figured they’d be where I’d go flying off but instead they were my favourite parts.
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Same here.
I got 99 problems but a bridge ain’t one.
These bridges are pretty visible at least, not like those small ones in Scotland or Greece.
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I think it’s actually just one bridge. I didn’t have any trouble with others…but that first bridge I think it was in Stage 4 has a tight left turn just prior and there are no rocks or guardrail and I wasn’t even cooking and just didn’t get slowed enough…
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I respect them after a bad get-off in a cross country (hare scramble) dirt bike race in Kentucky and riding MTB in Germany. Especially the wooden ones, which get as slick as ice with a little algae on them. I do not charge over them.
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Oh yeah. Driving over wet wood on a bicycle, that can get nasty.
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Gauntlet is thrown for the first four stages of the Alt rally. After the “less than ideal” first try, I told myself that I was going to under-drive the car for the reset rally. Still slid off in a few places but kept it on the road for the majority of the time. Made it through in one piece so far!
Before that I was tooling around with the Rally GT cars to figure out my chosen ride for the next standard rally (Porsche), so when I jumped back to the R5 Fiesta I was waaay to timid with the hand brake and chucking the car around to get it to rotate for a while (very different driving style to the Porsche on asphalt). Started to get back into the swing of it towards the end of Stage 3 though.
Typically my co-driver sounds fairly bored with my performance; “4 right, 3 left” in a monotone of contempt. Every now and then he’ll get excited, but usually only for a few seconds. For the entire second half of Stage 4 his voice went up a couple of octaves, which didn’t do much for my confidence! Somehow managed to get through without damaging anything.
He did seem very eager to disembark the USS Roo at the end of the stage. Don’t even think it was to use the facilities. I hope he comes back. I left out some of his favorite treats, but I may need to put up some posters too. If you see him, please let me know. 
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Well done Roo. You seem to adapt well to adverse conditions. I venture that Scotland is more difficult than Argentina given the horrid weather. Through 8, I wet off all but 2 stages, and the first clear stage, went off 3 times including rolling the Polo with a vengeance. That’s what I get for trying to make up time. I also venture the pace notes were either wrong or horribly late in two of them. The Right 3 don’t cut rocks being the one that rolled me. I should probably make them read a little quicker. Scotland is not for the meek, or light of wallet!
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No the pace notes don’t seem to be as up to snuff as some of the others. I was surviving though. But then in Stage 9 I broke something that I didn’t know could break, my windshield wipers, wasn’t even gonna bother attempting that and instantly retired. Oh well.
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That one got me twice. If the co-driver said “attention” or “slow” or “clean” (sorry don’t know the English words, my co speaks German) then it would work, but this way you think it is a regular 3 and “don’t cut” usually means the danger is inside, so you drive it a bit more open but there is a slope on the other side that you cannot see and you fall down into the trees.
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Just looked at the alt league’s times.
Seems I held up decently until stage 4 (that’s the one where I had the double tire damage and only one spare).
Well, lesson learned. Always going to bring two spares now.
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I think the English co-driver may say “flat” meaning flat out at this point
I’m finding the co-driver calls quite funny.
“Small jump, maybe” I initially heard as “Small jump, baby”
“I think the engine maybe losing power” - no sh@t Sherlock 
Edit: I wonder if we get bored, we should change the base language and do “German” week, or “ Norwegian” and see how we fair.
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Not sure.
Sometimes Tanja says “sauber fahren” which means “drive clean” (for example in turns where there are lots to both sides, I have only heard that in Scotland in one or two places so far), when the turn opens up or is wide she says “offen” (open) or weit (wide) or “macht auf” (opens).
I admit I am not quite sure what all of those exactly mean (especially the differences between those I named above) but they are usually clear enough.
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