You are not alone it seems, I never had a single stutter in this game, till tonight, even had my first game crash, thankfully between stages 2 and 3. The PC was also spewing way more heat than usual. I dunno what it is, I was thinking possibly the latest driver might not be so good, but maybe not now.
btw, once again the horrible luck continues.
Appreciated, was just throwing it out as an option in case everyone was grumpy with the choices 
There’s um, easier rallies ahead? maybe?
I spoke too soon, easily had my worst rally so far. @Aginor I wouldn’t feel too bad about the 7 tire repairs as I lost a total of 6 tires combined in Stages 8 and 10. I wasn’t keeping track closely but there were no fewer than 10 tire repairs on my part. Don’t know what I did different but I couldn’t keep all 4 tires on for the life of me.
I had hope of catching you for 4th overall, but that hope was dashed easily.
There’s just under 24 hours to go if you still need to finish up 
This weeks debacle…
“Wait did he say 6 right jump or 6 right over jump?”
Of course I got terminal failure here, although pretty odd explanation as I had a fully repaired vehicle finally and my terminal failure here was…Wheels?
It’s hard to see the end, but basically I landed on my side on top of the bank smacking a tree with my grill, although not nearly as hard a hit as some other “boo-boo’s” I made.
Oof, and that’s not even the BIG jump!
True, to a point. I have a high risk/high reward driving style. I like to go all out and usually that serves me well, but it can backfire every now and then. Without any benchmark (being the first to set any times), I didn’t have any feedback to know I could have, should have backed off. After my first big mistake I overcompensated by trying to go even faster, which lead to a self-feeding downward spiral.
Regardless, it’s all part of the rally experience. I may have been faster over a stage, but I squandered that speed. Whoever ends up on top is a worthy winner in my opinion. 
Turbo lag? TURBO LAAAG? In the Lancia??? You, sir, need to drive the Peugeot! See how much you like the throttle response without that fancy-shmancy supercharger! 
Sounds very familiar.
I am the other way round and always tell myself to go slow and instead make no costly errors. But then I puncture a tyre anyway and very often that is the point where I start going much faster. Which leads to slower times, not faster ones.
Fun fact, I tried it on a few stages: the time difference between going “grandma speed” and “breakneck speed” for me when I don’t crash is 30s or less, even on long stages. But high speed makes punctures extremely more likely, which costs at least a minute.
Well done @keets for what will probably be P1 and to @roo for hanging on to P2. I was finishing P3 most of the stages, so in not surprising that I finished overall in that spot. I think that I might have rolled in SS5, but my undoing was SS8, where I drove most of the stage on the left front rim after what seemed a light tap to one of those fences. I couldn’t remember how long it takes for a tire change, nor how long the stage was, so motored on listening to the rim sing and drive like a drunken sailor. The rest was uneventful, other than tallying my usual 15 second lag behind the Team Lancia and Pug, who had their battle for the top spot on the podium.
On to Germany! Tarmac will be a refreshing break after a tough first 3 gravel rallies. … I think 
Spoiler alert!
…it won’t. Group B cars acr really weirdly on tarmac IMO.
What are you saying Aginor? Have you not embraced the drifting life?
I’d say I’m actually excited about this next rally… that is if I didn’t already know that I’ll somehow clip a keystone and break my axle for the 3rd time in 4 races. At least there are no ravines to fall into.
I love drifting! Just not in those cars, they just… I don’t know. They feel weird to me.
I’ll have the latest standings up later on tonight, sorry for the delay.
You were so close to 2nd there! Before the last stage it looks like you had the jump on me after my mishaps, but I guess since my car was mostly back together again it managed to pull itself up. I’m honestly surprised I finished as high as I did.
For all our complaining about Argentina, I almost think Australia was worse, perhaps because I wasn’t as on edge and relaxed a bit.
I may have to agree with you there. In general I think Germany will suit the Group Bs better than Spain as Germany is more a point and squirt rally with the abundance of square turns. That said, on the higher speed tarmac sections in Australia the rear had a tendency to slowly creep around without you noticing, which if you weren’t paying attention led to over-corrections and bad things(R) happening. That might be from the softer suspension due of the stages being predominantly gravel. Hopefully once you firm everything up for road driving it will be a bit better.
Sorry for the delayed update. If it wasn’t already on there, I think a few more of us have added Australia to their “least favorite” list 
Congrats to @keets on breaking through with the win!
@Roo held on to second by just 6 seconds over @chipwich
The bonus stage was Stage 3 with Roo taking his 3rd overall bonus point
Australia offers lots of different surfaces, jumps and ways to pop tires. Up next is Germany which should offer a good change of pace. I know the group B 4WD’s have been rough on some of us, but I think we’ll find our groove with them soon. With that said, Good luck everyone and the Bonus Stage will be Stage 6. (I can’t get dicebot to agree to roll today so I just picked)
Overall Standings for Stage 1
Roo - 71
Keets - 55
Chipwhich - 48
Aginor - 37
Mag Ovr - 32
Mudcat - 22
521 - 18
TeTeTe - 10
We have some good battles forming up along the way, so I look forward to seeing how things shake out.
Welp, considering I have this game for Xbox and haven’t really played it at all, I think I’m going to have to boot it up and work on my rally skills (I suck at Rally, my brain can’t remember the co-pilots instructions long enough to do jack squat about them :P).
you can adjust how early or late the calls come, just a word of caution, later can lead some calls coming after turns in some instances.
Everyone has that problem.
Just make them call out the turns later as Mudcat suggested, and drive a tad slower than you could.
From there on it is mostly practice.
I used to do the same where I’d try and drive purely off the co-driver calls. It usually didn’t end well. After a while I learned that the calls are more of a helper, and your main influence for how to approach a corner should be what you can see out the windscreen. The same call from the co-driver can apply to two vastly different corners that you need to approach differently, and you don’t realize that unless you’ve got your eyes out of the cockpit. I’ve had times where the turn is much, much tighter than the co-driver call, and looking out the window and realizing that’s more like a 1 right and not a 3 right has saved my ass a couple of times.
Of course the co-driver is definitely useful if the corner is blind, but most of the time I’m only half-listening to him. If I hear a “caution, square right” while I’m on what is an otherwise straight road and just about to go over a blind crest, I’ll obviously start slowing down, but otherwise it’s just driving the road you can see in front of you.
Also, if you haven’t picked a car yet, I’d advise going for the MG Metro if you still getting back into this. The MG is the least powerful car in the group, but the Group Bs are such monsters that even the little Metro can be a handful if your still getting used to it. The naturally aspirated engine means you don’t have to worry about turbo lag on top of everything else, and the lower power means you’re less likely to go spearing off into the undergrowth. Additionally, if you’ve been reading our reports, you’ll know that just driving cleanly in a supposedly “slower” car will get you miles ahead of the guy who takes the fire-breathing monster and goes sailing off a cliff. Been there, done that…
So get out there and have some fun!
Turtles fall off cliffs too 
Sure, but less often than hares. 
And in this case, the turtle has been on a cocktail of steroids, Red Bull, and double espressos.
