CMR2 Tour de Corse

[tannat]

Again, I'll take the lead and start this thread. jso1985 will have some busy weeks with back-to-back rallies.

Tarmac again, if you had a bad weekend in Spain this is your chance to clean your name.

The rally will be run with the following format:
Game Rally: France
Shakedown stage: SS7, Rain
Day 1: Single rally expert level
Day 2: Single rally Intermediate level

Rally starts on Friday and deadline for submissions is on Wednesday 22nd 11:59 AM GMT

Have fun and good luck!

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[Marcel Haenen]

my shakedown times:
2m49.79s
2m51.26s
2m48.13s
2m46.61s
2m45.72s

time in the dry: 2m43.82s

[jso1985]

SEX!!



Now that I have your attention...

Deadline is on Wednesday 15th not 22nd and is at 15:59 GMT not 11:59


"Tannat's thoughts and comments do not reflect the ones of the FIA or anyone involved with it"

:disturb: :p

[Rat]

DAMN! I'll take the SEX, please!
That means I'll have to run the Rally over the Bathurst 1000 weekend! Sacrilige!!!!
OK I'll get it run and not won then..

[tannat]

SEX!!



Now that I have your attention...

Deadline is on Wednesday 15th not 22nd and is at 15:59 GMT not 11:59


"Tannat's thoughts and comments do not reflect the ones of the FIA or anyone involved with it"

:disturb: :p

OOPS! Got my weeks confused.....

[tannat]

3:02.49
3:11.83 roll :D
3:02.62
3:05.16
3:01.47


2:52.09 in the dry :up:

[Frozzy]

PRESS RELEASE from Frozz Motors Europe

after a dissapointing rally Spain Frozzy aims to get a respectable finish in corsica and after a rush to get a new Co-Driver for the Event Frozzy has teamed up with the experienced Derek Ringer after Ex Co=Driver Mark Delain made a serious navigational error which cost Frozzy a lot of time in Spain.
" Hopefully the Skoda will Thrive on the French Roads we Hope and Also we hope that the previous rally has Given us more Courage to attack the Stages with 100 % comitment and bravery as we have a truck load of Red Bull as our Secret Weapon :D "

[jso1985]

I need to tell Red Bull that Citroën and Toyota are the only teams they are sponsoring and stop giving the stuff to everyone! :p

[Rat]

uh oh, we have been found out! That truck was supposed to be at Toyota HQ BEFORE the Rally. How else can we keep the co-drivers from leaving? With our crazy drivers doing their thing, the 'ballast' still complains about them.
We haven't had the time to recce this week, so it will be straight in and hope for last again...fast but last!

[lugnut_usa]

I dusted off my old copy of CMR2 recently. Is there any special requirement to join in the fun?

I'm pretty slow, but what the hell :P

[Rat]

Pick a WRC rally car, use the France Rally and follow these directions:

The rally will be run with the following format:
Game Rally: France
Shakedown stage: SS7, Rain
Day 1: Single rally expert level
Day 2: Single rally Intermediate level

Rally starts on Friday and deadline for submissions is on Wednesday 22nd 11:59 AM GMT
You can start as a privateer and work into a Works Team later. Enjoy the madness!
Sometimes we use the mirror cheat to create more stages.

[tannat]

I dusted off my old copy of CMR2 recently. Is there any special requirement to join in the fun?

I'm pretty slow, but what the hell :P



Good to see another Yank in the ranks :up:

[kabouter]

Hi all. Because this Friday I have to submit my MSc thesis I won't have time to do the rally until Friday night. Is there a possibility the deadline can be extended? Else Curtans RallyBase Motorsport will sit this one out and return for Japan.

[jso1985]

No probs from me, although an extension of 3 days is quite a lot so first I hae to ask the other drivers, if someone complains before tuesday, the original deadline will be kept otherwise it'll be extended to Saturday 15:59 GMT

[tannat]

No probs from me, although an extension of 3 days is quite a lot so first I hae to ask the other drivers, if someone complains before tuesday, the original deadline will be kept otherwise it'll be extended to Saturday 15:59 GMT


I'm cool with it-as I've not completed (or started) my rally either :laugh:

[jso1985]

I dusted off my old copy of CMR2 recently. Is there any special requirement to join in the fun?

I'm pretty slow, but what the hell :P

welcome! rat's and tannat's help should be enough(thanks guys) but in any case you can read full rules and entry list and other stuff at: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/cmr2wc

[Marcel Haenen]

No probs from me, although an extension of 3 days is quite a lot so first I hae to ask the other drivers, if someone complains before tuesday, the original deadline will be kept otherwise it'll be extended to Saturday 15:59 GMT

no probs here as well.

[Rat]

Sorry Jso, I couldn't find the rules & regs for the CMR2 championship.
No probs from me either.

[lugnut_usa]

Thanks, I'll work on it ASAP. How do you prefer the submissions to be made? I can do screenshots if that works.

[Rat]

Lugnut, you can email Jso with the completed info on the time submission form located at the yahoo groups.
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/cmr2wc

[Rat]

wet,wet,wet all we saw was water! we abandoned our recce after 2 runs.
3:12.83
3:16.12 spun at hairpin

[lugnut_usa]

Will do. I've applied to the group, awaiting approval.

I did my entire rally last night from start to finish. Fun stuff. :D

[Frozzy]

no problems from me welcome to the stages lugNut hope you have a good rally :D

[lugnut_usa]

Thanks ;)

I ran a couple of races in one of the RD3 offline leagues ages ago, before scheduling conflicts got in the way. Now I'm at the point where offline racing is about all I really can do anymore.

[Rat]

come on enjoy the madness

[Marcel Haenen]

We finished rally corsica. It was a perfect event. The car was just spot on and we made just little mistakes. We encountered no real rain, only a couple of damp roads, but they didn't really slow us down. We set some good PB's on our way to the finished. We hope for a top result here in order to have a small buffer in the championship.

[NOR]

We had a very bussy rallying weekend. The Czech CMR2 Champ ran in the same term - I did an excellent performance with a lot of PB's, won one SS and after big battle finished 4th.
In our CMR2 WC turn I made a more mistakes, weather wasn't ideal, but I hope for similar place in Tour de Corse too. I have never had so much fun on tarmac roads, like during last two weeks. Two Basses Ford Team Europe prepared my car very reliable and nice to drive. Since I'm spending most time in workshop with developing new rally cars, instead of testing, my feeling behind the wheel is confident.

[I am evil Homer]

Finished the event :)

Changed the set up this time and moved the brake balance forward slightly. No idea if this chnaged the handling or whether it was psychological but the car felt much better on these stages. Very happy with my times too but Marcel was super quick last time out so I hope we put up more of a challenge in France than we did in Spain.

[Zes]

Event completed. No rain, but I didn't find a good setup for my car. This was faster rally than Spain and I had difficulties to adapt it. I was far away from my PB's. Looks like there is no points coming now.

Now I should find time to recce Japan/UK stages. I haven't driven there for ages and they are really difficult stages.

[JTLarsen]

Both the Focus and I felt on fire for this event, and as a result I managed no less than 12 PBs! Too bad the asphaltrallies are over for this season.

I did 2 stages in the rain on slicks, and with a weatherforecast that said more rain i changed to raintyres only to spend the next 2 stages burning soft rubber as there was not a single drop of rain.. :D

[lugnut_usa]

My rally was fairly uneventful for the most part. The car felt good, very responsive, and I was able to keep it clean for most of the event. I had a costly mistake in the next to last stage, but other than that I'm satisfied with my first attempt.

The weather was good, the car was fast...I just need to improve my form, but I feel like I got a pretty good start. :P

[Frozzy]

Eurosport: Frozzy you've completed rally France how'd it go?

Frozzy: yeah i really enjoyed it the Skoda was in its best form so far it was sticking the roads even with me throwing it around so we left most of our rubber on the coners :D .

E.S: So how was the weather some drivers were complaining that there was rain in the stages.

Frozzy: well seeing as we were seeded at the back of the field we got dry stages all through the rally which we were thankful of.

E.S: how do you think you will finish?

Frozzy: well hopefully some where near Rats times as we se him as the bench mark for us in terms of the speed of the Fabia S2000 in relation to that of the Toyota Corolla which has a lot of rallies under its belt and because i reckon Rat has the same abilities as me its good to judge my self against him :) .

[tannat]

We had a very bussy rallying weekend. The Czech CMR2 Champ ran in the same term - I did an excellent performance with a lot of PB's, won one SS and after big battle finished 4th.



How many competing in that league, NOR?

[jso1985]

Thanks, I'll work on it ASAP. How do you prefer the submissions to be made? I can do screenshots if that works.

Don't do screenshots, you can send your times via e-mail(jso_1985@yahoo.com or [email:6i30wnr9]javierso16@hotmail.com[/email:6i30wnr9]) or via PM here, optionally you can send the times with the timecard available for download on the yahoo group.

And I also need to post here your team name and car you're driving

enjoy!

[NOR]

How many competing in that league, NOR?
Now at the end of the season about 12 drivers.

[tannat]

Now at the end of the season about 12 drivers.


WOW!!!

[lugnut_usa]

Don't do screenshots, you can send your times via e-mail(jso_1985@yahoo.com or [email:2ld46j8q]javierso16@hotmail.com[/email:2ld46j8q]) or via PM here, optionally you can send the times with the timecard available for download on the yahoo group.

And I also need to post here your team name and car you're driving

enjoy!

Alright, timecard filled out and sent to the hotmail address.

I used the Ford Focus (alternate 2 livery, I drive a Focus in RL :D ).

I think for a team name I'm going to go with Independent Rally Squad.

[NOR]

WOW!!!
About 20 drivers at the 2008 start. It was very hard to made a good points. Now I'm 8th in the total rank, that's also my average placing on rallies.

[jso1985]

Invite them all here!

[tannat]

About 20 drivers at the 2008 start. It was very hard to made a good points. Now I'm 8th in the total rank, that's also my average placing on rallies.

GEEZ! Fast group.....

[Ramore]

No probs from me, although an extension of 3 days is quite a lot so first I hae to ask the other drivers, if someone complains before tuesday, the original deadline will be kept otherwise it'll be extended to Saturday 15:59 GMT

Does this mean that I can submit my times on Friday, because honesty I am busy with my thesis as well, although I am in the beginning now (chapter 1).

[tannat]

Hoping I can stay awake in the wee hours to complete my rally tonight.

Little princess has been waking up before 6 am past two mornings-no chance of rallying at that time.....

Tannat

[tannat]

A restless daughter at 12:30 am facilitates my wee hour rallying..

A good rally for us, not a great one. Made several bonehead mistakes resulting in 4 off on a few stages, but seemed to make up for it in other sectors.

Set a few PBs, and all of this without any recce. It's great to jump into these stages and go 10/10ths and set good times. I don't think I could do that on any other set of stages (maybe UK? -HA!).

Dry rally throughout :up:

A good points tally here and Suzuki Motorsports will close their doors for 2008, and Tannat will join kabouter at Curtans for the final two rounds :up:

[Rat]

not fair Tannat, how did you get a dry rally?

[tannat]

not fair Tannat, how did you get a dry rally?

I got lucky, I guess. Stages 1-2 were sunny-partly cloudy-sunny which was a good omen.

I did note many people got rain. That really doesn't happen often (in my experience) on the France stages. It happens more frequently on the Italy stages.


If you compete in the CMR2 IRC next year I plan to resolve the weather issue ;)

[Rat]

ok, but I still want a bit o rain...evens out the field y'see.

[jso1985]

Due some technical inconviniences(my computer's getting some maintenance job) I can't work on the results

they should be ready by tomorrow

thanks

[Rat]

great, whenever ya ready Javier

[tannat]

Due some technical inconviniences(my computer's getting some maintenance job) I can't work on the results


How many entries, jso?

[jso1985]

WARNING! posts below this one migt be spoilers!

Stage-by-stage results now available at the yahoo group.

final results and standings will be published here soon

[jso1985]

1.- Marcel Haenen ML Motorsports Citroën 41:24,26
2.- I am evil Homer Red Bull Citroën Total Sport 41:47,20
3.- NOR Two Basses Team Ford Europe 43:54,70
4.- Tannat Suzuki Motorsport 44:26,94
5.- Jso1985 Red Bull Citroën Total Sport 45:20,48
6.- Lugnut_USA Independent Rally Squad 46:15,21
7.- JTLarsen Two Basses Team Ford Europe 46:25,30
8.- Kabouter Curtans RallyBase Motorsports 46:29,40
9.- Zes Peugeot Sport Finland 47:00,43
10.- Rat Team Red Bull Toyota 48:14,22
11.- Frozzy Frozz Motors Europe 49:19,09

Drivers Standings
1.- Marcel Haenen 114
2.- I Am Evil Homer 110
3.- Tannat 61
4.- NOR 54
5.- Steve0302 29
6.- Jso1985 25
7- Juha 24
8.- Ramore 21
9.- Cyborg_hun 17
10.- J.Lindstroem 15
11.- Kabouter 14
12.- Zes 11
13.- JTLarsen 8
14.- Lugnut_USA 3
15.- PetterSolberg29 1

Teams Standings
1.- Red Bull Citroën Total Sport 135
2.- ML Motorsports Citroën 131
3.- Suzuki Motorsport 85
4.- Two Basses Team Ford Europe 62
5.- ARB Racers 29
6.- Subaru World Rally Team 21
7.- Frozz Motors Europe 15
8.- Curtans RallyBase Motorsports 14
9.- Peugeot Sport Finland 11
10. Independent Rally Squad 3
11.- Expert Sport WRT 1



Thanks for participating! see ya in Japan!

[tannat]

3.- NOR Two Basses Team Ford Europe 43:54,70
4.- Tannat Suzuki Motorsport 44:26,94

NOR - you were ON IT! Looking forward to reading some awesome stage times from you.

Good run, mate :up:


Happy with 4th. This all but secures Suzuki Motorsports 3rd place in the Teams Standings :up:

[NOR]

Yes, good result for us. Stage times were not as awesome as the two leaders', just on SS10 I got between them. I can be happy after the last tarmac rally of the season. There is still space for improving my times. I did'n expect it, so I'm nice surprised.

[lugnut_usa]

Not a bad result, considering I haven't played CMR2 in years.

Nowhere near competitive to the leaders, but we'll see how things develop over time. :)

[Rat]

wow well done Lugnut.

[Frozzy]

meh if only i had a team mate to help defend my teams position in the championship :(

[tannat]

meh if only i had a team mate to help defend my teams position in the championship :(


Perhaps lugnut will join you, Frozz.....

[lugnut_usa]

I wouldn't have any problems joining a team as needed. Barring any technical or family issues I'm definitely going to be competing full time going forward, so if you guys need me to jump in somewhere just let me know.