CMR2 Rally Norway

[jso1985]

Enjoy the only snow rally this season, don't worry Sweden will be back next season.

The rally will be run with the following format:

Game Rally: Sweden
Shakedown stage: SS9
Day 1: Single Rally Expert level
Day 2: Single Rally Intermediate level

Deadline for submissions is on Wednesday 18th 15:59 GMT

For any questions, ask them here, newcomers always welcome

Have fun!

[tannat]

I'm thinking a certain Two Basses driver will show well on this one :D

[pettersolberg29]

I did an early recce today, and I find snow much easier to drive on using a joypad. I've cut my PBs by about 3 seconds per stage!

[52Paddy]

I've very little experience driving on snow. I struggled particularly on the snow stages on the Monte, although I was very compromised by the tarmac tyres and S1600 settings. I doubt I will have the pace to challenge for honours in the Colin McRae Cup. My goal is to avoid costly mistakes and try to rack up as many points as I can in the McRae Cup.

[dravas76]

Shakedown stage: SS9

1:26.56 : first run
1:24.86 : play with setup
1:25.65
1:24.72 : good setup

Little twisty stage.

[I am evil Homer]

After the IRC run out in similar conditions i'm feeling much happier about Norway than Ireland. Shakedown times:

1:21.65
1:25.49...messed about with set up and then missed some gear changes!
1:21.05
1:20.70
1:21.13

[tannat]

1:24.62
1:23.15
1:27.51 off :D
1:23.29
1:23.27

[pettersolberg29]

Shakedown done - found a good setup.

1.22.34
1.24.76
1.21.61
1.20.08

Very happy with this - look forward to the rally.

[pettersolberg29]

Are you taking part Frozzy?

[RALLY-boy]

SHAKEDOWN

1:23:59
1:22:38
1:24:21
1:24:25


Team:Peugeot Portugal Team
Car:Peugeot 206 WRC
Driver:Rally-boy

[52Paddy]

I'm a bit gutted to join the "sorry, I can't make this round" crew. But I'll be moving from home on Wednesday and need to move a lot of my stuff across town between now and then. I still may be able to take part in this rally, but my commitment to the championship may dwindle slightly. I shall keep you updated.

PS: I honestly thought I could attack this year, prior to me going to college in September. But such is life...

[pettersolberg29]

Rally Complete - very pleased with 8, yes 8 PBs in total! Haven't competed in a CMR2 snow rally in this championship for ages, so no idea how ell I've done - I'm sure NOR, Homer and Marcel will be ridiculously fast, but I hope to be up there with the big boys.

[I am evil Homer]

I managed to squeeze in Day 1 yesterday and will complete the event tonight. So far, so good though...looks like it will be a close rally as they are a few people who go well on the snow!

[Frozzy]

to JSO sorry i need to resend my times as i have done the rally in the wrong order

[RALLY-boy]

upsssss :( i guees i made the shakedown to late and couldn't sbmit times cause i didn't know where to submit them :S (mail or something??) so...sorry JSO
i will pay more attention to next rally :)

[pettersolberg29]

upsssss :( i guees i made the shakedown to late and couldn't sbmit times cause i didn't know where to submit them :S (mail or something??) so...sorry JSO
i will pay more attention to next rally :)

You dont need to do shakedown. All you need to do is do the rally in expert then intermediate mode, record your times and then fill in the timecard at the very bottom of this page -
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/cmr2wc/files/

Then send it to JSO (his address is in the timecard)

Hope you can make it by Wednseday!

[jso1985]

*RED BULL CITROËN UPDATE*

"Jso1985's C4 was caught in a nasty snow storm on it's way to Norway and now the car is in such bad state that has been rendered useless, in response the team HQ has hurried another car from the factory, but as this new C4 hasn't even been tested, both team and driver aren't much confident now on getting a good result here."

What really happened: after 8 years of heavy use, my PS1 copy finally stopped working..., couldn't find a new one on any store, so I had to buy the PC version, no probs there(and the graphics are awesome in the PC version!) but it certainly takes a bit of time to get used... and snow isn't my favourite surface!

now where to get my Citroën skin? :D

[jso1985]

upsssss :( i guees i made the shakedown to late and couldn't sbmit times cause i didn't know where to submit them :S (mail or something??) so...sorry JSO
i will pay more attention to next rally :)

As posted before, you don't need to do the shakedown(and if you do you just post the times here).

Now for the rally proper, you run both days as posted on the first post, and you send me your times with or without timecard to [email:1w48bvt2]jso_1985@yahoo.com[/email:1w48bvt2] or via private message here.

[tannat]

[quote="jso1985"]

Curious to see what will happen to your times, jso....
I think the site where NOR posts his skins has a good Citoren skin

[dravas76]

I did my day one, I will do day 2 tomorrow
Note very good so far

[I am evil Homer]

Day 2 completed...set very good times on most stages although a few little mistakes cost me a PB on one stage. So close and so far!! looking forward to the results.

[Marcel Haenen]

pfff...i need an extension till 23h59 gmt again this time....hopefully you'll agree. Just have to little time during the weekends these days...

[dravas76]

Rally finish.
Not very good, I don`t have a good setup. But that's ok ,this is the only snow rally.

[jso1985]

Results will be delayed until tomorrow due some problems on JTLarsen and Frozzy timecards.

thanks for your patience.

so far got timecards from:
Jso1985
Ps29
Marcel Haenen
Tannat
Ramore
NOR
Dravas76
Zes
Homer

[JTLarsen]

Timecard has been re-sent, so sorry for the delay!

[Marcel Haenen]

Finished my rally! This was a hard one. Usually I do a lot of practice when we are going to play in the snow. This time around there was no time for that, I had to go straight into the competitive rally. I decided to take it on the safe side, no hunting for PB's this time around! This approach resulted in a little bit slower times than last time around but kept us out of big mistakes as well. I am happy with the result, should be good enough for the podium.

[tannat]

Results will be delayed until tomorrow due some problems on JTLarsen and Frozzy timecards.

thanks for your patience.

so far got timecards from:
Jso1985
Ps29
Marcel Haenen
Tannat
Ramore
NOR
Dravas76
Zes
Homer


To think this time last year we had over 20 entries.....

[Ramore]

To think this time last year we had over 20 entries.....

I guess, the problem is that the young generation doesn't play CMR2 anymore. I was about 16 when started to play CMR. Not sure, but probably our mean age is above 20. We need a global promoter!

[JTLarsen]

To think this time last year we had over 20 entries.....

Perhaps some advertising would be in order!?

Posts could be made on the forums of the national championships.. (Czech, Hungarian etc.)

A single post on the Rallystuff.net simulations forum last year recruited 2 new entries to the BRC (both one time appearences though)

I would gladly display sommer banneradvertising on my CMR2 sites (taking that they are of good quality), as these sites still get a fair amount of hits each month:

http://www.leftovercrest.com/cmr2rallymagazine.html
http://www.leftovercrest.com/cmr2-swedish-rally-banner-mod.html
http://www.leftovercrest.com/cmr2-greece-rally-banner-mod.html

My 2 cents.. :D

[jso1985]

I'd really apreciate any promo work any driver can do :)

For a start anyone with talent to make a banner for JT's pages, please do it!

WARNING! posts below this one might be spoilers
Stage-by-stage results are now available at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/cmr2wc/files/

final results and standings will be published here soon

[jso1985]

1.- I am evil Homer Citroën C4 Citroën Sport France 49:52,53
2.- Marcel Haenen Citroën Xsara ML Motorsports Citroën 50:16,73
3.- NOR Citroën C4 Two Basses Rally Development 51:24,60
4.- Ps29 Ford Focus VK Kick Frozz Motorsport UK 51:26,73
5.- Ramore Subaru Impreza RRT 51:41,92
6.- Tannat Citroën Xsara Fine Wine Motorsports 51:58,10
7.- Jso1985 Citroën C4 Red Bull Citroën Total Sport 52:03,15
8.- JTLarsen Citroën C4 Two Basses Rally Development 53:05,15
9.- Zes Suzuki SX4 Suzuki Sport Finland 53:41,68
10.- Dravas76 Citroën C4 Red Bull Citroën Total Sport 53:43,80
11.- Frozzy Ford Focus VK Kick Frozz Motorsport UK 55:47,85

Colin Mcrae Cup
1.- NOR Citroën C4 Two Basses Rally Development 51:24,60
2.- Ps29 Ford Focus VK Kick Frozz Motorsport UK 51:26,73
3.- Ramore Subaru Impreza RRT 51:41,92
4.- Tannat Citroën Xsara Fine Wine Motorsports 51:58,10
5.- Jso1985 Citroën C4 Red Bull Citroën Total Sport 52:03,15
6.- JTLarsen Citroën C4 Two Basses Rally Development 53:05,15
7.- Zes Suzuki SX4 Suzuki Sport Finland 53:41,68
8.- Dravas76 Citroën C4 Red Bull Citroën Total Sport 53:43,80
9.- Frozzy Ford Focus VK Kick Frozz Motorsport UK 55:47,85

Richard Burns Cup
1.- Ps29 Ford Focus VK Kick Frozz Motorsport UK 51:26,73
2.- JTLarsen Citroën C4 Two Basses Rally Development 53:05,15
3.- Zes Suzuki SX4 Suzuki Sport Finland 53:41,68
4.- Dravas76 Citroën C4 Red Bull Citroën Total Sport 53:43,80
5.- Frozzy Ford Focus VK Kick Frozz Motorsport UK 55:47,85

Drivers Standings
1.- Marcel Haenen 18
1.- I am evil Homer 18
3.- Ps29 11
3.- NOR 11
5- Tannat 7
5.- Ramore 7
7.- Jso1985 3
8.- Dravas76 2
9.- JTLarsen 1

Colin McRae Cup Standings
1.- Ps29 18
1.- NOR 18
3.- Tannat 11
3.- Ramore 11
5.- Jso1985 7
6.- Dravas76 5
7.- JTLarsen 4
8.- Paddy Cummins 2
8.- Zes 2

Richard Burns Cup Standings
1.- Ps29 20
2.- Dravas76 13
2.- JTLarsen 13
4.- Zes 9
5.- Paddy Cummins 6
6.- Lugnut_usa 4
6.- Frozzy 4
8.- Tuomo 2

Teams Standings
1.- ML Motorsports Citroën 18
2.- Citroën Sport France 18
3.- Two Basses Rally Development 12
4.- VK Kick Frozz Motorsport UK 11
5.- Fine Wine Motorsports 7
6.- RRT 7
7.- Red Bull Citroën Total Sport 5



Thanks for participating, see you in Cyprus!

[Marcel Haenen]

Good drive homer! I was unable to be on the limit this time around. Hopefully I will be able to get some more practice in before Cyprus.

[Rat]

sorry fellas, my copy of CMR 2 wont play properly since the cleanout, I'll be back as as possible.

[pettersolberg29]

Great battle NOR - only 2 seconds after 20 stages! If only the real WRC were that close ;)

[I am evil Homer]

Good drive homer! I was unable to be on the limit this time around. Hopefully I will be able to get some more practice in before Cyprus.

Thanks :up: had some practice on these stages in the IRC round so found adjusting pretty easy and had a good clean drive....look forward to Cyprus :)

[tannat]

WHOA! Pretty tight finish from 6th-8th.

I see my old nemesis is creeping up on me again.... :p

[JTLarsen]

I'd really apreciate any promo work any driver can do :)
For a start anyone with talent to make a banner for JT's pages, please do it!


I'll make some myself. But where should they link? The Yahoo group isn't really the best place to send people to get them interested in the championship!?

[jso1985]

Maybe they should link to the current active thread(for example link to this thread until the Cyprus one get's started)

Tannat... current goal is to humilliate you on tarmac :p

[tannat]

Maybe they should link to the current active thread(for example link to this thread until the Cyprus one get's started)

Tannat... current goal is to humilliate you on tarmac :p

This year you may beat me on tarmac, but humiliation?

That might be achieved via some creative livery on your car with slanderous statements and compromising photos.... :p

[Frozzy]

me personally i'm worried about the championship being dominated by citroens :-P