SAIRC - Round 4 - Rally of South Africa

[Bruce D]

Sasol Rally Event Info
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25-26 June 2010
South African Internet Rally Championship - Round 4

Rules
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Open to S2000, N4-N1 and A7-A5 cars only (No WRC cars!)
Tyre choice is free for all stages
Pacenotes - Audio only, not visual
One SuperRally per leg, 3min penalty for each SuperRally used.

Stages
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Day 1
SS1 - East-West (Australia) - Mod: Normal - Weather: Clear - 9.5km
SS2 - Newbobs (Australia) - Mod: Normal - Weather: Clear - 10.1

Day 2

SS3 - Newbobs II (Australia) - Mod: Normal - Weather: Clear - 10.0km
SS4 - East-West II (Australia) - Mod: Normal - Weather: Clear - 9.6km
SS5 - Rally School II (England) - Mod: Normal - Weather: Clear - 2.2km

Total Distance - 41.4km

Entries
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Send your entries to BruceD by PM or by email to [email:1a7gf9k8]rbrmfcup@gmail.com[/email:1a7gf9k8] Entry info as follows: Name, Country, Team, Car.

Submitting times
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Start each stage using the "RSRBR2009" button under the "play alone" section, do your stage. The time will be recorded in the window at the bottom of RsCenter. If its not recorded, you did something wrong. Use "public sessions" tab and "Go" button for BTB stages. Once you have completed the stages you wish to do, select the File menu and click on "Save times" The times are saved to your RBR directory under the folder
"MyTimes". Once you have done all the stages, send all your html files to
[email:1a7gf9k8]rbrmfcup@gmail.com[/email:1a7gf9k8] to be scored. Please note that more than 1 html file can be submitted so you don't have to do all the stages at one time.

Entries open immediately. Rally and entries close at midnight Wednesday 30th June 2010

[Bruce D]

You'll notice that the submission date is the Wednesday - simple reason, I'm moving from the 28th to the 30th and will only be back on the 1st of July so I'll only get to do results then, or on the Friday. So just submit as normal, but my activity will be low for those few days.

Traditionally this is a rally with long stages and run in the dry and dusty conditions so enjoy.

[lcd]

Very short Itenerary...! Sure you haven't forgot any stages? :D
Is It similar to the real one?

[Bruce D]

Yeah thats the whole event - it's still 41 km so it'll still keep you busy. The real one only had 3 stages on the 1st day, including a 57km stage, and 10 on the 2nd, so it's close. It ends with a superspecial (which nearly decided the rally this year), so its closely modelled on the real event.

[lcd]

...including a 57km stage...

I guess that's what they call endurance!!! :D

Thanks for the Info!

[Bruce D]

Yeah this year the top 3 going in all crashed out on the stage. Apparently the stage is extremely rough too in places so that makes it interesting as well.

[Bruce D]

Disappointing entry at the moment but I think you guys were focusing on the fun event (congrats to Macd BTW). Here is the entry list at the moment:

Rally of South Africa
SAIRC - Round 4
Entry List

Num Driver Car Group Team


2 BruceD VW Polo S2000 S2000 GRACE Motorsport
3 LCD Fiat Grande Punto S2000 S2000 GRACE Motorsport
4 NeverKnow Subaru Impreza N14 N4 OMV Red Bull Rally Team
6 Tannat Skoda Fabia Evo 1 S2000 S2000 Dark Blue Drum Rallysport

[Francis44]

Im in aswell.

I will be driving the 207 S2000 for a change, its a shame to see such a motorsport icon brand down in Manufacter points, I will try to give some points to Peugeot.

[Francis44]

Just finished my rally, it was a good run through the stages.

Some pics.....
http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/1292/richardburnsrallysse201m.png
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/4980/richardburnsrallysse201e.png
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4833/richardburnsrallysse201.png
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9146/richardburnsrallysse201z.png
http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/4833/richardburnsrallysse201.png .

[Bruce D]

Finished my runs last night. Was a good event, first and second stages went very well, but I missed a junction left on SS3 (very late call from the other seat) and slid into some badly placed spectactors so lost time there and then spun earlier in the stage too. SS4 was ok and SS5 went fine, but the time didn't seem to be there and I'm not sure why. Anyway, finished so I'm happy.

[ctbr]

Signing up:
Tomas Reinicke, Skoda Fabia

[tannat]

Finished my runs last night. Was a good event, first and second stages went very well, but I missed a junction left on SS3 (very late call from the other seat) and slid into some badly placed spectactors so lost time there and then spun earlier in the stage too. SS4 was ok and SS5 went fine, but the time didn't seem to be there and I'm not sure why. Anyway, finished so I'm happy.

You are quite aggressive on the Oz stages, Bruce..

It is so easy to get sucked into the speed of these stages. They flow very nicely, then you are hit with a key right or left, or a decreasing radius turn and you are off in the trees...

[Macd]

I'm changing my entry to a S2000 Fabia :)

[lcd]

I'm not In a good shape lately! This was another bad rally for me!
Very long and exhausting stages with many mistakes and East West II
probably the worst performance so far In SAiRC!
After a point, I lost counting off roads! For once more,
Australian stages prooved themselves the most demanding stages In the game!

Here are some photos from the event:
http://yfrog.com/5mrichardburnsrallysse201qj
http://yfrog.com/75richardburnsrallysse201j
http://yfrog.com/jprichardburnsrallysse201htj
http://yfrog.com/mrrichardburnsrallysse201j

[Bruce D]

You are quite aggressive on the Oz stages, Bruce..

It is so easy to get sucked into the speed of these stages. They flow very nicely, then you are hit with a key right or left, or a decreasing radius turn and you are off in the trees...

Yeah they suit my style of driving and setup so it works well. Speaking of decreasing radius corners, there was one in NewBobs that nearly had me, went in and I thought I'd scrubbed off too much speed but I was actually bang on line for the exit but the note said nothing about tightening. Actually I found the notes on East-West II to be too fast of the corners so I backed off a bit there, the crash on Newbobs II was just bad pacenotes, and the spin was my fault so I'm not too unhappy.

Macd, I've noted your change. Thought it would be interesting seeing 2 N4 cars going for it.

@ LCD, hehe, that last pic is what I call corner-cutting big time! :D

[lcd]

...@ LCD, hehe, that last pic is what I call corner-cutting big time! :D

Yeah, but you don't want to know the result of It... :(

[ctbr]

OK, sent in my results.

No major drama at any stage, everything went quite smooth.
But I don't know if it was fast, I took it with some caution.

Still a nice rally.
Attach is a photo from SS2 showing my new carpaint


/Tomas

[Bruce D]

Nice paintwork ctbr, you paint that yourself?

@LCD - I'm guessing Trees 1 - 0 Punto...

[lcd]

...@LCD - I'm guessing Trees 1 - 0 Punto...

I'd better say trees+cliff 2 - 0 Punto! :D

[ctbr]

Nice paintwork ctbr, you paint that yourself?

Thanks,and yes I have done it myself :-)

/Tomas

[Bruce D]

Cool. Nice battle between LCD and ctbr on this event, while everyone was staying on the road...

[tannat]

Still a nice rally.
Attach is a photo from SS2 showing my new carpaint


/Tomas

Nice job, Tomas :up:

I could really get into this, if I only had the time....

[tannat]

Cool. Nice battle between LCD and ctbr on this event, while everyone was staying on the road...

I smell opportunity :D

[lcd]

No way anyone had more off roads than me In ss4! :D

[52Paddy]

Attach is a photo from SS2 showing my new carpaint


/Tomas

How do you change the skins of the cars in RSRBR? There is a skin manager in the program but I don't know how to import them into the game.

[NeverKnow]

How do you change the skins of the cars in RSRBR? There is a skin manager in the program but I don't know how to import them into the game.
I don't know how others do it but I just replace the texture files in car folders directly. It is in the RBR root folder and under folder Cars. Ofcourse I make the copy incase I make a mistake.

Anyway I have finished the rally. Nothing major happened but I did have problems with understeer on SS4 which resulted some close calls. Also on the last stage I couldn't find a good rhytm and foolishly picked short gearing for this one resulting possibly a quite poor stage time.

[tannat]

How do you change the skins of the cars in RSRBR? There is a skin manager in the program but I don't know how to import them into the game.

I import the skins from the rallyesim site, then go to skins manager to the correct marque folder, you can then drag and drop ( I believe)


Follow up with me Paddy and let me know if it works...

[CaptainRaiden]

Had been very busy in the last 2 weeks, so this was a nice little entertaining break. I drove very well in the first two stages, but made small mistakes in all the remaining three. Luckily no major accidents though, even though I banged hard into a tree sideways on East West II.

I've saved my replays, so probably will upload them tomorrow or day after. Off to hit the sack now.

[tannat]

Ran day 1 this morning. A bit slow on soem technical session, and lightly bumped a dirt wall at the final key left on New Bobs, but otherwise a good day.

Will run day 2 tonight...

[52Paddy]

Finished the rally.

SS1-2: The first day was mostly fine. Just had a roll on New Bobs towards the end but luckily landed on four wheels and no damage was caused.

SS3: It started off very well and I got into a good rhythm. Unfortunately, I slid wide at a tight left hander and collided with the spectators on the outside of the corner. With the penalty, I lost 20 seconds I believe.

SS4: Bad stage. A minor spin and an overshoot didn't bother me too much in the opening few kms but, pushing hard to make up for those incidents, I fell down a ditch where I had to call for help. Fortunately, the car got away unharmed again, but more time had been lost with penalties.

SS5: This should have been a walk in the park. But it wasn't. I was quite frustrated from SS4's accident so thought I would give this little test a blast. After the first few corners there is a "double watersplash" (one following the other in quick succession). I approached the first one, inclined too far left. The car became unbalanced and I spun. I quickly got back in action but overshot the K-left due to a major slip in concentration. The final sector was fine, decent even.

Overall, I'm 50-50 over the rally. I know I had good pace in parts but, as usual, I made some mistakes which will ruin my final rally time (mostly due to the call for help penalties). However, I think this rally went a lot better than some of my other runs, incident-wise. I just need to learn to cool down and get the car through the stages error-free, but I feel I am progressing well in that direction and that this rally was a good step forward.

[52Paddy]

I import the skins from the rallyesim site, then go to skins manager to the correct marque folder, you can then drag and drop ( I believe)


Follow up with me Paddy and let me know if it works...

Cheers bud, that worked fine :up:

I was running the rally in a new "Barum" liveried Fabia. I'll try and post a pic of my run if I can soon.

[tannat]

Cheers bud, that worked fine :up:

I was running the rally in a new "Barum" liveried Fabia. I'll try and post a pic of my run if I can soon.

Make it to the finish, paddy.

Gotta keep our 2nd place in teams :D

[52Paddy]

Make it to the finish, paddy.

Gotta keep our 2nd place in teams :D

Mission accomplished as far as finishing goes. Hopefully we'll hang on to our teams position :)

I keep trying to upload attachments but the "manage attachments" screen comes up blank when I click. Guess its a temporary server problem.

[tannat]

Mission accomplished as far as finishing goes. Hopefully we'll hang on to our teams position :)



:up: :D

[tannat]

Rally complete.

Some minor offs and bumps, but a satisfactory run.

It will not break my heart if we do not see the East West stage again for a long, long time....

[Bruce D]

Finally back in the world after the move so I'll be working on the results today.

[Bruce D]

Right, just need times from Macd now and I can confirm the results. Great scrap for 2nd place at the moment.

[Macd]

Right, just need times from Macd now and I can confirm the results. Great scrap for 2nd place at the moment.

I'm not going to have time to do them :( :( sorry, too busy these days :mad:

[Bruce D]

Ok cool no problems, I'll release the results tomorrow.

[Bruce D]

Sorry it's taken so long to get the results up for this but here we go: http://www.rbrmfcup.sixserve.net

:D

To comment on my event, well its a pity I went off and spun on SS3 otherwise I would have had a sensational rally - as it was I'm very happy with my pace on this event, really had confidence going into this one and learnt how to attack more.

[tannat]

Pleased with 4th :)
I am truly missing something on the 2nd and third intermediates of East West :(

Pity on your spin, Bruce. for certain 4th and maybe third would have been yours


Francis-space times....

ctbr-looks as if you're finding some speed-nice drive :up:

Paddy-we are still in 2nd :up: :beer:

[Bruce D]

Pity on your spin, Bruce. for certain 4th and maybe third would have been yours

Well I was 38sec behind 2nd in the end and lost 42sec to the same person on that stage - by my maths 2nd was mine, let alone 3rd or 4th. Now got to see if I can improve on those mistakes. As for you, your runs were neat.

[tannat]

Well I was 38sec behind 2nd in the end and lost 42sec to the same person on that stage - by my maths 2nd was mine, let alone 3rd or 4th. Now got to see if I can improve on those mistakes. As for you, your runs were neat.

Cheers, I'm still paying homage to the shrine of Francis and NeverKnow, amongst many others :laugh:

Didn't mean to sell you short-just a quick glance at results :D

[Bruce D]

Hehe yeah thought I'd go mad on this event and see where I stood and I'm happy.

Paul writes:

"What a great, close rally chaps – that was tense right through the field.

Francis, you simply blizted us – very well done man.

Flip the rest of us had a right old scuffle hey – brilliant.

Poor Bruce, running so well, pity man, but still a good result as you can see your pace was there.

Tannat – wow, great drive, LCD fell off the wagon somewhere, poor result by your standards.

I was thrilled to be abale to claw my way back to 2nd overall after a bad run on SS2, I was only expecting a 3rd or 4th in this rally. So I’m chuffed."

[lcd]

Total disaster!!! :bones:
Fell off the wagon Indeed Paul! :D ( btw,nice stradegy used for this one too..! )
Got carried away many times In Australia...
Should have driven slower and more carefuly, than floor It all the way to...destruction!
Nice perfomance by Tannat-RBR suits you well afterall buddy! :up:
Well done Francis and everybody else!

[tannat]

Nice perfomance by Tannat-RBR suits you well afterall buddy! :up:



Cheers, LCD...

A new controller and a little practice (with input from NKnow) has been quite helpful....

[tannat]

Bruce D..


You were FLYING (!!!!) on the last intermediate of NewBobs (SS2) :up: :up:

[52Paddy]

Not too impressed with my showing here. I've more pace to find on these stages. But still, Dark Blue Drum lie 2nd in the teams :beer:

Well done to Francis on the win and tannat for bringing it home in a very respectable 4th.

[Bruce D]

Bruce D..


You were FLYING (!!!!) on the last intermediate of NewBobs (SS2) :up: :up:

Really? I need to look at that. Strange, I remember being on the limit through the easy corners but I braked early for the corner at the end of that flat out section. Guess the rest of you were cruising there.

[tannat]

Really? I need to look at that. Strange, I remember being on the limit through the easy corners but I braked early for the corner at the end of that flat out section. Guess the rest of you were cruising there.


At the second intermediate you were over 14 seconds behind myself and NeverKnow.

You finished the stage level pegging with NeverKnow and 3 clicks ahead of me...


If I am calcualting it correctly you were faster than Francis on the final sector by ten seconds.


Perhaps NeverKnow and I both made errors...

[Bruce D]

Wow, so I really was flying. I'll check whether I recorded my split time properly, sometimes I mix those up. I don't see how I could have made up that much time on such a fast section of the stage, especially as I was making sure I didn't mess anything up.