RBR Mod Free Championship-Round 5 1000 Lakes

[tannat]

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/untitled-13.jpg

Rally 1000 Lakes Info
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3-10 January
RBR Mod Free Championship-Round 5

Rules
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Tyre choice is free for all stages
Pacenotes - Audio only, not visual
REDUCED Damage Setting
Gears-neutral lock and gear protection allowed
NO pacecar ghosts (see options menu) are allowed



Stages
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****GOOD CONDITIONS FOR ALL STAGES****

Day 1
SS1-Chirdonhead (UK) 7.0 km
SS2-Frazier Wells (USA) 5.0 km
SS3-New Bobs I (Australia) 10.1 km
SS4-Mustaselka (Finland) 7.9 km

Day 2
SS5-Shepheards Shield (UK) 4.8 km
SS6-New Bobs II (Australia) 10.0 km
SS7-Sikakama (Finland) 10.2 km


Day 3
SS8-Chirdonhead II (UK) 6.9 km
SS9-Mustaselka II (Finland) 7.7 km
SS10-Sikakama (Finland) 10.2 km
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TOTAL------------------79.8 km



Submitting times
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Please submit times by PM to Tannat by midnight, Monday, January 10

Videos and screenshots welcomed and encouraged...

Cheers, and good luck!

Tannat

[tannat]

I'm swapping to the Hyundai...

Please confirm your rides, guys :D



Tannat
USA
Hyundai Accent

ps29
UK
Peugeot 206


Neverknow
Estonia
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII


Neil J
England
Subaru Impreza `03


IronRooster
England
Toyota Corolla

Bruce D
South Africa
Citroen Xsara


LCD
Greece
Toyota Corolla WRC

[tannat]

After 4 rounds...

Driver's Championship

1-PS29-------------40 (4 wins)
2-NeverKnow-------32
3-Tannat-----------23
4-Neil J-------------13
5-LCD---------------6
6-BruceD------------4
6-Frozzy------------4
8-SteveSpackman---2


Manufacturer's Championship

1-Peugeot----------40 (4 wins)
2-Mitsubishi---------24
3-Citroen-----------23
4-Subaru-----------18
5-Toyota------------6
5-Hyundai-----------4

[MrMetro]

Sorry, won't be at this round, been mega busy recently

[Bruce D]

If I do this round it'll be with the Xsara again. However I dropped a wooden bed on my foot recently and it's a bit painful to drive. Tried it the other day and could only do a little while before it got painful.

[NeverKnow]

I think I'll use the same car I used on the previous rally:

Neverknow
Estonia
Subaru Impreza WRC '00

[lcd]

Same car for me too; the Toyota Corolla. ;)

[tannat]

Tannat
USA
Hyundai Accent

ps29
UK
Peugeot 206


Neverknow
Estonia
Subaru Impreza WRC '00


Neil J
England
Subaru Impreza `03


IronRooster
England
Toyota Corolla

Bruce D
South Africa
Citroen Xsara


LCD
Greece
Toyota Corolla WRC

[tannat]

If I do this round it'll be with the Xsara again. However I dropped a wooden bed on my foot recently and it's a bit painful to drive. Tried it the other day and could only do a little while before it got painful.

Swap to thumb accelerator? :D

Hope you heal quickly, Bruce D....

[Neil J]

Tannat
USA
Hyundai Accent

ps29
UK
Peugeot 206


Neverknow
Estonia
Subaru Impreza WRC '00


Neil J
England
Citroen Xsara


IronRooster
England
Toyota Corolla

Bruce D
South Africa
Citroen Xsara


LCD
Greece
Toyota Corolla WRC


I going to use a Citroen from now on and see how I get on with it :)

[tannat]

Tannat
USA
Hyundai Accent

ps29
UK
Peugeot 206


Neverknow
Estonia
Subaru Impreza WRC '00


Neil J
England
Citroen Xsara


IronRooster
England
Toyota Corolla

Bruce D
South Africa
Citroen Xsara


LCD
Greece
Toyota Corolla WRC

[tannat]

I swore off RBR before Christmas in order to have a break, and really haven't touched it much since... :D

As soon as I finish winning this 240 minute sim of Le Mans 24 Hours I'll hit the stages.

Just pitted from 3rd (but on the heels of 1st and 2nd) on lap 9. I think the Audis will go 12 laps for stops, while 9 is the best I can manage in the Porsche 911 GT2...

[Bruce D]

Hehe, yeah I know the feeling. What you using, GTR2?

[tannat]

Hehe, yeah I know the feeling. What you using, GTR2?


Nope-the PS2 old, old game (circa 2002)... I like it-fun game...

Last time I tried I couldn't run GTR (I don't have GTR2) on my laptop. I should give it a go on this different laptop I currently have...

[Bruce D]

Ah I see. I did a 4 hour race at Le Mans last year starting at sunset and it was very tricky but that was GTR2 which is brilliant for endurance racing. Tried the PC version of Le Mans and didn't like it.

[tannat]

PS29-are you out there?

[pettersolberg29]

Yep - I'm here. I will try my best to take part but it will be done on Sunday if at all as I have coursework in for Monday and haven't finished yet! :-s
I'll be using the 206 again.

[tannat]

That makes at least 5-with a maybe on Bruce D.....

[steve_spackman]

I would like to enter this rally

Subaru 2003 is my car of choice

[Bruce D]

Sorry, gonna have to pull out for various reasons, including the foot, although that is improving every day.

[tannat]

Great to see you in Steve :up:

Understood, Bruce. Get better mate...

[lcd]

Day1 complete! It was a fast one, with some tiny mistakes...
Really enjoyed the high speed parts of the stages! :)
Think I did pretty well! Moving on to Day2...

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/6456/richardburnsrallysse201hk.th.jpg http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/6418/richardburnsrallysse201k.th.jpg (http://img831.imageshack.us/i/richardburnsrallysse201hk.jpg/)

[Bruce D]

Getting caught out by those bumps along that straight in Chironhead I see. Funny enough they always seemed worse in a S2000 car than in a WRC car.

[lcd]

Getting caught out by those bumps along that straight in Chironhead I see...

Very happy (...lucky..) I saved It there... :D

[tannat]

Thanks for the shots, LCD :up:

The threads are seeing some mid season stagnation...

If I can throw a skin on that ugly Hyundai paint scheme I'll try to submit a few...

[tannat]

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/untitled-14.jpg

Not horribly confident with the H'dai after 4 stages..

Rolled three times on SS1!!!

[Neil J]

My times are in. What an entertaining rally, such a variation of stages that really kept my interest. It was a rally of mixed fortunes I think, I went quite well in SS1 and 2 setting what are respectable times for me, then the fortunes turnedin New Bobs, the speed is there but I make too many mistakes, it`s real easy to clip a bank and spin. SS5 felt comfortable, not too bad in there but the remainder of the rally was a struggle, loads of mistakes, I guess I was trying too hard.I really like using the Citroen and I`ll stick with this car from now on.
Looking forward to the results now . . :)

[lcd]

Finished the rally too. Indeed It was a very Intense and fast event with a great choice of stages from Tannat.
Enjoyed every minute of It. New Bobs II and all the snow stages will probably define the winner here.
Uploading some media and submitting my times a little later!

[pettersolberg29]

In the words of Magnús Magnússon, I've started so I'll finish! Day 1 OK - Chirdonhead was great but the others had a few incidents.

[lcd]

http://img573.imageshack.us/img573/7831/richardburnsrallysse201g.th.jpg (http://img573.imageshack.us/i/richardburnsrallysse201g.jpg/)http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/3417/richardburnsrallysse201zj.th.jpg (http://img27.imageshack.us/i/richardburnsrallysse201zj.jpg/) http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/6035/richardburnsrallysse201o.th.jpg (http://img218.imageshack.us/i/richardburnsrallysse201o.jpg/)

[tannat]

Finished the rally too. Indeed It was a very Intense and fast event with a great choice of stages from Tannat.

You had more than a little bit of input regarding stage selection-thanks go out to you as well :up:

Times received from Neil J and LCD....

[tannat]

Gaining a little bit of confidence after some suspension adjustments.

SS8 snap

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/untitled-15.jpg

[tannat]

Rally complete :D

Shot from final stage..

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/untitled-16.jpg

[NeverKnow]

It was going to be tought rally and haven't had time to do recce didn't help either. Driving was quite unclean at times. Luckily I didn't had major incidents, just few small offs on SS3 and SS7. Biggest issue was probably on SS4 when the clutch stayed on 50%.

[NeverKnow]

Few pictures (http://s274.photobucket.com/albums/jj267/t6nns/RBR%20Mod%20Free%20Championship%20-%201000%20Lakes/) and onboard from SS5 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4sB_eIlcoM).

[tannat]

Few pictures (http://s274.photobucket.com/albums/jj267/t6nns/RBR%20Mod%20Free%20Championship%20-%201000%20Lakes/) and onboard from SS5 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4sB_eIlcoM).

Question-how often did you use the handbrake on SS5?

[NeverKnow]

I think I only used the handbrake only once about 1,8k into the stage at the junction.

[tannat]

I think I only used the handbrake only once about 1,8k into the stage at the junction.


I'm using the handbrake too much to point the car-a habit I picked up from CMR2. This is probably to my disadvantage...

I need to do some work to see if I can change this situation :(

[steve_spackman]

http://s748.photobucket.com/albums/xx121/spackerz_s77/?action=view&current=RichardBurnsRally_SSE2011-01-1013-20-22-03.jpg


http://s748.photobucket.com/albums/xx121/spackerz_s77/?action=view&current=RichardBurnsRally_SSE2011-01-1013-20-55-57.jpg

[tannat]

Okay-spotty access to the forum yesterday. Hopefully results out today...

[tannat]

This rally started off quite topsy turvy-with NeverKnow taking stage 1 followed by a very fast Niel J in The Citroen. LCD in the Toyota was nipping at his heels followed by the championship leader PS29. Steve Spackman followed in the second Subaru with Tannat having a difficult time adjusting to the Hyundai with three spins on the stage!

NeverKnow continued his charge on SS2, followed closely by LCD. PS29 barely finishing the stage ahead of Niel J in time, with SS and Tannat brining up the rear.


At the end of the day Neverknow made it three for three with a day ending stage win. 2nd on the final stage placed PS29 in third at the days end, and LCD finished the day 2nd. Niel J completed a good day one in 4th with 5th fastest on SS3, andTannat finally got his act together with 4th fastest on SS3 finishing the day 5th. SS finished the day 6th in the second Subaru.


http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/ss1-4.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/ss2-4.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/SS2-post-1.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/SS3-4.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/SS3-post-1.jpg

[tannat]

Whoops! 4 stages on day 1 :D

Two important changes on the final stage of day 1;

-PS29 leapfrogs NeverKnow and LCD to take the lead.
-Tannat jumps ahead of Neil J to take 4th (just realized your name is mispelled in the results Neil-apologies :D )




http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/SS4-4.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/SS4-post-1.jpg

[tannat]

Summar of day 2 action-no cahnges ot he overall leader board at the end of the day. LCD takes a stage win on SS5, but falters a bit on SS7. Neil J takes third fastest on SS7, but it does not imp[act his position significantly. Bit of back and forth between NeverKnow and PS29 with the Peugeot driver finishing the day in the lead (see next post).

Steve Spackman retired on SS5 so was assigned superally times for each stage. he rejoined the rally on day 3.


http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/SS5-4.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/SS5-post-1.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/SS6-4.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/SS6-post-1.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/SS7-4.jpg

[tannat]

Sorry to break these up-but you are only allowed 5 attachments per post


http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/SS7-post-1.jpg

[tannat]

PS29 ended the final day with three stage wins and an overall victory. Neverknow took a second and two third fastest stages on the final day to seal his second place. Bit of an up/down day for LCD with a second and two fourths, but it didn't matter in the end as he rounded out the podium in the Toyota in third. Decent final day for Tannat including a second on SS9, finishing his first rally for Hyundai in fourth. A fine drive for Neil J to finish the rally fifth and Steve Spackman compleetd the rally 6th.




http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/SS8-4.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/SS8-p.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/SS9-3.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/SS9-post.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/SS10-2.jpg

[tannat]

Final results

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/tannatmadiran/SS10-post.jpg

[pettersolberg29]

I'm sort of disappointed with this win as the competition was so tight on all stages except the snow ones! No - of course I'm kidding, happy to win and great to see very tight stage times on all the gravel stages. Cheers tannat for hosting :)

[tannat]

After 5 rounds with only 4 remaining.

Next round Jan 24-31 Catalunya (tarmac)

Driver's Championship

1-PS29-------------50 (5 wins)
2-NeverKnow-------40
3-Tannat-----------28
4-Neil J-------------17
5-LCD--------------12
6-SteveSpackman---5
7-BruceD------------4
7-Frozzy------------4



Manufacturer's Championship

1-Peugeot----------50 (5 wins)
2-Citroen-----------27
3-Subaru-----------26
4-Mitsubishi---------24
5-Toyota-----------12
6-Hyundai-----------9

[lcd]

The snow stages made a difference Indeed!
Welldone to all! ;)