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Keep on your personal battles as the slow-gravel rallyes tour continues.
The rally will be run with the following format:
Game Rally: Greece(MIRRORED)
Shakedown stage: SS3
Day 1: Single rally expert level
Day 2: Single rally intermediate level
Deadline for timecards submissions is on Wednesday 21st 11:59 GMT.
for any questions, ask them here, newcomers always welcome.
have fun and good luck!
hwo much more dust do I have to choke on?? Can you front runners give us backmarkers a break...Slow down, please....
Oh wow another event already....time to fire up the PS2!
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/h...n/sardinia.jpg
1:24.14 SLOPPY!!!
1:21.67
1:22.02
1:21.02
1:21.10
(Couldn't break the 1:28s with my PC :( )
We're no huge fan of these stages, but they seem to like us :D
Close to PBs during the recce, so we're ready for this one.
Hoping our teammate will make the trip to Italy and score some points this round....
Done the Shakedown (working from home :D )
1:22.46
1:21.41
1:22.16
1:19.32
1:21.65
Not sure what set up to go with here...I left the brakes and suspension on default and shortened the gearbox -1. Steering also -1. Think I might need to play around with this before the rally starts proper.
I did shakedown this evening, and thanks to Tannat's tips I think I've got a nice setup for these stages. That does not translate straight into great shakedown times though...
1.29,22 (went seriously wide about three times, and you cannot do that on this stage...)
no time (crashed into advertising boarding and overturned the car as a result)
1.26,33 (somehow I clipped the inside of every corner pushing me wide)
1.24,56 (still not the right lines, but no more contact)
1.23,22
1.22,75 (getting somewhere now, if only I could manage times like this the first time I run a stage)
At least I have the satisfaction of being much quicker than Tannat on PC ;)
And I am applauding your efforts-GOOD RUN MATE :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by kabouter
Are you keyboarding, wingpad, or wheel?
I'm taking a survey upon completion of this rally....
Car 1, Rat has completed the recce. With some input from a previous team mate we pressed on to attain some good times:
1:24.74
1:24.87
1:26.34
1:25.77
1:23.76 PB!
My usual steering rack has a few problems( needs replacing the POT inside the wheel) so the times were done via a keyboard link.
I had the suspension set at -5, steering +4, and the drive(?) set at +1 to the front. It gave us a great neutral car to drive.
Now where is Pawprint? He hasnt surfaced since his ski trip last month.
And I will parcitipicate in this rally, very sorry for missing previous rallyes, I am playing RBR, and it tooks time. Today i will drive shakedown :)
That's a very decent time, Rat. You're using almost the same setup as I did during shakedown, and it's working fine for me as well.
I'm using keyboard as well - I don't have any other controllers available.
Good run, Rat :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rat
I'm thinking I need to trash my wingpad and start keyboarding.Quote:
Originally Posted by kabouter
Note the wheel again in the above photo (full lock). It's either this or nothing with the wingpad. I can't seem to get it programmed correctly..
My shakedown times :
1:26:65
1:26:04
1:25:17
1:25:53
1:24:41
Maybe to slow on hairpins
thanks all! yep the keyboard has it's advantages!
My shakedown times
1.30.95
1.27.19
1.28.00
1.25.71
1.31.16
1.24.88
Tannat relaxes in the service area having just ran a 1:XX.XX on the superspecial...
Reporter: "Tannat- a quick word? Good run on the superspecial. I expect that opened a few eyes."
Tannat-"Yes-it was a good time, but here you gain only a second or two on the rally. It is the stages where it counts most."
Reporter: "Quite. The aerial cam showed a hairy moment for you on SS7. Pushing too hard?"
Tannat: "No. In fact the opposite. We know this turn is difficult, and we did not give it the respect it deserved. We went over the ledge a bit but staed on the power. Perhaps lost 3-4 seconds."
Reporter: "An other incidents today?"
Tannat: "The beginning of SS3 is quite loose and tricky, we could have done much better, but otherwise a good day. We like these stages."
Reporter: "And what's the agenda for the final day?"
Tannat: "Much the same as today. Here we are quite comfortable with the stages-we just go, no push, no caution, and we can make good time."
Reporter: "A fortunate situation in which to be. best of luck to you tomorrow."
Tannat: "Thank you."
Shakedown:
01:25.91
01:25.28
01:24.73
01:24.29
this should be a good Rally!
Reporter: so overall how was the rally?
M.F: well it was not too great to say the least
Reporter: what was wrong you sound dissapointed
M.F: yeah the rally was not a good experience the car was Ok but i hated the stages :mad:
Reporter: any reasons why if i may ask?
M.F: the stages are too hot too dusty the roads are too narrow there are huge drops on the edges just overall horrible
Reporter: so you expect to be out of the the top ten then?
M.F: yeah it wouldnt surprise us if we were last judging on these roads
Reporter: your next rally is the Jim Clark in the BRC what are your plans for that?
M.F we plan to lock the opposition in their hotels so we're the only runners there ;)
Reporter: we'll thanks for the otherwise intriguing interveiw frozz
Finished the rally :)
Day 1 it felt like we underperformed....looking at my times they were a good few seconds off my PBs on many of them and I have no idea why. The flow wasn't the same as the last rally for sure. I think we set competitive (ie top 5) times just not the sort of times we could have.
Day 2 was a mix....some very good stages near PBs a few others that were again a few seconds off. Not convinced we ever found the perfect set ups for this event or that or recce wasn't good enough to really get on top of these stages.
Looking forward to seeing the results...for sure things have tightened up over the last few events.
To Homer: Most of us will be a few seconds off PBs, because drive through mirrored track is more tricky, I guess :)
WRC Press Reports:
In a statement to the press, Suzuki Motorsports driver Tannat claimed to have a final day much like the first.
"We were just a tick slower on each stage-perhaps pushing a bit too had. But we had some good times in the afternoon to balance the morning's errors. This was a good rally and we expect to finish well."
Upon completion of Sardinia Tannat immediately hopped aboard Ralliart's team jet bound for England and practice for next weekend's Jim Clarke Memorial Rallye...
Would each of you who submit times please let me know what patform and what controller (i.e. wingpad, keyboard, wheel etc) you are using?
Going to put together some data at the completion of the rally :D
Thanks!
James
Playstation
Wingpad
And a battered Peugeot 206 by lunchtime tomorrow. :D
Quote:
Originally Posted by Juha
Leave those Oz V8s alone and get in some recce...
Our car's have enough reliability problems as things are :p
That's why I'm driving those ozzie cars, I can finish events in those cars. :p :
I can only do a rally when I have 2 hours of spare time. Racing's easier because you can stop driving for a week, resume and do just as well if you can remember where to brake, because there's only a dozen corners. Rallying takes up sightly more time in that way with hundreds of corners. :D
Can't argue with that..Quote:
Originally Posted by Juha
I can't drive the TRD3 V8s worth a damn. I'm somwhat better with the DTM
Someinteretsing findings on PC versus X Box and profound understeer
I use looooooooooooads of toe out, that helps. ;)
I like them because they go sideways and they sound nice. :D
PC
Keyboard (although I have a wheel but it is not working for me, because I don't have time to get used to it, and I guess I will need a lot of time to do times closer to what I am doing with the keyboard now)
Keyboard
PC
Red Bull Toyota Coralla WRC
Rat has finished the Rally:
Day 1:
After a great lead up to the Rally, we started with cobwebs in the intercom! No really... Couldn't hear a thing. Although we set some good times, setting PB's all day, we were off the pace a bit..Lost a bit of time after hitting the wall hard on my side and rolled. It even gave the co-driver a chuckle saying "it was about time we hit my side!" Cheeky bugger..The SS shook us both us when I spun the Corolla the 1st time through the tunnel then rolled it on the 2nd time. OOPS.
Day 2:
This is better! Faster today and setting more PB's! No real problems apart going wide on some of the looser stages and getting lost on stage 7. We just got down to business and went hard. Found some great tyres in the back of the truck and stuck them on for the SS and went heaps better and finally found some needed traction!
The 1st day was plagued by the loose surface and getting wide on some corners. Getting all crossed up on the SS didnt help matter either. I still am wondering where the extra speed came from for day 2 it just was a magic day! No major damage! The mechanics were a happy bunch afterwards.
Me and Tuomo, PC and a wheel. I know keyboard is more accurate, but wheel is so much more realistic.
Playstation
Wingpad (sometimes a wheel!)
1.23.67
Can't find the extra speed. :confused:
Quote:
Originally Posted by I am evil Homer
Do you note any differences in your times between using the wheel and the wingpad, Homer?
My drive was quite decent. The only stages where it wouldn't go well were 1 and 3. I smashed into something on SS4, PB on SS5, went wide on SS6 but still a good time. I threw it off again on SS 4 of day two, again a PB on 5, wide on SS7 and 8, but in all a very good drive as I avoided crashing into trees when I ran wide.
Quote:
Originally Posted by tannat
Not especially....you can drift better with a wheel and do decent scandinavian flicks but I can make stupid mistakes with both -knowing the stages is more important than the controller.
I fully agree :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by I am evil Homer
I prefer the wheel over the keyboard, but until it's fixed I'm stuck playiing with the keys..
Peugeot Sport Finland has finished the rally. I had a decent rally, few minor offs, but I managed to avoid the cliffs. Times were not excellent, but not bad either. I hope I could score a point again.
Tuomo had more difficulties. He was so frustrated with his cars behaviour (nothing wrong with his driving ofcourse) so he refused to continue after SS8: "I'm fed up with this car!" He also pointed that he will move to Ford, if things are not getting better... Maybe I'll let him do the next BRC event with Ford to calm him down.