2008 Colin McRae Rally 2 Championship

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Originally Posted by kabouter

I've been testing in France. Since adopting a new set-up I've been improving significantly on my stage times on tarmac. However the Monte Carlo roads are slightly trickier and I haven't done any snow testing for several months, so don't expect too much of me...

By the way, because my membership of the Yahoo Group hasn't been approved yet I cannot read the rules of the competition. Are there any testing bans in place?

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No testing bans whatsoever...Rallies are to be done in single rally mode with no restarts.

Important Monte Rules: for the sweden stages wet tarmac tires only are allowed. It's a good idea to have a go at these stages so equipped so that the lack of grip doesn't catch you off guard :D

An addtional Monte rule also applicable for the Sweden round: no cutting across the drifts on the frozen lake stage (SS2)

Tannat

thanks Tannat, it slows you down heaps anyway, so there's no point cutting....

performed my first test of the season in Sweden in light snow conditions which was unexpected as the weather crew had predicted sunny spells but was a productive session in the good ol' fabia

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Originally Posted by Rat

thanks Tannat, it slows you down heaps anyway, so there's no point cutting....

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But you can still win plenty of time by doing it(not that I have done it :angel: :p )

Back now guys(I wasn't on jail just for the record, don't buy the dirty propaganda Tannat makes on his atempt to take over the FIA presidency)

As for the stage-by-stage results, main problem is that I know almost nothing about excel files and stuff, unless someone can teach me something that could help me, the results will take longer to be published when having big entry lists

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Originally Posted by jso1985

As for the stage-by-stage results, main problem is that I know almost nothing about excel files and stuff, unless someone can teach me something that could help me, the results will take longer to be published when having big entry lists

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If the format is the same, I can easily make a tool for you which calculates the stage-by-stage results with a single press on the button. But I have to know what the exact format is and everyone should use it and leave it like that.

Marcel, I've used the same format to calculate my times since rallying with you e.g. 2:56.78
It's easy to use..

If we want to use the Time Card from Yahoo files, there is format 2:56,78
I think...

The , or . as decimal seperator is determined by the regional settings of your computer. In most parts of europe we use the dot as decimal seperator, but I believe in the UK and US the comma is used. But I can arrange something in the program to correct this automatically. I'll try to get it working as soon as possible, but can't promise I'll have it in time for the Monte.

I think comma or dot is just set in the excel Time Card file, no matter on regional settings. Because I'm using normaly dot in Czech Rep. or in Norway, but our Time Card accept only comma.

Not having the greatest of tests (Sweden/wet tarmacs) in the Suzuki..

Absolutely can not get the end of the car to come around..even with the handbrake and -3 brake bias

The car seems doomed to understeer with the lack of grip from wet tarmacs on snow

Maybe we'll focus on being fast on day 1 (Italy mirrored)