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Originally Posted by Pawprint
Guys I need your help...I messed up and ran both Italy and Sweden in "Expert" mirrored and don't have time to re-run the Swedish stages.
So what times do I need to take. Is it stages 1-8 + the SSS? So ignoring my times on SS9 and SS10?
Just fancied a bit of extra time on the snow :D
Yes, it stages 1-8 + SSS. You can ignore the two other stages.
Guys, I messed up... Because of the hurry in attempting a full rally this evening (last opportunity for me to get it done before the deadline) I didn't really pay attention and ran day 2 on dry tarmac tyres instead of wets... There's no time to redo the rally, so I'll send in my time card anyway and it's up to the organizer if he disqualifies me or accepts that it only cost me time and does not impose a penalty. :(
Sorry to hear that, Kabouter. Must have been quite a drive!Quote:
Originally Posted by kabouter
In my opinion doing Sweden stages on dry tarmacs is punishment enough. I think your times will be allowed :up:
Sorry peoples but my tiimes for the recce were way out compared to yours and I would be embarrased to show them. OK, one was over 3:45.26, and that was the best time!
I will be sending my times and report for the Rallye later today.
It's a tough rally, Rat. And day 2 only happens once a year :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rat
Tannat
Best of luck, Rat. Maybe at least one of us (the team) will be on the pace! :)
J.Lindstroem has now made his rally:
"I mist say i am very pleased with the way the Skoda is handling. On the first day, i had some problems with finding a proper tarmarc setting, but as the day went on, it got better and better. At the end i found myself having a respectable pace. Some stages before that was realy crappy by me. But since tarmarc is'nt my best surface i'm happy.
On the second day we got a bit further up, where we found snow, a surface where i found myself at home. Pity then that i had top drive it with wet tarmarc setup on the car. The car was sliding all over the road, and i was close to making several misstakes. But in the end i managed to come around with no big misstakes in the snow also, something i am happy about.
Decent start to the season, though i havbe not seen the final resluts yet i am happy with the pace. I don't think we will be up there in the top, the pace was to slow for that, but i really hope i can get away with som ponts from Monte Carlo, as a great upload for my home event"
J.Lindstroem/N.Grist - Skoda Fabia, Frozz Motors Europe
yep thank god for that, only 1 day of the year. Who did the cartoons of the drivers after each event? They were well done... any more?
doing the rally when i get home from school...had work to do :(
NOR - Two Basses Ford Team Europe has finished Rally Monte Carlo
"So, we have done this really tough race and we are happy to get it over. We didn't spend much time to get the right setup and race notes, because we had been at workshop with the new building Focus all January.
Day1 was very nervous and we made a lot of mistakes, specially due to poor race notes. Handling of the car was difficult even if the weather was almost nice. A few of stones and trees could tell you about our white bumpers.
For Day2 we found little better setup. Car was very good to drive, but we missed the speed. Anyway we got our Focus to finish line in much better condition, then after day1.
There are no big expectations of points for this race, but we look forward to next snow rally and to new developed car."
Rat has finished the RALLY!
Day 1:
What a change in car makes! This new Toyota is very chuckable and fun! For the first 4 stages we were fast and set PB's on the way. BUT stage 5 we rolled and still made up some good time. In our haste getting out on the Rally proper, we only took in a light service, needing a top of Red Bull to keep us setting PB's all day! The last stages were a mix of slidng into walls, falling off the road and a wrong direction(WD) in town.
Overall it was a good day with happy mechanics, nothing major to fix!
Day 2:
Well we didnt set the day on fire. With the tyre choice being crucial and we were left with wet tarmacs to run with all day with a blizzard to go! Hit too many trees today. No grip and snow banks, not fun....Just trying to stay on the road is a battle, and finally got up to 120mph, we slid off the road into the frozen river! Hell fun and we missed everything, no damage. Then spun near the end of the stage. The last stage had us with no grip at all.
OK we went well on day 1 and just slid around making up the numbers on day 2. At least the Mechanics were happy with little damage to report compared to other years. C'mon Pawprint, keep it going lad!
Javier, you will have mail soon...
Reporter: "Tannat, it looks as if you found a drift or two on the superspecial.."
Tannat: "Yes. One day we will learn to take no chances on these things. I lost perhaps 4-5 seconds. I hope we will not regret it later."
Reporter: "And how was the final leg?"
Tannat: "We are quite pleased with our drive today. A last minute change in setup proved beneficial (Steering +5). We surpassed many of our times from last year, but not so much to be at the top."
Reporter: "What's the outlook for Sweden?"
Tannat: "For certain we will take much time to prepare for this rally. We are not at home on this type of surface, so an preparation should be of great help."
Reporter: "Thank you, Tannat. Cheers for a good finish."
Very nice! Must have taken ages to make..Quote:
Originally Posted by Pawprint
Because my team-boss doesnt read that well we took the car out of parc fermé before the time limit, that is after 11,59 AM :s
I am sorry for this guys!
It was a very tough rally. We went very wide in Sweden, all the time, and continously interacted with snowbank. We also made some visits in huge ditches in in Italy, allthough I also set som PBs
The mechs changed the setup some in Sweden, after two stages, and then it was a little bit better, but we only gained 3-4 secs/stage.
it will be nice to drive Sweden with proper tires after this!
Also for the other half of Curtans RallyBase Motorsport it was a tough event.
Driver Kabouter explains: "The car was too nervous to get any kind of rhythm on the twisty first day stages. We were only able to push a little on the wider, more open sections of some stages. The slippery conditions during the second half of the day caused a few extra spins. In the end we were just happy to get through to the end. Then we screwed up the tyres for the second day. Without grip it was just sliding from one snowbank to another."
Kabouter was still upbeat about the rest of the season however: "The only way now is up! The next event will be the home event of our team founder and first driver Magnus and we are all terribly excited about competing there. We'll have to make sure to get the tyre choice correct this time though..."
Marcel,
Would love to see a video of you driving on any of the Sweden stages on wet tarmacs. I need to improve my technique.....
Tannat
Ok, no problem, I will do one stage on wet tarmac tires tonight. I'll take on of the short ones.
OK, you can download my movie from sweden SS3 on wet tarmac tires, the stage time was 1m22.45s. As you probably notice I ran it in non-mirrored mode, as I was testing for sweden.
http://home.wanadoo.nl/mjhmhaenen/movies/MVI_0943.divx
Will Dismayed At First Works Drive
Young English driver Will has expressed dismay at his performance at the opening round of the 2008 CMR2 WRC.
The Briton, who is now driving for the works Subaru team in the number one seat was visibly angry after completing day one in the mountains.
"You know the tarmac up there is bone dry, so many hairpins and trees and we hit so many walls and it was just pants really. I hate this rally anyway so not got my hopes up now. It's over before it's begun."
When the rally moved south for the snowy conditions, the tyre supplier Pirelli made a shock annoucement they had no studded or ice tyres for this event, and so all competitors opted for Wet tarmac tyres. This made the rally incredibly slippy for everyone in the field.
"It's crazy out there, the banks are only just keeping us on the road but I still was pushing out there so hard. I hope I got some fastest times in there, I'd like to think I did but the conditions were terrible and the car was sliding on every corner. Mental."
Mirrored or not that' still great driving....man I was so happy with my Sweden times but that is something else!Quote:
Originally Posted by Marcel Haenen
will be interesting to see the final times...
Marcel, you've exceeded your data limit, we can't see it. :(
Can you mail to me? Than I can put it online (I have plenty of space left). Address: infoArallyfoto.be ;)
I also uploaded the video elsewhere. There were some problems with my own ftp...
http://www.mediafire.com/?c221ncddyx1
Finally I have time to report my rally:
Day 1 was not so good. The pace was pretty ok, but almost on every stage I did some stupid mistakes. But I am satisfied with my driving, though not with my times.
Day 2 was relatively good ( I have no idea how I did, I was all over the place). I was trying to drive exactly like Marcel is driving ( btw I saw his video after that) but I couldn't do exactly what I wanted to do. I can't wait to compare my times with you. Anyway it was fun.
I hope I can score some points for the team ( Will don't be mad at me if I don't).
I won't be mad :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Ramore
I was actually was going to say Ramore don't be mad at me if I don't score :p
Jso1985 finishes rally Monte-Carlo
"It wasn't a bad debut run in the new C4, on day 1 we knew conditions were going to get worse on day 2 so we pushed a bit more but that actually caused us to make some silly mistakes, on day 2, well... everybody knows I'm hopeless on snow...
Getting some points was and still is our goal for this rally"
No worries kabouter, you actually punished yourself with dry tarmac tyres, testes SS1 with them and I was 5 secs slower than with wet tarmac ones, so no penalties for you.
Results in a few minutes!
having some problems with steve0302's timecard(Vista-XP compatibilty apparently), so until he can re-send me his times results can't be published, sorry.
Just to make your wait a bit more exciting :p we had 18 entries in this rally!
:crazy:Quote:
Originally Posted by jso1985
Just re-cap (although if you can't be bothered, all will become clear very soon) what are the position/points stats for the teams cup, like, is it just the top eight get the drivers points, and they are added together, or do you get team points for being 12th, etc?
Also, everyone is aiming for points, and the occasional podium, does anyone actually think they can win?
I've a good notion who can-and it's not me :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Pawprint
for the teams cup, same top 8 eight score for their team. the trick to win there is to put both cars on points
That's a lot of entries...wow :up:
Report from Homer:
"Day 1....lots of fun. We heard their might be rain but thankfully it never materialised. However with the dnow forcast for day 2 we had to push hard on the dry roads to try and be in with a shot of good points. Shakedown in the C4 was promising so we nailed it from SS1. Very good clean runs although we felt exhausted by the end of it!"
"Day 2..when they said snow they weren't joking. We had a fair idea of the stages but the Pirelli control tyre didn't offer much grip. So we had to force outselves to really concentrate and steer well clear of the snowbanks. After SS1 the car felt good and we pushed on. no major moments to report...I just wonder, despite setting good times, if they were enough overall to really get us in the Top 4 which was our aim. Lets see!"
Exclude him! I want to see the results! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by jso1985
Marcel and Cyborg? :rolleyes: :eek: :confused: :eek: :s mokin:Quote:
Originally Posted by tannat
Marcel has been fairly dominant since I started this silliness not quite 4 years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pawprint
I've seen only Luffield (not entered), GrP (not entered), and cybrog hun (entered) take victory over him in that space of time.
Rat, jso1985, and Marcel could let you know of previous greats. I think Marcel had a coming of age from 2004-2005-good drop in times.
Check the archives at the Yahoo site. I think the forum CMR2 WRC has been in place since 2003 (?)
Me neither. I might be able to snatch a fastest time away but that's it.Quote:
Originally Posted by tannat