RBR MF Cup - S2 - Round 8 Rally Australia

Rally Australia Event Info
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11-13 June 2010
RBR MF Cup Season 2 - Round 8

Rules
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Open to WRC, S2000, N4-N1 and A7-A5 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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Leg 1
SS1 - Pribram R (new stages) - Mod: Gravel - Weather: Clear - NIGHT MOD - 8.9km
SS2 - East-West (Australia) - Mod: Normal - Weather: Clear - 9.5km
SS3 - Bisanne II (France) - Mod: Gravel - Weather: Clear - 5.6km

Leg 2
SS4 - Pira Menoko (Japan) - Mod: Normal - Weather: Clear - 6.7km
SS5 - Greenhills II (Australia) - Mod: Normal - Weather: Clear - 6.0km
SS6 - Cote D'Arbroz (France) - Mod: Gravel - Weather: Clear - 4.5km

Leg 3
SS7 - Mineshaft II (Australia) - Mod: Normal - Weather: Clear - 8.2km
SS8 - Kaihauvaara (Finland) - Mod: Gravel - Weather: Clear - 6.1km
SS9 - Autiovaara (Finland) - Mod: Gravel - Weather: Clear - 6.1km

Total Distance - 61.6km

Entries
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Send your entries to BruceD by PM or by email to [email:1791445g]rbrmfcup@gmail.com[/email:1791445g] 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:1791445g]rbrmfcup@gmail.com[/email:1791445g] 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 Tuesday 15th June 2010

I'll be doing a preview on the website later on today.

Just sent my entry! ;)

Entry sent.

Looking foward to this, most of my favourite stages in the game are the Australian ones.

I've decided to run in the N3 class for this round, for a change :)

Just sent my entry, gotta be there for my home rally.

Really looking forward to this one in the new car. Have upgraded to an 08 Focus WRC. Got a huge offer from Ford to switch over :)

Ray

PLEASE ALL NOTE THE ROUTE HAS CHANGED!!!!

Rally Australia Event Info
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11-13 June 2010
RBR MF Cup Season 2 - Round 8

Rules
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Open to WRC, S2000, N4-N1 and A7-A5 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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Leg 1
SS1 - Pribram R (new stages) - Mod: Gravel - Weather: Clear - NIGHT MOD - 8.9km
SS2 - East-West (Australia) - Mod: Normal - Weather: Clear - 9.5km
SS3 - Bisanne II (France) - Mod: Gravel - Weather: Clear - 5.6km

Leg 2
SS4 - Pira Menoko (Japan) - Mod: Normal - Weather: Clear - 6.7km
SS5 - Greenhills II (Australia) - Mod: Normal - Weather: Clear - 6.0km
SS6 - Cote D'Arbroz (France) - Mod: Gravel - Weather: Clear - 4.5km

Leg 3
SS7 - Mineshaft II (Australia) - Mod: Normal - Weather: Clear - 8.2km
SS8 - NewBobs (Australia) - Mod: Normal - Weather: Clear - 10.1km
SS9 - Greenhills (Australia) - Mod: Normal - Weather: Clear - 6.0km
SS10 - Mineshaft (Australia) - Mod: Normal - Weather: Clear - 8.2km

Total Distance - 73.7km

Entries
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Send your entries to BruceD by PM or by email to [email:325zbahm]rbrmfcup@gmail.com[/email:325zbahm] 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:325zbahm]rbrmfcup@gmail.com[/email:325zbahm] 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 Tuesday 15th June

2010

What brought about the decision not to use the Finland stages?

Decided they were really what I was looking for in this event and the added Oz stages didn't have much else exposure in the championship. Plus it makes it just that little bit tougher on the final leg...

I'm thinking of moving the site to another domain. This one is constantly down!

I smell a bloodshed in leg3! :D

Looking forward to this one. Fast gravel with good weather . should be close.

Very impressed witht the response so far, 9 entries in less than 24 hours! Still can't post pics but here is the list so far.

Num Driver Driver Nat. Car Group Team


1 NeverKnow Estonia Ford Focus WRC 09 WRC OMV Red Bull Rally Team
2 LCD Greece Subaru Impreza WRC 09 WRC GRACE Motorsport
5 Raybak Australia Ford Focus WRC 08 WRC Baker Motorsport
9 BruceD South Africa VW Polo S2000 S2000 GRACE Motorsport
10 Macd Scotland Ford Focus WRC 09 WRC OMV Red Bull Rally Team
11 Francis44 Portugal Citroen C4 WRC 09 WRC Baker Motorsport
12 Tannat USA TBA TBA Equipe au Memphis
17 52Paddy Ireland Peugeot 205 GTi N3 Equipe au Memphis
18 ctbr Sweden Skoda Fabia Evo 1 S2000 S2000

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Originally Posted by Bruce D

I'm thinking of moving the site to another domain. This one is constantly down!

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I can offer some space for the website, got about 10gig of hosting not doing much at the moment.

Let me know and I can sort it out.

Cheers

Ray

The Australian event was the most successful In season1 too..! Remember? :)

BTW, the questionaire about season3, Is a great Idea Bruce! ;)

Hehe, yeah I was just laughing about that. The results that are in so far are really close, just like the rallies!

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Originally Posted by LCD

...BTW, the questionaire about season3, Is a great Idea Bruce! ;)

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Bruce, are you going to publish the results, sometime later...?

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Originally Posted by LCD

BTW, the questionaire about season3, Is a great Idea Bruce! ;)

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Maybe I'm being nosey, but I didn't know about this. Was I invited to the party? :p :

The questionaire can be sent only via email! So send Bruce a valid email, and I guess he will send It to you all... ;)

I did send it to you Paddy.

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Originally Posted by LCD

Bruce, are you going to publish the results, sometime later...?

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I can a little later if you want. I'm surprised by some of the results so far.

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Originally Posted by Bruce D

I can a little later if you want.

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Cool! Looking forward to!

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Originally Posted by Bruce D

I can a little later if you want. I'm surprised by some of the results so far.

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Yes-I would like to see as well...

Did the first 2 legs last night. Interesting rally so far:

SS1 - well originally I did this as the default tar/gravel by mistake but then realised my error and did it again on gravel. It's a nice stage on gravel with some tricky bits but you just use your head and you get through ok.

SS2 - Normally people write lots of things about how terrible their run through this stage was but this time my was brilliant. Well, it didn't start so great. About 2km in I heard the call for the Left 3 into Right 3 (3's are mediums in normal RBR notes) but couldn't make out the turn until it was way too late to brake, anyway I changed down quickly and chucked the car in but still went in in 4th gear - I slide wide on the left part but the outside bank neatly bounched the car around and I made it through the right part without even lifting! About 1km down the road from that on the switchback section I went into a corner a bit too wide and slide into the bank which caused me to roll slowly but it landed straight onto it's wheels and away I went. The last half of the stage was brilliant though as the setup of the car really worked and I was just throwing the car into the corners and really having a fun time. I was sorry when the stage ended.

SS3 - Bisanne turned out to be much tricker than I thought it would. I realised almost straight away that the notes were as good as useless on this one, calling way faster than it was possible to go through the corners. So I drove on sight and memory of the stage and still went fine.

SS4 - The Japan stage was tricky and I did have a spin but otherwise it was a good run.

SS5 - Greenhills II turned out to be more slippery than I remembered it but I settled down and did alright. Had a big scare though when I went wide into a right corner and had to dive left to miss hitting a big tree straight on. Bounced over a few banks and got back going again.

SS6 - The French stage went very well, clean and fast - I think I did a good time through there.

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Originally Posted by Bruce D

I did send it to you Paddy.

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It's not in my email inbox :confused:

Maybe your system registered it as spam by mistake.

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Originally Posted by Bruce D

Maybe your system registered it as spam by mistake.

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Nope, not there either. Strange. Is it in your sent items?

Yeah, its there. Must be lost in space somewhere. Not a worry.

Did my final leg last night, and it was almost a complete disaster. Mineshaft II was terrible, had to call for help 3 times, twice cos of mistakes and once because a left junction call came impossibly too late and I slide off the bank on the side of the road. NewBobs went well and clean but some very close calls, rolled in Greenhills and had to call for help and the final stage was clean so overall not bad, but my Mineshaft II time was over a minute slower than I managed in the thick fog on the Sasol.

I'll be away for the weekend so I was thinking of doing all the rally without any breaks later today...Though your reports have quite scared me Bruce! :D

Sent my times already....

It was a fun event for me, I really like the Australian stages, very fast although technical on some places.
I didn't have any major drama, but got some big scares in New Bobs and Mineshaft II because I was pushing very hard, perhaps too hard and luck saved me. Some bumps could have made my rally but fortunately I managed not to crash.

Looking foward to the results.

My times are In! This rally had Its ups and downs... Very happy with my performance In some stages;because of this heavy Itinerary, made more mistakes compared to other rallies. The French and Japanese stages were In the spirit of the event. My eyes are on Macd for this one!
Posting some photos Monday morning! Good luck to those still racing!

I swear there are spectators standing in unapproved areas on Pribram R! :angryfire

Some media from me:

http://yfrog.com/1frichardburnsrallysse201zj
http://yfrog.com/16richardburnsrallysse201oj
http://yfrog.com/emrichardburnsrallysse201tj
http://yfrog.com/j3richardburnsrallysse201vj
http://yfrog.com/j6richardburnsrallysse201aj
http://yfrog.com/6frichardburnsrallysse201j
http://yfrog.com/g0richardburnsrallysse201j


ss6 accidents
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLHcUYNZdb8

Just submitted my times.

Wish I had done them before going to Bega Rally on the weekend as a bit sore after the crash we had.

All good though, struggled a bit on the French roads but felt at home on the Canberra roads.

Ray

Just finished my rally. It was little more eventful than I would likes and this is how it went.

I planned driving carefully on the first stage of the day one but still managed to had a spin. Also there were spectators standing in very dangerous places forcing me to drive very slowly occasionaly. I really likes the second stage - fast and flowy. On Bisanne II I tried to get into a rhytm but couldn't. Bad notes didn't helped either but luckily they were consistenly 2-3 gear higher so could adjust my driving to that. I had a slight moment on the downhill when I tried to brake too late and I had to get the car 90' to the road to avoid crashing.

Second day started ok'sh when I tried to stay on the road and go as fast as I could. On Greenhill II I had surprisingly low level of grip and I had a slight off when I got understeer when exiting a corner. Lost maybe 5 seconds because of it. SS6 went without incidents.

On the last day I also had few moments. Mineshaft II I drove as fast as I dared but I was more focused keeping the car on the road. SS8 went well until I had a spin in one of the K left near the end of the stage. I cut the corner too much and the car spun off the road and I had to reverse to get going again. On Greenhill I also had a half spin when I went to gas too early. I possibly lost about 10 seconds on SS8 and SS9 combined. The last stage of the rally went ok.

I thoroughly enjoyed this rally but result wise I don't know if I was fast enough to compete for the win because the mistakes I made. I'll upload highlights of my rally little later.

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Originally Posted by raybak

Wish I had done them before going to Bega Rally on the weekend as a bit sore after the crash we had.

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Everything okay with both of you?!

Sent the times to Bruce some minutes ago. Overall it was an okay rally for me, and apart from hitting a barrel in Pribram R (luckily no damage), and one or two spins in latter stages, it was pretty straightforward. To avoid any accidents, I drove cautiously, but still tried to go fast.

The first half of East-West was the best I have ever driven on that stage, but the second half was completely out of order, lost me at least 10+ seconds. Mineshaft II went okay, and so did NewBobs. I'll post the videos a bit later. Much like Neverknow, I also had surprisingly little grip at Greenhills, very weird. The car was sliding everywhere.

Here are some pictureand footage from SS8.

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Originally Posted by Francis44

Everything okay with both of you?!

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Yeah we are both a bit sore, went into a tree sideways at about 130kmh or so, hit B pillar. Bent cage and moved my seat.

Ray

Glad to hear you're relatively ok Ray.