RBR MF Cup - S2 - Round 5 Acropolis Rally

[Bruce D]

Just waiting for the times of Macd and Aaron and then I can post the results. The S2000 class was a crazy fight...

[52Paddy]

Just waiting for the times of Macd and Aaron and then I can post the results. The S2000 class was a crazy fight...

Do you post stage-by-stage results too? Am interested to see how I compared on the stages that I finished.

[tannat]

Do you post stage-by-stage results too? Am interested to see how I compared on the stages that I finished.

Check past threads, Paddy. Bruce does a fab job

Ask him to email the result book to you as well. It is as thorough as jso1985s CMR2 results....

[Bruce D]

Probably based on the same program then, but yeah I do stage-by-stage results and also a results book which gives split times, etc.

Sorry for the delay in results, but Macd is still not submitting times! He did ask me for an extension but I'm not sure now whether to wait for him or make him DNF and move on.

[Macd]

I have been really busy with things this week. The earliest I can get my times in is 8pm tonight.

[Bruce D]

Ok no problem, then results will be released tomorrow then. I think we can all understand...

[Macd]

Thanks sorry to keep everyone waiting =\

[lcd]

I'm curious to see how the battles between Francis VS NeverKnow and
me VS Macd will turn out...

[Macd]

Finished the event now. Went rather well despite a massive time loss on pikes peak with two flat out rolls.

The latest addition to the OMV garage. Before the accident on pikes.

[Bruce D]

Right, the time has finally arrived...

As far as the fight for the overall lead was concerned, well, there wasn't one. Francis44 just disappeared into the distance, winning every stage on the way to a wopping huge victory margin of over 2min 45sec! NeverKnow was a consistent 2nd while the rest jumped around a bit. Interestingly enough Macd almost caught his teammate on the last day - that would have caused interesting team orders!

New boy Paddy showed some good speed on some stages before retiring and ctbr also made a good showing on his first time out. But the fight of the rally, although rather briefly, was for S2000. Sperger and BruceD went at it, Bruce spinning on SS1 which gave Sperger a 5sec advantage. Over Pikes Peak BruceD stole back over 20sec to take the class lead but then overshot on Jourdain so that the overnight lead was just less than 9sec! However on Day 2 BruceD was flying over the first part of Joux Plane (24sec up at the last split) but crashed out. Just 0.03sec covered them over Canyon before BruceD binned it properly on Joux Verte and was out.

So now the championship goes back in Francis44's favour, but at this rate it's just going to be who wins the most rallies that decideds the title. OMV pulled further ahead in the teams championship.

Next on the Cup list is the super fast Rally Finland, so look out for that in a months time.

Coming up next week is the first round of the South African Internet Rally Championship, so look out for that from Tuesday (Monday is a holiday here).