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Yeah Mikkelsen is still a solid points scorer for any team, it depends a lot on what M-Sports aim is for the 2020 season. Was 2019 a just a sleeper season and they'll go full on for titles in 2020? If they go for manufacturers title with three drivers, I'd say Mikkelsen is a a solid option as a nr.2 or 3 driver as he will score points. If they want rally wins, I'm not so sure. He _might_ still have it in him to challenge for a drivers title, but he seems to be in the Latvala place where he can do it on one or two rallies per season but in general he'll break the car in some way if he tries to keep pace with the top trio. If M-Sport goes for development they might go with Suninen and Greensmith and let other drivers hire a car for a few rallies.

Good for Hyundai, and for their future in the WRC. They were under some heavy pressure to take at least one title this year, so good that they got it. I wonder what'll happen to Citroën now. They're out for certain after the 2021 season, but it's starting to sound like they'll leave now already. Would be a shame to see them leave early, at least four manufacturers are kind of needed for the competition on WRC. Really hope some more brands will join up for the 2022 hybrid era. Mitsubishi maybe? Kia? BMW? As for the driver market right now, it seems like Hyundai will be a power house next season. But Toyota might be a real contender even if they don't get Ogier, but it all depends on if Evans will be able to bloom and how fast Rovanperä learns to ropes of the new car. Wonder who will be their third if Ogier won't sign... Probably Meeke. Maybe Mikkelsen? M-Sport... hmmm.. Suninen will continue there I guess, but who else? Mikkelsen has had a season of ups and downs, but I guess he still might have one last season to show if he still has the potential. Breen did a good showing this season. Might be a potential driver. Paddon ought to make a rally or two, but don't think he'll get a full season seat. Might, if he gets some good sponsors. If Citroën goes off, then Lappi is also a maybe. Not sure if Malcolm would go for Lappi before Mikkelsen tbh. Probably. I do hope that Oliver Solberg gets a chance to do one or two rallies in a full spec WRC car this season, but he will probably just do WRC2.

Trying out the Fiest R5 this season, seems like an easy to drive car but it doesn't feel quite as fast as the other R5s. Is it? Anyways, decently clean run of Germany. Not quite happy with the setup, tended to get understeer at times that I couldn't quite get rid of. So I'll probably get beaten by the rest of you in time, but for now I'm just ahead of @baunau :-)

I was slow but consistent in Sweden 🙂 The Rift S is kind of iffy in Sweden to be honest. Sunny stages you hardly see anything but white, and snowy stages it just turns into a great big blur. Luckily got through but kept the speed down or else I'd spin somewhere. Great fun nonetheless, it's the place where the Focus 07 is most fun 🙂

Wales... meeeeh. Was fun, but I had to move my wheel a bit when I was loading in, and at the moment it loaded to the service screen I accidentally pressed the start button. So first three stages on vanilla setup and medium tyres

So after running with the Rift S with 1.9 for a while, I have two issues that I think should be resolved fairly quickly. 1. Rain effect on side windows. The side windows are barely see-through when it rains, and since you sit far back in the car it's close to impossible to see anything in the hairpins. Germany in heavy rain is like driving blind in the hairpins. This is clearly artificial, as I have never, ever, seen rain behave in that way on any kind of side window in real life. 2. Whiteout when it snows in Sweden. As the previous poster said, it's a bit over the top since it just blends into all white. This might be due to low resolution or something like HDR messing about, but it's really hard to see anything at all.

I was quite surprised to be on pace for the first leg of Germany, but then came the rain. Lost some on ss4 just from not being used to run wets on dry tarmac. But then the two rain stages... Rain in vr is not nice, to say the least. It's fairly ok on the front window, but the side windows are almost impossible to see anything out of, and you really need that on hairpins in vr... I pretty much had to guess where the stones on the inside were. Add to that a random reset in a cut where it appears cm has added a reset zone. Oh well, positive that I had some pace at least 🙂

I found the time to do one round ☺️ Greece was fun, but had no time to fiddle with settings so ran with the Ford 07 with default settings which was a bit hard. Vr in rift s works great now at least 🙂

I have a Rift S. Used to be unplayable with the OpenVR version, is now buttery sunshine smooth with the Oculus support. Good job CM 🙂

I hope I can get back into action in a few weeks time. Real life has been taxing lately.

Well _that_ car was the Quattro Sport, wasn't it? So maybe we get that back in the game, which would be fun 🙂 And something that hasn't been talked about on the forums. If they got a Toyota we'll **** bricks though.

If it behaves like the old forums, page count differs for admins since deleted posts are included for them.

I drove Wales in VR with the Rift S on Steam. Needless to say, the Rift and OpenVR does NOT play well together at the time, with the view stuttering around like crazy when looking around and running everything at lowest. Hope they fix it soon.

Well this has not been my season so far. Managed to puncture in the USA, and of course got bitten by the setup bug. I hade set up to have a spare wheel, but apparently the game just dropped it for me so I had no spare and two stages to go. So retired 😛 Argentina was hard, especially with the setup bug making the scoobie into some kind of nongripping monster in argentina on the stages where it gets reset. Add to that darkness for the first loop and it was pretty bad. Tried to recover on the second loop, but got a puncture on SS5 when the setup was reset and I misheard a pacenot. Went out on SS6, tried to push, but slidey-slidey setup let me slide straight out of a hairpin. Another puncuture and I had used my spare on the previous stage.... Oh well, managed to limp to the finish line at least 😛 Can't wait for that bug to be fixed in 1.8. And the audio cutout bug, I've started getting that one in 1.7 aswell. I just upgraded windows to 1903, so suspect the audio bug might have something to do with that.

I just bought a rift s due to this 🙂

Thanks for the season guys, and really impressive driving @skuzza187. I really need to step up my game to try and keep up with you 🙂 And big thank you to @SkyRex who makes this happen 🙂 I will go with the "Rising Sun" as my choice for next season!

Pretty much that on my part. Was completely out of rhythm, every time I pushed I managed to touch a bank and spin or understeer straight out of a corner.

Is that bug still around? That's kind of crappy 😕 I had a really bad event myself, just one clean stage. The default setup of the Polo in Australia just isn't working for me, I keep thinking it'll grip on corner exits but it just keeps on sliding. And on the stages I could use my own setup I overdrove and spun 😛

Guess it's time to throw caution to the wind and drive without a spare if I'm going to have any chance of keeping up with @skuzza187. Game on!

As usual, Monte is not my strongest. Oh well, managed to get through, and amazingly I currently won the last two stages 😮 Still beaten by @kildog overall, and @skuzza187 will probably smoke us both... but not too bad for being me in Monte 😄

Remember, no changing cars mid season 😉

It'd be a real nice feature to be able to set custom scores for each round. I run a league where we use WRC scoring, would like to do that without having to copy/paste to an excel file.

Well now, that was tight 😄 Was surprised that I was in the mix after SS1, where I really didn't get into rhythm. SS2 was the same, not quite getting into it. 13s off the lead by that point. SS3 I started to get into it, but managed to spin in stage. Luckily I spun back the right way, so could continue with just 3-4 seconds lost. Was slightly shocked to see I had gained time on the lead even with the spin. SS4 was a bit off, once again I didn't quite get into rhythm. But on SS5 and SS6 it started to click. Managed to get into the lead by 13 seconds in front of @SkyRex, and then I dialed back slightly on SS7 just so I wouldn't crash. Ended up leading by 10s in front, which was way more than I expected at the start. Let's see what @skuzza187 and @kildog will do about it 😄

I managed to survive, but that reset of the settings is a *******. The default setup on the polo made me spin a bunch of times, since when pushing the rear can just snap out all of sudden.

Haha! Yeah I actually did, must've been asleep 😛