Dytut Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Wow, really pleased with P4 in Wales. So pleased that I had to botch it completely in Poland 😄 Think I had three resets, multiple stops on other business. When it worked, I did have some real nice feeling for the car, but lack of concentration and some misshifts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddygore Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 No fault this time again, i tried to accelerate to catch @Dytut but not enough faster, happy of this run ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoksuHoo Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 (edited) Had a puncture on SS5, I thought I was near the end so didn't change and kept going with just a rim. Lost a full minute anyway. Edited April 26, 2020 by HoksuHoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyRex Posted April 26, 2020 Author Share Posted April 26, 2020 Damnit, after a DNF in USA, I went for Germany, funnily the one I would chose to kick from the calendar, and got a strong 2nd place, no mistakes in driving. Then came Wales, always a candidate for failure, but I had a very strong day, almost no mistakes, a little tree-touch and slidong off the road on the very last stage is all that cost me the victory there, just 1sec behind @baunau. I even went on to run the Solberg World Cup afterwards, which would've been a Top 20 run, if it weren't for a tire change penalty, though it still got me into Top 50 on that day. Now today I went into Poland, felt not quite good right from the start. Some touches here and there, broken windscreen, but the first two stages I drove out a lead of over 40 sec to 2nd place. Then 3rd stage I landed a jump sideways and slid frontally into a tree. Terminal crash, impact 120 kph. At least after the last couple events I feel like I haven't lost my Mojo. The speed for victories is still there, I can drive fast enough. Just... not consistently enough. Not without mistakes that cost lots of time or whole rallies. I should really work on training the 90 % driving style. Whenever I say "this one gotta be real cautious" I still catch myself driving 100 % regardless... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankiestail Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Rolled on first and third stage but somehow managed to be 2nd then 3rd, when what do you know racenet decides to sh.t itself! Is it any wonder not many doing clubs this last while, Codemasters need to have a long hard look at themselves with this excuse for a server! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankiestail Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Well somehow racenet let me finish last stage although car in such bad shape after two rolls I didn’t have enough time in service to fix turbo and engine. Sitting in 3rd so far and just one second of @Dytut in second! Poland fair gives the car a wrecking as a small touch of a bank can launch you to the moon and back such is the speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janneman60 Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 I struggled to keep up the first 2 stages, then had a good 3e and a bad 4e stage. At this point it was very close with @baunau. But now somehow I got in the flow and had an easy victory on ss5, 6 and 7. So first place at the moment. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnderclassGDfan Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 I f'd it up again...this time T W I C E ! SS1 and SS2 were good, not the fastest runs, but I really tried the 90% pace thing. I even was going off gas on some places slightly, to do it save. Lost time here and there because of it, but it worked. But I lost focus quite early in SS3 and got a puncture in the front. Lost huge amount of time and pushed hard on SS4 and SS5, wich worked well until the second half of SS5, were I started making small mistakes, wich resulted in quite much time lost again. At this point I knew, I lost the battle against @baunau and was frustrated. The gap was too big, so I wasn't much motivated. Pretty early on a very fast 5 left on SS6 I crashed against a tree. I pretty much ignored that the tyres have not much grip anymore and slided to the outside. Front puncture again + engine/radiator/turbo/transmission/bodywork/wheel geometry damage. Everything so badly damaged, that I only could fix radiator and transmission. Pushed hard on SS7 with much anger in me. F this championship! F the Legacy! F my inconstancy! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!OABDÖKJVBFRVBNF<NVjb. Ok, thats it. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielofifi Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 And I can't get past the first stage due to server issues again. Been trying for 20 minutes but keep getting the error message. Shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dytut Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Well now, I managed to get through Scotland. Barely. Not comfortable on the stages yet, and keep finding myself in the wrong gear a lot of the time as I don't have a good feel for which are fast three that I can do in fifth or slow three to be done in third. Overshot a few corners, and went off a few times, and managed to spin a few times aswell. Overall, rather crappy performance. But really fun to blast through Scotland with the Legacy 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janneman60 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 I took it steady but that was a bit slow. Think also the Legacy has bad lights. But steady was without errors. @yabby was way to fast (except for stage 6 were he probably had some issues). Second place for now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnderclassGDfan Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Like always: crashed, puncture, ruined rally. Was driving very cautious and slowly, but still crashed on SS4 right before the last sector begins on that jump. Hit that stonewall after the jump on the right. So I had to do sector 8 + SS5&6 with a puncture and a completely broken car. Was driving the 2nd half of SS6 in 1st gear and had problems going uphill. I'm thinking of not starting in sweden and stop playing the game for a while. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddygore Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 No crash again ! I was slow but i could finish with no big mistakes ! I do not think it will be the same in sweden where i m usually bad ! Wait and see ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankiestail Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Someday I will finish a rally with an intact fully functioning car! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dytut Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Whooo! I could hold my own against @baunau with H/clutch in Sweden 😄 Managed a really ****** mistake on SS5 where I went off into the spectators and reset (tried to carry a bit too much speed 😛 ), but other than that I felt comfortable. Baunau had a big three second gap before the last short stage, so I decided that I was going to push a bit and see if it was possible to claw that back. And it was possible 😄 I'm now in the lead by 0.7 seconds. Some misshifts still, but not too bad and most often not where the time loss was too great. Starting to understand the philosophy behind the H-shifter cars, the long gears where you have enough torque to stay on the wrong gear and still have some power really helps when you can't just flick in a downshift mid corner. If I had the flow, I even kept 5th while going through combination of 3-4 corners. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janneman60 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 I was a tiny bit faster than @Dytut and @baunau on most stages and made no big mistakes. So first now as long as it lasts. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnderclassGDfan Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Well, what can I say? I crashed again. But this time I almost made it! 🤣 I crashed right before the end of the 2nd sector in SS7. The grip level was weird, I had fresh snow tires, but felt no grip at all at some places. I just slided around like crazy. Had heavy understeer in the first few slow corners right at the beginning, followed by a almost crash against a snow bank on the very fast section before the downhill-part to the 1 left. Everything okish so far, only 2-3 seconds down. Then after the 1 left and the small straight I lost control on the 5 right to 4 right section with these guard rails on both sides going uphill this very long straight...I crashed against that at full speed. Puncture, almost destroyed car...oh well. It ended like it began 4-5 rallies ago. Wasn't really able to do much here anyway. I could keep up with @Janneman60 most of the time, but a) he was slightly faster and b) when I was faster, I did some small mistakes here and there. Some bigger mistakes, too on SS2, SS4 and SS5. I'm glad this championship is over. Was a disaster all the way. Only Australia went good for for me. @SkyRex Yabby doesn't seem to be in this forum, how do you get his decision for next season? Hopefully the next class in some RWD thing, the only cars I can drive at the moment it seems. I'm horrible in all championships/dailies and weeklies in 4WD cars for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankiestail Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Another rally ruined due to not letting me fix puncture! hate snow anyhow but still Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddygore Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 Damn i lost my internet and i didn t run in sweden...i will be back only in 2 weeks, i m so distuged.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyRex Posted May 7, 2020 Author Share Posted May 7, 2020 Congrats to Yabby and thanks to everyone participating. Since the league has gained a larger lineup now, I felt appropriate to enlarge the price-area. Now the first 5 (FIVE) people will be counted as podium and get choice for the next season. @yabby You may pick the vehicle class for the next season @Janneman60 You may pick the calendar @baunau You may pick the Dropout-Rally (The one to skip) @UnderclassGDfan You may pick the Safari-Rally (Service Park structure of 2/5. Five stages to be conquered in one go) @Dytut You may forecast the Weather-Rally (Pick one location and cherry-pick the weather options to your liking. Night has to be less than 50% though) @all If Yabby or anyone else for that matter doesn't deliver their vote here via these forums and not until Tuesday evening, their vote will be void and it befalls to me to pick. (I might go by what other opinions I read on here though. ) This can be fully expected, as the Club-Page clearly links to this thread and tells everyone to read the rules here. If Yabby really doesn't vote, my pick for vehicle class would go to the 2000cc, as they are very balanced overall and offer a lot of choice for everyone. Also I wanna drive that S4... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janneman60 Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Wow, after a difficult start I bounced back to second place ☺ Let's go frostbite next season (whatever that means) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyRex Posted May 7, 2020 Author Share Posted May 7, 2020 8 minutes ago, Janneman60 said: Wow, after a difficult start I bounced back to second place ☺ Let's go frostbite next season (whatever that means) A'ight. The Name means, that the locations climate gets ever colder the further down the calendar we go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dytut Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 Allright... I want real Wales! All six stages in full on rain, but the final seventh stage in full sunshine! 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnderclassGDfan Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 @Janneman60 Whatever it is, I choose the final rally as the safari rally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyRex Posted May 12, 2020 Author Share Posted May 12, 2020 So fellas here we go: NEXT SEASON COMING UP Starting at Midnight! Calendar: Frostbite Vehicles: 2000cc Dropout: Germany Safari: Sweden Special Weather: Wettest Wales Two choices remained void until now, so I filled in those. Aaand I already have to admit that I will not accept the Gearbux change for the S4 and I will drive it in sequential mode. I imagine it's a late '98 S4, so it's arguably accurate. Good Luck everyone! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoksuHoo Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 2000cc is one class where it's difficult to pick one car to commit to since there are so many great cars and I'd want to drive them all. That's a nice problem to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnderclassGDfan Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 I hope nobody picks the C4 or 07' Focus, at least the guys in my range, so we have a nice battle. The S4 is also my choice, obviously. Hopefully I can beat the curse and finally finish a rally without a puncture this time 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janneman60 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 Too busy over here. So only a couple of rally's. I agree not to take the C4 and '07 Ford. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyRex Posted May 13, 2020 Author Share Posted May 13, 2020 This might help, if you need data to decide: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnderclassGDfan Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 5 hours ago, SkyRex said: This might help, if you need data to decide: Watched it in full. Nice work. I'm quite surprised, the 08' Impreza is 3rd in youre ranking. But this is maybe a driver preference. But I still choose the S4, because...it's the S4! 😃 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dytut Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 *sigh* Long work day, thought I'd be able to drive. Went OK for the start, but lost focus a bit on SS4 and went off. Thought I'd try to push on but lost focus even more on SS5 and went off three or four times.... Meeeeeh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evilsmurf Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 Will try do a few more events this time around, also switching to PS4 under the name evilsmurf1976. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankiestail Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 (edited) Picked Skoda this time, mainly cus it’s small and less chance of hitting something. Good to get Spain out of the way early though to be fair the fabia feels ok on tarmac. Edited May 15, 2020 by Frankiestail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielofifi Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 (edited) Chose Peugeot 206, usually I prefer big, heavy cars but I have a soft spot for the 206 because of the Richard Burns livery among other things. A decent first rally for me, some mistakes and trips into the woods, but without big consequences. I was chasing @baunau's pace and made a couple of errors, but then he made a big mistake on SS5 and dropped a few positions. Managed to defend against @HoksuHoo and came 3rd in the end. Congratulations to @Dytut and @UnderclassGDfan, two different Subarus at the top! Edited May 15, 2020 by danielofifi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnderclassGDfan Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Whoop, whoop, finally a rally without a big mistake, time penalty or puncture 😃 Had a moment on SS3 were I came wide and almost crashed, but managed to come back on the road without any problem. Struggled a bit with the tyres on SS3 & 6, but was managable. Wasn't the max possible pace, because I was cautious sometimes, but still pretty good. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dytut Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 I was first out in Greece, so no idea what tempo. But was quite uneventful, smooth and felt a bit slow. So not a win, but hopefully a top 5 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somethingthing Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 (edited) I was kinda thinking about doing this event seriously and do all stages except the first one that i missed. Had a good run going and..... CRASH.. Event log: Its quite obvious that im not supposed to do this club because last time i got racenetted. Should probably see this as a sign. Good luck to all other participants 😞 Edited May 17, 2020 by somethingthing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielofifi Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 I hate Greece stages. I'll be happy if I finish at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankiestail Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 (edited) What with Greece being what it is I ensured I had two spare tyres at each service. But low and behold on last stage got puncture and yet again it wouldn’t allow me to change. Come on guys, someone able to help me out with this one, is it a bug, has this happened to others, please help me out here! @pjtierney could this be reported as a bug and possibly fixed as it is game breaking for me for anything other than dailies, thanks in advance. Edited May 18, 2020 by Frankiestail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielofifi Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 2 hours ago, Frankiestail said: What with Greece being what it is I ensured I had two spare tyres at each service. But low and behold on last stage got puncture and yet again it wouldn’t allow me to change. Come on guys, someone able to help me out with this one, is it a bug, has this happened to others, please help me out here! @pjtierney could this be reported as a bug and possibly fixed as it is game breaking for me for anything other than dailies, thanks in advance. Never happened to me to be honest. Did you look behind and confirm there is a spare tyre at the back of your car? You know that a setup is saved together with the number of spare tyres, so if you first choose tyres and then load a setup you might have an unpleasant surprise, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankiestail Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 Thanks for getting back to me, my settings normally save one spare and for this event I saved settings with two spares to be on the safe side. Strange thing is it let me change on second stage without problems but not on last stage. With it being a short stage I thought no worries, I’ll limp on but it spat me into a small tree at low speed and terminally damaged my car, which has only ever happened if I launched it off a cliff or something similar which I’d expect to write car off, but a small tree at 40mph?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janneman60 Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 47 minutes ago, Frankiestail said: Thanks for getting back to me, my settings normally save one spare and for this event I saved settings with two spares to be on the safe side. Strange thing is it let me change on second stage without problems but not on last stage. With it being a short stage I thought no worries, I’ll limp on but it spat me into a small tree at low speed and terminally damaged my car, which has only ever happened if I launched it off a cliff or something similar which I’d expect to write car off, but a small tree at 40mph?! Take your road car, find a small tree and hit it with 40mph and see what's left 😀 but you are right in the game it is more 140 you need for terminal damage. I always carry 1 spare and never had trouble with it. And last championship early rally's I was the master of destroying tires/tyres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankiestail Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 Maybe it’s just a PS4 issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evilsmurf Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 14 hours ago, Frankiestail said: Maybe it’s just a PS4 issue I'm on PS4 and never had a issue with changing spare wheels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankiestail Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 I’d be tempted to think it’s a dodgy up button except the prompt to change wheel doesn’t appear on screen even when the co driver says about a puncture. Although as I’ve said it happens about one or two times out of ten so seems hard to figure out. Maybe a fresh install will sort it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielofifi Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, Frankiestail said: I’d be tempted to think it’s a dodgy up button except the prompt to change wheel doesn’t appear on screen even when the co driver says about a puncture. The prompt only appears when you stop the car completely, but you probably know it. Again, I'll ask if you make sure that a spare tyre is in the car if you look behind in the cockpit cam. If there is one (or two), then something is wrong if you still can't change it. if there isn't, you either didn't take it or it was used automatically between stages when there was no service park. As for Greece, well, terminal damage on the last stage, of course. Still, the top 6 was completely out of my reach, how do you guys pull off those times is beyond me. Especially on the first stage, in rain, on mediums (I assume). Greece, in rain, on mediums, this fast. Mental. Edited May 19, 2020 by danielofifi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janneman60 Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Mediums? For a lousy 3 stages you use softs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnderclassGDfan Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 I used softs all the way. Terrible performance on my end. Many, many mistakes with time penalties. SS1: Was ok, just a bit slow. SS2: I crashed twice including a big time penalty and a smoking engine after the second crash. SS3: Car was heavily damaged and lost much power after half of the stage, but had also a crash. SS4: Was ok, but the car was still damaged and I couldn't repair everything. SS5: I crashed again...and got a 22 second time penalty. SS6: Was ok, but didn't pushed much, because motivation was down. SS7: Crashed and rolled the car, but still won the stage (lulz). Meh... 😞 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielofifi Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 4 hours ago, Janneman60 said: Mediums? For a lousy 3 stages you use softs... Really? I always choose mediums when there are 3 long stages in a row. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaky115 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 5 hours ago, danielofifi said: Really? I always choose mediums when there are 3 long stages in a row. The average life for softs is 2.5 longs, depending on amount of Toe added (does wear tyres) and surface/overdriving. 3 longs should be easily possible with 4WDs. That's why im sad the 1/5/1 vote didnt go through, or whatever the option was, would have actual use for mediums, though barely. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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