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Daily: RX - nope.
Owners' club: 2001 Focus at Jyrkysjärvi. 2:59.6 is all I could manage, which is pretty mediocre considering people can do 2:56's with this thing. It seems I'll always be bad with 2000's cars.

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Daily... bad practice time. Horrid driving in the daily. Crash. Probably because I'm thinking way too much, and I haven't slept yet... why I even attempted the daily at this point is beyond me.

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Daily 1, Integrale - Monaco. Awful driving. Absolutely awful. I bumped into too many things.
Daily 2, 306 Maxi - Germany. Trying way too hard. Hit stuff. Wrong lines into corners. Nearly lost it on the finish straight. Target time of 2:47 didn't happen. 2:49 will do I guess.

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Delta Daily with the RS200? Apart from two completely silly resets, i also had this.
https://youtu.be/6olrVXHOC40

Rollin'

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Daily: R4 - I have promised myself never to drive these things again sooo... skipped.
Owners' club: Ibiza, Kakaristo. Fun daily. 6:28 in practice. Lost 5 seconds on f-ups in the daily, so I ragequit very hard and grabbed an icecream. Strawberry. mmmm

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Daily 1: What a drama. "My car on my surface": test run was 6:21 with a lot of errors, stood almost still once. So I headed for something like 6:17/18. And as always when I tried to push in recent events.. Destroyed the race after a very good split time as I got stuck. *ç%& :(

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Daily: How I love this setup bug. I honestly cannot express how much I love having an incredibly soft setup with rear brake bias and long gearing in the Monte Carlo. (sarcasm level is over 8000)

Owners: Well, apart from doing a triple roll this went quite nicely... at least for my standards xD My Ibiza has almost no upgrades, so wasn't even hoping of top 100 anyway :D

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Daily: Soft and fluffy default Fiesta in Finland, great... its waterbed suspension makes it extremely difficult to position before jumps for me, so naturally some mistakes were made.
Daily 2 ... oh right, wager. niet

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RX Daily - this time even the S1600 decided to go full derby. Sigh.

C4 Owners daily - i tried to see what would happen if i attempted Sweden with a Monte Carlo setup
The car proceeded to explode in the last split. That was entertaining.

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Ugh. Why do I make mistakes on 99.9% of my dailies?
Possibly because 99.9% of your mistakes are what most of us would call a clean and fast run :D

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Ugh. Why do I make mistakes on 99.9% of my dailies?
As much as i admire your quest for perfection the perfect stage is truly the equivalent to the quest for the holy grail, out of the thousands of stages i did in real life i maybe can remember 2 or 3  i was close to a perfect stage, every rally driver i have ever spoken to there was not one who felt they couldn't shave a few seconds off some where. The problem is there are way to many variables in rallying. 

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dynt said:
Ugh. Why do I make mistakes on 99.9% of my dailies?
As much as i admire your quest for perfection the perfect stage is truly the equivalent to the quest for the holy grail, out of the thousands of stages i did in real life i maybe can remember 2 or 3  i was close to a perfect stage, every rally driver i have ever spoken to there was not one who felt they couldn't shave a few seconds off some where. The problem is there are way to many variables in rallying. 
You being an experienced rally driver, I thank you for your input! However, I reckon this does not really apply to daily events, at least not fully. They're mostly very short stages, and often with optimal grip, and the tyre choice is "optimal" by default. In weekly and monthly events I go with the cautiously quick approach to survive, but dailies are a completely different ballgame. They've turned into hotlapping competitions, and thus perfection for a single stage is definitely achievable.

It's why I get annoyed at almost every single daily stage I do because I know I can do better. Sometimes (I know this is very bad form) I don't even let the time upload to the board at all, because I am so disappointed. I don't care if it seems good, and would be lightyears ahead of the competition - if my driving is bad, I don't want any part of it, and I most definitely don't want to record it. It has costed me a few daily victories even, but at least I got it out of my system. I'll just keep practicing, perfection will come...

...but not today! I'm amazed I actually finished though, and ahead of gheed, too. The Quattro is absolutely awful to drive in Finland. Having to guess how the car was going to react to each and every landing is just impossible. 25 mins of practice, and I finished a grand total of two runs. That's why I had my doubts when going for the daily event. Totally baffled that I managed to finish - and happy. I was not in control at any point during this event.

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Porkhammer said:
Totally baffled that I managed to finish - and happy. I was not in control at any point during this event.
On that one I can agree. I was literally shocked that I managed to finish that daily :D Time was crap as usually with me in Finland and Gr. B cars but that shouldn't surprise anyone (take a good look Porky, that's what a crap time looks like :p ).

As to the "perfect run"... yes, it's technically possible. However it's practically unfeasible. It's not even about being precise down to mm and ms, since that would still be not a perfect run. You would have to do everything exactly the way a perfect run would require to. Anything less and you'd be slower than a perfect run, even if by 1ms. I'd say it would be more down to luck getting a perfect run, rather than skill, at that point.

At this point it's no longer about getting closer to that "perfect run" but rather making sure that each and every run is close to that, rather than only one and rest is a lot slower. Also known as consistency. If you can consistently score about the same time (+/- 0,5s) on every stage and with every car... then you can start thinking about doing the impossible. Otherwise... you can only get better by getting more consistent, rather than by being able to score faster stage times.

I somewhat am at that level with the Monte Carlo and 2000s cars. Given that I'm a gamepad user along with being catered more towards arcade side rather than sim (I simply prefer close high-speed racing rather than hot lapping or playing the "don't scratch the paint or you're sent into outer space" game) that's pretty much where I'm best and that's about it. Rest is the black hole of "crapness" xD

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dynt said:
Ugh. Why do I make mistakes on 99.9% of my dailies?
As much as i admire your quest for perfection the perfect stage is truly the equivalent to the quest for the holy grail, out of the thousands of stages i did in real life i maybe can remember 2 or 3  i was close to a perfect stage, every rally driver i have ever spoken to there was not one who felt they couldn't shave a few seconds off some where. The problem is there are way to many variables in rallying. 
You being an experienced rally driver, I thank you for your input! However, I reckon this does not really apply to daily events, at least not fully. They're mostly very short stages, and often with optimal grip, and the tyre choice is "optimal" by default. In weekly and monthly events I go with the cautiously quick approach to survive, but dailies are a completely different ballgame. They've turned into hotlapping competitions, and thus perfection for a single stage is definitely achievable.

It's why I get annoyed at almost every single daily stage I do because I know I can do better. Sometimes (I know this is very bad form) I don't even let the time upload to the board at all, because I am so disappointed. I don't care if it seems good, and would be lightyears ahead of the competition - if my driving is bad, I don't want any part of it, and I most definitely don't want to record it. It has costed me a few daily victories even, but at least I got it out of my system. I'll just keep practicing, perfection will come...

...but not today! I'm amazed I actually finished though, and ahead of gheed, too. The Quattro is absolutely awful to drive in Finland. Having to guess how the car was going to react to each and every landing is just impossible. 25 mins of practice, and I finished a grand total of two runs. That's why I had my doubts when going for the daily event. Totally baffled that I managed to finish - and happy. I was not in control at any point during this event.
I think even with the dailys you have a lot of variables particularly the ones with setup. also driving styles are very important, i try very hard to have  as little sideways as humanly possible as my reactions are not what they once where,i constantly left foot brake to maintain stability in those cars which are twitchier than others, the difference can be staggering.All though with out a load cell or hydraulic brake setup i could see it could be difficult.  Tyres even in real life events tend not to be not so much of a issue as most drivers go with the manufacturers recommendations.

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Daily: Wrecked because the game thought it would be a great idea to use a different setup from practice.
Owners' club: Gunning for a sub 6-min time, but chickened out here and there and made some small mistakes. 6:03 will have to do.

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Owners' club: Black hole snow
Won't you come
And wash away the rain
Black hole snow
Won't you come
Won't you come (won't you come)

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Owners - just slow, didn't even get in the top tier

Daily - Metro decided to be a rocket ship and launch itself in the sky. That car is just awful

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Daily: Practice runs went well with a 3:23 as personal best. Daily did not. Was on course for a time nearly 4 seconds quicker, then 300 meters from the finish the rear decides to step out, even though it had done no such thing prior - so the nose dug into a snowbank at 140 kph. I saved it, but all the speed lost would have meant that I'd do 3:25 or so, which is unacceptable. I hate cars that can't decide whether they're going to understeer or oversteer.

Owners': Ok I guess. Tiny mistakes right at the end annoys the **** out of me.

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