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Okay I've waited long enough. It's time to play this game.
Edit: Okay I've had enough. Played around in each car and realized I only got 1:54 with the Delta becaus of how stable it was compared to the Impreza or Celica. That would mean I would best that time if I got better control of the subbie since it accelerates faster. So about an hour earlier I had set a time of 1:53.4xx, only to have sat for another hour waiting for a good run that includes the jump at the end... all that only to bring my time down to 1:53.25 (Impreza).
What I want to share is the use of the environment.
-When you make the first right bend into the section where it looks like the road is blocked off on one side (the area just before the first hairpin), you can get around that easier if you turn earlier, letting your car slide into the deep snow to help slow you down. There's another patch of snow just ahead you can use to help brake faster for that hairpin.
-Once you get through the fency area, there's that section where there's a ditch on the left, followed by a patch of snow on the right, and then another dip into deeper snow on the left. There's a trick to getting through this really fast. First, you dip your left wheels into the slope causing it to grip tremendously, and throw your car only so slightly to the left, this should upset the balance of the car throwing it to the right. Then drive in the area between the road and the deep snow. It'll steer your car left immediately. The less flight you take and the less snow you drag through, the faster.
-That icy patch on the road where you will descend into a dip making a right turn is tricky. However, I found that if you don't accelerate when you land the jump, floor it and then turn sharp (where you are roughly in the middle of the road), you can get lots of traction using the banked curve and literally carve through that if you do it right.
-Entering the village, I cut into the snow on the left aiming for the checkpoint sign, and then avoid going too deep in the following snow bank. Before you make that little jump into the intersection, I swerve hard to the right a split second before jumping so the car points about 30 degrees into the turn already and I sled my way through the snow while avoiding the incident of driving in the deep snow for too long.
-Won't comment on the big U-turn on the stone bridge; I got it right once, and never got it again afterwards. On the left turn up the hill following that I brake and throw the car in early to let it drop to 2nd gear and power through that avoiding the bush.
-Once you passed the overhead bridge, made that left turn, there's that bump. If you slid into the left turn and ended up on the left hand side, you can get around this bump smoothly if you quickly point the car to the right (because the next turn is a right turn) and just drive over it. Keep in mind not to hold the wheel for too long because that bump in an instant gives your front tires a sudden change of traction and that will whip your car out sideways if you steer for too long.
-As for the rest of the turns, don't cut into the banks. I've tried too many times and it's not really worth it. On the last turn, if you can time it right and got the right amount of speed, you can cut the last turn by jumping over the loose snow. If you can do this, you won't get held back by the snow. Be careful avoiding the first and last set of 2x4s laying about. I've hit those on 3 really good runs and they it has destroyed all my efforts.
Edit: Okay I've had enough. Played around in each car and realized I only got 1:54 with the Delta becaus of how stable it was compared to the Impreza or Celica. That would mean I would best that time if I got better control of the subbie since it accelerates faster. So about an hour earlier I had set a time of 1:53.4xx, only to have sat for another hour waiting for a good run that includes the jump at the end... all that only to bring my time down to 1:53.25 (Impreza).
What I want to share is the use of the environment.
-When you make the first right bend into the section where it looks like the road is blocked off on one side (the area just before the first hairpin), you can get around that easier if you turn earlier, letting your car slide into the deep snow to help slow you down. There's another patch of snow just ahead you can use to help brake faster for that hairpin.
-Once you get through the fency area, there's that section where there's a ditch on the left, followed by a patch of snow on the right, and then another dip into deeper snow on the left. There's a trick to getting through this really fast. First, you dip your left wheels into the slope causing it to grip tremendously, and throw your car only so slightly to the left, this should upset the balance of the car throwing it to the right. Then drive in the area between the road and the deep snow. It'll steer your car left immediately. The less flight you take and the less snow you drag through, the faster.
-That icy patch on the road where you will descend into a dip making a right turn is tricky. However, I found that if you don't accelerate when you land the jump, floor it and then turn sharp (where you are roughly in the middle of the road), you can get lots of traction using the banked curve and literally carve through that if you do it right.
-Entering the village, I cut into the snow on the left aiming for the checkpoint sign, and then avoid going too deep in the following snow bank. Before you make that little jump into the intersection, I swerve hard to the right a split second before jumping so the car points about 30 degrees into the turn already and I sled my way through the snow while avoiding the incident of driving in the deep snow for too long.
-Won't comment on the big U-turn on the stone bridge; I got it right once, and never got it again afterwards. On the left turn up the hill following that I brake and throw the car in early to let it drop to 2nd gear and power through that avoiding the bush.
-Once you passed the overhead bridge, made that left turn, there's that bump. If you slid into the left turn and ended up on the left hand side, you can get around this bump smoothly if you quickly point the car to the right (because the next turn is a right turn) and just drive over it. Keep in mind not to hold the wheel for too long because that bump in an instant gives your front tires a sudden change of traction and that will whip your car out sideways if you steer for too long.
-As for the rest of the turns, don't cut into the banks. I've tried too many times and it's not really worth it. On the last turn, if you can time it right and got the right amount of speed, you can cut the last turn by jumping over the loose snow. If you can do this, you won't get held back by the snow. Be careful avoiding the first and last set of 2x4s laying about. I've hit those on 3 really good runs and they it has destroyed all my efforts.
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I'll see if I can get a couple of runs in on Thursday morning, just to keep up the ritual 
