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Cabelmania
30s reset penalty............'cause that's was clearly a right 2, not right 4, co-driver ! :mad:
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I use this as a reference

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I put in the correct slide.
 
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One of those unbreakable road signs saved me today :lol:. The car started to oversteer when turning left (replay showed all 4 tires on tarmac, but the rear right kicked up some dirt), I countersteered a bit too much and this sent me sliding towards the ditch.

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Ali
One of those unbreakable road signs saved me today :lol:. The car started to oversteer when turning left (replay showed all 4 tires on tarmac, but the rear right kicked up some dirt), I countersteered a bit too much and this sent me sliding towards the ditch.

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You Are crazy fast despite your mistakes :bowdown:
 
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Ali
One of those unbreakable road signs saved me today :lol:. The car started to oversteer when turning left (replay showed all 4 tires on tarmac, but the rear right kicked up some dirt), I countersteered a bit too much and this sent me sliding towards the ditch.

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Looks very similar to what happened to me near the start. I ended up over correcting and glancing some rocks on the right hand side though. I dont know what it is but the surface seemed slippery compared to the practice I had done where the car was planted all the way through.
 
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Pfei
Not this league, but @MagpieRacer what is up with always ending up so close? Less than two tenths after more than an hour of rallying! :scared:

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MagpieRacer
Crikey 😅. Rally brother from another mother 😆.
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This Rally was great fun! First time I had tried the S2000's. Other than struggling to get them around hairpins (For some reason) they are fast but forgiving. I forgot to change tires after the monster 19KM stage though... So I did close to 40KM's on one set 😄 Thankfully the last 3 stages were wet so I was very lucky in that respect.
 
MagpieRacer
Yeah, keeps it simple instead of needing a million boards for every eventuality.

Although, I'm not sure it's summer in TT, I think it's spring, based off of Finland and Estonia, summer has a lot more flowers (there's some notably large patches of what I believe to be Rosebay Willowherb, particularly in Finland) which aren't there when set to spring. Making me think TT is spring afternoon settings.
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Coming up next on Gardener's World, we look at the rosebay willowherb in its natural habitat...
Imari
Yeah, it's just dry or wet. But I'm not sure how actually nuanced the road surface changes are in this game anyway, even that icy one the other day just seemed to be [icy], [not so icy] and [dry] with pretty pronounced transitions in between. I would be surprised if there's a whole gradient of grip levels based on water/ice level and temperature, I think it's just a handful.

I figure for the sake of getting to know a course/car TT is close enough and very easy, but setting up your own championship is probably better if you want to take the time. Also, it's kinda fun getting into TT boards this early because some of them haven't really been challenged and a clean run can sometimes get you a top 5 time.
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Sorry, can someone explain this term to me - clean run? What does it mean?
FrankieStail
All good points but I’m in too many clubs to have time to practice before runs, also being the wrong side of 50 I wouldn’t even remember a practice run anyway 😂
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I know the feeling!
FrankieStail
Went for the twingo for today’s stage, although the slowest and oldest in its class it’s def the most fun.

Feels really light on its toes and fidgety, just as it does on sticky tyres irl!
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Twingo still sounds like a chocolate bar to me...!
 
Round 4 in Croatia is complete, a clean sweep at the top for the Peugeot 208 Rally4.
Round 4: Croatia, Zagorska Sela - Overcast (dry) afternoon
RankDisplayNameVehicleTimeTimePenaltyDifferenceToFirstPlatform
1Almu89Peugeot 208 Rally407:33.87500:00.00000:00.000XBOX
2RDA-JETSPeugeot 208 Rally407:38.39600:00.00000:04.521STEAM
3Space_WadetPeugeot 208 Rally407:41.58500:00.00000:07.710STEAM
4muumilapsusFord Fiesta MK8 Rally407:42.19400:00.00000:08.319PSN
5Zero_The_NorthPeugeot 208 Rally407:43.08800:00.00000:09.213STEAM
6GOTMAXPOWERFord Fiesta MK8 Rally407:46.25300:00.00000:12.378PSN
7Speedster502Peugeot 208 Rally407:48.81400:00.00000:14.939PSN
8Larzi25Renault Twingo II07:51.27900:00.00000:17.404PSN
9Hasnain282Peugeot 208 Rally407:58.54700:00.00000:24.672PSN
10NeomoneOpel Adam R207:58.61900:00.00000:24.744STEAM
11NeilPearlJamPeugeot 208 Rally408:04.84100:00.00000:30.966STEAM
12frankiestailRenault Twingo II08:06.23800:00.00000:32.363PSN
13CabelmaniaFord Fiesta MK8 Rally408:28.39500:30.00000:54.520PSN
14P308RPeugeot 208 Rally408:38.09100:30.00001:04.216PSN
15ukmikeyaRenault Twingo II08:44.14500:10.00001:10.270XBOX
16magpieracerRenault Twingo II08:52.76000:30.00001:18.885XBOX
17the13PeSKPeugeot 208 Rally409:07.60900:27.00001:33.734STEAM
18cutback73Opel Adam R210:43.53201:00.00003:09.657XBOX

@Ali , @RYAN and @space_wadet taking the podium. @JHop finishes as the highest placed Fiesta, @Larzi- the fastest Twingo and @Imari the fastest Opel.

Championship standings:
DisplayNameRankPointsAccumulated
Space_Wadet169
RDA-JETS255
xxXJojjeXxx351
Neomone448
Almu89543
Larzi25642
Hasnain282740
Zero_The_North836
Dreadmed932
magpieracer1029
GOTMAXPOWER1126
Speedster5021226
P308R1319
NeilPearlJam1418
Cabelmania1517
muumilapsus1615
bmxbandit281711
ukmikeya1811
the13PeSK1910
aekara38207
frankiestail214
lebowski2222
cutback73231
FerryF1241
WRC Player250
GTP_Northstar260
Maique270

@space_wadet extends the lead at the top to 14 points with 1 round to go. @RYAN moves into 2nd place ahead of @xX Jojje Xx and @Imari closing in.

We move on now to Corsica in arguably the greatest FWD rally car class of all time, the F2 Kit Cars. Born from the FIA 2-Liter World Rally Cup, in an effort to create lower cost rally cars that would appeal to more people in the models being used. This ultimately failed on the first point as the cars got to a point where they were more expensive than the Group A cars of the 1990s.

And faster too. The inspiration behind choosing Corscia to play host to this class is simply the fact that in 1999, Citroen won back to back WRC events, overall, in the F2 Citroen Xsara Kit Car, of which Corsica was a 1-2 finish for the squad, leading to criticism from the top WRC drivers who felt it was a bit ridiculous that the FWD lower class could not only beat, but absolutely dominate, the top class WRC cars.

Seat would end the era as the top manufacturer, capturing 3 titles, back to back from 1996 to 1998. The first season in 1993 was dominated by GM with the Opel Astra 16v, with Skoda taking the honors in 1994 with the Favorit (despite it being a 1300cc car). Peugeot won the 1995 campaign despite only taking 1 victory in the season (rally Portugal). The final season of the FIA 2 Liter Cup was won by Renault with the legendary Maxi Megane.

From 1995 to 1999 the F2 Kit Cars were also the premier class of the British Rally Championship, with Nissan and Renault sharing the most success, with Renault going back to back in 1998 and 1999.

Sadly we can't recreate the Xsara domination as that car isn't present, but we have an iconic selection to pick from to take on this immensely challenging stage.
 
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Keith Taylor
Soooooo... Rally Mediterraneo, eh? I used to drive this back in the days it were all fields around 'ere. Now, they've given you a bit of a pig of a car to start off in, but just you make sure to slow down at corners and if your co-driver says don't cut, try not to cut, all right? You'll be right as rain in no time but if you don't drive off the cliff too many times, I'm sure we should be able to buff it out in time for the next event, no problem mate...
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Yeah, cheers Keith, I don't think I hit 100% throttle in the whole stage. A nice leisurely 9'50" was the result. Should be wiped out in no time by the other drivers, but will the Astra or 306 win out?
 
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UKMikey
Yeah, cheers Keith, I don't think I pressed 100% throttle in the whole stage. A nice leisurely 9'50" was the result. Should be wiped out in no time by the other drivers, but will the Astra or 306 win out?
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Well done!
Surviving the stage is already a win in my books.

I'll try and give the frenchies a run for their money in the opel.

Contemplating on whether I should go pick up a nerve calming pint before attempting todays suicide mission.
God I'm scared.
 
Well.. Made it to the finish line, but did a big nono, clipped the cliffside, spun and had a hard time getting the car facing the right way. The crash did some damage to suspension so had to take it easy, but even then managed to have a minor accident near the end.

Crossed the line in 9:26.
Best practice run was 9:02 and was hoping to get close to it. Brutal stage.

Good luck everyone!
 
May also have fallen off into an unrecoverable position 😅

That village at the start of the stage also features in a stage called Poggiola and it's at the start of it in the opposite direction, probably one of my favourite stages in the game so far
 
Hasnain282
May also have fallen off into an unrecoverable position 😅

That village at the start of the stage also features in a stage called Poggiola and it's at the start of it in the opposite direction, probably one of my favourite stages in the game so far
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Poggiola is great, a little ray of light in a nightmare scenario :lol:

In other news guess who survived Albarello and took provisional 1st position ? :sly:
 
I've done that stage before in career mode so know a few of the danger areas but in the 306 it is scary, that car is violently fast on such narrow roads.
 
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Last event, so screw it… it‘s a few beers then foot to the floor for the entire stage and inshalla…started well then disaster, terminal damage ?? You gotta be kidding me , it’s not like I fell off a 50ft cliff into a ravine or somethi….ah..actually you may have a point 🙈🙈
 
It was the area shortly after the beginning of the ravine section that made me really skittish; it was a square right/hairpin over a bridge (might well have been the one @MagpieRacer posted above), then a fast sequence after that where I overtook the pace-notes and only realised as I was approaching a corner that was very much NOT a right 5 and managed to jam the brakes on in time.

I drove it pretty cautiously until I got through there, that whole ravine section would've been knife edge stuff if it was wet!
 
Dreadmed
It was the area shortly after the beginning of the ravine section that made me really skittish; it was a square right/hairpin over a bridge (might well have been the one @MagpieRacer posted above), then a fast sequence after that where I overtook the pace-notes and only realised as I was approaching a corner that was very much NOT a right 5 and managed to jam the brakes on in time.

I drove it pretty cautiously until I got through there, that whole ravine section would've been knife edge stuff if it was wet!
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The one I went off the cliff...! 😑
 
I want to know what degenerate civil engineer decided that the local freemasons needed to be supported by scattering low walls at random completely inappropriate locations along the side of the already extremely narrow road.

At corners? Fine.
Where there's a culvert or a big drop off? Okay, although the rest of the unprotected cliffs seem a bit odd.
For 10 metres in the middle of an unremarkable stretch of straight road? Please no.
Disguising it with low shrubbery so that anyone who attempts to cut what appears to be a clear corner destroys their car? You're a monster.
 
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