Unofficial British Rally Championship League

[Morbid65]

I've actually done Finland before so felt a little more confident with this one, and that maybe bit me a little as both of my Paijala runs had 1 silly but fairly significant mistake that cost me a bit.

First leg started off okay, but first trip through Paijala saw one of those really annoying minor misjudgements that turned into a big thing, captured poorly in pictures:


Landing wasn't hard as it barely touched the ground while flipping, so I got lucky with only minor damage that wasn't noticeable. Had a minor off a few corners later trying to push to make up for it that reminded me to calm down a little, rest was pretty uneventful.

First run at Leustu I brushed the fence about 20 seconds in and it bounced me off into some mailboxes, felt lucky to avoid a puncture but probably didn't lose too much.

Second run through Paijala I lost focus while feeling like I was moving pretty good and overshot the bridge with a big lock up. When I realized I was in trouble I tried to turn it in anyways to use the guardrail to save it but I hit it too early on the sloped part and caught some air, landed with my front end up in the air against a tree but I guess it saved me from going into the river. Again got lucky with no obvious significant damage but it was a big hit, and lost a lot of time reversing back up to the road and getting going again. Hurt my confidence a little for the rest of the stage but no other incidents I can remember.


Used up all the repair time and wasn't able to fully repair the car but nothing was too bad considering what happened, so the second run through Leustu was a little timid but uneventful... Came out the other side placed better than I expected though.

I don't think I've ever even run a Central European stage and I normally don't like tarmac much, so next one will certainly be an adventure.

 

[Dreadmed]

Solid run for me, slid off the road a couple of times but thankfully not a repeat of Modern Classics (headfirst into a tree + hidden boulder in the verge). I'll need to get my specs next time, for some reason I thought there was only one service so I skipped shakedown entirely...

 

[bozian]

Bit of a bittersweet effort this time. Picked up a very unfortunate puncture on stage 2 and got handed a 90sec penalty for changing the tire. Seeing that, in the end, i finished 1:29min behind P2 is quite annoying. At least the pace seems to have been okay for the first gravel rally in the i20. On the upside: few things match getting a finland stage right. Positioning the car into a drift before a blind crest and nailing the exit is pure joy.

Tinkered a bit more with the livery as well and made it nicer to look at :-)

 

[Ali]

Päijälä is, to me, the most difficult stage in the game, so I didn't exactly expect to finish this rally. I just find it incredibly difficult to drive here without going absolutely flat out. To my surprise I completed the first two stages without any notable mistakes. Then, on stage 3 I half-rolled my car, but didn't really lose much time (nor damage my car too much!). Stage 4 I ran wide and hit some logs head-on, resulting in some damage that I wasn't able to fully repair, but nothing too bad. On stage 5 I just wasn't paying attention and instead of turning left I tried to go right