USA Rally

Congrats to the Adams brothers again, and a nice run by Enis. My throttle spring arrived today so I'll see if I can get anywhere near you when I'm back on form in Australia!

Thanks Scott.

That was great, once again I got my stages done pretty early and sat back and waited and watched to see how things would shake out. Enis had me worried and Tristan seemed to be putting in some decent times and I must have checked the scoring every 5 minutes or so. I knew my brother was doing his stages Sunday night and that he would do everything to beat me and probably would. And sure enough, he put in another amazing performance to top the times. Great stuff Char.

Amazing times - congrats.

I gave up - I shouldn't have but I was too pissed off.

Practiced until I did 12 consecutive runs within 5 seconds of my PB's, then hopped straight on and did stage 1 over 20 seconds worse. I think I woke the neighbors.

Did all my stages conservatively, as the difference between flat-out and bit more care wasn't worth the risk.

Stage 1 - Fraizer Wells:
Little mistake in the last third of the stage, cost me probably around 1-2 s.

Stage 2 - Prospect Ridge:
Decent run. Two unnecessary long slides in the last third of the stage, but other than that it was OK.

Stage 3 - Diamond Creek:
OK stage time, had a slight off road excursion in the last third of the stage, cost me couple of seconds.

Stage 4 - Hualapai Nation:
Good 2/3 of the stage, but the last one was total sh't. Made a mistake and rolled it on the exit out of the mountains, was driving very slowly when car went into a roll and I was just unfortunate it went over the edge of the road which was downward slope. As if that wasn't enough just as she rolled back on the wheels and I wanted to get going red screen appeared. F'ck. Similar thing happened few turns later. Lost me around 45 seconds, hence instead of the 3:45-3:50 I did 4:30. Nightmare.

Stage 5 - Prospect Ridge II:
OK stage time, bit more conservative in the last third of the stage as that downhill through forest is scary.

Stage 6 - Diamond Creek II:
I was going for somewhere around 2:55-57 but hit the same rock twice (never even knew there was a rock there) last turn before the finish... Reverse, 1st gear, hit the same rock again, reverse bit more, 1st gear... D'OH

In the end two really small mistakes costed me dearly. Fastest on 3 stages out of 6, and on those that I didn't clinch I had fastest first 2 splits. It's comforting to know that, but not comforting enough.

Congrats Adams brothers, and all that completed all stages. On to tough Australian ground with a hope I can carry some of the form there...

I think I rolled the car over 4 times, so finishing 10th is a good result for me :D

T'was garbage. DNFed half of the stages after a week of pretty good practicing. Prospect Ridge and Diamond Creek both kicked my ass; inversed and normal. Diamond Creek surprised me a bit since that used to be one of my better stages in the past. Not anymore...I think I did pretty well at the other ones, though. Last time I checked, I was still in the top 10 at Frazier Wells and top 5 at Hualapai Nation. The Toyota seemed to handle pretty well at those two stages. Gonna try a different car for Aussie land, though.

I practiced for every stage except Prospect II... and of course, I join the server as it is cycling into Prospect II... sigh. Crashed off into the trees three or four times, not the best of starts! All other stages went pretty well tho, surprised I broke 4 minutes at Hualapai... That stage is a killer, with its slippery dirt curbs, gaurd rails and decreasing radius corners.

I was into the 1:58s at Frazier Wells during practice two nights ago, but of course the conservative side got the better of me and I was a few seconds off maximum attack.

I will have to miss Australia, but should be back in time for France. I love that event!!

I don't understand this system... I did all 6 Stages and shows I did only 2... I completed all 6 stages before the schedule event "race" time... I know its an exhibition run, but want to make sure I run them correctly to not have this problem coming the real events.

Omar, I will explain in the discussion group.

Congrats to the top guys. I blew the first two stages and put myself behind. Its great to have a league type environment to run this sim in. I really appreciate this series.