After all of the negative comments about the car, I was a bit worried for this one. But overall, I was quite happy with it, once I realised how to drive it more safely.
I was probably too slow, but didn't have too many offs this time.
I experienced the understeer issue in the first couple of stages :eek: , but I figured that the car handling wasn't the main cause of the understeer, I was just going into turns too quickly. It seemed to me that this car was actually quicker than I thought it was, so I started braking earlier than normal to keep the car more under control. It felt like I was going slow, but after looking at the times, they were reasonably close to my normal times in some other cars. So, my guess is that the Sierra was getting up to some high speeds but it didn't feel like it. So, I eventually started driving it more carefully and it seemed to pay off.
The only bad boo boo was on Mustaselka (as usual
) when I slapped a tree over the high speed bouncy section, spinning around 180 deg. I recovered, expecting to hear the dreaded overheat warning, but the car continued on without further problem.
Apart from a few excursions off track, most stages went ok ish. I probably took things too carefully though.
Rick and I were having a battle royal, swapping stage wins, until Rick had a couple of crashes in Prospect Ridge (where he is always very quick too). Nice result for Keegs again and also Damien who came good once we got onto gravel.
Thanks to all the guys in our session, most on TS again too.