RD Rally Championship Season 9 - Announcement & Info

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

1st of February 2021 is the day that the traditional RaceDepartment Rally Championship makes its comeback, after a 4 year hiatus. As always the drivers will encounter all kinds of surfaces; tarmac, snow, ice, mud, gravel, most likely, lot's of vegetation and a rock or two.

Using Codemasters' DiRT Rally 2.0 which build on the unexpected success that DiRT Rally was. This season will be an evolution, taking in the things we learned from season eight, which was the first non-RBR season of RDRC. Like last season, we will not use pre-determined start-times, something that opens the championship up for drivers from all over the world. In addition to this, keeping up with RDRC-Tradition, this will be a championship where you do not need a Premium Membership to participate. In addition, the RDRC is a multi-platform championship. PC, PlayStation and xBox, we all race together in the same event!

To Read The Rules for the 9th season, please read the magazine, linked at the bottom of this post, or check here
To Sign Up for the 9th season, please visit the RDRC Forum here.

The championship consists of 7 rounds, the updated point-system that was put in place before last season, and bringing back the Power-Stage with all the twist and turns that will bring. This is designed to make the fight for the championship tight as possible, while not making it random, so we will still have the best driver of them all to take the title.
The rallies for the ninth season of the RDRC will be run at these dates.

Round 1 – 1st February - 7th February 2021 (Rally Monte-Carlo)
Round 2 – 15th February – 21st February 2021 (Rally Sweden)
Round 3 – 1st March – 7th March 2021 (Rally Argentina)
Round 4 – 15th March – 21st March 2021 (Rally Poland)
Round 5 – 29th March – 4th April 2021 (Rally Spain)
Round 6 – 12th April – 18th April 2021 (Rally New Zealand)
Round 7 – 26th April – 2nd May 2021 (Rally Scotland)


For a mandatory in-depth read of the rules. Information about the championship, information about the cars and more exciting RDRC-stuff spanning over 50 pages, please visit our Official RDRC Rally Magazine.

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Download the first edition of the RDRC Rally Magazine HERE
View in the first edition of the RDRC Rally Magazine HERE (Press F11 for fullscreen view)

RDRC Rally Magazine is designed and developed by: RACEmotion (Jack Hintz), Ole Marius Myrvold and Michael Nelson

 

[Benutzername]

@the_sigman ?

 

[Simon Watton]

The magazine download link doesnt work, super hyped though, looks great !

 

[Benutzername]

The magazine download link doesnt work, super hyped though, looks great !

Yep - the "view" versions works, though.

 

[Simon Watton]

Ah yes, the view one does. Thank you

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

The magazine download link doesnt work, super hyped though, looks great !

Oh. I'll fix that ASAP It's in the DR2.0 Download section here at RD, so it's just a case of me messing up the BBCode

 

[Case_]

I'm sure I will find my wheel in no time...

 

[Manuel De Samaniego]

Oooh man, this is gonna be EPIC! can't wait for the new season! it's been so long, the rallies, the memories, the ACTION!

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

The magazine download link doesnt work, super hyped though, looks great !

Yep - the "view" versions works, though.

The DL link is now working I had managed to write http://https:// in the URL

 

[Chris Down]

Wow, this is really cool. I've been simracing a long time but never done any serious sim rallying -- looks like a good chance to try it out. Thanks organisers!

 

[Shannon Flynn]

I am a graphic designer, and I can confirm that the magazine layout is SLICK!
Beautiful job on that

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

I am a graphic designer, and I can confirm that the magazine layout is SLICK!
Beautiful job on that

All praise should go to @Jack Hintz for the magazine design, and @Michael Nelson for tables etc.

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Wow, this is really cool. I've been simracing a long time but never done any serious sim rallying -- looks like a good chance to try it out. Thanks organisers!

Any time is a good time to become DiRTy

 

[Case_]

(Could use some proofreading, though Sorry, professional deformation But other than that it really is very nice!)

 

[Simon Watton]

I wasnt expecting such a comprehensive magazine. This is another level im not used to! great stuff.

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

(Could use some proofreading, though Sorry, professional deformation But other than that it really is very nice!)

It can never be enough proofreading. I am writing every single piece atm. Jack looks over it all when he puts it in, we use others in the crew to read over it, and maybe even a mum now and then
But one thing is for sure. When all is written by a non-native English speaker, there will be mistakes Always trying to minimize them though

 

[Toni]

Oooh man, that will be great!! RDRC is back !! Can´t wait to be started again.
Fantastic memories of the last one..... Thanks to all involved to make it happen!

 

[dbracedesign]

Oh my gawd, just as I was about to retire from competitive rally

May have to come out of retirement

 

[pigloaf]

Great memories from last season - cemented my love for DiRT Rally. Let's go!

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Oh my gawd, just as I was about to retire from competitive rally

May have to come out of retirement

Try to retire later on, and you'll see that we'll come dragging you back again! You might leave the rally, but the rally never leaves you... or something like that. Maybe... possibly.