PRE-RACE
Last two rallys didn't go as planned, but there's nothing I can change now, but looking at the positive part I had a good pace in the snow. No this is the first full tarmac rally of the season, it will be hard, because most stages are very narrow and full of traps, but I'm positive, car is nice, if I can keep my head in place I'll be able to fight for the podium in the RDRC2 class.
RACE:
-Stage 1: Good. Not much to say about. First stage, very short.
-Stage 2: In the first part I was a bit 'rusty', but saving the situation. In the end, went too fast into a corner, tried to turn the car, lost the rear, clipped the front and rolled the car. Hopefully there were some spectators and the car was still good to go. Actually since that incident I think I went much faster and secure than in the earlier part, but obviously it wasn't a good thing.
-Stage 3:
Wow! That was as fast and perfect as it gets! Best RDRC2 time in my session, great because I need to recover a bunch of time, but now the real rally starts!
-Stage 4:
Bad! problems with the radio, I could barely hear my co-driver! don't expect much good from this one, hope I can solve it during my way to next stage. Too bad. (OG: I used graphic pacenotes for the first time... ever)
-Stage 5:
I got my co-driver on time for this one. Can't hide my smail,
I love this stage when I manage to tame it, it was perfect, really, I beat Norbert and Balasz again, I can only hope to do as well on the second time
-Stage 6: communication problems again. And this time, in one of the wide parts I completely missed my mind, went straight and now the oil temp is too damn high. I'll see if I can fix it somehow for the next stage, but I highly doubt I'll be able to finish it.
-Stage 7: (unfinished: oil issues)
DAY ONE RECAP:
Won't be my rally again. It was a pity about the inciden on Bergheim 2. I had a lot of troubles with my codriver, could barely hear them and it was more distracting than helping and completely missed a corner.
A real pity because I love the stages and the car was feeling great, extremely fun...
But I'll have the car ready tomorrow, I'll try to recover some places if possible, but having fun, that's the most important part now.
DAY 2:
-Stage 8: just... almost last corner and went straight into a rock! good thing the car didn't die,but a bit frustrating as it was a very good stage until that point, and the car is a bit damaged for the next two stages
-Stage 9: rolled it at the start again and needed some spectators to put the car back on its wheels again, and now it's a bit hard to drive
-Stage 10: managed to survive with crazy wheels and a steering that was vibrating a lot, not so far from Balasz, so I should be happy about this
-Stage 11:
having fun and going fast, not much to do in the rest of the rally. I think Norbert, Balasz and we were very close again here (...) yep 1.67 among the three, talk about close!
-Stage 12: nice, just a couple of mistakes, no pressure right now, but wishing rally was longer!
-Stage 13: (Unfinished)
-Stage 14: It's over.
POST-RACE:
What was the problem at Akagi?
Oh, I was just thinking on something else, I thought the rally was over a bit earlier than I should. Akagi is a very wide stage, I don't think it really fitted in this rally and I was trying to do a bit of a show for the spectators, but crashed in the process. A bit stupid on my side, I know.
How did you see the rally overall?
The rally was great, car was outstanding and I had tons of fun, but my head still betrays me sometimes. Anyway just looking ahead to the next one and see if I can chill a bit. I have the pace, but I need a bit more concetration.
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Thanks to the organizers for this event. Even if I won't have a good result I really really loved it, tons of fun and the new stages (I had rarely raced them before) are great.
Just wondering if the rest of the drivers use graphical pacenotes? Asking out of curiosity, I know it's legal but I hate them because of realism, only used them today at Bergheim.
Best of luck to the rest of the drivers and I hope you have as much fun as I had