haha, switched it on and the first thing I see and hear are: a lot of bent metal at the end of the penultimate stage, no German swearing but a well-known German Co-Driver voice. Bring it on!
Yeah, I delivered what I promised, I'd say.
To sum it up: After Argentinia this was my second-worst Rally so far. Had multiple offs, my first puncture of the whole championship, lay on the side a few times and even spun. I am just happy that its over now.
"Raw" tarmac in DR2 is one of the least enjoyable things in terms of physics and feel in my opinion, the only way to tell if you have grip or not is by tire screech. And then you get the wonderful audio mixing of Codemasters which makes your codriver on one stage like 5 times louder than on all the others leading to you not hearing said tire screeching anymore lol.
Biggest issues I've had was when tires didn't fit the condition of the asphalt, as in dry tires on wet (but that was okayish actually) and as in wet tires on dry (which was the stage I collected the puncture in, argh).
When the car was pointing the right way and not laying on its side or running on only three tires the pace was okayish tho. Currently sitting in P5 in class, but quite a bit of time behind P4 already. Lets see where I end up this time, as long as its in the Top 20, I am fine with it.
Everything's still fine here:
Nice pic for the magazine before the car looked like shite:
First lucky escape - I had something different in mind when I thought about going sideways.
Talking 'bout lucky escapes....
...and being not so lucky soon after. Notice the missing rubber on the RR rim.
Had quite a few mishaps this time around, really annoyed with myself because of that.
Looking at the screenshots now I think I am pretty lucky to have finished at all.
The whole post reads a bit like one of those youtube titles: "RDRC 2 Spain Crash Compilation 2021 FULL HD MUST WATCH".