CMR2 Rally Ireland

[jso1985]

Final tarmac round of the year, to make it as tricky as the real Ireland rally, you will have to adpat your driving to 2 different tarmac rallyes

The rally will be run with the following format:

Shakedown Stage: Italy SS5
Day1: France Single Rally Expert Level
Day2: Italy Single Rally Intermediate Level

Rally starts on Saturday and deadline for submissions is on Wednesday 21st 11:59 AM GMT

for more info just ask it here, newcomers always welcome

Have fun and good luck!

[tannat]

Our favorite chant begins:

TARMAC! TARMAC! TARMAC! TARMAC! TARMAC! TARMAC! :D

[NOR]

Should be run with mirror settings, or not?

[Roy]

First tarmac rally for FocusChampion.

The 15th round of the CMR2 World Championship is only the 2nd rally for the dutch. The crew has made a fabulous start in Japan. The first rally in the Championship scored FocusChampion a 5th place, as best privateer.

The tarmac stategs are not new for 'FC' "I m looking forward to this rally. I like the tarmac stages, especially the first day. We know we are very fast. I hope fast enough for the guys in the Championship. I looking forward!"

[Roy]

Should be run with mirror settings, or not?

nop

[Rat]

After negotiations with MW Rallying, I am able to finish this year in a Ford. Due to unfortunate damage during recce in the last rally, we didn't compete. This week we have a good supply of Red Bull to get us through!

[Exhausted]

Should be run with mirror settings, or not?

According to the official calendar it will be Mirrorred:

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/cmr2wc/

[tannat]

According to the official calendar it will be Mirrorred:

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/cmr2wc/


SHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! :D

[Exhausted]

SHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! :D

What calendar? Did you say anything??

[Rat]

mmmmm mirrored or not, that is the question, no?
Please explain......

[Roy]

According this post no mirrored stages.

http://www.motorsportforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=146122&postcount=1

[tannat]

I'd like to think jso1985 would let it stand and accept the blunder. I'd be surprised if he corrected the mistake as we are on day 3 of this thread.

[jso1985]

It's "normal" stages guys.

Initially it was mirrored but I decided to drop the idea and have less mirrored rallyes when possible

[tannat]

It's "normal" stages guys.

Initially it was mirrored but I decided to drop the idea and have less mirrored rallyes when possible


I knew the organizer had a heart :kiss: :rotflmao:

[tannat]

2:50.30 Very sloppy
2:47.75 Still a bit messy
2:47.65
2:47.21
2:43.26 A few mistakes, but we're happy :up:

[Roy]

Shakedown results:
2:45.16
2:43.95
2:42.46

[Juha]

I won't be doing this one, don't have enough time to put in a decent attempt. :(

[I am evil Homer]

I did a stage test in both the Fabia and a Focus WRC05 and decided to swap to the Ford for the remaining rounds thanks to the Stobart team offering me a ride :up:

Shakedown times

2:51.04...went wide onto grass and lost a lot of time
2:44.34 - adjusted the brake balance slightly and seemed to work.
2:43.87
2:43.68

I love the Italy stages..shame we don't get to do SS9 and SS10 because they're some of my fav tarmac stages in any rally game.

[tannat]

I did a stage test in both the Fabia and a Focus WRC05 and decided to swap to the Ford for the remaining rounds thanks to the Stobart team offering me a ride :up:

Shakedown times

2:51.04...went wide onto grass and lost a lot of time
2:44.34 - adjusted the brake balance slightly and seemed to work.
2:43.87
2:43.68

I love the Italy stages..shame we don't get to do SS9 and SS10 because they're some of my fav tarmac stages in any rally game.


Good times, Homer! :up:

[Exhausted]

A good steady performance, even a couple of PBs but nothing special, perhaps all those free burgers from the new sponsor weighted me down :D

http://www.jtl-media.com/skrammel/cmr2ireland1.jpghttp://www.jtl-media.com/skrammel/cmr2ireland2.jpg

[Rat]

crappy recce over the week. Day 1 was a different day for us, not suited to the Ford, dunno why. Went wide a few times and king hit the end of the armco fencing and put the car on it's head.
Let's see what day2 brings...

[cyborg_hun]

Cyborg_hun finished Rally Ireland!

Day 1 was a perfect day, no rain at all, no mayor mistakes, and 2 "almost PB" without any shakedown.
Day 2 was a disaster. I paid hard for the Lucky of Day1 :) Basicly difficult stages with full of rain results little Grip. I'm happy to the car body and suspension survived the crashes :)

[I am evil Homer]

Rat - Agreed the Focus didn't seem to work for me as well on Day 1.

Fairly happy with the way things went but felt I was dropping a few seconds per stage. Also made an error halfway through Day 1 carrying too much speed into a hairpin.

Day 2 was a lot better...Focus was working really well on these roads - tight turn it, good traction out of the corners. Very happy with the times up until the final two stages when we hit the rain. Got the tyre choice spot on but it compromised the first stage time due to rain only near the end and of course the wet stage was a good 10-15 seconds off our best time in the dry. Perhaps too cautious just wanting the bring the car home and impress M-Sport :D

[Rat]

Day 2:
didn't start out too good. We hit a wall hard and bent the sterring, stuffed the gearbox and bodyshell, all on the 1st stage! Stage 2, rolled heavily after hitting a wall.
Went sorta well for teh next few stages, just the odd bounce of the walls, trees, fences etc! Stage 7, we went too fast into a corner, braked heavily, spun 180 and rolled up the bank!
After today, we really needed the Red Bull real bad. Shaken AND stirred. I don't think the Management is happy with us returning a Focus that would have done banger racers proud!
Roll on the next rally!


Jso, u have mail!

[Marcel Haenen]

Marcel finishes rally Ireland

This rally wasn't our best one this year. Conditions were difficult and the car wasn't reaaly well balanced. On some stages it was better than on others. We lost some valuable seconds overshooting some corners, but luckily we couls escape without major damage or time loss. Looking back afterwards we are pretty happy with the times, but not with our driving nor the balance of the car. We have some work to do for the last rally this season!

[Roy]

I am curious. What will be the results...

Day 1 was beautiful. Day 2 was a disaster. Stage 13 I had a crash and drove in SS13 and 14 with a broken gearbox. But I have hopes I finished on a good place.

[jso1985]

sorry for the huge delay guys, the combination of uni tests, my sister's wedding tomorrow, and the civil unrest the city is at right now left me almost no time for publishing the results
Marcel Haenen score yet another win and goes to the final round in Wales with a confortable 5 points lead. Subaru wins the Constructors Championship for the 2nd time in a row and for the 3rd time in 4 years



1.- Marcel Haenen Subaru Impreza 40:36,10
2.- Cyborg_hun SEAT Cordoba 41:57,44
3.- Tannat Ford Focus 42:38,83
4.- Focus Champion Ford Focus(p) 43:21,82
5.- NOR Skoda Fabia(p) 43:45,47
6.- Jso1985 Subaru Impreza 44:04,44
7.- I Am Evil Homer Ford Focus(p) 44:16,10
8.- Exhausted Ford Focus 46:46,48
9.- Rat Ford Focus 49:39,91

Drivers Championship
1.- Marcel Haenen 114 points
2.- Cyborg_hun 109
3.- Tannat 76
4.- Jso1985 70
5.- Ramore 49
6.- GrP 46
7.- Exhausted 28
8.- NOR 17
9.- Rat 16
10.- Dravas76 15
11.- Juha 12
12.- Focus Champion 9
13.- Luffield 6
14.- Sir Killalot 5
15.- I Am Evil Homer 2
16.- 306 Cosworth 1
17.- Will L 1

Manufacturers Championship
1.- Subaru 189
2.- SEAT 155
3.- Ford 110
4.- Toyota 53
5.- Skoda 47
6.- Suzuki 6



stage-by-stage results will be available as soon as possible

thanks for participating!

[Roy]

I am curious. What will be the results...

Day 1 was beautiful. Day 2 was a disaster. Stage 13 I had a crash and drove in SS13 and 14 with a broken gearbox. But I have hopes I finished on a good place.

"Little disapointed"

Again 'FC' was the best privateer in 4th place. After a good first day the crew had a enormous bad second day. "I Like SS 11 and 12. They where ok, but we crashed in SS13 and had a problem with the gearbox until service."

The rest of the day they drive the rally easy. "We giving all where possible, but we want to finish as high as possible, so we don't get flat out." When we see the results we a litle disapointed by the huge gap. We expected more."

Rally Wales GB is planned and next year Monaco. This two rallies do 'FC' for sure. "I looking forward to next rally, but have no hopes on a high finish. We'll see."

For 2008 is other rallies unknown. The crew try do at least the European rounds.

[tannat]

A good run for us nets another podium :up:

Experimenting with analogue steering for Wales-we'll see you there....

Tannat

[I am evil Homer]

Couple of minutes off the pace..not too unhappy with that but want to improve for sure. I think I know where I lost a lot of time - Day 1 stages and the final stages day two when I was way too cautious in the rain. Just wanted to bring the car home :)

Looking forward to Wales..need to recce the stages first but hope to show Stobart I'm worthy of a full time drive.

[UKOG~Will]

I'm going to be back in the Wales Rally GB in my third WC event, and I hope to win in the BRC class! :D

[Exhausted]

.. and I hope to win in the BRC class! :D

There will be one H*** of a battle in the BRC class as no less than 3 competitors stand a chance of actually winning the championship! :D

http://jtl-media.com/rally/cmr2brc.html

[UKOG~Will]

on your table it says Juha is ahead of me but I have more points :p ;)

[Exhausted]

on your table it says Juha is ahead of me but I have more points :p ;)

Ah, thanks for the correction!!

[jso1985]

stage-by-stage results are now available at the yahoo group, enjoy!, here's some stats from the rally:

- Stage wins: Marcel Haenen 15, Cyborg_hun 3
- Rally leaders: SS1-SS18: Marcel Haenen
- After being 5 secs behind Focus Champion, tannat managed not only to take 3rd place on SS11 in the following stages but also to finish the rally 42 secs ahead of his dutch rival.

[tannat]

- After being 5 secs behind Focus Champion, tannat managed not only to take 3rd place on SS11 in the following stages but also to finish the rally 42 secs ahead of his dutch rival.


I knew it would be close with FC. If he had not had his off, it would have been a tight finish....