Rally Club - New Event Proposals

[Daniel Monteiro]

I'm up for a mixed change, there are so many cars in this game!

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

There has been an overall positive attitude to this, so it will happen
Thanks to all that have answered, to those who didn't. Too late now

 

[Henri Mäkinen]

What does this 'mixed chance' mean? We can use a car we want?

 

[Jonatan Åcerclinth]

What does this 'mixed chance' mean? We can use a car we want?

It in essence mean that we might do a Aari Vaatanen Tribute Rally and in this we use for SS1 and 2 a Peugeot 205 GTI (I think he drove that), a Ford Escort Mk ? for SS 3 and 4 and so on

The idea is that we get to use a few more different cars and make use of more of the mod and also be more exact with the tribute rallies as many of the older Rally Drivers drove in several different cars and not just one

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Jonatan is correct

If we want to do a tribute rally for Ford. We can use Mk2, RS 200, Sierra Cossie, Escort Gr.A, Escort WRC, First Focus, Late Focus and Fiesta.
One car for each stage (an extreme example)

 

[Michael Nelson]

Seeing as how there's a big break before the next season of the RDRC, I reckon it would be cool to have a special rally club event to attract a lot of RDRC runners missing the rally action

The Pike's Peak hill climb is on the 30th of June...
What I propose is a Pike's Peak event to celebrate. Three runs of the stage, with only each pilot's fastest stage time counting for the standings. Could have a few separate classes like: Group_B, WRC, Historic, GT, Production, etc.

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Seeing as how there's a big break before the next season of the RDRC, I reckon it would be cool to have a special rally club event to attract a lot of RDRC runners missing the rally action

The Pike's Peak hill climb is on the 30th of June...
What I propose is a Pike's Peak event to celebrate. Three runs of the stage, with only each pilot's fastest stage time counting for the standings. Could have a few separate classes like: Group_B, WRC, Historic, GT, Production, etc.

Hmm, not a bad idea that either. I know that Roy Magnes have some rallies stored in his mind somewhere, so I guess this tagging will make him see this, then put it in his mind, and put out some calendar updates

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Calendar have been updated. We had a massive amount of tribute rallies all of a sudden, we couldn't include them all :/

 

[Roy Magnes]

Seeing as how there's a big break before the next season of the RDRC, I reckon it would be cool to have a special rally club event to attract a lot of RDRC runners missing the rally action

The Pike's Peak hill climb is on the 30th of June...
What I propose is a Pike's Peak event to celebrate. Three runs of the stage, with only each pilot's fastest stage time counting for the standings. Could have a few separate classes like: Group_B, WRC, Historic, GT, Production, etc.

How about a session with 6 stages, where we go the 3 first ones in one car, and then the 3 next in another one? That way we get to compete in 2 classes in one sitting

 

[Michael Nelson]

The stage is quite long though, 6 stages might turn off some people. Then again, I suppose five of those runnings could be optional

Edit: Yup.

 

[TTupsi]

Six runs through Pikes Peak is a bit overkill in my opinion...

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

4? Though, you wouldn't have to run everyone, as only the best one counts.

 

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I'd like to add two new rallies to the 2014 schedule:
1: Rallye Cologne-Ahrweiler in Autumn/Winter, lot's of wet gravel and maybe a little mixed mod.
2: Rallye "Dreiländereck" (fictional) in the region where Germany, Netherlands and Belgium meet; with a good mix of (mostly tarmac) stages that fit those countries. Summer with sunny weather and a little rain at night?

Maybe I could start with the one in Summer and come up with a set of stages and we talk about it? @Ole Marius Myrvold @Roy Magnes
Km-Limit or default time limit? Can I find it in this thread?

 

[Roy Magnes]

I'd like to add two new rallies to the 2014 schedule:
1: Rallye Cologne-Ahrweiler in Autumn/Winter, lot's of wet gravel and maybe a little mixed mod.
2: Rallye "Dreiländereck" (fictional) in the region where Germany, Netherlands and Belgium meet; with a good mix of (mostly tarmac) stages that fit those countries. Summer with sunny weather and a little rain at night?

Maybe I could start with the one in Summer and come up with a set of stages and we talk about it? @Ole Marius Myrvold @Roy Magnes
Km-Limit or default time limit? Can I find it in this thread?

I like the ideas, sounds like doable rallys
We usually end up with around 30-40 minutes of driving in the club-rallys (even when we just pick random stages), so that could be something to aim for.
Give it some thought, and PM Ole Marius and me with some stages when you've got the plan

 

[Tommi Ojala]

how about somekind of a night rally? running to the sunlight rally or something

stages could be tarmac and gravel but almost all of it in the dark. cars something like GT or historic because these dosent get used so much

 

[Luka Grm]

Ive seen many times in Italy, they have circuit rallies (

) we can do that! With stages Daniel Bonara, Casterzatto, and the RSI stages. Wouldnt it be fun?

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

how about somekind of a night rally? running to the sunlight rally or something

stages could be tarmac and gravel but almost all of it in the dark. cars something like GT or historic because these dosent get used so much

The GT cars are, well, not exactly well made. They have a 4WD physics, with "none" power on the front wheels, to make it "rear"wheel-drive and with handbrake, we will most likely never use those cars. Historic cars and sunset, sounds like a postcard! Not bad! ;D

Ive seen many times in Italy, they have circuit rallies we can do that! With stages Daniel Bonara, Casterzatto, and the RSI stages. Wouldnt it be fun?

Yup, we also have the Wisla Shakedown, Karowa and a swedish BTB stage that goes in circle(s). To a degree also PTD Rallysprint.

The problem with these events (I love them, and tend to have 1 or 2 each year), is that the attendance is quite low. It might be the stages, might be the cars. I don't know, but it's very likely that it will be at least one rally like that this year!

 

[Tommi Ojala]

The GT cars are, well, not exactly well made. They have a 4WD physics, with "none" power on the front wheels, to make it "rear"wheel-drive and with handbrake, we will most likely never use those cars. Historic cars and sunset, sounds like a postcard! Not bad! ;D

Well, historic rally cars and sunset... let's que the music and drive

 

[Leonardo Landivar]

Hey Warren I have a suggestion, with Roy's choice of event, how about we do a winner's choice stages for the next rally . Just like in WRC qualifying event where the fastest driver chooses his starting position, but we'll just make it stages here in the club, you know just for a change. Just a suggestion



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Thanks Fernando, I'm always happy to receive ideas for future Club rallys.
I'm not sure if you are proposing this as a one off Rally, occasional Rallys, or for on-going Rallys.

I've always had a policy of being open to proposals for new Club Rallys from ALL drivers, and in most cases I have included these proposals (eg. Roy has submitted many and we have used them). Similarly I have used others as well.
So, I have a preference for allowing ANYONE to have their proposals adopted, not just winners / elite drivers.

A couple of things might concern me a bit with this proposal (if we were to use it for all events):
1. The stages (or full Rallys) could become controlled by the "elite" drivers, with the winner continually picking their favourite stages to help maintain the winning privilege.
2. I'd prefer to see Rallys planned with the car choice and stages combined, if only the stages are picked by the winner, they may not match well with the car chosen by someone else.
3. We would need to have the new rally design submitted almost immediately after the previous rally winner is named. It takes us time right now to get banners made, test stages / cars, and event details drawn up.
4. The primary aim of the rally Club has always been to help keep lots of variety, variation in cars, stages, weather, etc, and to help introduce new drivers into RBR and RD Rallying. The focus is always more on having fun, and exploring new content in RSRBR, rather than on just winning, I wouldn't like to see that change. As explained previously, the RDRC is for the more serious competitive Rallying, the Rally Club should be maintained as something different.

However, having explained those concerns, I'm sure we could find ways to make your suggestion work, provided the "winners" fit in with the Club aims. I'll listen to what the majority want, and I'd love to have suggestions from anyone for future events. I know my events probably get stale after a while.

As an "occasional" event, sounds like a good idea . Is that what you mean?

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My proposal was for on-going Rallys but it will be for a limited period only and we could do it occasionally, here's my ideas:

For example, we could start it after RDRC round 1, the next 3 club events on that weeks would be the qualifying event for winner's choice rally (normal random events that are still choosen by you). Rally winner(s) of each event can create his own custom event (Car and Stages like Roy's Frosbite Run) and it will be scheduled for the next 3 rally club events after RDRC round 2, so that would deal with your concern #3. The cycle starts again after RDRC round 3, and that would deal with your concern #1, 2, 4 since it will be a normal random events again.

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Thanks Fernando. I'm not sure it totally deals with my concerns #1 and 4, but I guess that we would soon see once we tried it.

Personally, I'd rather see ANY driver submitting Rally plans, but I'm happy to give this a go on a trial basis. If we saw "elite" drivers "looking after their own interests", then it would cease immediately.

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My idea was based on the WRC starting position qualifying event so its the winner who gets to choose, but yeah an event from any club driver is great.

Thanks for considering my proposal

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I like the idea of competitors making an admin contribution to the Club Rallies but I share Warren's concerns about the person choosing the event stages/cars to their own liking or strengths. How about when you post a new event choose a number and the person who finishes in that spot has to make the selections for the next or a subsequent rally - or make it so the lower finishers get to choose the stages - that would perhaps help their progress up the ladder

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Realistically, I'm not sure everyone would want the responsibility of choosing events, so either way it would be voluntary.
Just one more reminder, I already have a system that allows anyone to submit Rallys, but I don't get flooded with proposals.
This process would still be available for events not included in this plan.

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I thought it too, that would be the big concern about the whole plan. Well it's up to you warren, just sharing my idea

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Thanks a lot

 

[Robin]

Hey guys, are we still here?

I am eager to jump into one of the events, but none are planned as of now!