Holy devil, it was very irritating that I didn't finish enough stages but I'm happy that I took the stage win on one of the stages, the one that I felt most at home with with the car. I saw a lot of Audis in the EU session, my reason for also chosing it was that it has natural understeer just like the Alfa which I prefer from a rally car
SS1 - Shepards Shield 2 (Stage in game was Shepherds Shield 1 "Normal way round"):
Was on a good run until I got to the first bridge in the forest. Arrived a bit to fast on the right-left, the turns before, cut the left just a bit too much, as usual when I'm trying to hard, and had a spectacular roll.
After that I took it easy and cruised to the finishline.
SS2 - Liptakov 1:
Didn't go to plan. Had an off in the city in the beginning of the stage and accumulated some damage to the car. It being Tarmac I went off at quite the pace....
Got quite a bit through the stage but at the gravel into a right haipin the steering damage caused me to end up a bit too far left and the cement blocks there saw the end of my run....
SS3 - Joux Plane:
Was very catious on this stage as it is fairly difficult and there are some real drops and the wood fencing that, often, kills your car if you go into them.
Got a resonable time in for a careful approuch
SS4 - Fraizer Wells:
I don't like this stage no matter what surface but tarmac seems to be the worse. Hadn't finished it once in practice runs before the event and didn't finish the stage this time either. Hit a bump wrong about 15 seconds before the finish and into a tree I went, stage over...
SS5 - PTD Rally Sprint:
First time through the stage with this car and chose gravel tires because I thought it would work better. It didn't.
Went into the crops a couple time, hit one of the logs when I missjudged the how much to use of the road and had to CFH when I went deep at a corner and thought I could power through another set of crops.... Never got out after I entered. Thank you to the spectators though
SS6 - Akagi:
Finally a stage I can push on. Set the car up very stiff and it seemed to work. Won the stage by 8 seconds or so I believe ahead of Arwyn(?) and then Magnus.
Arwyn Jones I'm Navitori
SS7 - Sipirkakim:
Another stage I feel at home at. Had trouble on the first jump as I changed the setup of the car compared to what I had done a couple of run with and the rear end was very "jumpy" which saw me almost loose control a couple of times but after the excursion there which cost me around 15 seconds I found my pace, had one more slight off that was a cut which I slowed down for I think I was fastest in both Sector 2 and 3 but I am most likely wrong but I gained on both of Magnus and Arwyn I think
SS8 - Peyregrosse Mandagout:
What a stage, what brave spectators, what a car, what a bridge ledge.....
Got a bit into the stage and felt that I was on a good run but then there is 2 hidden bridge ledges to the left of the road and I remembered to stay wide at that one but the second one I forgot it completely.
Coming into the section I was on full attack so I think I was going 5th gear and around 100 KPH so the hit into the bridge wasn't pretty....
Seeing as this is the first time I try the GrB cars at all I'm pretty happy with the event over all. Didn't expect to finish all the stages but was hoping to at least finish 50% of them
Very happy with, what I got in the timer at least, stage win at Akagi and what might have been the best stage for the car in the rally, Peyregrosse Mandagout which was enjoyable but saddening that it ended as it did, in flames.
Congratulations to Arwyn who just have to get the win in the rally with his stage times, you were absolutly on fire and flying today/tonight