Day 2 report:
I was pleasantly surprised that despite the crashes only minor damage had occured and all could be fixed easily with plenty of time left:
So initially things looked pretty good for day 2, but that was all about to change...
As I had not practiced night driving here in scotland, I soon found out that night visibility here was way worse than other rallies.
Additionally, it took me about 4 corners to hit something and knock my light bar off
So then the world became even darker...
This being a very long and very dark stage, of course this could not end well: With about 2 sectors left, I damaged my engine, my radiator, and scored a puncture on this pile of logs... Like Roy, I got more damage here than in all of day 1
SS7 I was very scared of the amount of engine damage, so I took it easy and all went rather well..
Then came SS8, the heavy rain stage. At the start my car looked like this:
From inside:
During the stage I visited some ditches:
Knocked over some signs:
But most importantly I also discovered some unnamed "rocks inside"
which also got me my second punture. Yikes!! Running out of spare tires here..
Also the engine sounded more and more sick..
After this stage I had to take a short break, and I ALT+TABbed out of the game.
When I came back to take on SS9, not only did the engine refuse to keep running on idle, also my Screenshot button didn't work anymore. (probably the ALT+TAB killed it )
As I expected the engine to die any moment now, I decided to just get it over with without screenshots..
However, I got to the end of SS9, and also of SS10 without blowing the engine.
Starting SS11 it wouldn't rev over 6k rpm and I couldn't get above 100kph anymore.. but somehow it held together and I finished SS11. Slowly, but still...
For SS12 I decided to restart the game to at least be able to screenshot my Terminal Damage message, but that didn't help. A reboot did help.
So I could make this screenshot of me starting SS12 with a dead engine:
Thankfully the battery was in good condition, and eventually the engine caught on, and off we went.. I was able to make some pretty pictures along the way which thankfully don't show how slow I went:
Lo and behold.... I had better luck than @xminxG as my vintage Italian superhothatch kept it together and eventually we made it!! Did NOT expect that one!
Wow... 5 stages with a broken engine and it didn't die!!
Over the course of this championship, I found my Lancia Delta to be really powerful, but also rather nervous and pretty fragile. So I was pleasantly surprised it held together this far.
Probably proper pre-season testing would have revealed this earlier, but TBH I just like oldschool European cars better than Asian ones.
But my most important reason to pick the Delta, was the fact that I have an original Lancia Delta HF front seat mounted on my racing rig, a nice black perforated-leather one that I picked up at a local auto junkyard over 12 years ago. It's VERY comfortable
EDIT: @alex2106 as I am watching your stream when writing this post, I don't think this is any consolation to you as I am SO much slower than you are, but still:
All through this championship I DID drive my Lancia Delta without aids, in cockpit view, with an H-shifter and with clutch... The clutch even proved to be an advantage for my near-dead engine in the closing stages of this event.
Also while the Delta is more powerful I find it to also be more fragile than the Lancer you and my teammate drive..
I was pleasantly surprised that despite the crashes only minor damage had occured and all could be fixed easily with plenty of time left:
So initially things looked pretty good for day 2, but that was all about to change...
As I had not practiced night driving here in scotland, I soon found out that night visibility here was way worse than other rallies.
Additionally, it took me about 4 corners to hit something and knock my light bar off
So then the world became even darker...
This being a very long and very dark stage, of course this could not end well: With about 2 sectors left, I damaged my engine, my radiator, and scored a puncture on this pile of logs... Like Roy, I got more damage here than in all of day 1
SS7 I was very scared of the amount of engine damage, so I took it easy and all went rather well..
Then came SS8, the heavy rain stage. At the start my car looked like this:
From inside:
During the stage I visited some ditches:
Knocked over some signs:
But most importantly I also discovered some unnamed "rocks inside"
which also got me my second punture. Yikes!! Running out of spare tires here..
Also the engine sounded more and more sick..
After this stage I had to take a short break, and I ALT+TABbed out of the game.
When I came back to take on SS9, not only did the engine refuse to keep running on idle, also my Screenshot button didn't work anymore. (probably the ALT+TAB killed it )
As I expected the engine to die any moment now, I decided to just get it over with without screenshots..
However, I got to the end of SS9, and also of SS10 without blowing the engine.
Starting SS11 it wouldn't rev over 6k rpm and I couldn't get above 100kph anymore.. but somehow it held together and I finished SS11. Slowly, but still...
For SS12 I decided to restart the game to at least be able to screenshot my Terminal Damage message, but that didn't help. A reboot did help.
So I could make this screenshot of me starting SS12 with a dead engine:
Thankfully the battery was in good condition, and eventually the engine caught on, and off we went.. I was able to make some pretty pictures along the way which thankfully don't show how slow I went:
Lo and behold.... I had better luck than @xminxG as my vintage Italian superhothatch kept it together and eventually we made it!! Did NOT expect that one!
Wow... 5 stages with a broken engine and it didn't die!!
Over the course of this championship, I found my Lancia Delta to be really powerful, but also rather nervous and pretty fragile. So I was pleasantly surprised it held together this far.
Probably proper pre-season testing would have revealed this earlier, but TBH I just like oldschool European cars better than Asian ones.
But my most important reason to pick the Delta, was the fact that I have an original Lancia Delta HF front seat mounted on my racing rig, a nice black perforated-leather one that I picked up at a local auto junkyard over 12 years ago. It's VERY comfortable
EDIT: @alex2106 as I am watching your stream when writing this post, I don't think this is any consolation to you as I am SO much slower than you are, but still:
All through this championship I DID drive my Lancia Delta without aids, in cockpit view, with an H-shifter and with clutch... The clutch even proved to be an advantage for my near-dead engine in the closing stages of this event.
Also while the Delta is more powerful I find it to also be more fragile than the Lancer you and my teammate drive..
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