Video Games and Rally Competitions
[ April 25th, 2008 ] By: Charles Smith Posted in » Ramblings
Sometimes rally racing is too expensive for the real world, so a cheap solution is video games. This time I’m competing with Richard Burns Rally against a few of the guys from DirtyImpreza.com. I just completed my USA Rally with a painfully slow time of 24:16:82. Although to be fair, I was just trying to complete the rally without DNFing, and I came mighty close.
In the 2nd stage I crashed into a tree and lost gear controls, so I was stuck in 2nd for the last few corners of the stage. In the 3rd stage I ran into a camera man and rolled the car. In the 4th stage I took a turn too fast over a crest and rolled at least four times. Luckily the rally prepared Toyota Corolla I was driving managed to keep on going. Making it to the end of 6 special stages was, eventually, taken slow. Why not all out? Because the season is about gaining points, and as many as possible.
Here are my stage times for fun:
Prospect Ridge I - 4:40:27
Prospect Ridge II - 4:52:42
Diamond Creek I - 4:07:55
Diamond Creek II - 3:52:64
Hulapai Nation - 4:24:36
Frazier Wells - 2:19:58
Maybe I’ll see you out there on the intertubes.
April 25th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Ah, the joys of video games. I should get this as well, it looks like a lot of fun. I just have issues with the difference between the feedback you get from an actual car and what you get from a computer :-/
But hey, experience is experience, right? :P
April 25th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
It’s called fun Mark :P
April 25th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
haha, I know, I know. It was a lot of fun when I played it before, I just have a bad habit of just mashing the accelerator when I can’t feel how much the car is accelerating. PRACTICE! :D
April 25th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
If you say intertubes again, I’ll gut you.