Two Guys Rally

Rally Racing Online: Finland Placement
[ June 23rd, 2008 ] By: Charles Smith Posted in » Ramblings

If you did not know already I play Richard Burn’s Rally competively against whomever over at the Rally Sim Driver’s League.

Anyhoo, after my poor performance in the ‘oh so scary’ Rally France I was ready to do well in Finland. With good reason too, VMethos and I are in a tight race for 3rd place in the championship. He squeaked by me in France and gained 2 points overall on me.

Today was race day for me (you have about two weeks time to do your race in one 90 minute session) and I had a hard time getting into the rhythm of the race. I felt out of control and sloppy…that is until I noticed my times for the day. I set 5 Personal Best times out of the 6 competition stages, and on the stage I did not set a personal best I had a non-race ending Roll that lost me 5 or 6 seconds (ONLY!!!).

As for the times that I set (barring any penalties):

SS1 - Sikakama - 5:52:18 (PB)
SS2 - Kaihuavaara - 4:06:05 (PB)
SS3 - Kaihuavaara II - 4:14:44
SS4 - Mustaselk - 5:21:08 (PB)
SS5 - Mustaselk II - 5:24:92 (PB)
SS6 - Autiovaara - 3:41:93 (PB)
Total - 28:40:60

Special Stage 3 is the stage I rolled on, yet miraculously landed on my wheels and was able to get right back onto the stage. However I did have a very close call with damage on Special Stage 4. I got extremely lucky that I did not end my race by running into a log on the side of the road. It punctured the radiator and ripped the front fender off.

Let’s hope I can fend off VMethos and gain some points as we go into Rally Japan, the final rally of the season.

Update: I placed 3rd overall in this event behind Wild Swede and turbo. This has brought me within 1 point of 3rd place overall. In order to guarantee I get 3rd overall, in Japan I must place 1st…or 2nd with VMethos behind me.