Hey everyone, I came into this event really happy to make a one off appearance in a beautiful Lancia 037 by Jack's team and was very excited to participate in the championship again after seeing how fanastic and popular it's become, but unfortunately my brake pedal decided to die at the worst possible time as I was preparing for leg 2 of the rally.
I tried everything I could to fix it but unfortunately it didn't help, and without a working brake pedal I'm afraid I won't be able to finish the rest of the event so I'm retiring after Day 1 because of brake failure
I'm not gonna say names but I would definitely NOT advice anyone to buy products from this company whose name starts with T... and ends with hrustmaster, I'm extremely dissapointed because it was being a very fun event and I'm very dissapointed and sorry to
@Jack Hintz who very kindly let me use one of his beautiful Lancia 037's and made a beautiful livery for it.
Overall, I'm very very dissapointed about not being able to finish this special event.
I also have to say thank you to
@Ole Marius Myrvold who's made some fantastic write ups for the RDRC magazine and never fails to make me smile with his articles
and of course to my good friend
@Michael Nelson who also helped me prepare for the event, and I think everyone should say thanks to them too because it's those 3 who have made all of this, the best online rally championship, possible for the last few seasons and they've done so brilliantly event after event first in RBR and now in Dirt Rally a round of applause for our fantastic organisers
As Ole Marius mentioned, I got Dirt Rally on 5 de Mayo lol which means I had less than 10 days to learn everything about DR, prepare for the rally and finish it, which was a big challenge because Dirt Rally's physics share some similarities with RBR's but are very different in some parts, and to top things off I decided to choose the most difficult car to drive in the game, in a rally everyone's practiced since early acces and in a class where the kit cars are faster, but the rally actually went very well.
I lost a few seconds here and there in the rainy stages and overshot a junction making me loose about 10 seconds, but I got the time back by pushing hard on the remaining stages of day 1 and getting a few PBs in some stages, I was extremely happy with how the rally was going until then, I was 11th overall on PC and in fronf of the much feared Kit Cars when I finished day 1, which made it all the more dissapointing having to retire now
This Rally was a special one because it was my 40th RDRC start, the last event using number 1 and stage 15 was going to be my 500th stage in RDRC. I'll be moving to another country soon so I won't be able to compete again at least until a few years.
But after all I'm very happy because I like seeing what RDRC has become, seeing so many people sharing their experiences and pictures, and the great level of competition in all the classes, the streams, the excitement and the huge entry lists, it's really cool
well done to everyone for this great championship season, I sure enjoyed watching as a fan and then as a driver for this rally.
And I know the rally isn't over yet but I think it's mosty likely that
@dynt will be the new champion, so here I have something that belongs to you now mate....
but you have to use it after this rally.
And of course, many congratulations to you, winning the championship always requires huge concentration, practice, effort and even sometimes luck, it's a great achievement and you need to be a fantastic driver to win it, (I would know
) so I'm happy to see that a you're going to be carrying the great number from now on
Thank you guys and well done for this great season.