Yikes!
Bad luck there...)
soft are the best on stages with mainly tarmac, but on the stages with more snow/ice i recommend using snow tires, and if you lack experience it is smarter to use snow on those stages!Yikes!
And now a question:
I have *very* limited testing on this rally and in DR2 in general.
Is it the case that soft tyres will be great on the snow/ice-free stages, but disastrous on the snowy/icy ones? (And could it be the case that the stages between services have been combined in such a way as to make this decision tricky?
Yikes!
And now a question:
I have *very* limited testing on this rally and in DR2 in general.
Is it the case that soft tyres will be great on the snow/ice-free stages, but disastrous on the snowy/icy ones? (And could it be the case that the stages between services have been combined in such a way as to make this decision tricky?
Bit of disaster leading up to it as i was practicing in the wrong car but had a fantastic battle with Mevilkusi as I only finished 0.4 ahead of him
Accepted
my Peugeot is a bit bland
yes!!! fastest delivery ever, did stage01 within minutes of being accepted, thx for putting two warmup stages at the beginning, managed a time just under 3.00 even though i had to pause for some minutes due to a call, slowest of the chaps who got through in one piece atm, good start, thx ole for setting this up. bit of a norway vs. germany battle in rdrc2 atm, first six positions taken by either country!Accepted
Been watching it with my friend, was a good recce! You've got some pace man, I wonder if you'll beat most of the R5 cars
now i'll be waiting for the fastest drivers in the class to finish to see how i stack up against them| a wild All In Motorsport fan took this photo at the start of SS9, when the car was still clean after service, ha |
And now a question:
I have *very* limited testing on this rally and in DR2 in general.
Is it the case that soft tyres will be great on the snow/ice-free stages, but disastrous on the snowy/icy ones? (And could it be the case that the stages between services have been combined in such a way as to make this decision tricky?
Well, I've just been doing some testing in my Fiesta R5 for the first 4 stages. Soft tyres are a big win for me on the first 3 of them, and a definite problem in SS4. The time loss on SS4 is mixed - some sections are quick and some are just horrendous, but my overall time on softs is a handful of seconds worse than on snow tyres.From my previous experience two weeks ago in similar conditions (Fiesta R2), going with soft tyres in the snowy/icy stages is a bad idea. I did it for the Power Stage, which was pretty much all tarmac and the last one of the rally, but I had to endure first a previous stage that was mostly ice and snow. The car snapped massively under braking and I couldn't steer as well. I managed a good time in the power stage, but lost more in the previous stage. Not worth it.
Pretty high risk of something very bad happening though! Well, I've just been doing some testing in my Fiesta R5 for the first 4 stages. Soft tyres are a big win for me on the first 3 of them, and a definite problem in SS4. The time loss on SS4 is mixed - some sections are quick and some are just horrendous, but my overall time on softs is a handful of seconds worse than on snow tyres.
So... if I'm feeling brave/foolish enough, I think my quickest option is clearly to take the softs for the first 4 stages
