Did a small practice for Monte. Did I wreck the car? No. Did I spin out at every other hairpin? Yes.
@alesgenova notes:
1. Swiss stage is full of rocks. Just drive in the middle.
2. Leg 2 of the rally has 2 stages with heavy rain, one of which is Swiss stage. Use WET TIRES there.
3. Leg 3 is full snow, DON'T FORGET to switch to snow tires!
First legs have a bit worse notes. It's ok though. Just be careful.
4. Don't lock up brakes at the entry into chicane on stage 11. Actually, it's just a 800 meter show super-stage, so you can practice the Lyon stage three-four times. Surprising amount of people in class messed up on it, and it's basically three straights.
5. For me driving on snow is easier than driving on tarmac, but I can see how it may not be the case for tarmac specialists. Practice some snow stage from leg 3 with hairpins. And practice stage 10 because downhill snow is brutal.
@alesgenova https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAhP0ta1Bw0&feature=youtu.be here's my horrible driving.
@jonn It's been a busy week, haven't started practicing yet, but I will have time tonight and tomorrow during the day. I'll attempt the official run on Sunday I think.
I started watching your video, to get an idea of what to expect from the stages. I see that you were having trouble on the tarmac hairpins, and from the look of the input I assume you bound the handbrake to a digital button?
@alesgenova yes, it is.
@jonn Last year I bought an inexpensive handbrake from AliExpress, it's not amazing but at least it gives me some progression in the input. And at least on gravel, I never had to pull the handbrake all the way, but you need to hold it until the car starts pointing to where you want to go.
You could also try to bind the handbrake to a joypad analog axis, anything would be better than an on/off button :D
@alesgenova Interesting. I was thinking about transforming an H-shifter into a handbrake. The cost isn't really an issue, the size / space is, however.
Renting in London, I'm always wary of the additional cost of occupying a meter squared of the apartment.
@alesgenova the problem I also have is that I can only clip things to my desk or put things onto the floor, i.e. I don't have a dedicated rig. So that limits my options too.
@jonn I hear you! Suburban US is not the most exciting place, but at least I can waste half a room on my monstrosity of a triple monitor 80/20 rig :D
When I was living in an apartment I had a smaller rig in the livingroom, and used VR. The seat could be made to lean forward when not in use, and the total footprint wasn't too bad.
@alesgenova sadly, VR lags a little for me with RBR, which is fine while hotlapping (I can just exit the stage and tinker with the settings), but absolutely uncool in rally. That said, I strongly believe that VR makes people faster.
