That was a close-run thing, and although I had no chance of winning that part with a standard road car a mid-pack finish is not as bad as it seems for a car like this.
but the way we got those numbers are surprisingly different
i think this is the first time that a car i made did not end up on the lower half on a beauty contest. so yay me 
Most recent rumors are that the BAM BRC Team have brought an exceptionally talented driver with them. Fans have reported that he flings the elegant BAM Paginza grand touring car around the local side streets - a territory apparently unsuited to the car - like no one else they have ever seen and probably faster than the car’s capabilities. But who is that guy? Without any racing pedigree the young pilot is a nobody to the spectators and all the other teams. The 18 year old Walter Röhrl from Upper Palatinate, who just got his driver’s license, has been suggested by his driving instructor to his friend, who coincidentally is the manager of BAM’s motorsports team, located in the same Bavarian backwoods where Röhrl was born. Is he a rising star, a future legend? The fans are hoping for the sensation…
Aren’t they just! Love all this breakdown of stats btw @HowlerAutomotive, very informative and helpful.
Congratulations to @AirJordan, @phale and @Madrias! A fair bit of shuffling around happens due to modifiers, helping both the second and third position teams climb up from a slower base time. @RaduST on the flipside only gains sixth place points with a third fastest raw time due to snow’s poor compatibility with sport compound tires.
Stage 01 is now available at:
Good job to @AirJordan for winning this round, I think I might be sitting pretty at the rear of the pack for this season 
And both of the pace cars kicked everyone’s asses 
Is fuel consumption factored in here?
Since the longest Sprint is just 9km, I have not taken fuel consumption into account for these. No car (not even the Howler) can consume enough fuel over 9km to make a meaningful difference in starting weight and simulating it would be a massive pain because the final time would be dependent on the weight of the fuel - and the weight of fuel needed would be dependent on the final time.
Having said that, I expect the Howler’s pilots will be spending lots of time playing with canisters in fresh air come the Endurance stages.
It would appear that even “advanced” Archanan engineering just isn’t enough 
That being said, I really think I focused too much on offroad over speed.
“Third’s pretty decent, given how slick the snow was.”
“Sure, but you could’ve had second if you’d have listened to me, John.”
“Save the dirty stuff for later on. No point in flashing the off-road lamps this early in the race. Sure, I might’ve pulled second. Or I’d have flash-blinded myself because of all this damned snow and driven right off the track. No, what we need to do is be consistent. Play dirty if we have to later on, but keep the Demon on a leash early. After all, if I punch a hole in the radiator playing bumper tag, I know you’ll be the first one yelling at me that I should’ve backed off.”
“Good point. Play it cool early on, lure the other drivers into a false sense of security, then send one of them off to kiss a tree.”
“Not necessarily. Violence on the track is only needed as a last resort. Now, using our frame-mounted crash bar at the front for a little friendly bumper tag, that’s different. You see, Brian, the reason you finished last at that road course is because you busted up your car.”
“I wasn’t last, I finished 8th.”
“Out of 8 cars. That’s last.”
“I get the point. I’m just saying, if you showed a bit of aggression early on…”
“I’d smash up our car and we’d be barely lucky to limp it over the finish line later. A small amount of aggression, sure, but I’m holding back almost twice the horsepower of the lowest-horsepower competitor. Any aggression at all while we’re learning the car is just going to end up with us in a big spin and a crash. Let’s keep it mild early on, and once we’re more confident with the car, we’ll wake the Screamin’ Demon properly.”
(Yes, John Storm is the voice of reason of this pair. Brian Shade is learning the hard way that going stupid-fast is better than using the car as a piloted missile, and that dirty tricks are best left until mid-race when everyone’s starting to show signs of weakness. As for the official interview, well, let’s just say they’d be extremely quiet about what they’ve got planned, and would have focused on driving skill and the power under the hood being the reasons they got third.)
let me tell you, i’m planning something…
hmm…most likely my tire choice and my abysmal fuel economy will heavily punish the Gerula.
I did not pay that much attention earlier at the auto show: Wow no slicks or sport tyres, mainly hard…
As for the drivers Angelo Smuthini anf Juan Pablo Motorini (for who knows what reason they are Italian - although Juan has his roots partly in Columbia, so read it as you would listen to Valentino Rossi 10 years ago)
“Please tell us, how the rally went, your thoughts, feelings?”
AS: "aaaa yes, aaa it a was a good a very good e race. E car is very good eeee balance super. I am afraid …ee a little… ee Pablo drive and he no brake. He never brake. A full gas e non-stop. See picture? Yes ful gas. Eeee a little scary but ee fast.
JPM: “I am a very happy. We did e good. You know ee Angelo ee he is a gentelman whith eee car eee so at start I say: This a sprint ee not a jogging ee so you push gas eee or I a push car outside. So than a we drive ee fast yes.”
Looking forward to the next sprint 
you really had to add that in… i really did that now i’m giggling to myself and my lil bro asked what was funny and i can’t explain to him
During the carshow, Sikora Racing was doing the usual things. Talking with tech fans about the car and talking with girls about themselves. Some of the guys managed to score, but that is a story for another time. What is important is that the public didn’t like the car very much. Jakub Sikora was sad by this, because he trully believed that his car was one of the pretty ones. Viktor Stejskal didn’t care that much, because he hated beauty competitions since his childhood when his mum put him in one and he won it. You can imagine how happy was a 7 years old boy with winning a beaty competition… Let’s just say he didn’t have the best of childhoods… Anyway, after the carshown, the race went off. The drivers had an agreement that Mr. Sikora would drive on the sprint stages and Mr. Stejskal on the endurance ones. Of course they would alter this strategy if something happened or someone would be too tired.
The first stage of the race on the morning of 29th August 1965 took place on snow conditions, which better suited cars with 4x4 drive. The team already knew that they cannot compete in speed with the majority of other teams, so expectations weren’t very high. Mr. Sikora went inside the car and did a 6:31.24 which put them in the tenth place. The car was pretty stable on the road, Mr. Sikora doing some very impressing slides just for the hell of it, but thanks to the poor traction and only rear wheel drive the time was slow. It didn’t matter though that much, because the car didn’t crash and held together. It was the first stage and some might say that it started badly, but Marek Honza as the chief mechanic was sure in his skills and guaranteed that there would be no complications on the long road ahead. Mr. Stejskal was a bit skeptical as always, but let the time show who had truth…
@abg7 has a flawless race - just 3 fuel stops, no car troubles and fatigue barely over 0.5 at the end.
@thecarlover’s and @Faintingh’s base times are on the mid-slow side, but three and four fuel stops respectively are a fairly quick business and help make up the time. Fatigue is a bit on the high side.
@4LGE’s car eats up almost twice the winner’s fuel - the final fuel stop is made on the last 5km of the race, possibly costing the podium finish.
@AirJordan manages to press into fifth place, remarkably in spite of a crash on the 334rd kilometre. Thanks to soft snow on the verge, damage is minimal and only five minutes are lost getting back underway. Smooth also have to refuel on the final 5km.
@RaduST and @Lysambrias lose a fair bit of time to thirsty engines.
@DeusExMackia could have been in strong contention for the podium, if not for the exhaust coming loose near the 250km mark, costing almost 20 precious minutes.
@koolkei and @Madrias post fairly slow times, both with absolutely exhausted crews at the finish line. High fuel consumption does not help the time.
@Der_Bayer posts the fastest raw time, but loses 12 minutes to a loose bumper/splitter shredding the front tire and even more to a crash on a short stretch of snow between tarmac and gravel at the 575km mark. Thankfully, damage is relatively low.
@stensen also has an incident, a treacherous rock in the snow causes significant damage to the car and it takes almost 50 minutes to get back on the road.
@oppositelock is let down by his fuel system at the 300km mark. The tired pilot at 81% fatigue loses control of the car at the 657km mark and goes off the gravel road.
@phale has it worst of all, as a serious impact with a tree just 20km before the end costs him 70 minutes and turns a strong raw time into a last place finish.
Sorry for the slow updates guys, I’ve been terribly short on time. I’ve had all the results calculated and compiled since the first sprint, but it takes a few hours to put the paper together, write blurbs and take screenshots.
I’m going to put all the full car calculation files up in the second post, in a locked RAR file and the password will be revealed at the end.
“Great. The car kicked our asses the whole way through the track, and we got beaten by a shitbox.”
“Well, John, we do have a few spare bottles of motor oil I nicked from one of the other teams at the last checkpoint.”
“Fair enough, Brian. Fair enough. Just make sure you don’t put that 60 weight crap in our gas tank. Else, you might find yourself kissing a tree in the next stage.”
“Got it, boss. Who’s car do you want trashed?”
“Pick one. I don’t care much which one. We’ll have to also get some rest before the next stage, so don’t take too long.”
That’s typical for Mr. Röhrl at the beginning of his career. Fast as fuck but always trouble with the car or bad pacenotes 
Walter’s comment:
Is mir wurscht, hauptsach des Ding lafft no! Wie blöd die Andern gschaut ham bei den Zwischenzeiten! Aber warum fahrn die eigentlich so langsam?
“I don’t really care, as long as the car is still running! The other drivers have been quite surprised when they got the times at the checkpoints! Why are they going so slow by the way?”
I’m pleasantly surprised by how well H.A. did this time around, compared to dead last on the sprint. The H.A. 250 Avtoralli is more designed for the long, rough tracks, rather than simple sprints.