Dalnit-Bralka Rally 1965 [FINAL RESULTS!]

[HowlerAutomotive]

@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.

[Madrias]

“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.”

[Der_Bayer]

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?”

[thecarlover]

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.

[AirJordan]

eeee Pablo goes to fast ee Pablo crash

Anyway I’m glad to still score some decent points! Will damage have negative effect on sprint races as well?

[HowlerAutomotive]

@AirJordan

Anyway I’m glad to still score some decent points! Will damage have negative effect on sprint races as well?

Yes, but only under 40 reliability. Nobody is there yet.

[DeusExMackia]

“Get me the socket wrench” snapped Jan-Bart, his voice slightly muffled by the undersides of the car.
“I’m doing my best for gods sake” replied Andrew.
Jan-Bart slid out from underneath the car. “It’s not in the red box, it’s in the boot”.
Andrew turned towards him. “Well you could have told me that” he said sternly.
“I seem to remember telling you that after the last time the exhaust nearly came off” said Jan-Bart, becoming increasingly nuanced by his team mate’s apparent inability to remember.
Andrew remained silent, before walking off in anger; they were in some quiet corner Blomozvakia, having seen no houses or any sign of life for some hours now. In the distance he could see low lying mountains, and an incoming weather front. He tutted and got back in the car.

A little while later, Jan-Bart shut the boot and retook his seat. He was undoubtedly annoyed, but he knew he couldn’t complain. Jan-Bart may have only had limited experience from his time racing cars around dirt tracks back at home in Apeldoorn, but he was 6 years older than Andrew, who, on the other hand, was a rising star, yet was barely out of his teenage years. Heck, he still talked about how his parents got on his nerves. However annoying he could be, Jan-Bart knew he had to put up with it; he certainly couldn’t drive like him.

Andrew started up the car and got going again.
“Well” said Jan-Bart, breaking the silence, “I think there’s one thing we can agree on.”
Andrew didn’t reply immediately. “And what’s that?”
“Erin can’t make rally exhausts for sh*t”
A smile grew across Andrew’s face, followed by a hearty chuckle. And within moments, they were both laughing.

[abg7]

In the words of Mike Stone: “It was in this stage where KMD’s decision to prioritize drivability, efficiency, comfort and reliability paid off. Our pace was consistently faster than the more performance-oriented entries as a result, which was unsurprising indeed, and we finally came away with a stage win.”

To which Frank Harper added: “We are clearly not the fastest in the sprint stages, though.”

[HowlerAutomotive]

Stage 02 is now up in the track sharing thread.

Loving the interviews and team discussions by the way

[AirJordan]

Nooo my lead is gone… damn you roaring crowd!

EDIT: it seems I chose the wrong tyre compound…

[Madrias]

“Well, Brian, we now know which cars need a little maintenance from us.”
“Wait, you’re saying…”
“Now it’s time to strike. No more games. Let’s see how well some of these cars do after they get some extra ventilation for their tires and some oil in the gas.”
“Fair enough. And what should we do about… That one?”
John gave the most wicked smile at that point, then handed Brian the pocket knife he’d been carrying.

“Slice the brake lines. We’ll see how well they can make pace without any brakes.”

[Faintingh]

Jakub Sikora busted out of the car, furious and mad. “F*** this car!” he screamed to the mechanics while slapping the door and then started pointing fingers on the chief engineer Marek Honza: “This is rubish! Beaten by some women! WOMEN FOR GODS SAKE! How the hell did you manage to screw this up? We had the engine handbuilt for us! YOU SCREWED US! I should have known better than trust you in this… We could have had a car 100 kilos lighter with a more powerfull engine only if we layed back on suspension! FOR GODS SAKE! We don’t need suspension when we’re moving like snails!” This went on for half an hour till he vented off. Nobody was surprised that much, he did these kind of things from time to time when stress pilled up. The Ravencraft contact, we spoke about before, promtly reported everything back to the company. To say the truth, things were actually happening just as Ravencraft foreseen, lower mid to last was what they expected. But for Sikora-Racing going on the vibe from the fourth place in the qualification, this seemed bad. It projected to a frustrated atmosphere, which isn’t great for enduro-rallye. The good thing was, that the car was still reliable, robust and Mr. Sikoras frustration didn’t end up in a crash. Only time will tell if the team holds together, well you take some risks when you race with a team composed of amateurs…

PS for feminazis: This is supposed to be set in 1965, women weren’t so common in racing, especially when you grew up in a conservative family like Mr. Sikora did…

[Faintingh]

By the way, things are starting to be more sorted up, i’m actually quite surprised that the qualification points vary so much from the results so far, but there is still a long road before finish

[lysambrias]

I’ll have to keep a close eye on the papers as the results roll in, much more variation than I was expecting between the sprint and endurance stages, and even between the two sprints completed so far.

I’m impressed by the pace cars continuing to be true to their name in leading the sprints, especially considering they’re so radically different. Glad they’re only pacing us!

[abg7]

Frank Harper summed up the second sprint as follows: “With so little power and off-road capability, few people would have expected us to finish in the top half for this stage, but since our car was so comfortable and easy to drive, we had no trouble maintaining our pace.”

[phale]

Veronica is female and Casey is male, so it is ‘woman’, singular. Also, @howlerautomotive, could you refer to the team as “Team Adenine” in the future?

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The following dialogue is set after Team Adenine’s crash in Endurance 1 and BEFORE Sprint 2.

Veronica and Casey were sitting on the sidelines, hours after they had limped to the finish line in last place. Dusk was approaching and most people had already packed up and left.

“It’s my fault,” said Casey. He sighed heavily. “I messed up the notes. I’m so sorry. We were on such a good pace too…” He hung his head in shame.

Veronica stopped him. “Hey. Hey, listen to me. What happened, happened. It’s in the past now.” Deep down, she knew that the crash was as much her mistake as his. But she had done this racing thing too many times for her to let things get to her head. “Yeah, I don’t like finishing last, either. But this is one race, and we’ve still got, what, ten, eleven more races to go? It’s far too early to get worked up about anything.”

She stood up, being careful not to put pressure on the bruised leg. “Come on now. We’ve got a solid car and we know we can set a good pace. How about we get ready for the sprint tomorrow?” She extended a hand to Casey and gave him a reassuring smile.

“I’ve got a good feeling about this one.”

[thecarlover]

Dead last in yet another sprint. So much for bringing glory to Archana I can only hope to try and gain more points on the really off-road focused stages.

[DeusExMackia]

“Right” announced Jan-Bart, tapping his pencil against his notepad, “I’ve finished the list of things we need to fix”.
Silence. The interior lamp flickered slightly.
“Andrew. Andrew?”. Jan-Bart looked at his teammate; he was fast asleep.
Jan-Bart smiled. He slowly reached over to the horn, and slammed it. Andrew jolted up immediately.
“What the bloody…” - he looked around, not quite awake yet, before focusing on Jan-Bart, who was now laughing.
“You’re a bastard, you know” said Andrew, smiling slightly. He started the car.
“Let’s get back to the team tent” said Jan-Bart, before listing out everything that was wrong with the car.

It was going to be a long night.

[HowlerAutomotive]

@AirJordan

EDIT: it seems I chose the wrong tyre compound…

Keep in mind that your base time is faster thanks to the soft compound. It should all be balanced within reason, I would like to believe.

@lysambrias

I’m impressed by the pace cars continuing to be true to their name in leading the sprints, especially considering they’re so radically different. Glad they’re only pacing us!

While I didn’t run the pace cars through the sim until the entries closed and didn’t test them on the sprint tracks, I probably had a bit of an edge building them - because before making these two I had to prepare about ten or fifteen different quick test cars to make sure the ruleset, price, engine capacity/valvetrain sets and such were balanced. I’m glad to see they’re fast, though.

@phale

Also, @howlerautomotive, could you refer to the team as “Team Adenine” in the future?

Sure thing.

[HowlerAutomotive]

@Der_Bayer posts the best raw time and holds to it. Relatively high fuel consumption and four stops to suit do not slow him down enough to endanger the position.

@thecarlover and @Faintingh earn second and third with good fuel economy and solid starting times.

@RaduST is left fourth on Sport tires and with 6 stops needed to do the distance.

@abg7 only needs two fuel stops, but troubles with his exhaust system at 282 kilometres in and again 50km later prevent a better finish.

@4LGE has a good, smooth race until the 745km mark, where a jaunt off road causes significant damage to the suspension and probably costs him a podium finish.

@DeusExMackia loses some time to troubles with his car’s suspension at 305km in and noises from the top end of the engine warrant a check at 740km.

@oppositelock’s exhaust system also takes a beating on the rubble and causes a stop at 244km.

@AirJordan has a stop-and-go experience. A sharp rock at 380km slices both the front and rear tires on the left side. Just 50km later, a wide corner sees a branch take out a headlight and the team decides it more time could be lost by not getting it to some working order again. At 755km, hiccups from the fuel system cost a few more minutes.

@stensen also needs to fiddle with his carbs just 210km in. That’s not the worsf of it, though. The car goes off the rubble at 620km in, takes a moderate beating and gets stuck. About 40 minutes are spent getting back on the road.

@lysambrias has an almost identical experience to stensen, by going straight in a corner and getting stuck for 40 minutes. His landing, however, is a bit gentler.

@phale can’t catch a break compared to the first endurance stage. A serious encounter with a boulder on the side of the road just 140km into the stage does serious damage to the left front suspension and brake. It takes a bit under 30 minutes to replace the shock absorber with a handy bit of steel and get back underway, but the quick and stiff solution starts to rattle other things loose. Additional stops at 310 and 605km marks are needed to patch the suspension and one more at 725km for the brakes. Coming over the finish line, the car is in bad shape.

@koolkei’s car gets wedged between two trees at high speed just a couple of kilometres past phale’s. Whether it was rubbernecking or not we may never know, but the fact is that the team spends an hour and ten minutes felling one of the trees with a hand axe and working themselves loose. Being incredibly hardy, the car takes the beating in stride, except for the steering wheel which comes loose about 20km before finish and needs to be refitted.

@Madrias’ car proves a handful on the rough terrain. The car goes off the beaten path not once but twice. It should be said that the driver manages to limit damage in both cases, to the point where the total damage from both incidents is comparable to the three serious single crashes done by Tare, Adenine and Cekat on this stage. A shredded tire 30km before the end has comparatively little impact on the final time.

The Gnoo Motorki pace car goes through the track without incidents, perhaps thanks to the fact that they were so well rested after the previous endurance stage and spent most of their free time chilling out wide awake at a campfire right next to the car.
The Howler Prodigy DBR has a harder day, with exhaust troubles just 90km into the stage and a crash at 620km in due to loss of brake pressure. There is no time for a thorough fix, so another stop is needed at 750km to top up the fluid. Meanwhile, damage from the crash has left the car very slightly less than top form for the Sprint. The 22 minutes spent refueling is par for the course.