by Tom Stajduhar · Published September 20, 2013 · Last modified October 1, 2013
2013 Rally Australia was spectacular. How would I know, I never set foot on the continent (but I do have cousins living there, ha!). Easy, just look at the photos and the videos. It was narrow, dusty maze of forest stages set on the tricky and deceiving mix of fast sections and twisty paths. The...
Random Thoughts / World of Rally
by Tom Stajduhar · Published September 20, 2013 · Last modified October 2, 2013
Why did I include Codemasters in the title of this article you ask? It’s simple really – they are, more or less, the only currently active developer capable of putting together a coherent rally racing simulation, even though their recent titles were more arcade-ish and not really enough hard core sim. It’s not that Codemasters...
Hill climb racing is very similar to rallying, in fact, it’s a blend of rallying and circuit racing – you get to race in a twisty almost rally stage like roads, but the road is wide, tarmac is smooth and well it’s only one track. So the thing is to try and be fastest from...
Thousands of rally videos are out there, ready and waiting to be found and enjoyed, but you can also use them for educational purposes. For example, you want to kick off your co-driving career – online videos are great resource of information and first-hand (well, okay, second hand technically) experience. Of course, it’s up to...
I do not believe my f…..ng luck this year… Putain de merde!!!!!! #WRC — Mikko Hirvonen (@MikkoWRC) September 15, 2013 And I’m sure Mikko was actually trying real hard to be polite and under control here. Next time (I hope there won’t be next time though) I am sure the censoring dots will be replaced...
Tough rally, this one. Full of tricky traps and deceptive sections, but it seems trouble will find you even if you try really hard to avoid it. You only need to be named Mikko Hirvonen (or Jari-Matti Latvala in this case it seems). All was going well for Mikko, he was doing the job he...
In what has been the dream run for Coffs Coast local 27 year old Nathan Quinn, he and fellow Austrailian Glenn MacNeall have done a fantastic job bringing the Motorsport Italia MINI John Cooper Works WRC home in 8th place outright, Motorsport Italia’s best performance for 2013 so far. “Ever since we signed to do...
Even Sebastien Ogier makes mistakes, even Sebastien Loeb made a few, everyone does. Just look at just about any rally driver (or co-driver, they hate it when media fails to mention them) currently competing in the World Rally Championship. Offs, punctures, rolls, missed or misheard pacenotes, poorly timed entries in the time controls… And somehow,...
