Looks like you’re on your way!
Two pieces of advice I’d give—it didn’t look like you ever did the handbrake while you were doing the first stage. I’d def practice handbrake turns some more as they are vital to getting better times on stages with a lot of hairpins. (Jeux Verte is a great stage for practicing this.)
Also, you might switch to numeric pace notes asap. They’re going to be numeric in the new WRC (if you use the standard ones) and K-right vs Care right is never very clear using the original RBR call system, so it helps with that as well as being a few more variants than what you get with mediem, sharp, k, hairpin, etc. Plus if you get a stage that hasn’t had the pacenotes reworked for it by Luppis, it is easier to figure out the mental conversion in your head with numeric. (Eg, I am crashing and dying when I treat this like a normal 5, I need to subtract 2 from all the calls on this stage to make it through alive.)
Thank you very much for the tips and advice. I was hoping to receive some constructive criticism soon. I normally use numeric pace notes when I’m running practice stages. I think I got so excited to run the rally I didn’t really prepare. Correctly. I knew I was in trouble after the first stage but figured I’d stick to it. I turned off visual pace notes after that rally to force myself to listen to Janne. What are some stages you use to practice? The new RabocsiRing RX has been my go to for training. I’m sure there is better I just love that stage.
Yeah that’s a pretty fun stage. I personally still like a lot of the OG stages like Frasier Wells, Cote de Abroz, Mineshaft and Pirka Maneko , but anything else by Rally Guru is amazing too (like PS Valstagna, Torsby, etc).
I was playing with the Opel last night and thought of your advice as I went into this corner. https://youtu.be/ScuyeG00PxA?si=LbmIJcQLGq94p7wY&t=834
Haha, yep that’s a good example!
