I was talking about the gears this morning and wondered auto over manual. I am using auto at the mo, and after watching the WRC preview on channel 4 where they mentioned for hairpins dropping it down to your exit gear before using the handbrake.....hard to do in auto mode.

Gonna have to set up my steering wheel now, cos I'm crap at manual gears on a controller!

 

It's crazy there are times of 6.00 on there now, my best is 6.12.38
Wow these people must be bloody good.

Stevep

 

Ooops, the times posted were for the qualifying challenge, not the first round of the challenge itself

Even still, best time overall is still sitting at around 6:02

Andrew.


[Edited by AndrewW - 1/18/2002 10:28:01 AM]

 

Wow,
two goes last night and managed to get 6:18

 

Just tried to get on their website to have a look at other times!!!
Why did i ever bother
They know something like this is going to be popular ,why not get a website that can handle all the traffic

 

They have now disabled the viewing of stage times on the website.

So you won't be able to tell how badly you've done until after the weekend is over

Apparently you can still register and record your times, but I'll be buggered if I have been able to get that far [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Andrew.

 

Have managed to get down from 6:30 to 6:17 using auto rather than manual gearbox. Go figure

Interesting thread over here

http://team.sports.com/en/forums/For...ML/000399.html

These guys have been practising 20 hours a day since the game came out, and the guy who was winning overall the one time I saw the table (evoIVgsr) has a mate who actually calls the pace notes for him, rather than using the computerised co driver

Don't think we stand a chance somehow.

Late update on the leader board

UK TIMES...

1)Tony Pakkala thunder racing 06:03.04
2)Stu Morrison Rally devils 06:04.04
3)Darren Irwin Dazza Racing 06:04.08
4)Martin Chuter Paragon 06:04.16
5)Kris Team Green 06:04.86
6)Anthony Yates Tony 06:05.22

7)........Unknown?
8)........Ukknown?
9)........Unknown?
10).......Unknown?

INTERNATIONAL TOP 3 TIMES...

1)David Lancer rallyart (FR) 05:59:50
2)james-lee-... team 504 (AU) 06:00.24
3)Denis racing-line (BE) 06:00.80

Agghhhhh ...

Andrew.

 

Looks like i should throw the towel in now 5mins 59!!!!!
are these guys using go faster stripes on their cars

Bugger

 

Went and bought the Logitech steering wheel.
Times started improving dramatically. :=)
Now down to 6:17 from 6:22 before steering wheel.

I seem to be the only one from ScoobyNet World Rally Team
to enter their times on the web site. Where are all the others ?

By the way, anyone else with the Logitech: Does your
handbrake work ? Mine doesn't...

 

Can't enter my time cause I cannot get onto the site [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Also, the scoobynet team didn't exist when I registered and the stupid site won't let you change teams [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Not that it matters, my best time is still 6:15

The handbrake washes lots of speed, but doesn't seem to help getting the end out ooh err

Andrew.

 

Yeah I cant use the "scoobynet world rally team" name as it appears to be too long, but since im in the 13's it dosent really matter anyway
Dan

 

Hi Guys,

Sorry I have not replied sooner but my computer has been off-line.

Not impressed with the Challenge site.
a) very slow
b) the team name business appears not to be working
c) no one from the site has bothered to reply to email regarding the problems.

Anyway looks like we are all as bad as each other.
After about a dozen attempts I am now down to 6:10.36
I have now managed to break the 3min barrier on stage 3 (only just)
Stage 2: 1:17.00 - can't see how you can do this any quicker.

It would be interesting to see whether the difference is due to manual/auto gear selection - decided to stick with manual for now.

 

They seem to have looked behind the lounge and found some spare bandwidth.

The site is now flying but it would not accept either of my two fastest time codes as valid [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Not that it matters, as they are only for a 6:16:86

Have now got down to 6:15:80 using logitech wheel and auto gears.

Best time now stands at 5:57:56 and best for the UK is 5:58:12

Andrew.

 

Yep, the site is dire.
I to thought I was doing OK, coming up with 6:23 / 6:18 ish.
I nearly keeled over when I saw 6:00!
Where the hell they are getting that from I dont know!
20 seconds to find? Not a hope!

 

My best time is 6:15:08

Cannot get on their site to register my time(dont know if i'll bother)
I would love to see a replay of the guys doing 5:58.

 

6.07.14 = 98th in the UK so far
wahhay

Edited cos I'm getting quicker !!!

[Edited by DanTheMan - 1/20/2002 2:41:42 PM]

 

6:09.50.

That means 17th position in Netherlands.

Very happy. Could probably shave one or two more seconds off
if managed to get a totally perfect run. I always tend to mess
up at least one corner somewhere...

The web site is weird. One moment it works and 10 seconds later
not. I just keep trying every few minuets.

 

6.06.70 and only 97th in the UK now....and 701st in the world...
not looking good really
Dan

 

What you using Dan, manual gears, anolog hand control or steering heel.

 

I'm using a steering wheel + pedals with auto gears, are the top guys using manual gears ?
Dan

 

Deadline extended until tomorrow due to the website problems.

When I login it doesn't bring up the Scoobynet Team?

 

I've done a bit of digging, and found how the guys are getting sub 6 minute times.

By cheating [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img] [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img] [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

1. Drive at any of the tight corners that have a barrier and turn in sharply at the last moment. The car will rebound off in the right direction and you will only loose a little speed. The crappy damage model will only hurt you if you hit it virtually head on.

2. There are a couple of hairpins on the 3rd stage that can be missed completely by jumping over them. Gotta go home and try it but apparently there are nice ramps to use and each one accounts for approx 5 seconds [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

So much for a fair competition.

Someone has queried the runners of the comp through the email address that sent out the activation code and the response was effectively 'yep, go for it, sounds ok to us, we don't really care how you get your final time' [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Andrew.



[Edited by AndrewW - 1/21/2002 2:33:07 PM]

 

Typical, it all makes sense now!!! What a shame, in theory the whole challenge was a cracking idea, unfortunately these thing are usually floored!

 

Thanks for that Andrew,
I will give jumping the hairpins a quick go

 

any joy yet, it would be usefull to know which hairpins...

 

To find out, just send me 100 quid in unmarked notes to ...

only joking

This is the info I found. Just about to try it out

There are two jump points in stage three to cut off two hairpins, going down hill, one in front on the apex with a triangle road sign. The one which saves the most time and is easyer to hit the road on the other side is after that one. crash barrier on the left and it stops then there is a big gap befor the hill or big rock, just take a left of the edge and land on the road below. aves 5secs on the split. And one very cool roll in mid air, just like James bond over the river or burt renolds in hooper.

Andrew.

 

Cool, let us know how you get on, the scoobynet team could flourish yet!!! (not that I can get the team to work!!!)

 

Excellent.
Here are my best stage times before attempting the "jumps" to get some comparisons:

1.50.94
1.16.04
2.58.66

(which I think added up = 6.05.64) but I cant get all 3 in a row

 

Cant wait to get home and try it now!!!!

 

Are you able to change anything in the WRC Challenge mode? I've assumed it's just frozen in a certain format to make it fairer, (though there seem to be some driving cheats which work....

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