Happy 30th Birthday to...

[TB]

OK, if you insist...

Dude. Just...

That is awesome!

Which one of you is @Jordan?

Third from the left.

Or the one in the GTPlanet shirt.

 

[polysmut]

Third from the left.

Or the one in the GTPlanet shirt.

Or the one playing the invisible PlayStation.

 

[FoRiZon]

Or the one playing the invisible PlayStation.
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Wait. Where do you get that pic? And why he looks very different from the rally photo?

 

[polysmut]

Wait. Where do you get that pic? And why he looks very different from the rally photo?

About 3 minutes into this film. It's already been linked in this thread.

 

[FoRiZon]

About 3 minutes into this film. It's already been linked in this thread.

Welp. Jordan does look like Mark Zuckerberg in some ways.

 

[Jordan]

Which one of you is @Jordan?

Yeah - I'm the guy in the GTPlanet shirt.

Out of interest, did you get to do handbrake turns and initiate lift-off oversteer. Also were you taught to be as smooth as possible?

We didn't really get into those topics in the two-day school. I don't think we were really going fast enough to induce significant lift-off oversteer, though I did feel it a few times. Initiating oversteer with the brake is what we were supposed to focus on the most. Someone asked about handbrake turns, but Dave (the school owner) said you so rarely actually need to use it in competition that it's not something they include in the curriculum.

"Smoothness" was not a priority - if anything, most were asked to be more aggressive.

 

[Saidur_Ali]

We didn't really get into those topics in the two-day school. I don't think we were really going fast enough to induce significant lift-off oversteer, though I did feel it a few times. Initiating oversteer with the brake is what we were supposed to focus on the most. Someone asked about handbrake turns, but Dave (the school owner) said you so rarely actually need to use it in competition that it's not something they include in the curriculum.

"Smoothness" was not a priority - if anything, most were asked to be more aggressive.

On like a 10 minute rally driving experience, got to do all that so surprised they didn't try and teach that on your two-day experience. So much fun rallying, definitely need to try it again after reading about your experience. 👍

I got impressed by how natural everything felt due to virtual experience. Did you find having virtual experience helped a lot? My instructor said to be as smooth as possible as it's quicker which is same approach I also have when it comes to virtual rallying.

Can get quite big dust clouds (Also got dusty inside the car though):


Always find left foot braking experiences interesting though, I thought my older brother was not being serious when I asked him to attempt it and he sort of did an emergency stop. I found it easy to brake with left foot probably due to being used to positional braking on racing games and having not much real world driving experience.

 

[Jordan]

Did you find having virtual experience helped a lot?

I think so, definitely. I starting driving some of the slower cars in DiRT Rally as soon as I learned I'd be going to the school.

However, of all the motorsport disciplines, I think off-road rally racing translates the worst from games/sims. Circuit racing games can easily help you practice things like racing lines, braking points, car control basics, etc. However, the seat-of-your-pants "feel" is just everything in off-road rally, and no game can replicate that.