Found it, I just had too. =P
@DaleNixon man, that car is lovely. Can’t wait to be tackling the time attacks on gr.b. I’ll be going against the other 4wd monsters, but I might be able to make it work.
That’s also a pretty mean setup you have there. Looks awesome.
@Mikey best parking I ever saw.
So… childhood nostalgia going on.
Childhood memorable car games… hmmm… this music.
And I do mean music cause I was rubish at the game. Got good enough though cause the graphics were amazing to watch on my tube screen for my old Pentium 100.
Yeah I know, Amiga’s version was much better in every single way, but I do like that soundblaster tune (also much better frame rate on PC version, and loading times).
Still… why remember this today? Because of this:
HORRIBLE thumb, thanks.
Still… got the little kid in me go wild.
[edit][btw, game’s capture is horrible. frame rate is inconstant and you can’t see the beautiful constant framerate of the PC version][/edit]
DiRT 4 can be tuned to run fairly close to the DiRT Rally games. It’s still just a bit more forgiving. It’s a real shame DiRT 5 doesn’t have a rally mode!
What really?
Conquest #004
I noticed I had a potential rival. Lee Boon [1]!
He was trying to increase the distance in records.
So from the last stage (6th) in Finland, I went back as far as I had too the 4rd stage and conquered it.
country - finland
stage - lassila
leaderboard - group 2 rain
vehicle - the meanie (1965 Austin Mini Cooper S) Team Icaras Wipeout 3 livery.
Decided that if I wanted to show that livery that I did around with a 1st place, this stage was it.
Wasn’t that easy. I recently went to to the top 10% of most of the stages in the game with Gr.2 cars, and Finland is not the most competitive (also not the least).
But the car was a Mini… like… seriously D= that thing should be in Gr.1.
This stage was technical so I was able to do it. Didn’t had many straights and acceleration was more important. I knew if I got my shifts right, I could have an edge. But they were tiny and super fast D=
Anyways, a screenshot for posterity:
[1]
He also has a youtube channel, but he basically goes around dominating leaderboard of “lesser” race games like legos and stuff. I’m still on a stand to check if he is cool, but one weekend we engaged in a bit of silly competition and we broke the 1st place record of 2 rain stages in filand about 3 times each on each track during a weekend. That was exciting. But he might be acid and I won’t be up to it, so I’ll advance with care on the rival front.
Really nice driving!
I should have bought that FC convertible when I had the chance
Mic- ah, forget that, Colony Drop announcement:
this is huge… and gives the ACO potentially some more headaches when trying to balance them against the LMD Husky-Class.
Nevertheless, this is the kind of announcement that should get Gran Turismo/Forza scrambling to get their hands on it, and maybe some of their rivals…
So will these Hypercars replace LMP1 or all LMP classes? Is this just for WEC and Le Mans, or for all series that use LMP cars?
it’s complicated, in short… so, maybe?
long answer is:
LMH (nee Le Mans Hypercar) is replacing the top-flight P1/H-classes, offering manufacturers the possibility to go crazy with tech and/or design (strict rulebook though). iirc, the hybrid-system has to follow a few envelope-parameters that restrict deploying hybrid power and ICE-power, so balancing/managing these two will be paramount for success in this class. You can be ballsy and ditch the hybrid stuff, like Glickenhaus does, or go all in, like Peugeot will…
LMDh (Le Mans Daytona… h. Seriously! h. Over at dailysportscar they christened it LMDhusky, and that’s what i’ve been calling it since then) is based on existing P2-chassis that are getting custom-tailored bodywork for manufacturers that want their prototype to look like their products/design language. It’s basically IMSAs DPi 2.0, really. Tech-wise, they get a spec-hybrid system and iirc a few more limitations in terms of engine choice/drivetrain-combo (Hybrid-system shall not be deployed on front-axle, and afaik is only allowed to recuperate on the rear axle, no exhaust-recuperation allowed like e.g. the 919 Porsche hybrid did).
Porsche and Audi will go down that route, Audi rumored to re-use the Turbo-Inline-4cyl engine from DTM/Class One rules (i. e. SuperGT GT500 engine bolted into a P2-chassis), porsche supposedly opting to develo/tune a spec-engine variant (V8? V6 trubo?)
Third option is grandfathered P1, the Alpine A485, has last season been running as a Rebellion Oreca. Has to be brought down to LMH-Levels, will be very interesting to see whether that works… the car was originally a P2 that was converted to P1, then used as basis for their P2 that has won nearly all there is to win.
LMH is egligible for WEC/Le Mans from 2021 onwards, maybe for IMSA from 2023, wouldn’t count on it though. IMSA wouldn’t want to invite LMH over when they had two years to iron out the niggles whereas their top-class starts from scratch.
LMDh is egligble from 2023 onwards for WEC/Le Mans and IMSA. Sebring Double-header in 2023, if happening, might be the first time we see both on the same track, albeit in two separate races. Since they’d be back-to-back, that’d be as close as it comes to equal running.
Will they be allowed to participate somewhere else? Here’s hoping, really…
And Grandfathered P1? Well, unlikely, but maybe Kolles will be invited to bring their ill-fated paper-mobile back instead of ditching 2021 completely, let’s see.
P2 will live on, although in a de-tuned manner, with spec-engines.
P3 will also continue as-is (maybe bopped further down to increase performance difference to P2s?)
P2/P3 should be set for Asian Le Mans/European LM Series,
if P3 will continue in IMSA after 2021, phew, let’s see what the uptake is after Sebring.
Thank you for that rundown!
you’re welcome!
I am not ashamed to admit that i am wayyy to invested in this, but what can you do when you have been doing this seriously for ~20 years now, and somewhat interested for about three decades…
so don’t feel alienated, I am just a massive dorky nerd when it comes to these things…
Would really like to make driving even more like a video game and drop a sequential straight cut gearbox in my Miata.
otoh, shortshifting is something that’s hardly possible these days, with computerized gearboxes… would you really give up that freedom of choice?
granted, with the french 6-speed auto/sequential tip-tronic in my Cit i do actually have a democratic congress type of interface where i can let the Computer know that i would like a different gear selected, merci beau(tiful)coup(é), but in the end it decides what it wants to do, and sometimes i miss the simpleness of shortcutting on the H-pattern box.
Grass, greener, etc… …
The tiptronic in my old Mazda Protege5 would respect your gear decision and hold it there all day if you left it in manual mode. Granted, it was still a 4 speed slushbox that was very slow to respond to shift commands.
I really don’t skip gears often, so I think I could live with a $10,000 sequential dog box in my Miata. Tho I’m not sure if they’re street legal and the sound would probably eventually become annoying.
Unrelated note. Look at this DS21!
Mazda automatics still do this and only override downshift when absolutely necessary under braking
Holy… oooffff why would they do that to the poor Deesse. The wheels are part of the magic carpet-ride, and those rims are destroying the ride even from just watching.
otoh, that looks like a pristine DS 21 Break, and it has a right-hand side-mirror, which was a luxury accessoire even in the early eighties.
The ugly, tacked-on US-market orange reflectors are a no-go tho - but then it has the roof-mounted chrome reeling, so it’s neither here nor there, but what a sight it is, mon dieu 
stealth-edit:
Watch the DS perform…
I love old Citroens! There’s a guy who DAILYS a Citroen SM here in the dirty south of the United States. It looks showroom fresh, and the license plate says “ZEN”. What a champion!
