ROUND 4 | RALLY GERMANY | 4TH - 7TH DEC

WEATHER
Threatening clouds are expected to hover over the region throughout legs 1 & 3, so don't be surprised to see some rain! Leg 2 is currently forecast to be dry, but don't rule out the odd sprinkle.

Stage list and weather posted.

Ahh, some nice Tarmac finally! We've had too much gravel recently.

There MIGHT be a delay in the rally going live. The DiRT website has been down for most of today, so I haven't been able to set it up yet.

Website is still down at the moment. -_-

Website is back up again

Maaaan, it just isn't working here. Getting this on all browsers, different PC's, my tablet...everywhere. Router restarts and everything.

OK, with the issue still ongoing and the fact I'm out for most of the day, we'll postpone this to next Friday. Still several others on the DiRT forum with the same issues.

Yeah it was weird, yday i could see the website fine on my computer and no problems but with my phone with 4g connection it was blank like yours. Anyway next weekend might be better anyways for me

Actually works out for the best because i still needed a bit of practice

Anyone else having yet more issues trying to access dirtgame.com? I've been getting "HTTP Error 500.0 - Internal Server Error" for the last 24 hours or so.

I'm getting same problem Steven.

All appears to be working again...for now. I'll get the rally set up in the morning and the new sign ups confirmed.

Happy days!

Rally Germany is finally underway! Good luck to everyone. Don't forget, be brave.

Really looking forward to this. Will likely be my strongest rally - wanna finish this time, maybe even well.

I only had to edit the title

Unfortunately due to the change of dates i will not be able to compete in this rally. Really gutted because it is my strongest and the lancia is well suited but thats racing! Best of luck to everyone

Haven't played the game since the last rally. Only practise I did was 1 stage to make sure everything worked.

Germany is one of the rallies I'm the fastest on but with no practise I knew it wasn't gonna go well.

After the first stage I was in 7th or sth, not a quick stage but no incidents. I knew that being a bit more cautious may give me a decent position, but then on the next stage I get a call like 100m too late and run wide. No spectators was in the way so was just gonna drive back on the stage but the game decides it's reasonable to give me a 14 sec penalty...

I just retired from there. It sucks that you need to remember every corner on each stage to be fast cause the calls are a bit fucked up from time to time.

Really enjoyed Germany. Drove really nicely with reasonable pace over all of the stages, apart from the rainy ones. Had a small spin on first rainy stage but other than that, nice and clean. Mikaeljack was far too quick for me!

For some reason, when starting Hammerstein 2, I didn't get the service area, just threw me right into the stage without the chance to repair the car. Can't now back out of it, or I'll DNF the whole rally.

I wouldn't usually complain but I'm fighting for 6th in class and my car is pretty beat up so yeah.

Oh man. Has anyone else had this issue? If no one else has had the service then it's most likely that I missed a click in setting up the rally. I apologise if so. :/

Still, even with no 2nd service: I ACTUALLY FINISHED A RALLY, YAY!

I knew Germany would be my strongest but wow, I had to work hard there.

Stage 1 - absolute nightmare.
Stage 2 - better.
Stage 3 - MUCH better than Stage 1!

Service here was repairing radiator and engine basically.

Stage 4 - Also went well!
Stage 5 - Another good one.
Stage 6 - some mistakes here, but started to believe I could have points on my hands.

No service as above here, so right into next 2.

Stage 7 - went well, damage considered.
Stage 8 - I FINISHED YEAH! And well on this stage too.

I'm currently 5th in Historic too, awesome. 6s behind Steven's Escort.

Won't lie, had I got the service I think I could have beaten him and had 4th in Historic, but that depends on if everyone else got it too. Still, I did finish the rally, unlike the last three.

Joshua Anderson wrote:Won't lie, had I got the service I think I could have beaten him and had 4th in Historic, but that depends on if everyone else got it too.

The only thing I will say further to this, is it might be good practice for season 2.

Joshua Anderson wrote:For some reason, when starting Hammerstein 2, I didn't get the service area, just threw me right into the stage without the chance to repair the car. Can't now back out of it, or I'll DNF the whole rally.

I wouldn't usually complain but I'm fighting for 6th in class and my car is pretty beat up so yeah.

Are you running a WW test build? Someone in one of my other league mentioned he had no services during our last event, and CM confirmed it was a bug. Maybe that was it?

EDIT: I didn't get it either, and upon reviewing the stages on racenet, it seems there wasn't any service area after the night stage. Looks like someone forgot to put it in