GeneRally Rookie Championship 16 - Race 1 Recap

GeneRally Rookie Championship is back with its 16th season, with new tracks, and still the same FR/13 car. Different than the last season, this season has many teams competing for the title. Teams in this season are much greater in number than the previous seasons which most of them are privateers (No passion to run a team, perhaps???). Opening this season’s GRC is Trigger Park by AleksiNir.

Bottom right sweeper is making me RAGE. -Haruna Say

This track is pretty, well, let’s say “challenging” due to the fierceness of the penultimate corner. I wonder where Death Ruse had been... But well, we’re talking about GRC, right? So no time to talking crap about the hardest CA rival of the Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift 2 right now. Speaking of the “Season Opener”, we have 21 racers driving for this first race, which is the biggest in GRC since 1st event of 13th season in October 2009.

Best Drivers Arise!

Well, Europeans rules GeneRally, hence the best position they’ve got. Just look at the first race results! After a long battle, nico wins the race with a speed of 103 kmh (How I could reach that speed?). At the first lap, there was a fierce 5-way battle. The fight continues as nico, Calders and Haruna Say are fighting for the first place. Not only that, Quiklis and mizzamar are fighting too. You can see the action at the picture strip below:


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For me, it’s not a great outcome.

"Goh-dang-it, another out-of-top 10-place..." -Rendy

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Unfortunately, yet again I placed below Top 10 which is sad because you feel that you've expected yourself to be one of the top 10 racer, but it turns out false. I finished 14th, 0.97 seconds behind medal89 and 0.22 seconds ahead Red. And since I’m on the Silver class (Means I’m no longer in the Bronze class, the class I’ve been since my first GRC until the previous season), I can’t hide this God-awful shame.

However, I’ve been involved in the battles against Santana 2.0 and Ginseng for position. In the end, it was me who got pwned by Ginseng, followed by Medal89. Once again, it is not a good result, but I don’t surprised at all because I made mistakes and bad trajectories. Oh my Lanta!

Teammate got sucked

Horrible track, horrible race, just horrible. -resir014

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Racing Van Java, an Indonesian GRC team consisting of me, ChargerSRT8 and resir014 competes in this prestigious event. ChargerSRT8 had been active on GRC competitions since the RSC era, and resir014 comes from RaceDepartment.org and was a leader of the Race Department team of GRC. But unfortunately we’re out of luck. Let’s face it, ChargerSRT8 didn’t race in this first event and he said (via Facebook chat) that he might be racing for the second race after he is done with his “Otaku” thing. Meanwhile, resir014 had pulled out his great skills, but he’s last (Ever since he was on the RD GRC team, he wasn’t that slow). Again, I have to say “What a Dreckitude” to this outcome.

We need some more training in order to achieve best results on Xavelot, the second track of the season.

Well, sadly I have to conclude this blog. While I conclude this, check out The Secret to Go Fast thread on gene-rally.com, it is where you can find the guide for beginners to go as fast as the professionals. Once again, thanks for reading!

~REGARDS