Colin McRae Rally 2.0 Page
Teams and Drivers
FORD FOCUS RS WRC 2000
Mcrae
Ingauld
Cooper
PEUGEOT 206 WRC 2000
Dugas
Jonsson
Utzman
TOYOTA COROLLA WRC 99
Baca
Jones
SUBARU IMPREZA WRC 2000
Erikson
Huber
MITSUBISHI LANCER
Tizot
Aikita
Candido
SEAT CORDOBA WRC
Kastis
Truman
Mcrae
Ingauld
Cooper
PEUGEOT 206 WRC 2000
Dugas
Jonsson
Utzman
TOYOTA COROLLA WRC 99
Baca
Jones
SUBARU IMPREZA WRC 2000
Erikson
Huber
MITSUBISHI LANCER
Tizot
Aikita
Candido
SEAT CORDOBA WRC
Kastis
Truman
RALLIES
1.FINLAND - Gravel, Mud
2.GREECE - Gravel
3.FRANCE - Tarmac
4.SWEDEN - Snow, Ice
5.AUSTRALIA - Gravel, Mud, Tarmac
6.KENYA - Mud, Gravel, Tarmac
7.ITALY - Tarmac
8.BRITAIN - Gravel, Mud, Tarmac
2.GREECE - Gravel
3.FRANCE - Tarmac
4.SWEDEN - Snow, Ice
5.AUSTRALIA - Gravel, Mud, Tarmac
6.KENYA - Mud, Gravel, Tarmac
7.ITALY - Tarmac
8.BRITAIN - Gravel, Mud, Tarmac
Driving Tips (for beginner and intermediate level drivers)
Expert drivers who can win the championship on Expert mode probably won't learn too much from this.
Follow these tips and take them to heart, and with some practice and confidence, you can win the Championship on Expert Mode. Believe me, I have won every stage on every rally (I mean consecutively), I know something of what is truly required to succeed.
You can gain gigantic amounts of time just by not damaging the car. Most of the time you lose to the leaders (more than that probably) is simply because of damaging the car. It just takes trying to actually easing off a little and not crashing. Don't drive the wheels off the car - that's not the way it works!
Concentrate mainly on looking after the car and bringing it to each service area with very little or even no damage at all, if possible. The amount of time you can gain by just having a fully functioning (and much more driveable) car will be quite substantial. Make it your task to keep the car clean. Do not worry about the times (almost not at all) - the times will take care of themselves. Try it and see for yourself.
Arriving at the service park with massive amounts of damage to the car will ruin your rally. There are only 60mins available to fix everything, which simply won't be enough if you have a lot of damage. Then your car will be slower and more difficult to drive on the following stages, making you much more likely to crash (by trying too hard to make up for the car's reduced performance). This causes a vicious circle which mires you down in the pack.
Bottom line: IT JUST ISN'T WORTH PICKING UP ANY DAMAGE AT ALL. It immediately significantly brings down the maximum possible performance the car is capable of.
It is better to brake far too early for corners rather than even a little too late. Yes, I would most definitely err towards caution and braking earlier. Braking too early loses you far less time than you might imagine, and enables you to remain in control of the car, and avoid hitting things and picking up damage.
A very smart thing to do is when you come to a corner and you can't see round it, simply ease off until you can see past it, then get back on the power. You wouldn't go round a blind corner flat out in real life, so why do it in the game?
It's not about driving the wheels of the car going flat out every second. The top drivers say it is but that's because they have learned and developed their driving, starting off slowly and building up. They didn't just turn up as rookies and try to rule the entire world straight away!
The times that the computer cars are absolutely not impossible at all. Think about this carefully: If you could see the computer cars drive the stages, you would see that they actually aren't going particularly quickly at all. They certainly aren't driving like crazy. But what do you notice? They don't make mistakes! You see, THAT is where all the time is found.
So if you just concentrate on cutting out the mistakes, and even if you just drive around 50 - 70% of your capacity, you will end up actually doing well! The time you lose by just taking it easy is actually far less than you imagine. The time you lose by going wide, skidding and crashing around is much more then you imagine.
It just takes an understanding that it's actually NOT trying to be completely flat-out every second, but taking a measured and intelligent approach. The biggest chunk of time to be found is in simply keeping the car on the road. This means reining yourself in a little. But the time you lose from this is actually pretty negligible compared to what you lose from driving the wheels of the car, going wide everywhere and crashing and accumulating damage.
The most massive amounts of time to be gained are in developing a driving style that is geared towards taking care of the tyres (and everything else). Most basically this means that contrary to popular belief, you do everything in your power to AVOID your tyres screeching!!! (or whatever the gravel equivalent is).
The thing is is that that's how people drive in films. Because the screeching tyres and harsh over-driving etc. make it LOOK as though the car is being driven fast because it looks exciting! Any decent racing driver I'm sure will agree with me that in real life, this is ABSOLUTELY false!!! The skill is in absolutely minimising sliding the car and scrubbing the tyres as much as possible!!! Avoid it like the plague! Avoid it like Kryptonite! Don't go ANYWHERE near it!
The reason tyres make that screeching noise is that they have exceeded their level of grip, and are now sliding rather than gripping. It's as if they're crying out because you've gone over their limit. You are losing staks of the time as all the momentum of the car is going sideways instead of forward. ALSO, the tyres are overheating and wearing out, reducing the amount of speed and grip they are able to give!
The trick is to learn to "feel" when the car is about to go over it's limit of grip (which you can tell you've gone over when the car begins to slide and the tyres screech). So the aim is to take the car as close to the limit as you can - but never going over it! Master that, and you will rule this game!
Basically you just need to learn to walk before you can run.
Another tip: Everybody makes mistakes, and mistakes in racing WILL cost you time. There's no way round it. When this happens, do not lose your cool. Just accept the loss and carry on. Remember that everything you we're doing before the mistake was fine. So just pick yourself up and keep going. A mark of a champion is that they can still get a points finish on bad days. It's those little points finishes from the bad days that very often make the difference in the championship at the end of the season. Things can't always go right every time, but champions don't give up.
Just stay in control of your car. However much you have to slow down costs you nothing compared to the massive amounts of time you save.
N.B. Have I got this pretty much right? If anyone reads this and wants to correct me, please do! Just hit the reply button at the top. There's plenty I can learn myself!
Follow these tips and take them to heart, and with some practice and confidence, you can win the Championship on Expert Mode. Believe me, I have won every stage on every rally (I mean consecutively), I know something of what is truly required to succeed.
You can gain gigantic amounts of time just by not damaging the car. Most of the time you lose to the leaders (more than that probably) is simply because of damaging the car. It just takes trying to actually easing off a little and not crashing. Don't drive the wheels off the car - that's not the way it works!
Concentrate mainly on looking after the car and bringing it to each service area with very little or even no damage at all, if possible. The amount of time you can gain by just having a fully functioning (and much more driveable) car will be quite substantial. Make it your task to keep the car clean. Do not worry about the times (almost not at all) - the times will take care of themselves. Try it and see for yourself.
Arriving at the service park with massive amounts of damage to the car will ruin your rally. There are only 60mins available to fix everything, which simply won't be enough if you have a lot of damage. Then your car will be slower and more difficult to drive on the following stages, making you much more likely to crash (by trying too hard to make up for the car's reduced performance). This causes a vicious circle which mires you down in the pack.
Bottom line: IT JUST ISN'T WORTH PICKING UP ANY DAMAGE AT ALL. It immediately significantly brings down the maximum possible performance the car is capable of.
It is better to brake far too early for corners rather than even a little too late. Yes, I would most definitely err towards caution and braking earlier. Braking too early loses you far less time than you might imagine, and enables you to remain in control of the car, and avoid hitting things and picking up damage.
A very smart thing to do is when you come to a corner and you can't see round it, simply ease off until you can see past it, then get back on the power. You wouldn't go round a blind corner flat out in real life, so why do it in the game?
It's not about driving the wheels of the car going flat out every second. The top drivers say it is but that's because they have learned and developed their driving, starting off slowly and building up. They didn't just turn up as rookies and try to rule the entire world straight away!
The times that the computer cars are absolutely not impossible at all. Think about this carefully: If you could see the computer cars drive the stages, you would see that they actually aren't going particularly quickly at all. They certainly aren't driving like crazy. But what do you notice? They don't make mistakes! You see, THAT is where all the time is found.
So if you just concentrate on cutting out the mistakes, and even if you just drive around 50 - 70% of your capacity, you will end up actually doing well! The time you lose by just taking it easy is actually far less than you imagine. The time you lose by going wide, skidding and crashing around is much more then you imagine.
It just takes an understanding that it's actually NOT trying to be completely flat-out every second, but taking a measured and intelligent approach. The biggest chunk of time to be found is in simply keeping the car on the road. This means reining yourself in a little. But the time you lose from this is actually pretty negligible compared to what you lose from driving the wheels of the car, going wide everywhere and crashing and accumulating damage.
The most massive amounts of time to be gained are in developing a driving style that is geared towards taking care of the tyres (and everything else). Most basically this means that contrary to popular belief, you do everything in your power to AVOID your tyres screeching!!! (or whatever the gravel equivalent is).
The thing is is that that's how people drive in films. Because the screeching tyres and harsh over-driving etc. make it LOOK as though the car is being driven fast because it looks exciting! Any decent racing driver I'm sure will agree with me that in real life, this is ABSOLUTELY false!!! The skill is in absolutely minimising sliding the car and scrubbing the tyres as much as possible!!! Avoid it like the plague! Avoid it like Kryptonite! Don't go ANYWHERE near it!
The reason tyres make that screeching noise is that they have exceeded their level of grip, and are now sliding rather than gripping. It's as if they're crying out because you've gone over their limit. You are losing staks of the time as all the momentum of the car is going sideways instead of forward. ALSO, the tyres are overheating and wearing out, reducing the amount of speed and grip they are able to give!
The trick is to learn to "feel" when the car is about to go over it's limit of grip (which you can tell you've gone over when the car begins to slide and the tyres screech). So the aim is to take the car as close to the limit as you can - but never going over it! Master that, and you will rule this game!
Basically you just need to learn to walk before you can run.
Another tip: Everybody makes mistakes, and mistakes in racing WILL cost you time. There's no way round it. When this happens, do not lose your cool. Just accept the loss and carry on. Remember that everything you we're doing before the mistake was fine. So just pick yourself up and keep going. A mark of a champion is that they can still get a points finish on bad days. It's those little points finishes from the bad days that very often make the difference in the championship at the end of the season. Things can't always go right every time, but champions don't give up.
Just stay in control of your car. However much you have to slow down costs you nothing compared to the massive amounts of time you save.
N.B. Have I got this pretty much right? If anyone reads this and wants to correct me, please do! Just hit the reply button at the top. There's plenty I can learn myself!