>>363647190
To be fair, it's not that bad even from autism larp point of view. Most popular rally events tend to take place in same locations repeatedly, meaning rally drivers tend to know most of their stages from experience before they drive. Also, even if they wouldn't, they're still allowed to drive slowly in normal cars, check the stage, and obviously make pace notes. Even in smallest, lowest-tier rally events, where you basically do autocross over some small location, you always get a printed map + opportunity to drive slowly through the stage before actual timed runs begin. I'd say it's not a bad idea to practice before event, especially when you struggle to do it.

Just try to drive on pace notes rather than from memory, the single most infuriating thing to do in DR is trying to remember the track and then driving from memory. During 10min+ stage, pace notes are doing far better job at keeping you safe than your memory, unless you really grinded all of those tracks for hundreds of hours to the point where you clearly remember every corner. Practicing actual driving on co-driver calls is both the good way to satisfy your autism and actual good way to get a good time, compared to trying to time trial through the stage at insane speeds and crashing it out repeatedly.

[spoiler]during events we tend to drive repeatedly over same parts of the stage because dirt rally locations are usually 2 big stages split into 2 short springs and then all of that is forward + reverse, so not much content to worth with when you want event to be 30-45min. i always, *always* fuck up repetitive parts because i feel like i remember those places and therefore can go faster and more careless.[/spoiler]