Oh I did the training last week (FYI: Do the training BEFORE changing the 2003 Impreza car. Found that one out the hard way...). Piece of cake, all gold. Got almost all of the Richard Burns Challenges done, too; just the monte carlo stage and I think maybe the japanese one. The Japanese one will be a doddle but I never could get the hang of the monte carlo rally - I think I've only ever won it the rally on the hardest setting once... and never beatten the challenge on its stage.
For the record, I'm not really new to RBR, I just had to reinstall after messing up a file and then forgetting to backup my save before uninstalling the game and reinstalling last week :S
I'm going to work on a personal skin for the 06 Scubby (once I get a solid idea in my head for it) since that's my ride of choice. In the meantime, I wanted to get my face (or at least a different one for the sake of having a different one) on my driver. I'd also love to change the championship files to add more stages to a rally (6 isn't long enough!) and I need to make the AI faster - especially in Finland!
I just finished the finnish rally, and on the last stage (Mustasekla (SP?)) I hit a tree in the first sector, destroying the radiator and breaking my gearbox which was now stuck in 5th gear. Despite this, I made it to the first split over 5 seconds up on the next guy, at the second split I was over 15 seconds up, and I wound up I think it was about 26 seconds up at the finish of the stage. I won the stage by some 26 seconds despite running the entire thing in 5th gear.... and that stage has a lot of 2nd gear corners/hairpins. That's just not kosher. I know I'm not that good. :P