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Does Your Mother Know?

Does Your Mother Know?

Won a Championship in a 1970s vehicle.

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How to unlock the Does Your Mother Know? achievement in Dirt Rally - Definitive Guide

Try to do this in Open difficulty.

All those cars are quite similar except one. Lancia Stratos. I know its power-to-weight ratio looks tempting but don't take it. It is extremely hard to control car and you would have problems with finishing stages, especially in Greece and Sweden. I personally took Opel Kadett but Fiat is also good choice because it's easier to control. In my opinion, RWDs are the hardest to control. They don't drive in straight line, they dance from side to side. This, combined with small number of available RWDs in all classes, means that you won't probably love this class.

Speaking about championship itself, you want to aim at win in Germany. Your super AI would mess one race, which will give you the second event win. You want to win one more event and be second in every other. If you have one more event left and you see that your super AI made clear race and you lost your first stage of your last event, don't continue. Times, which AI makes, are randomized while changing events (or locations). This may be used to your advantage. You lost with AI in first event by 5 seconds? Memorize his time, go to dashboard (don't continue) and restart the game. Enter your championship and retire. If his time is beatable, restart and beat it. You can even try this several times and eventually he would have technical problems and lose a lot to first place, you will have safe win and few points advantage from that event.

Instead of trying to win everything, try to master few tracks which are comfortable with you and you feel good driving them. You should aim at both asphalt locations (Germany and Monte Carlo) which are the easiest. Finland is very fast but deceptive. Those fast turns are hard to control in RWD at fast speed and all those jumps will kill your suspension. Sweden is a narrow, winter route. Wales and Greece are two similar in terms of conditions locations, both are at gravel, both have a lot of trees at sides and it is very easy at both of them to fall out of the track. I'd suggest trying to master Greece but take anything which is suitable for you. In the remaining three you should finish safely at second place. Smash restart button and continue only when you got good times.
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22 Feb 2017 19:30

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Did this in open, didn't pop. 😞???
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By tctrn on 24 Sep 2017 09:37
I'm not sure I follow your steps to restart the event to get different times for AI (and hopefully have a mechanical problem). Could you clarify the middle paragraph?
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By LionTX on 15 Nov 2017 22:18
@mikasz thanks, man! I just tried it and it worked great.

The only thing I would add is when you say "quit to dashboard"; what I had to do is restart the first stage, and as soon as it starts again, pause, select "save and quit". When you come out to the career menus, you can restart the event, and you'll have new times.
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By LionTX on 17 Nov 2017 19:05
Can this be done on custom championship mode? Or I have to do it in career?
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By Vafle89 on 04 Aug 2020 19:00
I did it in Career, honestly I didn't bother playing Rally in Custom Championship.
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By Mikasz on 04 Aug 2020 20:10
I cannot get this to work. The AI times are always the same for me. Tried to retire, dashboard, continue... same time. Then tried the save/quit method... still the same time. What am i doing wrong? Or is this patched?
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By Sonderfall on 05 Jun 2021 12:31
Maybe one hint, which helped me a lot. As mentioned do it in Open as this is the shortest way.
Start a new championship and you'll see which rallies are included (it changes constantly). Try to do a run with Sweden and Germany included, as they are pretty simple. So you can have a few weaker ones included and still win at the end

If too many rallies are included which aren't your favourites, retire and start a new championship
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By CommanderKeen11 on 27 Feb 2023 08:51
It is not popping,I won a championship in Kadett GT
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By Andap007 on 15 Nov 2023 21:24
If it’s not popping then use the “Report A Problem” app. We can’t assist with achievements not popping here.
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By Ox1893 on 18 Mar 2024 09:26
Of course. Start the stage and finish it. Note first guy's time and quit to dashboard. Start the game, resume, start the event (timer has started) and immediately retire. Note first guy's time, it should slightly (~1-3 seconds) change. It may decrease but it may also increase. When you'll get a time you can beat, restart (obviously you are now in stage results, as you must have retired to check it) and beat it.

If you do this few times he'll eventually have technical problems, giving you few minutes of advantage. This may take couple (up to 1 hour) of constant retries, though.
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By Mikasz on 15 Nov 2017 22:35
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The case with all the ‘Win a Championship with an [insert vehicle here]’ trophies is largely the same. Vehicle choice is entirely up to you. Most vehicles within the same class are fairly evenly matched so you can purchase whichever vehicle has the best stats, is the cheapest or just looks the coolest, safe in the knowledge that it is capable of winning championships. Once you have completed all the events in a championship, the trophy should unlock.

In order to make winning a championship as quick and easy as possible, you should complete a career championship at the ‘Open’ level. This should make the A.I. times more manageable to beat, and it means you only have to complete 24 stages to complete a championship. If you are at a level higher than 'Open', you can relegate yourself back through the championship levels by retiring from each event. 

Keep in mind that if an event seems impossible to win because the lead A.I. are setting ridiculously fast times, you don’t need to win every event to win the championship. Sometimes a 2nd or 3rd place finish will do if the other drivers make mistakes elsewhere in the championship. Conversely, if you are doing really well and manage to accumulate a lead of more than 25 points over second place in the championship standings, you can even afford to retire from an entire stage, further speeding up your progress.

You can also exploit the game's RNG to an extent when an event moves to a new location (new location as in moving from Germany to Monte Carlo, not in between stages at the same location). This is because the A.I. opponents finishing times are randomised each time you move location. 

If you complete the first event at a new location and are unhappy with how fast the lead A.I. finishing time was, take note of the leading time and quit the game. Restart the game and return to the event. If you retire, you can then quickly view the new finishing times for each of the A.I. drivers. If the new times look like you can beat them, simply restart the stage. If they're still too quick, just keep repeating the process of quitting the game until the A.I. finishing time is one you can beat. The general time variance for the finishing times is 20-30 seconds (the lead A.I. can even retire in some circumstances), so don't expect to be given an A.I. finishing time that is ridiculously easy. 

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The most suitable car is the Opel Kadett GT/E 16V. Handles well and doesn't try to kill you like the Lancia Stratos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhToRg_wiAI&t
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01 Dec 2016 23:48

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If you win and move to the club level, you don’t need to roll back your save to play on another car, just lose the club level, literally run the track, wait for the start and “Options - Leave” and so on 6 times. After this, you will be returned to the "Open Championships".
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By Ewig on 27 Jan 2017 20:13
Recommended cars for all championship trophies:
1970 - Opel Kadett GT/E 16V
2010 - Volkswagen Polo Rally
Group B (all-wheel drive) - Peugeot 205 T16 Evo 2
2000 - Ford Focus Rally 2007
R4 - Subaru Impreza WRX STI 2011
Rallycross supercars: Ford Fiesta Rallycross
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By ColinsTwiker on 15 Dec 2016 16:38
At first I took an Opel according to the tips above, but it turned out to be very uncontrollable for me, it was constantly drifting in different directions. Even the Lancia in this class seemed easier to control to me. In the end, I tried the Fiat, and so I passed this championship without straining, without even changing the suspension settings (except in Germany and Monte Carlo), I only changed the gearbox ratios.
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By KosAlexKos on 11 Jan 2021 09:31
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If you win and move to the club level, you don’t need to roll back your save to play on another car, just lose the club level, literally run the track, wait for the start and “Options - Leave” and so on 6 times. After this, you will be returned to the "Open Championships".
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27 Jan 2017 20:13