Dirt Rally
50 Achievements
1,000
60-80h
Spirit of the Rally
Finished an event after heavily damaging three or more components.
25
0.51%
How to unlock the Spirit of the Rally achievement in Dirt Rally - Definitive Guide
The cars are quite sturdy, unlike their tires. Even with the latest patch, the tires still like to pop quite easily if you put a bit more force into it, while everything else... doesn't really give much of the certain word. Exact opposite of the real life, but Codies acknowledged that the damage system is definitely not up to tasks, so there's at least that.
The achievement often will not show up when you finish the event when you have other events going on. And by other events, I mean full championships along with the small ones in the custom and online.
And finally the most important thing... no one really knows how badly the parts have to actually be damaged. Which means you'll be going very close to 0% to be sure and if some parts will reach that level then it's the end of the event. I don't think I have to remind that to get this achievement you need to finish it, right?
Now that you are armed with this knowledge, let's move on.
Finish all the on-going championships and events, regardless of the discpline, aka rally, rallycross and pikes peak. You don't need to go to Master, just so that there isn't one that is in progress.
Make sure that you actually don't have the achievement by asking someone to check your profile page and the list of unlocked achievements.
The car you'll be using for this is turbocharged and front engined.
Again, check if there isn't any event in the progress. Even custom and online. When it comes to online, you just need to finish all the stages, so don't start the monthly before there are all stages available if you want to get this achievement.
IMPORTANT. Turn off your "I always have to win against AI" syndrome, since you won't be winning this event. Trust me.
With that out of the way, we can go about what is the best way to unlock this achievement. The theory is quite simple but execution can be atrocious. You need at least 3 parts to be as close to 0% as possible when finishing the event. There are two parts that can be reduced to 0% while still being able to drive. One is as some of you probably already figured out, Turbo, second is the Exhaust. Getting both of them to 0% will result in a loss of power, quite drastic for most cars but you can still crash fairly easily.
The third part is where the problem lies. There are few candidates for this, though I personally advise to go for more than just one. Namely engine, drivetrain and radiator. Once you damage radiator enough, you can then proceed to accurately wear down the engine. Drivetrain and radiator will be reduced along with the turbo and exhaust, so you're killing 4 birds with one... or two stones, depending on the approach and part of the track.
Here are some guidelines which will make it easier to get the necessary results:
For those that need Cpt. Obvious, do it in Custom Event.
Wales or Finland are the best for this, as the sheer amount of jumps and trees around you will greatly help in destroying the underside parts of the car. You also don't need to worry about going out of the bounds and retiring, like in Greece or Monte Carlo.
Group B Quattro S1 (aka Sport Rallye) is most likely the best car for doing this. Suspension doesn't work on it, so damage from jumps racks up enormously, while the mad I5 engine still has more oompf after losing both exhaust and turbo than the WRC spec cars. It is also the only Group B car that is front engined and turbocharged. And it being an old car, it's DiRTy cheap (pun intended) to repair it, which will help with surviving.
Stiffen the suspension fully and completely lower the car. This will further maximise the damage taken from jumps and generally everything else.
Don't make the event too long. You want to finish it after all. The best amount of stages would be 5 or 7, depending on the car naturally.
Aim for an odd number of stages, so you will always finish on a stage after the service station. This will allow you to be precise with repairing/damaging the parts a lot more.
Good rule of a thumb is to set the last stage to be short one. It will be easier to finish if your drivetrain is below 10% (that thing can reduce it's durability by 5% if you land in a wrong way, once... keep that in mind) while the distance will be more than enough to bake some sausages on the engine and grind that radiator to dust with the help of friendly squirrels and their mighty trees.
Don't be afraid to abuse the restart button, especially on the last stage. It won't take away the achievement while learning exactly how much you can push the car before the Matrix happens is more than crucial here.
Repair the parts to about 10% if they're below 5% or something along those lines. Exception are of course turbo and exhaust, which shouldn't be touched at all when it comes to repairs. Also repairing other parts you're not aiming for may prove helpful in destroying the already badly damaged parts. Don't ask me why or how, it just seems to work that way.
Engine
Turbo
Radiator
Exhaust
Drivetrain
To destroy those parts you need to jump and crash around as much as possible. Crashing with the front of the car and keeping the boost at full output (aka don't let the throttle on the jumps) will damage the turbo and engine while having hard landings will quickly get rid of that nasty exhaust and will degrade drivetrain. Both things will make radiator weep quite quickly though.
Once the radiator reaches the critical point (co-pilot will inform about lack of power, that's about 30% radiators durability then) you can start getting the engine just so-so. To do that stick the car at 1st or 2nd gear and keep the pedal to the metal... or key to the switch if you're keyboard user I suppose. You'll make the engine blow in a matter of minutes. Which is not the intent, so make sure you're at about 15% engine durability before the last stage (Cpt. Obvious - check repair screen in service station). If there's black smoke coming of the engine... you'd best start thinking about finishing the stage. Good thing about engine (at least in Quattro case) is that it's quite durable. So even if you're at 6% you can easily finish a full long stage... if you don't crash into a tree at full speed that is.
Quickly after the radiator shows critical, the exhaust should go with the "weight reduction bro" way and you'll be left with turbo barely holding to its life if you've been grilling some sausages on the engine. Either way, once exhaust and turbo will get to 0%, you just need to focus on maintaing the under 10% status on the rest of the aformentioned parts, which is the tricky part.
Drivetrain will be destroyed from basically any bouncing, radiator not as much unless we're talking Finland. In either case, both of those will be the biggest problems to keep at very low amounts. So it's in your best interest to make sure both of those parts are at around 10% durability when starting the last stage. A big discrepancy between the two will be very hard to close up, since they'll be draining down on durability together. Best way to preserve that low 10% state is to simply drive very slow. Make it a leisure drive while using 30% of the throttle, letting go off the throttle whenever you catch air (best to avoid that at all in that case).
If you want to do it with completely other parts... well, the main thing stands. Everything other than turbo and exhaust that will get to 0% will result in retirement from the event. So you want to grind those things through rolling, jumping hard and crashing into trees up till they are at about 10% of durability.
In any case, at the last stage you should have all the parts in the under 10% state which makes this your last stretch to unlock the achievement.
I did the second difficulty with 6 events GROUP B 4wd Peugeot 205 T16 Evo 2
on Finland ,Wales can also do
suspension stiff all the way to the right
height al the way to the left
RADIATOR, SUSPENSION,EXHAUST,i had these three part damaged
When you are back in the service area look witch parts you have damaged the most
repair wat you don't want to damage
don't drive to fast into a tree otherwise it will wreck
use the jumps to damage your suspension in Finland use the ditch next to the road crash into trees
shift back with full throttle to damage the engine
stuff like that
after the 4th event check the damage i had RADIATOR 0% EXHAUST 28% and SUSPENSION 16% ENGINE 58%
the achievement will pop after you get the money for the events
hope this helps out
Just got it. I played the daily wager event & then played through the first event (8 stages) of the Professional Championship with a 2000s class car. The achievement unlocked after I collected my winnings & was viewing the standings breakdown for the championship. I believe that technically the daily wager event is still active until I get the results & collect my winnings tomorrow, so I'm not sure how this works. At the very least, it worked.
This trophy appears to have some issues in regards to which game modes it can be unlocked in. To be sure, only attempt to unlock this trophy in a Career Championship.
In order to unlock this trophy, I recommend that you attempt it on a championship level no lower than ‘Clubman’ as 6 stages is probably the absolute minimum amount of stages required to damage enough of your components. In terms of damaging components on your vehicle, there are a few things to be wary of. Firstly, you should avoid heavily damaging critical components like the: Engine, Driveshaft or Wheels. When these components fail, you are compulsorily retired. The safest components to damage are the: Radiator, Suspension and Exhaust. The Radiator and Exhaust can both be damaged through general collisions, while the Suspension can be damaged through both collisions and driving off-track.
So for each event, you should focus upon crashing as much as you can and driving off track whenever possible, without excessively damaging the engine or wheels. At each service area, you should focus upon repairing your wheels first, followed by the engine. Keep an eye on the component status of things like the Radiator and Suspension and make sure you will be able to damage them enough within the remaining events. The status of 3 of your components has to reach somewhere between 0-20% to unlock this trophy.
Keep in mind that if some of your components aren’t damaged enough in the final event, you can risk damaging the engine without retiring by revving your engine to its max rpm in first gear for extended periods of time. If you have successfully damaged enough of your components by the time you reach the results page for the event, this trophy should unlock.