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Drinks for everyone if a non-hybrid Rally1 actually starts in 2024.

One for the nerds, Homologations list was published yesterday and includes updates so far for "Ra1-"

https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/voiturescomplet_sept.2022_0.pdf

IMO not many motorsport fans care about saving the planet either, but they see that motorsport has to follow rules, have the best modern tech available and catch the zeitgeist to be feasible,...

One more: https://www.wrc.com/en/news/2021/wrc/fia-and-wrc-take-360-degree-approach-to-sustainable-future/

Opening line: "New plug-in hybrid-powered Rally1 competition cars, 100 per cent...

Agreed it's not what I imagined around strategies etc either, but not sure it's a bad thing if it just increases the amount of yeah-buts and what-ifs. Could be it's a testament to the equipment that...

Toyota are the only ones using WRC exclusively to promote their brand and are pumping ridiculous money into the sport. You can see this from how many flags they hand out at rallies, how much support...

Strange he put up Rally2+ over the existing cars whilst mentioning no new manufacturers have joined and the promotion of the sport is terrible. Rally2+ will sort that? Skoda, Citroen, VW... don't...

How easy is it for CD to remove the battery on stage if they're going to have hybrid assistance spots? Or is this interfering with the politics of assistance and judging blame anyway? Sure if it's...

Disagree, that'll only remind average Joes who've forgotten that it failed in the past. Better than that is to have a clean Croatia, Portugal... as expected.



Near end of the season maybe, two...

I'm willing to bet teams have the reasons, but it's not in anybody's interests to share publicly such detail - especially from CD, no company puts out press saying 'look how we failed'. Also, what...

Middle of the night can't sleep wheelbase factoid: all these cars have slightly longer wheelbase than their road going counterparts. Puma 12mm, i20 N 50mm, GR Yaris 70mm. Who says smaller is better?

The only button they have is activate/disable, with 60s required between disable and activate. They could program logic into the ECU as part of the three map options, but this is a hard-coded...

Sorry Per, I'll probably shut up about it by Thursday night.

I was assuming it'll charge off the engine in road mode! I can't prove that.

I had something like a Brenig/Alwen in mind, it's not so common you're right. However, trying to recover 7000kj would...

Not if they're straight out of one and into the other. Now I remember they have this new P1 clash rule so they have the time but if it's just meters down the road they would have to leave the engine...

The aim of the game hasn't changed, driver wants to get to the finish as quickly as possible and will concentrate on that not energy values. There's no points for energy recovery or having a...

Hybrid deployment is in the boost or not at all. I've heard several people saying it is on all the time, but I've taken it to be their way of saying there are no buttons to press to activate...

It only works under the foot brake so you'll get it alongside the friction brakes which are still doing the overwhelming portion of the work. There is also 3 regen maps to set where they want it to...

I get what you're saying and it's also exponential, there's just as much packed in 185 to 175 as there is from 60 to 0. I was coming from the angle that what tech they have is to give acceleration...

Looking at kinetic energy values, 10x appears only really useful at high speeds at realistic efficiencies, stages where you won't be needing the boost so much anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mbCJecCDr8

Apparently, removing the active centre diff and paddle shifter allows to remove the hydraulic system which saves money.

I'm glad you ask actually because you are making me think about this. Here's my understanding and if I get it wrong hopefully a pro engineer will correct us.

My understanding is the power is...

The battery capability goes down with energy use and back up with energy regeneration/recovery through braking.
Energy is measured in joules
Power is a rate of flow measured in Watts, 1 watt = 1...

So no concerns that changes in diff set up and simpler suspension in the new cars will influence things?

Might be worth being clear for anyone new to this that left-foot weight balancing happens...

There's no button - they either have it or don't. Probably best to read the previous pages and links to understand why the other questions can't be answered.