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7th December 2014, 00:49 #3411
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Mirek is right,in an engine with restrictor you cant produce significant extra power so he can ''smoke'' the other car as said .
All these inside regulations of course.The only gain can be is from ''leaner'' programm at ecu.We are talking about 5-10 bhp (best scenario because car is already ''pushed'' near limits) and these 10 bhp cant ''smoke'' of course any car.These 10 bhp can risk the engine.
Outside regulations with other fuels,bigger restrictors of course it is possible.
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7th December 2014, 00:56 #3412
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About Rossi/Monza, I can say that those suspicions about Rossi's car being different from the others are years old, every year is the same story. What was different this year is that in Rossi's team there were also 2 amateur drivers (so with other 2 supposely extra-tuned Fiestas), which performed MUCH better than what could have been expected from them. This is why, other than Kubica's comments, this year suspicions increased and this whole thing got even "international".
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7th December 2014, 02:50 #3413
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As we have seen Rossi's car was Hirvonen's car. Probably again prepared by MSport, a full spec "factory" Fiesta WRC with probably MSport engineers who tuned it perfect for a circuit, because Rossi brings alot of money with Monster, Oakley etc. His car against a private WRC with less budget, older engine etc. Will make a bit of difference in speed but besides that I think the thoughts about cheating are not right.
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7th December 2014, 13:07 #3414
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I add also shorter gears, that may "help" a bit more
put the speakers off, just look to catch differences about power's delivery
http://youtu.be/S_KiVEd643QLast edited by manthey; 7th December 2014 at 13:15.
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7th December 2014, 14:38 #3415
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The key is that Rossi's Fiesta sound on Monza is diffrent to M-Sport cars in WRC. It's much louder and clearly rocketing from start much stronger. If Kubica between words given some thing to understand about it I think he has much more knowledge to say about that. He tested many WRC cars, and Fiesta WRC cars aswell so he knows how this Fiesta should behave
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7th December 2014, 16:21 #3416
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Monza is a clown show... why you care what cars are being used ? and does it matter ?
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7th December 2014, 17:43 #3417
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I can see from the video that it was very wet. Even with 100 hp more, you cannot see the difference by eye on such a conitions. Tyres are the main players there. Just a slightly different compound or texture can give so much extra acceleration/traction that you are able to see it by eye.
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7th December 2014, 18:40 #3418
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Hannes don't tell me You can't see a difference in acceleration of gr.N car and WRC on wet asphalt. If so You need glasses
Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump
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7th December 2014, 20:31 #3419
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Just by removing silencer in the exhaust you're making sound of the WRC car completely different. No change in performance. But usually when car is louder/sounds more aggressive people think/have feeling that car is faster.
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7th December 2014, 21:01 #3420
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And like we already know MSport has installed silencers in their rallycars, what I find a pity.. So that could explain it all like br21 says, I already thought that too.
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First leg he will be thinking in Portuguese championship. Then he can go for WRC2.
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