WRC Testing

[pantealex]

Some 1000lakes-test picturelinks from ralli.net forum
http://picasaweb.google.fi/SPKolsi/S...tit8708Solberg
http://picasaweb.google.fi/tnevez/Norf08Testej
http://www.suti.pictures.fi/kuvat/RA...+2008+finland/
pics from Citroen, Ford and Subaru testing.

[toniol]

Petter Sohlberg´s 2nd testday in Finland:
http://www.toniollikainen.com/galler...erg/index.html

[Helstar]

Lol, I dont see what use there would be for some team to spy on some other, they use different cars, also they dont know a thing about the times on the test, propably just someone at the headquarter has lost the contact to reality.

Uh ? You serious ? Spying opponents 'solutions' has always been a "must" in motorsports !
Do you remember also Ford hiding their brand new car in Australia 2005 under a tent ? But when a mechanical problem happened and one of the cars stopped in the middle of the road, a lot of Citroen guys were seeing everything they could because the bonnet was open !

[toniol]

Petter Sohlberg´s 2nd testday in Finland:
http://www.toniollikainen.com/galler...erg/index.html

Sorry, it´s Solberg. My mistake, but anyway...there is some pics.

[Tomi]

Uh ? You serious ? Spying opponents 'solutions' has always been a "must" in motorsports !
Do you remember also Ford hiding their brand new car in Australia 2005 under a tent ? But when a mechanical problem happened and one of the cars stopped in the middle of the road, a lot of Citroen guys were seeing everything they could because the bonnet was open !

well the citroen is hardly a new car anymore, also all drives with same tyres, no surprises really, also if citroen find something new in setups , it propably wont help ford and the other way around.

[toniol]

Okay, okay dudes!
I make new "SOLBERG"-link
http://www.toniollikainen.com/galler...erg/index.html

[Roy]

I didn't see it before, but on the pics of Pantealex in the grill of the C4 I see something. Maybe it is nothing new, or spectacular. Maybe it is.

Here you see it only right sight of the car.
http://picasaweb.google.fi/tnevez/No...63344013183826

Here on both sides.
http://picasaweb.google.fi/tnevez/No...63712753129570

[cali]

well the citroen is hardly a new car anymore, also all drives with same tyres, no surprises really, also if citroen find something new in setups , it propably wont help ford and the other way around.

What a load of BS...spying will always be important. Lots of new stuff have been taken from competitors since motorsport started and it will never stop. Aren't you being just a bit naive?

[DonJippo]

What a load of BS...spying will always be important. Lots of new stuff have been taken from competitors since motorsport started and it will never stop. Aren't you being just a bit naive?

Surely spying would be a great help when cars are using car specific homogolated parts which you can renew only once a year and custom designed only for your use dampers/suspension parts ... IMO due to homogolation restrictions "spying" in rallying is less important than i other forms of motorsport.

[Tomi]

Aren't you being just a bit naive?

offcourse im naive, but maybe you should check the rules once then maybe you understand why spying really dont make much sence.