WRC car on Pikes Peak?

[KF1800]

What's a World Rally Car Car?

What's the point in that post?

Back on subject, it did get Audi and Peugeot alot of exposure at the time and for the last 20 years so maybe it wouldn't be such a bad 'publicity stunt' for one of the teams if they felt they needed it.

I can't however imagine any of the WRCs being able to match the pace of the purpose built cars without radically changing a few things....

[TKM]

What's the point in that post?

What's the point of any of his posts?

[L5->R5/CR]

Here is some "on board" of an 11:48.xx run.

http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dl...951547019/1001

Definitely left a chunk of time on the course but it was a pretty good run. Just a modest 400 whp Evo8.5.

[Saabaru]

Back on subject, it did get Audi and Peugeot alot of exposure at the time and for the last 20 years so maybe it wouldn't be such a bad 'publicity stunt' for one of the teams if they felt they needed it.

I can't however imagine any of the WRCs being able to match the pace of the purpose built cars without radically changing a few things....

Audi still uses video of their 80's run up the mountain for PR and commercials.

They would need to use canards, different tires, different rear wings and a few new parts under the hood but it shouldn't be to many new mods.

What's the point of any of his posts?

Maybe someone should explain it to hem..... They are the really really fast ones!

[J.Lindstroem]

Audi still uses video of their 80's run up the mountain for PR and commercials.

They would need to use canards, different tires, different rear wings and a few new parts under the hood but it shouldn't be to many new mods.


Maybe someone should explain it to hem..... They are the really really fast ones!

Yes Saabaru, can't you explain for Daniel what a Wrc-car is?!

[J.Lindstroem]

What's a World Rally Car Car?

Daniel, if thats the way to be in this thread i'd like to join aswell. With "Wrc car" you can also mean "World Rally Championship Car"! :P

[turves]

One could only imagine Petter, Lobe, Atkison, Sordo, Dugal, Gigi, Hirvonen and Latvala in an all out sprint up that long and winding mountain.

I'm just wondering who Lobe, and more amusingly, Dugal, are...

[Halvis]

I'm just wondering who Lobe, and more amusingly, Dugal, are...

You forgot Atkison.

[WRCfan]

As far as a tweaked WRC car going up Pikes Peak, the closest thing in the last couple of years would be Andrew Hawkeswood's spaceframe Evo. Memory tells me it's pumping 800BHP and weighs almost nothing.

Andrew did set a time up the mountain although part of the run was on a flat tyre so time-wise can't benchmark it against much. He did however achieve fastest split-time one year and had fastest top speed (recorded in speedtrap zone) I read on a website a few minutes ago.

Took this video on my digital camera when he brought it to Palmerston North Speedway in NZ one night. Was a pretty awesome sounding machine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji9ylzqzNog

[Saabaru]

I'm just wondering who Lobe, and more amusingly, Dugal, are...

Loeb, Duval if you couldn't figure that out on you own. I'm so sorry I didn't catch any typos before posting, next time I'll proofread. Thanks for pointing that out. Sorry...