2008 Rally Catalunya - official thread

[richy]

van merksteijn will be participated in Spain.

are the 2 van merksteijn focus's out?

[Roy]

Yes, both. Also in rally GB

[pantealex]

Juho Hänninen with evo ix. He is also in Corsika with same car, rented from spain. S2000 cars are lot faster in tarmac and Juho knows that!

[Tomi]

Juho Hänninen with evo ix. He is also in Corsika with same car, rented from spain. S2000 cars are lot faster in tarmac and Juho knows that!

true and his aim is to get experience, with a s2000 he would propably get only for a few stages until it brakes down.

[pucky54]

He won Rally Russia in a Peugeot 207 S2000, so he already "knows" the car.

[WRC1]

true and his aim is to get experience, with a s2000 he would propably get only for a few stages until it brakes down.

and why should it break down??

in almost every national championship run a few s2000 cars and they dont break down more often than any other racecar, even grN mitsus break down sometimes...

in last irc race (barum rally) 21 s2000 where at the start, 14 ended the race (position´s 1-13...) 5 retired with technikal problems and 2 with accident in the same race 15 mitsus/imprezas retired due tech. problems....

so why do you think s2000 are so bad???

reg


wrc1

[dimviii]

and how many evo/scoobies started?

[Mirek]

34 gr.N started, 15 retired due to technical problems, that is 44%.

22 S2000 started (including Fabia as zero car with same service as others) and 4 retired due to tech. problems. We should also mentioned that only one Peugeot from 13 retired. 3 retired were Fiats (2 gearbox, 1 engine). Grzyb didn't have technical problem, he only lost 6 minutes due to puncture and resigned to start to second leg. Only 18% of S2000 retired due technical problem.

Also in PWRC gr. N cars brake often. Only few cars reach finish without technical problems every rally.

[dimviii]

thats right but don t forget that grN cars are prepared (a lot) from local garages from low budget privateers.
there is no comparison with the works fresh s2000 cars and teams.

[Mirek]

Well, there were two official Ralliart Czech (Charouz Racing System) Lancers and two from K.I.T. Racing which is also top team. 3 of them retired for technical problems in 72 km long section over very rough stages. If the section was shorter they probably continue after changing gearboxes or differentials in service as they usualy do if there is need to push hard. Usualy these cars are realy very reliable having almost no retirements but as I said it is mostly because of changing everything very often.