Grüsst dir, Anothy.
A thousand thanks for your blog---always good to hear from somebody who talks or writes from real experience.
And your latest about the brake master is an excellent thing just to that point...
It contrasts so much with a long detailed interview I read 3-4 years ago in Race Car Engineering from I believe it was Christian Loriaux from his time at Prodrive.
In contrast to your words that it is you who is driving, he said in every way possible
except straight out that the modern car "is too complicated for us to rely on the feedback from the driver" and that it is only "we engineers are the only ones who can fully understand what's going on and needs to be done"..
It was the most amazing arrogance I had seen out of an engineer----and I have been around them first in moto-cross between 1969 and 1980, then in rally since '84.
One thing that I see as a contrast between the simple machines I used---1 cylinder Husqvarna or KTM and your stories is how much I did myself--which was everything, eveen build the crank and mod and rebuild and re-valve the shocks down to mounting the tires and driving the truck from one end of Europe to the next for 5-6 events per month....It taught me one lesson your story of the master shows so well: problems are usually the simplest things first...
and a lesson I try and tell all those who i help get started in rally: Trust the words of those whose job it is. Somebody builds motors for 30 years, they might know more than a 24 year old kid on a forum.
Somebody build shocks, they probably know about shocks...
Oh and thanks for the last entry on Notes---in a couple of weeks I'm co-driving for one of my customer/friends again and we were discussing notes which is new for us...he did 2 short Regional rallys with Jemba notes and we had thought "oh we concentrate on the "not too obvious stuff" but your point was good: the co-driver needs to know where he is, too and he doesn't see everything"
Very good advice! Wish us luck! Volvo 240 flies again!
And I put link on our club oriented forum in North America
http://www.rallyanarchy.com and everybody is saying Great link, good reading.
One personal question: have you ever considered just build a normal car maybe something for your GruppH just for fun?
I ask cause sometimes it seems nobody ever wants to have good fun after they stop at high level, no stepping back to simpler times..
Myself when I quit Internationale moto-cross, I knew I would get back to local things and after some university I did Enduros and that led to Regional rally...
So----how do you stay away if you had the disease? (rally is a disease for which there is no cure!)
Come on by Rallyanarchy.com and say hi!
Rally Croatia is a must. It’s a fantastic event. Not only in real life but it’s also my favorites in the new WRC game. The stages are so much fun to play
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