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20th April 2017, 18:49 #231
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20th April 2017, 18:56 #232
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20th April 2017, 19:07 #233
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Doesn't seem like the Focus RS is a car you would use on an ice track all day, some diff problems in this video from Team O'Neil.
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20th April 2017, 21:19 #234
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Ostberg was saying that although he has previous experience driving active-diff cars, this has not really helped him with the 2017 Fiesta as it a brand new car and there are so many variables to adjust.
He confirmed his car can be 'faster' with the centre diff locked (with better traction), but this also makes the Fiesta more difficult to drive especially setting it up for corners. His team are keeping his car set-up as 'simple' as possible as its impossible to adjust too many settings and know which is actually improving the car's performance.#M-SPORTER
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20th April 2017, 21:55 #235
The center differential very likely has a clutch that operates with hydraulic pressure that locks the differential. That means that when there is no hydraulic pressure, the power is sent to where there is the least grip. As the car accelerate, the front lift and the power spins away on the front wheels. That means only the rear wheels have grip which is probably why he had to drive it like a rear wheel drive car.
That's my take on the dynamics anyway.
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20th April 2017, 22:25 #236
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I know there is open and locked and everything in between. I hadn't said it clearly, or you overanalyzed what I had said.
That's what I was leaning towards as well. I was just confused by what Ogier and one of the commentators before him (if I remember correctly) had said during the coverage.
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20th April 2017, 22:37 #237
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Locked center diff = natural understeering, i.e. slower car everywhere except full acceleration on straight and a car which needs to be driven more sideways to turn.
No expert here but that makes little sense to me. With opened differential You can't have more torque on one side than on the other. The side with less grip determins the torque going to the other, i.e. the lesser grip on one side the lesser torque the whole system brings but the split ratio is not changed. In extremum when You lift one complete axle it spins but the other stands still as there is no torque on the other side except mechanical friction.
Correct me if I'm wrong.Last edited by Mirek; 20th April 2017 at 22:52.
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20th April 2017, 23:15 #238
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You are spot on Mirek. I think that is what itix meant but you described it better. The thing is that in that situation the front would spin out hence making it feel more like a front wheel drive car. I guess in the end the car feel would depend on how the front and rear diffs were set up.
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21st April 2017, 06:47 #239
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I like Focus RS system, because it can do centre and rear diff work only with two clutches (very good price performance solution). But it is actually a FWD car meant to be pushed just here and there for a little while. Still it cant do more than locked diff...
More options has EVO X (if I am not wrong) rear diff, that can accelerete one wheel over the speed of locked diff. But I see no need for such system in a WRC, because it is just a compensation for poor drive skills (it make turn car faster than driver can perform by his own pedal/steering work).
In WRC I think there is no more than a diff with clutch, that can be opened locked or everything in between. It means that it performs at equal for both axles (open) or equal speed (if no gearing is involved) for both axles (locked) or in between.
Regarding Ogires RWD feel... I think it can happen if he had a front diff problem, so that front diff remains open. It means that front axle had just as much torque transfer as the "less grip wheel" allows i.e. less than usual. It means that most of the torque went trough rear wheels.
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21st April 2017, 08:24 #240
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You wouldn’t be able to send more torque to the rear wheels (relative to the front) with an open centre diff as explained by Mirek, the only difference opened or locked front diff will make is to provide “the least common denominator” for the whole transmission system, i.e. the path of least resistance or in other words the max torque that can be transmitted through the system.
Looking at it from another angle (which might be what you meant), the combination of open centre diff, open front diff and some state of locking on the rear diff is likely to make the car more stable, i.e. give degree of understeer in general. Whether such comination will make the driver think or feel he has something akin to a rear wheel drive car, don’t really know, might be possible.
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