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    On a rally like Corsica I can imagine they can drive very different way to achieve similar times. It's a lot about the efficiency of using brakes and tyres not in one or two corners we can see but in thousand of corners in several stages. It's difficult to judge anything but sure it's very different from them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mirek
    It's difficult to judge anything but sure it's very different from them.
    This time you can judge and have a good ideia.
    Why? Because the difference between them at the end of the video, os basically the same that they had at the beggining.
    Three gears are enough!

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    That doesn't change anything on my thinking. It's not possible to base any conclusion from two or three corners. Or to say it better - You can make a conclusion but it is very likely wrong.
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    If a team is to buy a Fiesta.
    What are the good an bad sides of
    - S2000
    - RRC
    - R5
    Keep It Simple Stupid !

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    Check out the interview in this week's MotorsportMonday.com (edition 60) with Ken Skidmore of Autotek, who compares the various types of car -from personal experience!

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    Very nice interview. Sums it up nicely. Thanks!
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    Very nice article. In general I agree with everything. Only my opinion is you also need many people working on R5 car during service, as maybe it's more simple to work on, but you need to change a lot more parts in that car comparing to WRC/RRC/S2k, so you need people to do that... Also I liked S2000 very much, as it was pure rally car! Way more hardcore than R5...

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    By the way I was told some time a go by a guy from JM Racing that working on Fabia S2000 was much easier for mechanics than with Fiesta S2000. He said that everything was done more in a way to be replaceable easily and fast in Fabia.
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    Yes, that's true in my opinion also. Approach to design of Fiesta was different, but I'm not sure if it was worse. Very similar solutions were used in Fiesta WRC later as S2k was some kind of test car for their future Fiesta WRC. Most "difficult" things were for example brake discs bolted directly to wheel hubs, without use of bells (and all 4 wheels rotating when you turn only one, so changing all 4 discs same time was some kind of challenge - one false move and finger broken. Also driveshafts without any bolts, joints with splines etc. Open joints on both sides, with grease all over the place and many, many circlips, seger clips, etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by semsem View Post
    Check out the interview in this week's MotorsportMonday.com (edition 60) with Ken Skidmore of Autotek, who compares the various types of car -from personal experience!
    Very good interview, and descriptive to everyone.
    Is this the new GP Week, or has the rally Grand Old Man Journalist gone over to this one?

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