Thats a fair point. O fcourse its very hard to tell from a few pics but it looks like there is very little room for the car to absorb a hard side impact, even with the strong roll cages they have these days.
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Thats a fair point. O fcourse its very hard to tell from a few pics but it looks like there is very little room for the car to absorb a hard side impact, even with the strong roll cages they have these days.
To me it looks like it's Märtin who did the tarmac test.
The body itself without wheel arcs is 1722 mm wide. 206 WRC had 1673 mm, Xsara 1705 mm etc...Quote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
It certainly looks like him.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennizw
Am I the only one that doesn't like the look of it then? :s Perhaps it will grow on me.
Damn. What a beauty! :kiss: Can't wait to see it in some "proper" paint scheme.
Good point. Still, these S2000s are one size smaller than modern WRCs and I'm worrying that all the hard work done to improve the side impact protection is now back to square one. Is the "new" 200mm safety margin between the seat and the door-side roll cage possible to build on these cars..? It was one of the best, if not the best, safety feature introduced in the WRC lately. You can't beat the laws of physics but it gave the extra 200mm to play for in case the worst case scenario happens. No, I'm not saying that it would save lives in a 160 kph side impact, but the rule brought some leeway to play with. Nowdays that space has been filled with some kind of energy absorbing foam. Does anyone know what that stuff actually is?Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Mirek Fric [Cze
I'm not bashing anything here, I'm just bringing up some points that I believe we all should pay attention to. When going fast, there are always going to be risks and minimizing them is a vital part of the engineering process.
I can remember reading from somewhere that there are going to be rules that state that rollcages have to be made stronger (bigger diameter of the tube). It is now 38mm, the new rule requires a use of 50mm tube. Not sure if the steel class is going to be same. I also remember reading that Loriaux used quite amount of time for this car's rollcage. Would be interesting to see interior pics. Can't tell much from the exterior shots but looks like atleast the vertical tube near the B-pillar is significantly larger than in the Focus.
No you are not the only one, don't like it either.Quote:
Originally Posted by J4MIE
Car hopes to debut on RMC in January. Driver/s? Is it going to be a new team or one of Ford's current drivers?
Maybe it's still possible to have those 200 mm. When I look at SX-4 dimmensions, it has 1730 mm body width which is not that much (of course Focus and C4 are wider) and it was homologated under these new rulles, wasn't it? I'm not sure when they were applied... But yes, generaly S2000 are smaller.Quote:
Originally Posted by Juha_Koo
At least I can see in appendix J that for newly homologated S2000 cars those polymer energy absorbing foams in door panels are also mandatory and that they will also use polycarbonate side windows like WRC.
Regarding tubes, there is no given diameter, there are more possible combinations of minimum diameter/thickness. I always wondered how small diameter is used in some Prodrive WRC's compared to others...
I agree..Quote:
Originally Posted by Juha_Koo