Ok took my Prozac dose and calmed down... :) I`ll stay around but I will most definately learn how to use the ignore button.
And thank you all guys who got me to stay, it`s for you this forum is worth being in!!
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Ok took my Prozac dose and calmed down... :) I`ll stay around but I will most definately learn how to use the ignore button.
And thank you all guys who got me to stay, it`s for you this forum is worth being in!!
Great news.Quote:
Originally Posted by AMSS
As stefanvv said “some are interested apart from the events themselves, also in the technical & driving stuff” and I’m one of those and to get some technical information we need guys like you and Mirek etc.
Imo the conversation where better first years after I signed up (9/2007). If you mean www.ralli.net, I haven’t either post there many times. Once a year I visit that site more frequently is when the thread “NORF route and spectator places” starts. The other forum (Ralli - Keskusteluforum) is imo better.
And then I would have a question for you or some other that now about engines. How big is the advantage for direct injection engine (power & torque) compared to a non-DI engine (little oft topic in NORF thread but…..)?
Is that Citroen's new secret secret suspension? Rubber bottom link which stretches instead of breaking? That's brilliant!Quote:
Originally Posted by AP-Racing
:D That btw rises the question - how strong this suspension is? May be it really is "star trek 3" kind suspension, Lunar & Mars rovers have this options for big rocks.Quote:
Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
How do you spell "pro-sak'' på finska? K-o-r-s-k............ :crazy: Oi då!Quote:
Originally Posted by AMSS
Let me ask something direct since you have worked in this business at high level.
Because the way Homologation works, every team knows a huge amount of data on everything, EVERYTHING... Not just simple paska like bore and stroke in the motor, but connecting rod length, valve sizes and the valve angle, crank weight, size etc, port area and shape, every tooth count in the box and diffs, tons of stuff printed and of course they study the other cars...
All this kiddie talk about various single secret nonsense makes me crazy, but what I wonder is I don't know what to call it except maybe ''the culture of the team'' multiplied by National culture. I worked in motorsport just a step between National Champignonskit and VM in another sport and spent 2 season in France and after I had pounded my head on the ground enough, then 10 years later did a series of long interviews with Ford at Boreham right when the 4x4 Sierras were in testing..
My lasting impression of those 2 seasons in France is how well the Frenchies I know worked together.. Not frantic panic last minute thrashing, but long and steady, and a lot of cooperation between everybody. Way less ''territorial'' or ''this is my turf'' than I see local where I am...
And I saw it in the 'real world'' culture in general in France..definately something there, I did spend 2 full season and spoke the language, worked next to these guys.
I did also work and later have lots of motorsport contacts and visits in UK, and the 'atmosphere' was much much different...way more stratification between people, kinda more hierarchical....ya know Owners, Engineers, peon mechanics, etc..
That was impression (not a value judgement).
When we think the differences really are 0,0002%, I wonder how much they general team 'cooperative feeling' makes a tiny differency getting everything right...Maybe a difference of 0,0001%?
Your thoughts?
Dubert in ditch on SS5 Jukojärvi:
http://juhake.kapsi.fi/motorsport/norf12/IMG_3233.jpg
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Originally Posted by stefanvv
Maybe better than Star Trek, it is Finland and so maybe its ''Star Wreck'' suspension....
I assume you are familiar with the Epic Great Finnish Film ''Star Wreck--In the Pirkinning''?
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning :: Parody's final frontier!
If not, you should be, it explains a lot about that crazy country...
Why do you guys make such nasty ditches everywhere?Quote:
Originally Posted by Juha_Koo
about who are you talking mate?Quote:
Originally Posted by AMSS
That's no ditch! Propers ditches are in Ypres :DQuote:
Originally Posted by janvanvurpa