Well spotted, and confirmed
https://www.wrc.com/en/news/2021/wrc...s-hybrid-spec/
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Well spotted, and confirmed
https://www.wrc.com/en/news/2021/wrc...s-hybrid-spec/
That is well spotted but a bit bad to Hyundai side.
Craig Breen and Paul Nagle said in an interview last night that its to stop one seat going over or under the other in a crash. The 'wings' of the two seats are now locked together.Quote:
Originally Posted by ouvreur
Note that the picture of Katsuta from the side has a "cover" that covers part of the big opening behind the front wheel.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
On second look Ogier had the same cover on his test. That might be the biggest difference I see on this latest car.
The main reason for having them in the middle side by side is to have larger deformation zone on the outer side. Since it is very small every centimeter counts. It helps a little bit also with the balance of the car of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by ouvreur
Κatsuta
https://youtu.be/Jh5cocm-6hc
Breen stated he has just has one more day of testing next week (think he said in Rovaniemi) and then the PET for Monte in January.
So there's not much more opportunity to prepare for the new season behind the wheel. But luckily he already feels really comfortable in the Puma.
There will also be a hybrid system 'training day' in Jan 2022 for all Rally1 crews run by the WRC.
Toyota:
The team has a final pre-event test scheduled the week before Rallye Monte-Carlo but Fowler said there were no plans to squeeze a Rally Sweden snow test into the plan until after the French fixture.
“We have looked into it but we don’t have the ideal conditions at the moment to do that so we won’t do any other testing for other surfaces until after Monte-Carlo now,” Fowler explained.
So all of Evans, Tänak, Neuville, Ogier and Katsuta have had an off in a Rally1 car (Tänak only softly into a snowy ditch)