VW News 2012 & WRC 2013

Pitty if they drop Abbring... He is one of the drivers who has most potential at the moment, he is probably as fast as Neuville (during the first test with DS3, Neuville tested a day, and Abbring the day after, apparently Abbring adapted to the DS3 faster than Neuville). Some people are talking Gilbert is the new big talent, but Abbring was beating him easily in the French gravel championship last year... Pitty VW gave Mikkelsen all chances this year and noone to Kevin.

We'll see what VW is going to decide when Wiegand doesn't really improve and Mikkelsen crashes the car twice every 3 rallies...

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Originally Posted by tommeke_B

We'll see what VW is going to decide when Wiegand doesn't really improve and Mikkelsen crashes the car twice every 3 rallies...

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They already can start thinking about it ;)

For France I think Bonnefis is the best choice even by far I think. He doesn't crash often but has very fast pace on Tarmac and Gravel where he challenges several WRC's.

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Originally Posted by mousti

For France I think Bonnefis is the best choice even by far I think. He doesn't crash often but has very fast pace on Tarmac and Gravel where he challenges several WRC's.

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It's not easy to estimate Bonnefis his talent, everyone knows he is fast, but how fast? For me Lefebvre and Consani are the 2 most talented, regarding prestations/experience/age etc.

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Originally Posted by tommeke_B

It's not easy to estimate Bonnefis his talent, everyone knows he is fast, but how fast? For me Lefebvre and Consani are the 2 most talented, regarding prestations/experience/age etc.

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For me, Chardonnet and Arzeno aren't bad neither, but a bit older... Bonnefis never had competition on the French Gravel championship this year, so difficult to estimate his pace on gravel. The drivers of the WRC cars were gentleman drivers...

Arzeno did international events and it's clear he s not the new coming French superstar. He is very fast sometimes but also crashes too much and his pace isn't consistent.

Tommeke, maybe it's better always add first name when speaking about Consani. Most of people who doesn't follow French championship don't know You speak about Stéphane and not about Robert ;)

Yes, Stéphane Consani of course, and Stéphane Lefebvre

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Originally Posted by dimviii

nothing strange for me,torque is logic cause works 0,5-0,7 bar more than a r4.Wrc cars boost limit is 2,5bar.

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The WRC car’s 2,5 bar boost limit is absolute pressure (air pressure + boost).

http://www.fia.com/sites/default/fil...%282013%29.pdf page 4, “Turbo pressure: maximum = 2.5b absolute”

With the figures you gave, a R4 would have 3,0 – 3,2 bar absolute pressure.

Don't you mean 1,8-2,0 bar, OldF? ;)

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Originally Posted by Mirek

If we take for real that Fiesta RRC has cca 275 Hp, than the WRC shall have 330 Hp based on restrictor area.

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Calculating with restrictor area works very well. Gerard Quinn said on Twitter when the Fiesta RRC was introduced, that the RRC has 260 ps https://twitter.com/WRCgerardquinn/s...69763129729024

I calculated the WRC cars power based on that and was confused when I got as result 314,6 ps but know we have an explanation for the result.