They're engaged, to be precise.Quote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
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They're engaged, to be precise.Quote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
What an odd thing to say.Quote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
What point are you trying to make?
Interesting comment from Robert Reid about Nandan
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsJD4E3A...d=le8vciaxe92o
well, Neuville sacked him with his drives. Mikkelsen also
From R. Reid:
In context of Neuville's last interview it's rather telling.Quote:
I always got on fine with Michel but did get the impression that Drivers in general were maybe a necessary evil to him and sometimes got in the way of the technical solutions. I’m guessing a bit now but having an engineer as Team Principle maybe doesn’t prioritise the areas of the team where the biggest gains can come from – the management and motivation of the drivers...
well prepared and confident driver can perform miracles…
We don't have it as a Bible. Care to elaborate?Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
Neuville comments in AutohebdoQuote:
Originally Posted by stefanvv
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Originally Posted by dimviii
Adamo is also engineer...
This is an old quote of Nandan from late 206 WRC times (I read it in Czech so please pardon my translation into English):
I think that many of us remember what followed shortly after this - the 307 WRC disaster. For sure Nandan brought many revolutionary technical solutions into the world of rally such as the 206 WRC with longitudinal gearbox mounted on the transversal engine but I myslef as an engineer (in different field) feel that we tend to think that we know best and in a sport which is mainly about driver's confidence there shall be someone keeping the engineer's minds on reasonable level so that the drivers stay first. Let's remmember that another engineer Willy Rampf from VW always told in his interview that the first and foremost was how the drivers felt the car.Quote:
The drivers are those who confirm the correct choice of changes not those who select them. You can see the result yourself. With that I don't want to say that the driver is not important for the development. It's always great to have a good driver who goes always flat out and mainly all the time with same style.
Finally the last piece of my puzzle are in place! All season I had a feeling that Huyndai could be/is most powerful, solid car in WRC and after visiting Finland WRC that feeling became only stronger. When I was asked from my fellows about Huyndai my answer always was - they are struggling with setups. I wrote it down to "four different drivers - four different setups" but this one above made a click for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
That's what made the VW team so good, from what i heard they all ran similar setups with Ogier usually just a little higher and most of the time they only had to change the high speedQuote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
What about Penasse? As team manager since day one, for sure he’s also responsible for some of the Hyundai troubles, especialy concerning drivers choices (like signing Mikkelesen or missing to hire Ogier). Btw, fingers crossed for Adamo.
If they don't want Ogier behind the wheel why still making it like that is mistake? Mikkelsen was free at that time. Both Sordo and Paddon had many troubles in 2017 and with Mikkelsen's pace he showed to the world in a Skoda, Citroen and Hyundai that time was a brilliant choice. I don't know what then went down with him in 2018. But one thing everytime driver needs to prove they drive brilliantly and when they get a long term deal they fall back. And they said it publicily if Mikkelsen will be bad at Monte they will reconsider his season. So everypone is still open, even Paddon could still be in the game. Remember in the 3/4 of 2017 they announce they will take Mikk in the team and then Padd and Sor will share a car. So nothing is for sure right there at their team. Even Neuville could become driver number two if Loeb will win few races (I'm sure he will be hungry for another title if he will have a chance).
And how about good old Grönholm then? He could grab his third title if he drives and wins in Sweden and then decides to do the rest of the season!Quote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
you should share those drugs with the rest of us :D
Stop being so obsessed with Gronholm and his participating. If he would be in Sweden we would already know.
I obviously failed with my previous message.Quote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
Who knows, it could be called "marketing", at the moment all eyes are elsewhere...Quote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
I can bet Sebastien Loeb will win again and Sordo must to retire since he never will be a winner and the pace he demonstrated accross years and years is average. Having that said... If Loeb wins in Monte or Sweden bye bye Sordo....Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
you can say whatever you want bur Sordo will bring more points under pressure thwn Mikkelsen and lots of other drivers
Sordo can compete in Drift Races :) he always has a reason why not to make a good race
Not even the epic Loeb-cool factor can make the light blue Hyundai T-shirts look good.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
At least the dark blue race overalls look much better.
Of all the read news, I can bet that Loeb will not finish Dakar Rally. The car will be "broken" for justification. So do not worry about the tests will start on time.
He probably have last shot at it. I don't think that he will jeopard it just for Monte tests. He will have them anyway even if he finish Dakar. It's just that he will not have much time to rest between events. I will not be surprised if he will take it easy at MC and finish close to the podium or even on it, hahaha.
It was Nadan who was over the development of the 307 WRC ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
AFAIK yes. I think he left after 2005.
The gearbox story on 307 is the definition of perfect engineering meeting inperfect reality.
Engineers calculated that each shift costs some time so it's better to have 4 gears with very good engine that has good power over wide revband and therefore less shifts and in the end better speed.
In reality drivers always "felt" they were in wrong gear and changed gears more often, losing time. (can argue that it could work if drivers just "learned" the car, but that could take quite some time)
After a year(I think) they changed to 5 speed gearbox and 307 was relatively competetive even with 2nd rate drivers (Stohl, H. Solberg, Galli) for quite a while. (even though it was bigger than most other cars).
I have no idea how much Nandan was involved in all that though.
Also Suzuki Sx4Quote:
Originally Posted by irish_tiger
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwYN8YrU8AA7uCK.jpg
Preview of new livery
Nice, hope the sides are also a bit like that, colours crossing each other.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
I’ll wait for the final version but Meh so far.
https://www.rallit.fi/jari-huttusen-...ensi-kaudeksi/
Already widely shared on Twitter, but Huttunen revealed today that he has no idea what he's going to do (or drive) in 2019. He's waiting to hear from Hyundai and has made "some back-up plans" if Hyundai is unable to give him a car to drive this season. Huttunen still hopes to do full WRC2 campaign, but admits that "without support from Hyundai full WRC2 season is unrealistic".
Some Hyundai news make you wonder what's going on in the team...
Toyota fan, if you don't like it don't watch it. I could say that Toyota have ugliest car and livery (I mean nothing special). It look like they just stick squares and have no time to really design good looking livery. Still the best livery from these 2017 spec machines onwards had DMACK or Serderidis.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
rear diffusser with less fins
https://twitter.com/KiwiWRCfan/statu...68375434276864
Toyota livery is even more meh and the most boring one, i have said it also previous years.Quote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
agreed about 2017 dmack livery, i voted it the best that year.
ive always been a fan of M-sport liveries, they do things different every year (ok not that much between 2017 and 2018)
Agree with you on D-MACK, as for M-Sport, probably will have to change their livery with red-bull backing now gone (correct me if I'm mistaken), however, I'm really looking forwards to Citroen's design, hope they change it back to the traditional Red,White & Blue.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Got a feeling the biggest presence on the fiesta will be Ford branding.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eli
Agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by T16
The M-Sport test car has no sponsors at all, not even tyres. Ford Performance only and that could look good on the WRC car.
Wouldn't care if it was only in white with black alloys, like in the tests, looks way meaner that way imho.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC