Petter Solberg WRT

I have had the impression that success at Pikes Peak is a combination of many factors including weather on race day.
Tajima's car has an aluminium frame like a sports motorcycle so has the rigidity and lightness.
I see the Pug 908fap will not comply with 2011 rules, do they all get parked in a PSA museum ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_908_HDi_FAP

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Originally Posted by TyPat107

No its still not enough. I have a friend with an evo that produces over 500hp with lots of Wings and aero aids and that car is only good enough for records in the time attack class (in the 11 minute area.) Besides that a rally spec Xsara would be too heavy and especially at only 500hp.
Rhys millens car is most likely the way forward with that mountain and it is pushing over 700hp and weighs around 800kgs (xsara would be in the 1200kg range?)



People don't understand how that elevation kills power. when the Fords came over, they had 800 hp at sea level, but nearer the top they were down in the lower 400's.

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Grönholm's Fiesta had about 800 hp, but it had not enough torque. You are in wrong way a bit, it's not the horsepower but more down to torque. Even Marcus told that Fiesta lacked torque, not power. Less weight, more torque and good aerodynamics package would do it.
Xsara weighs over 1200kg because of WRC regs, you can reduce significantly weight if needed.

Petters (andFX) Pikes Peak "draft" is a tube chassis, carbon fiber body, 6 speed paddle shift gearbox, active diffs(3), active suspension, advanced aerodynamics and a turbo engine with ... 1000-1100hp! They will be testing it under similar conditions in Argentina??

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Originally Posted by Viking

Petters (andFX) Pikes Peak "draft" is a tube chassis, carbon fiber body, 6 speed paddle shift gearbox, active diffs(3), active suspension, advanced aerodynamics and a turbo engine with ... 1000-1100hp! They will be testing it under similar conditions in Argentina??

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Sounds more like a good Pike's Peak beast ;)

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Originally Posted by cali

Sounds more like a good Pike's Peak beast ;)

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It would be interesting to see a comparison between the 'PS' car and a Koenigsegg at sometime. A duel of the Scandanavian supercars !

The base car for the PS FX Pikes Peak prototype is C4 WRC.

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Originally Posted by Zeakiwi

It would be interesting to see a comparison between the 'PS' car and a Koenigsegg at sometime. A duel of the Scandanavian supercars !

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Koenigsegg? Please do not compare that swedish rubbish joke of a kitcar with anything purposely built for racing.

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People don't understand how that elevation kills power. when the Fords came over, they had 800 hp at sea level, but nearer the top they were down in the lower 400's.

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As a rule of thumb you can say that the power decrease 3% per every 1000 ft which is about 1% per 100 m or 330 ft.

Perhaps this is a stupid question and I read that Petter doesnt want to go to IRC having said he would prefer WTCC but what if Olivier Quensel would offer a paid drive in IRC for Peugeot and throw in a seat in a LeMans car with Sarrazin? Easier than scaping for sponsorship to hand over to Citroen or Malcolm.

Quensel did offer a drive... to Guy Wilks... who is British which is ideal in a British team. As for LeMans, they have Sarrazin. The seats are filled up with Finnish, British and French, they're seem to be the more desirable nationalities for sponsors and marketing at the moment I guess.

Some one please tell me why Petter doesn't desire to compete in IRC, not enough paid off? not prestige enough? lack of chance of success? or simply no sponsor interested in IRC? Couldn't be the latter because Galli and Duval refuses IRC at one point too.