Visiting ''Neiksans Rally Sport'' and interviewwith Andis Neiksans about Portugal rally
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Mikko's turbo was out of spec.
The fia references a letter from garret saying the turbines are all measured after manufacturing, does that mean Citroen had another turbine wheel made?
yes but Citroen didn t say that turbines were out of measure as new,but after stress/hot.Except that they dont mention the exact mm of turbine wheel.Quote:
Originally Posted by TyPat107
Nothing new...
All turbines came from the same place, right? It's strange that all are ok, and the ones from Citroen don't.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Nasser Al-attiyah and Thierry Neuville were lucky.
Its a mandated turbo correct? So why hasn't ford or mini had the same issue?Quote:
Originally Posted by JAM
the turbine wheel we are talking was measured not after manufacture but after 3 days of rallying.Citroen says that after extreme stress/temp may they have change the dimension of wheel.We don t know the exact measure.To say out of limits is one word.But if we dont know how much out of dimension it was,we can t know if they were cheating or was a bad measure from Citroen,or the stress/temp cause the wheel to be out of nomimal tolerances,or a Garrett bad manufacture.Quote:
Originally Posted by JAM
Anyway they have punished and that was fair imho.
How do you know that all citroen turbos are illegal? did they measure more than Mikkos turbo?
different turbo rpms,less temp,different antilag etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by TyPat107
Another point is that this wasn t the first time a ds3 turbo was measured.Normally all 3 first cars at all rallies are inspected,and i can t believe that in a world championship thay don t measure turbochargers.
That's why i said that they were lucky. Because if the scrutinners would had asked the other two DS3, probably th result would be the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
do you know that that was the ONLY time they had measure a ds3 turbocharger?How do you know that?Quote:
Originally Posted by JAM
That might make sense. I know anti-lag is far more heat/stress on a turbo than flat out driving. And mikko just cruised through the rally so possibly so ( no real great way to say this really) his car may have been a situation where anti-lag came into play more than if he had been pushing causing more wear etc on the turbo.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii