[WRC] Croatia Rally 2023

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Originally Posted by denkimi

Could be. But still, even ordinary road tyres don't inflate without hitting something. So it's still because he hits things with them faster than they are designed to withstand.

If the tyres are weaker, you must adjust you driving accordingly. it seems he has not adjusted his driving to make them last.

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Or it could be that the tire pressure is too low and hitting a pothole could have easily deflated the tyre

Didn't expect these "big" gaps from 1st loop. But with the changeable weather, there can be a bit of a lottery because of tyre choice and easier mistakes, so still very open, even for Ogier.

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Originally Posted by denkimi

Could be. But still, even ordinary road tyres don't inflate without hitting something. So it's still because he hits things with them faster than they are designed to withstand.

If the tyres are weaker, you must adjust you driving accordingly. it seems he has not adjusted his driving to make them last.

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From the onboard it seemed both he and Kalle hit the same pothole on the edge of the tarmac at speed. Just unfortunate, maybe should have been noted in recce. Easy enough to do, and easy to bend the wheel on inside rim causing a deflate, even if wheel looks intact from the outer face.

Two Toyota drivers with punctures today and yesterday a turbo failure in SD... maybe its destined to be a Hyundai victory #ForCraig.

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Originally Posted by Norm75

. Easy enough to do, and easy to bend the wheel on inside rim causing a deflate, even if wheel looks intact from the outer face.

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very well said.Plenty of times when punctured.there is no big damage at outer place of rim,but there is damage on the inside of rim,due to camber angle of wheel,specially at tarmac with increased camber angles.
And because we cant see the inside part of rim,we tend to say ''oh how it punctured,rim has no even a scratch'' = sitty tyres

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Originally Posted by dimviii

very well said.Plenty of times when punctured.there is no big damage at outer place of rim,but there is damage on the inside of rim,due to camber angle of wheel,specially at tarmac with increased camber angles.

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outside of wheel is stronger as it’s braced by the spokes of the wheel. Inside rim only relied on wheel rim strength, no way of bracing it. I’ve had it happen in my road car.

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Originally Posted by Norm75

outside of wheel is stronger as it’s braced by the spokes of the wheel. Inside rim only relied on wheel rim strength, no way of bracing it. I’ve had it happen in my road car.

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yes same as me.

One interesting guy to watch (at least for Estonians) - Romet Jürgenson

Background - his drive is his price from FIA Rally Star program:
https://twitter.com/FIARallyStar/sta...27758439735299

His rallying record is not too long:
https://www.ewrc-results.com/profile...met-jurgenson/

Stages so far in RC4 category:
* SS1 - 5. lost 3.22s/km to fastest
* SS2 - 5. lost 1.30s/km to fastest
* SS3 - 4. lost 0.86s/km to fastest
* SS4 - 1 - won the stage

Tänak stall https://youtu.be/CRAfiY3Vaas

M-SPORT TO CHANGE TÄNAK’S STEERING SYSTEM
THE STEERING ISSUE WAS FIRST REPORTED AT THE END OF SS1

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/m-spo...eering-system/