Rally Estonia 2015

Kruuda retired in similar way. It seems that he got a tronger impact in the ruts and it broke the radiator. Something is not right in these cars, front low impact should not kill radiator or engine in general.

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Originally Posted by bluuford

Kruuda retired in similar way. It seems that he got a tronger impact in the ruts and it broke the radiator. Something is not right in these cars, front low impact should not kill radiator or engine in general.

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Kruuda didn't brake the radiator. Front bumper broke in ruts and pieces blocked the radiator, it overheated and water boiled out.

http://www.ewrc.cz/images/2015/photo...n_img_5539.jpg
http://www.ewrc.cz/images/2015/photo...n_img_6278.jpg
http://www.ewrc.cz/images/2015/photo...n_img_5749.jpg
http://www.ewrc.cz/images/2015/photo...n_img_5835.jpg

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Originally Posted by bluuford

Luckily no one crashed but the French crew Lubet/Belloto made a spectacular stunt there (they were over the limit almost everywhere we saw them). They cut too much into the corner and somehow they jumped form the bank to the corner and passed it successfully!

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Just checked out Pierre-Louis Loubet, because last name Loubet sounded very familiar to my ears. He is indeed the son of Yves Loubet, the famous rally driver from Corsica. Yves Loubet was competing in Lancias for many years and won European Rally Championship in 1989 driving Lancia Delta Integrale from the famous Grifone Esso team. Nice to see his son continuing the tradition of his father! 8th position in FWD in Rally Estonia my not be very impressive, but still not bad for a 18-year old kid! I hope he has more luck in his career than Mathieu Biasion, Alessandro Bettega or Anton Alen!

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

I suppose if the problem appeared pretty much straight after the heavy landing then maybe so... I just expected to see more damage if the landing was so bad.

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Good luck trying to brake a sumpguard without damaging anything else. It's pretty strong sheet of metal and it simply doesn't crack itself just for fun. If You don't see any damage on the video it doesn't mean there is none.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHBx18JnkYk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbwg5ntTgkk

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Good luck trying to brake a sumpguard without damaging anything else. It's pretty strong sheet of metal and it simply doesn't crack itself just for fun. If You don't see any damage on the video it doesn't mean there is none.

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Here's a pic from the video of Breen's car after retirement and they took the bumper off to see the damage...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...psfb4dpavx.jpg

That's not sumpguard. This is laminate box for radiators. Anyway You can't judge any damage from such picture.

By the way does anybody know what is that hose lying on top?

fresh air to somewhere they need to cool.if we could see a betetr photo from engine bay,maybe we coud see where they drive this hose.