[WRC] News & rumours (part III)

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Originally Posted by OldF

Off topic but,

Firar du ännu valborgsmässoafton what you probably did when you lived in Sweden? Lot of balloons, girls, beer, bubbling wine and fun.:) :beer::bounce::monkeedan

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valborgsm%C3%A4ssoafton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day

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Nej inte längre...men det var mycket skoj på den tiden.. en Valborgmässoafton i 1972 ledde direkt till första avioliitto i '73

And alone among the industrialised coutries of the world, 1:a Maj is just another day, but in my house we have great music...We begin the day with The Internationale and go on the musik from than man from Gävle, Joseph Hällström, know to history as Joe Hill, a immigrant like millions of others who worked in the West in mines and wrote a great many songs for the International Workers of the World, the IWW....
here's a link to my favorite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8qoB1XwtHM

Great songs he wrote till he was framed by the Stae of utah, and shot after a lousy trial.

what WRC needs is tougher events - http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/118781

new DS3Wrc design and livery

http://planetemarcus.com/nouvelle-ds...itroen-racing/

It is good they have put their proper name up... Abu dhabi racing.

“Citroën Racing hasn’t stopped working on the development of DS 3 WRC since the current regulations were introduced in 2011,” reiterated Yves Matton, Citroën Racing Team Principal.

To supplement start of the season upgrades, a second phase will bring a new front end to the DS3. A redesigned bumper and wings are aimed at lowering drag and increasing downforce.

“If you take the new features unveiled in January and this second batch, this is the most significant upgrade since the DS3 WRC was first homologated,” said Citroën Racing team principal Yves Matton.

“The aerodynamic upgrades introduced here should help us to keep improving. Confirmed during wind tunnel and pre-event testing, the gains achieved in terms of drag coefficient and downforce are significant,” he added.

Citroën is planning to introduce a third and final evolution before the end of the season but the timing has yet to be decided. That evolution will focus on the suspension and geometry.

Abbring will do at least 4 rallies this year he mentioned on an interview on Dutch radio today.
Next one will be known next week. Probably Italy or Poland than I think.

Abbring will have at least 4 more starts this year.

The next one will be on gravel in an event he has good memories of. So probably Poland since he took his first JWRC win there.

VW identify engine fault from Rally Argentina ... normal service should be resumed in Portugal... :rolleyes:

'Analysis of their Polo R’s engines at the squad’s Wolfsburg base in Germany revealed both suffered a fault in one injector, meaning the cylinder to which it was connected received too much fuel.
The increase in consumption led to Ogier stopping after 45km of the opening leg’s stage from Agua de Oro to Ascochinga. Latvala retired from third place during the first pass through the final day’s El Condor test.

Engine development head Dr Donatus Wichelhaus said the parts were investigated with the help of the technical development department’s central laboratory.
“It turns out that part of the fuel injector broke whilst the cars were running. The broken fragments blocked the mechanism of the fuel injector, thus preventing it from working properly,” he added.
Volkswagen said a different specification Bosch fuel injector would be used from Vodafone Rally de Portugal (21 - 24 May) onwards. The injector is a homologated part, so the update will require the use of one of the team’s allocated ‘jokers’.'

Abbring raced in the JWRC in Sardinia ... it would be interesting to see 4 Hyundai I20 WRC ... because this year will be a tough rally

Google Earth Map Rally Italia Sardegna is online http://planetemarcus.com/saison-wrc/...e-italie-2015/