Well spotted, and confirmed
https://www.wrc.com/en/news/2021/wrc...s-hybrid-spec/
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Well spotted, and confirmed
https://www.wrc.com/en/news/2021/wrc...s-hybrid-spec/
That is well spotted but a bit bad to Hyundai side.
Craig Breen and Paul Nagle said in an interview last night that its to stop one seat going over or under the other in a crash. The 'wings' of the two seats are now locked together.Quote:
Originally Posted by ouvreur
Note that the picture of Katsuta from the side has a "cover" that covers part of the big opening behind the front wheel.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
On second look Ogier had the same cover on his test. That might be the biggest difference I see on this latest car.
The main reason for having them in the middle side by side is to have larger deformation zone on the outer side. Since it is very small every centimeter counts. It helps a little bit also with the balance of the car of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by ouvreur
Κatsuta
https://youtu.be/Jh5cocm-6hc
Breen stated he has just has one more day of testing next week (think he said in Rovaniemi) and then the PET for Monte in January.
So there's not much more opportunity to prepare for the new season behind the wheel. But luckily he already feels really comfortable in the Puma.
There will also be a hybrid system 'training day' in Jan 2022 for all Rally1 crews run by the WRC.
Toyota:
The team has a final pre-event test scheduled the week before Rallye Monte-Carlo but Fowler said there were no plans to squeeze a Rally Sweden snow test into the plan until after the French fixture.
“We have looked into it but we don’t have the ideal conditions at the moment to do that so we won’t do any other testing for other surfaces until after Monte-Carlo now,” Fowler explained.
So all of Evans, Tänak, Neuville, Ogier and Katsuta have had an off in a Rally1 car (Tänak only softly into a snowy ditch)
Any pics of Ogier's off?
So Ford has the best car? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
It's either so well planted that it is difficult to crash...Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
...or it isn't going fast enough!
Oliver earlier too, off in size comparable to Tänak's visit to the snow bank. That was actually the first reported off road excursion for a Rally 1 car.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Or best at keeping their tests secret ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
With the old car? Tänak and Neuville did it with the new version.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hartusvuori
That earlier version was a Rally1 too.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Presumably yes, but in theory they could have had some solutions that wouldn't have been homologated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hartusvuori
Anyway that wasn't even my point, I just wanted to check which version it was because I didn't remember the incident :)
It would be interesting to know what the actual causes for these accidents are, is it just the drivers getting caught out having a less capable car to the previous one? It is odd that there have been so many in a short period of time. Particularly the Toyota, as everyone seems to be crashing it! And I thought it looked pretty good in the videos too 😂Quote:
Originally Posted by Hartusvuori
Or their drivers are too scared to push it ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ouvreur
Well Ogier has had a few test crashes with current Yaris as well (seemingly much more than with Fiesta or C3).Quote:
Originally Posted by doubled1978
Anyway there should be some difference. The Rally1 cars are likely harder to control and push close to the edge. So definitely good move by FIA in making them more safe as there should be more crashes, especially at the start.
All crashes have happened on tarmac too. Well, Tänak's small off was on snow, but still tarmac road underneath.
MSport arctic testing...
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/m-spo...tic-this-week/
Οgier day 2-3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD29duz8_Ok
Ogier Day3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSzVzEPYZfc
Look at 1.42 small slide and then something i cant understand like misfire.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Looks almost as if he lost rwdQuote:
Originally Posted by spyros
Yes, I think he broke a driveshaft or differential.Quote:
Originally Posted by AMSS
All that damage to Neuville's car was from landing from 30m on its roof...
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/neuvi...in-test-crash/
It's just crazy and incredible that they walked staright out the car..Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
I think Tom just said more to do with body-work, didn't he?Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
Is that Stu Loudon with Elf?
Christian probably should be concentrating on other things right now....
Yeah I also found that interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend
They were last to roll out the "final" version of the car, crashed after little relevant testing and then seemingly had no car to test with before starting the homologation, in the meantime their boss left/got fired.
...and he has time (and will) to troll on twitter.
Overworked/stressed so much he is desperate to get some relief?
Or did they submitt final homologation version so there is nothing more to change now and he gets relief?
Looks like Aaron to meQuote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend
That photo reminds me of the Ronnie Pickering video.
These cars look mighty cosy. Is there even room to take a helmet off and feed it through to the rear?
And roll cages were FIA-specified for all teams?Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend
Wheres that post from? I don’t see it on his Facebook and I think he doesn’t have a Twitter?
Seems like friends only post from facebook (icon next to 19 min)