Punctures will decide Rally Sweden. Welcome to Hankook World Rally Championship
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Punctures will decide Rally Sweden. Welcome to Hankook World Rally Championship
More like don't use too low pressure?Quote:
Originally Posted by CeskyOndra
@Becs:
Andersvattnet: "the waters of Anders"
Solberg's luck has not deserted him.
Oliver has been so all over the place since shakedown
Oliver must be the luckiest driver ever, twice got off and back on the road
Impossible luck
Tyre pressure alert after, though. I wonder about stage 3.Quote:
Originally Posted by Morte66
New sports to olympics - Snow diving :D
He's "taking advantage of the low snowbanks this year".Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
But will his head stay together now? First time in WRC1 Toyota that he is not leading but chasing
Luck of a (future) Champion ?!
It is a real shame it’s been a Toyota championship ever since Citroën left…not that they didn’t win back then but at least we got to see some competition, I sincerely hope that who ever does eventually decide to enter this championship full time gives them a run for their money.
Neuville was also lucky, but his windscreen said no
Shame, he was back and forth with Fourmaux so far, the Hyundai battle was starting to look interesting.
Neuville also snow diving from one ditch to other but managed to get to the end +1min20
Toyota's just lucky
Neuville / Taka corner is definitely going to claim other victims, looks like a really awkward corner and has a lot of loose snow on the road now
Neuville became new Tanak.
Sesks done for today? Another puncture alert
Two rear punctures for McErlean and a front puncture for Sesks, what on earth is happening with MSport today?
Seems these super cold temperatures aren’t for Hankook or they are driving with too low pressures
song for M-Sport
Danzel - Pump It Up
https://youtu.be/0HtyF0jux2Q?si=MzX6Q8xhCR17R9oe
So.. any explanation? Last year wasn't so bad, did Hankook bring a new compound? Is it Hankook who says how much pressure will the wheel have? Is there any other possible explanation?
I have not clicked on the link, but I am going to guess that this is Queen's "Under Pressure". Let's see...Quote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
Edit: showing my age.
It wasn’t as cold as this yearQuote:
Originally Posted by Kenneth
For me it seems the drivers are just driving with too low pressure to have more grip with this cold with the very hard base
There is for sure a minimum pressure specified by Hankook. Either M Sport is running even lower or Hankook got their calculations wrong and specified a too low pressure to begin with. It wouldn't be the first time in motorsport that teams are not adhering to the specifications and than run into trouble.
So, Lappi just needs to manage his lead over the other Hyundai's.
Strange tyre issues for M-Sport. I'd think a good pressure would press the studs into the ice more.
Ander after the first stage of the day, I would have suspected them to have inflated the tyres a bit more to avoid risk.
That's not how tyres work, not at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
High pressure means the tyre can not "adjust" to the road surface in a malleable manner but rather looses contact to the surface here and there.
Try it with a bicycle and take a bumpy corner with different tyres.
Spiked ice tyres must be different.Quote:
Originally Posted by becher
Bertelli
After 8kms, a delaminated tyre on the straight out of nowhere, I was cruising without pushing...
Sesks is still moving to start SS4.
Not in the way you are thinking. The car and therefore the four tyres are pressed into the ground by gravitational force, if that force is applied to a soft object (low tyre pressure) or hard object (high tyre pressure) doesn't change the force with which the spikes are pressed into the surface. Of course this is a static thought experiment only and dynamically (movement through corners) things are different.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Maybe MSport has faulty gauges?
Glad for Sesks he got through.
Milner confirmed in the interview that they had low pressure, which worked fine during tests... and now they would 'rethink'...
There is cold-induced contraction which had to be factored in for the tyre pressures.
Maybe its colder at the rally than at M-Sport's test. Or when testing the tyres were warmer due to more short runs and less waiting before starting the runs.
Sesks retired after regrouping (after SS 4)