May be the understeering :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
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May be the understeering :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
Or maybe Polo has been developed by Ogier and is behaving like he wants. Latvala has born and raised around RWD cars hence the flamboyant driving style. It's not easy to adapt to different style/car. Remember how most oldschool drivers couldn't adapt to active differentials.
Maybe a Sebastien will be champion this year too. ;)
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Originally Posted by cali
Makes total sense, and Ogier comes from the FWD school, but I am more after the tech side.
is there anything in the way the Polo R is engineered from the start that influences the way its understeering? Or is it just setup issues?
Perhaps the rear has more drag because of suspension geometry, but I'm only guessing :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
You can see how fast the Polo is here!
Rally Sweden 2013 - YouTube
Why are so many agree that VW has problems with understeer. Ogier telling you something different in an article in a very famous motor magazine, recently. And Latvala said he had problems with the grip rear, during Rally Sweden. Or put another way, he did not trust the grip of the rear tires.Quote:
Originally Posted by stefanvv
Where is it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach 2
wiegand tested the polo wrc: Google Übersetzer
According to Capito, earlier today, will test the car again, but will not run the Polo in any rally this year (he told me neither his home round in Germany).Quote:
Originally Posted by darkstar
:up:
“The third car was always planned to come, and we chose to have a one-car team in order to give Andreas his fair amount of test days and not to have to share them with our other drivers,” he said.
“Also we are a manufacturer, so in order to have the proper space in the service park the complete package for a one-car WRC team was much more interesting to us.”
World Rally Championship - News - Volkswagen registers second team for Mikkelsen
wiegand will drive the polo wrc in germany at "Powerdays Europe" (by armin schwarz ;) ):
Google Übersetzer
As anyone seen VW merchandise? I've seen it already, but forgot where! :\
"its more important for the engineer to understand the wish of the driver..."
--> I like this guy! VW engineers have understood that the driver has to be happy! That's half the battle already won there.
Great article, Kielder. I found a time to read it complete only today but it worth it!
Well he must be new on his job, hasn't learned yet that it's the engineers who knows best ... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Antony Warmbold
Wrong! He hasn't learned that it's the accountants who know best........... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by DonJippo
I remember reading something like that in your blog. I also remember a magazine interview with a ford mechanic last year, he was speaking of JML in France. JML insisted on using the "x" tyre set up thing (a pair of softs front left and rear right, and hards front right and rear left) the mechanics were inclined to use this set up, but they diddnt want to risk loosing their drivers confidence, even though they knew this set up wasn't going to work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Antony Warmbold
You are right, that is the other half of the battle...Quote:
Originally Posted by noel157
So to resume: Money for the engineers to spend on making the drivers happy :cool:
It was here:Quote:
Originally Posted by tfp
WRC behind the stages: Interview translated to English !
http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...61183470_n.jpg
Seems like they have moved the remote reservoir on the shock absorber and "opened up" the side hole in the bumper since the article was written.
Does anyone know about VW merchandise??
Boutique officielle "Sébastien Ogier"
And someone in germany offers XXL clothes: Fan-Utensilien VW Motorsport - Seite 2
X Games in Barcelona
Sainz appearance cancelled due to rain
The much anticipated outing by rally legend Carlo Sainz in the 600-hp Volkswagen Polo R at the X Games has had to be cancelled. After heavy rainfall over the last few days, the specially erected circuit in Barcelona’s Olympic stadium was so damp that, having been postponed on Sunday evening, the organisers had no choice but to cancel the rallycross race. Local favourite Sainz tried to console the fans who had flocked to the arena with a tweet on Twitter: “I am sorry for everyone. Thank you for coming.” The 51-year-old had prepared for his planned rallycross debut with test drives in a Volkswagen Polo. “El Matador” won the 2010 Rally Dakar for Volkswagen and is a national hero in Spain, due to his two World Rally Championship titles.
That's a good question. Those Red Bull caps are pretty good. I've contacted VW Motorsport on facebook and they said this:Quote:
Originally Posted by Vaggelis27
"normally you find the official VW WRC merchandise here: http://www.wrcclothing.com/collection/vw
However, unfortunately the website is down at the moment. We already tried to get in touch with the WRC guys so they'll fix it. Just have a try on that a little bit later."
But it seems to be down all the time, so.. don't have any idea.
I think we can conclude that VW has had a good first season!
Will the others be able to respond?
2015 Polo WRC development - http://www.volkswagen-motorsport.com...ik-2015_en.pdf
Nice presentation!Quote:
Originally Posted by stefanvv
Why are there never any privateer VWs running in the WRC?
Because they are protecting their "inventions" from copycats... ;) Also it's not a strategy of VW to sell/rent cars to privateers, same for Hyundai (so far).Quote:
Originally Posted by Langdale Forest
Hyundai will sell those cars when the new one arrive, according Nandan.