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Is this the new Mini WRC 1,6T?Quote:
Originally Posted by RICARDO75
In that case they do not follow the safety roll cage mount regulations taken by FIA Safety Academy. Look at the door-bars. One is full lengt. Two are welded in the full lenght bar.
Ford and Citroen use two full lenght hooked bars which are welded together in the middle.
They don't need the clutch for changing gears but?
So it's Automatic?! :D
That is only a show car .Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
That's just a show car mock-up, not the real WRC car. I imagine Prodrive know what they are doing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Edit- beaten to it by Logic.
It's a show car.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
GallardoGT asked for a photo to see if the gear sistem was with padle shift.
It was the only one that I have found ;)
OK. Seems a bit sloppy though. :D
This is always very funny stuff. :D To read how people think that WRC drivers can only drive fast with top-notch cars. They aren't best in the world by chance. Once you are able to reach the certain level in driving skill, everything else except you and your driving skill are meaningless. Loeb can do incredible things in standard road-going C4 which can be found in thousands of garages. I've seen a video of him playing with standard C4 somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by GallardoGT
Jari-Matti drives rallies with historic cars (Escort Mk2 BDA, Sunbeam Avenger, etc) in which any kind of driver aids are nonexistant. Somehow he wins those rallies always by margin of minutes. Mikko also has many historic cars which he drives just for fun. Doesn't really matter what the car is as long as the driver is called Driver with a capital D. :)
Even though I presume that this is a show car, I wouldn't be too surprised if Prodrive would use some roll cage desings from the 90s. Whatever car they have built, the rollcages look always very dull. Phil Mills almost lost his life because of the funny roof roll cage desing in Germany. Subarus were the only modern rally cars which I know that had only one diagonal roof tube in 2000s. Also the tube diameter was smaller than Ford/Citroen/etc. In that rather harmless, even though high-speed, crash in Japan, Atkinson's Subaru's roll cage weldings failed terribly. Stephane Prevot was happy to be alive... Then came the new Impreza and the ancient door cage desings. .Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
I'm not an engineer but I do consider myself having atleast some vision towards rally safety.
Well... It seems to me that Subaru never had a driver/co-driver with a serious injury, unlike Ford that had their drivers with some serious injuries: McRae, Galli, the unfortunate Michael PArk (RIP)...Quote:
Originally Posted by Juha_Koo
Michael was in a 307. Also its a testimony as to how well the Subaru's safety that it stood up to that impact with a hinkelstein without any seroius injury to the crew.