And with a 4 year old SkodaQuote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
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And with a 4 year old SkodaQuote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
I was having a look at the testing video. I cannot quite pick quite what it is about the Mini front end. In one clip the front suspension looked amazing, does it need to be really amazing to be competitive ? It is the steering, anti-rollbars ?, something with the shock absorber compression, front wheel castor angle? How does the front wheel travel and A arm geometry compare to Fiesta ?
With the longer wheel base the car's outside back wheels might end up in the (Fiesta/DS 3) gravel sweepings on twisty gravel road corners.
Hopefully the anti roll bars are nothing like the later Impreza WRC ones..
+1
I also agree. I think the Kris could become the face of WRC like McRae (but its a big maybe). He is going to get a lot of exposure through the Dirt 3 game as he has his Peugeot featured (and maybe the Mini), which I hope will mean more fans for the WRC. I'm sure he will pull in solid results as Prodrive and BMW have both proven track records for making powerful and often reliable racing carsQuote:
Originally Posted by HaCo
Perhaps Prodrive could get a sample of these http://www.turnermotorsport.com/c-13...-bar-kits.aspx to try in the mini swrc. Certainly a better use of US steel than how it is being put to use in some parts of the world.
Looks very much like a Subaru spoiler, is this the one they will homologate?Quote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
But when the donorcar is not very good looking, it is hard to get the rallycar to look tough and sporty!
I wish Mini&Prodrive&Meeke&Sordo all the best!! Thank god we''ll have the third manufacturer in the WRC!!
But, given the circumtances with huge amount of experience with top-rallying by Citroën and M-Sport, it is realistic to say, if Meeke or Sordo will have this year yust one top-three finish, this will count same as a victory for them.
In terms of speed by my opinion Meeke has no chance against Sordo on dry tarmac. Obviously some of you forget very fast the fact, that Sordo was the one and only for the last three-four seasons, who was able to chalenge Loeb for the tarmac victory. And don't give me crap about how was Xsara or C4 much better on tarmac as Focus....We all know that Ford guys were (are) simply slower !!
Story can be much different on the gravel, but still do not understimate Sordo.....
And looking back for some years-all newcomers (Suzuki, Škoda, Hyundai, Seat) for the last ten years had no chance against the established teams as Subaru, Peugeot, Mitsubishi...So, they can be a kind of surprise in terms of speed; I wish them; but something is telling me this won't happen.....
Diddnt the C4 have a very clever centre diff that made the car very quick on tarmac? Something that the focus was lacking!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ucci
They (Sordo and Loeb) are two sealed surface experts, should be interesting to see howSordo fares in the mini on asphalt!
NO, but thank you for sharing your imaginary visions with us....Quote:
Originally Posted by tfp