Official Rally Mexico Thread

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Originally Posted by bt52b

Think I posted something like that 200 messages ago :D

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Surely it wasn't according to the bible of motor-sport, Ilta-Sanomat ?? :D

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Originally Posted by A.F.F.

Surely it wasn't according to the bible of motor-sport, Ilta-Sanomat ?? :D

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Ilta-Sanomat what? Never heard of it. Sounds like a sandpaper brand :burnout:

Any Finnish magazines/papers with an english section?

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Originally Posted by Grany

In MC2007, Pipo didn't say the same thing about PSA and Ford engine.
For the "top speed", I remember many rallies where the Xsara was not faster than Sub, Ford or 307...

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If I remember right Pipo said in Monte that Peugeot 307 - tuned by them - was the best engine they have ever had (this implicitly suggest that they were not able to do same with Ford). Citroen has always been very near to 307. If I remember right in Neste rally Finland PSA-cars have had always best top-speed. Last year Grönholm said that in some rallies they were loosing to Xsara 15km/h in top speed. Most clearly it's seen from virtual spectator. Every time I have seen those simultaneous accelerations there has been Peugeot marginally ahead of Citroen - then big gap to Ford and Subaru.

Returning to the heat sensor: if you have a faulty heatsensor in a way that makes it register higher temperatures than the actual one, the engine CPU will act in one of the following ways to avoid knock
- Decrease the ignitiontiming
- reduce turbopressure
- Turn up the fuelflow
Whatever you choose you will be messing with IMEP, thus loosing a few hps and torque. The problem is that it takes very little to destroy the engines "balance". Not knowing exactly what was wrong with the sensor, I am alone on the field, but it doesn´t have to be faulty by many degrees in order to really start messing things up.

Yet another one horse race ........no wonder viewing figures for WRC are going down I for 1 would'nt sit and watch a Loeb victory yet again!!!

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Originally Posted by ste898

Yet another one horse race ........no wonder viewing figures for WRC are going down I for 1 would'nt sit and watch a Loeb victory yet again!!!

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Well, Sweden and particularly Norway were pretty damn good events as far as I'm concerned. Be happy that, if watching him win is so boring, that Loeb isn't leading the WDC standings.

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Originally Posted by Finni

If I remember right Pipo said in Monte that Peugeot 307 - tuned by them - was the best engine they have ever had (this implicitly suggest that they were not able to do same with Ford). Citroen has always been very near to 307. If I remember right in Neste rally Finland PSA-cars have had always best top-speed. Last year Grönholm said that in some rallies they were loosing to Xsara 15km/h in top speed. Most clearly it's seen from virtual spectator. Every time I have seen those simultaneous accelerations there has been Peugeot marginally ahead of Citroen - then big gap to Ford and Subaru.

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We heard the same interview (Radio-Bleu)?
Because in this one, clearly he said that the 2007 Ford Focus's engine was much more powerful than older version and even it was its best engine preparation.

For the top speed, I remembered just the numerous "radar speed" take in Corsica, Catalunya and Germany...and the Xsara wasn't the fastest.
But I suppose that the difference with acceleration was the better exploitation of engine power band in the Xsara (and 307).

yeah, the difference is in acceleration I believe. Look at the superspecial, how Fords and Citroens start. Yesterday Sordo started like a rocket, while for Hirvonen it took some time to reach a high speed.

You must once listen to the RPM of the engine from Citroën or Ford when they passes at full speed! Big difference according to me. Citroën has higher rpm.

Will Henning be able to catch the 2.5 min Wilson Jr lead during day 3 ?

This to get the last drivers point.