It's VERY ironic that the reason for those fires is basically identical to the fires of Fabias from three years a go. One would expect otherwise...
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It's VERY ironic that the reason for those fires is basically identical to the fires of Fabias from three years a go. One would expect otherwise...
Weird, Althaus car from a few pages back looked pretty destroyed to me!
So what kind of time scale are we looking at to homologate any necessary changes and get the cars modified?
If someone is very much interested in the Polo R5 problem - here is an analysis of all failures so far and an interview with Andre Dietzel and Gerard Jan De Jongh from Volkswagen Motorsport. The interview was made by the Polish edition of motorsport.com 10 days before Rally Portugal. Sorry, it's in Polish only:
https://pl.motorsport.com/wrc/news/p...ukces/4437552/
very worrying situation...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
I didn't know that Saba's car also lost the rear axle like Kajto's one in Argentina.
Remember this...
"Volkswagen Motorsport has defended the strength of its Polo R5 following the release of shocking pictures of the car at a recent test.
The pictures of the R5, circulating on social media, shows the complete rear axle of the Polo having broken away from the test car during testing in the south of France."
https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/1...-testing-crash
thats why we havent got to swallow whatever says a driver or a team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
At this case they said that ''we were just testing over the limits of the spares life time''
Also strange that all the photos of that car have disappeared from Twitter.
Really interesting article. Sounds like some of it is build quality issues but also some of it must be design issues. How did this not show up in testing? They did lots of kms so were they not testing on a good variety of roads, or were their testing processes wrong? Pretty surprising for a team which had been so successful in WRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
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