It will be paddon I think. Kennard is talking about retirement and Marshall has codriven for paddon in some tests.Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
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It will be paddon I think. Kennard is talking about retirement and Marshall has codriven for paddon in some tests.Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
so 2 co-driver changes this season then? Tänak and Paddon or when does Kennard retires?
EstWRC...do you know why the change of Co-Driver for Ott? i was thinking he had good feeling with Raigo Molder
Yes, they worked very well together but personal reasons for Raigo, mainly two ones: too much time away from home and his wife is expecting a child. It was his decision to quit and i know that Wilson didnt like this at all. I think why Wilson didnt like this at all is the same fear that many rally fans in estonia now have, Tänak may loose his stability and the crashes may come again.
I have lowered my expectations as well for Ott, i dont think he will crash but i think it will take a couple of rallies for him and Järveoja to make things work. If Raigo had stayed then i would had very very high hopes for this season but now lets say i have just HIGH hopes without two very-s :D
They will not need a lifetime to make things work. Some rally for sure. Correct me if I'm wrong, they already drive together don't they?Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
I think that this year Ott will do very good. Also having Ogier as benchmark will make him give the best possible. Let's see.
Evans didn't changed also codriver?
At least he has worked with Järveoja before. Should be fine, he has matured now.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Went back to Barritt. Strange, I thought Barritt retired.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Very good to read that you guys know some history about Tänak, yes indeed he has driven with Järveoja before. In 2013 in estonian championship.
But this new machine is a different thing and Järveoja has admitted in interviews that everything comes very quickly but they both have been very confident together with Tänak.
But since this is a Monte thread then i dont have big expectations for Monte mainly because Järveoja has never driven there. TOP5 would be great but we will see.
You know, there is a member in this forum that talks a little often about him :DQuote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Barritt was with Takamoto Katsuta at Toyota Gazoo Junior program 2016 (Tommi Mäkinen Racing, Fiesta R5)Quote:
Originally Posted by BigWorm
Mikkelsen and Jæger got a 2nd in their first rally together, Jæger had a couple of years experience so no excuses now ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
no excuses for sure, i am talking about my personal expectations.
Video from test of Kopeckũ in CZ with a lot of snow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ635ljRLj8
The usual weird Monte stuff is in - like very slowly looking runs on wrong tyres. Also many runs with switched off or very low-level ALS.
Some story from 2010 about this strange perception of speed in Monte Conditions. We were on Col de Turini waiting for the cars to come. All the road from the start (in that time in Peira Cava) down to Turini was full snow. We drove it before start and knew the conditions well. kodas were drifting wide and spectacular obviously on studded tyres. Then came Ogier. He drove very slowly and completely clean. It looked like somebody going to supermarket and he was loosing half a minute already after seven kilometers. What was our surprise when the times from the finish started to arrive. Ogier was half a minute faster than koda guys and we thought WTF? The key was that all the long downhill from Turini to La Bolléne was dry and he took asphalt tyres.
Ogier gravel crew will remain the same?
why this?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
joseph still????Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
And that is the reason why I like Monte. But this "tyre strategy" is now more difficult not only because of not so changing weather, but also because of limits and rules for tyres per event.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
sometimes when very slippery,you don't want the big push when touching the gas pedal with antilag.Quote:
Originally Posted by nafpaktos
They have various stages of how hard the antilag will ''push'' but even at lower level its still pushing violently at low friction surfaces.
Yep, Kubica crashed last year in Monte because he didn't switch off the ALS.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Crash of Camilli from last year's Monte could be similar case.
It's like Dimviii explained. It's especially bad on Monte as the wide tyres with short studs don't give a lot of grip. The throttle control over ice/snow is sometimes pretty difficult with them.Quote:
Originally Posted by nafpaktos
if you switch off the antilag you will have the same push from the engine but some tenths of a second later.am i wrong?it's not up to driver how push will take from the engine?(depends on how much sensitive is his right foot)
Bisaha testing to MC, pic by Marcel Svacina
https://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net...03&oe=58DB121E
No, not really. It's not like after some delay there would be a full pressure out of the sudden. In fact when You step on the gas without ALS the exhaust gass pressure starts to grow. How it grows the turbo rotation speed grows as well and so does the turbo pressure. It's not a 0-1 step but a curve.Quote:
Originally Posted by nafpaktos
The acceleration of the turbo depends a lot on its size. When talking about situation without ALS the smaller turbos have rather rapid response and give good pressure at low engine rpm but don't bring anything for high engine rpm because the turbo gets beyond its safe rotation speed. These turbos are typical for modern stock engines. They add torque at low rpm but don't add much to the peak power.
The larger turbos which You need for racing give more pressure at high engine rpm but are slow to accelerate from iddle state (due to larger inertia of the compressor and turbine) and also the exhaust gasses at low engine rpm don't have enough energy to propel them, i.e. such turbos don't bring much at low rpm and need ALS or electric motor to speed up their response.
R classes should be allowed to run narrower wintertyres than WRCar, to create some interesting results.
but to be honost, all rallycars should be allowed narrower wintertyres. Many people that drives much on snow chooses to buy narrower wintertyres from a safety perspective. Same should apply to rally cars.
Maybe they count on stages where winter tyres are used could be dry on some or most places. Narrower winter tyrers wouldn't be ideal then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
Where do you classify the turbo of the wrcars?i suppose to relatively small ones since they can switch off the the als if it is needed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
You need to remember also that ALS in WRC cars is little bit different than this in R5 (or gpN). That in WRC is not pushing the car that much. In gpN evo with strong ALS when you release your foot from throttle car is still moving, similar with R5, with WRC with fresh air valves it's different. (I'm not 100% sure 2017 WRC cars are allowed to use such type of ALS, but I'm almost sure). So testing such option like driving without ALS makes sense with R5 on very slippery roads, but with WRC usually not (only if it's crazy slippery and then you want very slow/low throttle response). But it's off-topic, sorry.
You are right, I saw some funny accident with an Evo gn.N on ice with a driver who drove it for the first time. It happened in a speed of walking but he couldn't stop it with the ALS on :)
I'm quite sure that WRC cars have the air bypass still allowed.
The WRC turbo is reasonably bigger than of common stock cars. I would say my 1.4TSI turbo may be roughly half of the WRC one in diameter and also the boost is a lot smaller 0,6 bar compared to 1,5 bar. The rotating inertia grows with a square of the diameter but on the other hand with a WRC engine one has to take into account that the exhaust pressures aren't really comparable with the stock engine.Quote:
Originally Posted by nafpaktos
Garrett MGT2260 as an example of R5 turbo, Garrett TR30R as an example of WRC turbo. So you can check and compare sizes on your own.
or google IHI RX6 was used at Subaru wrc cars.
Production of narrow (16") studded tyres is ending (or even ended)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
Here is story from AKK (Finlands motorsport federation) http://www.autourheilu.fi/uutiset/ta...tavat-renkaat/
2WD cars use a lot narrower tyres than WRC cars in Monte. It has been like that for years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hgqJruQXPY hopefully it won't happen to Meeke this time round...
At least that stage is not in the itinerary ;)
It was a great stage though and it was used this year for a lot of tests :)
Oh man I remember watching that live. Awesome years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eli
I was on that stage close to the finish (with Pluto). There was a lot of fresh snow, we got even stuck on the way to our spot. First cars had it very difficult (I think Wittmann and Alén) and then there was the gap with no Meeke and no Hänninen coming. Later we learned they crashed nearly on the same spot. That brought a massive disappointment.
A friend's photo from our place on that stage catching Ogier going for the first major victory of his career
http://www.autosport.cz/img/fotograf...833dcdd1a6.jpg
EDIT: Ups, I speak about different Meeke's accident from a year before, sorry :)
Hopefully they won't disappoint us this year
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i love that iRC daysQuote:
Originally Posted by Eli
You mean that for some tenths when the driver is on the brakes the car <pushes >the throttle on its own?????i am a bit confused!Quote:
Originally Posted by br21
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilag_systemQuote:
Originally Posted by nafpaktos