Brilliant idea, cancelling the homologation of the strongest one when this is a notorious problem of R5 cars.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
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Brilliant idea, cancelling the homologation of the strongest one when this is a notorious problem of R5 cars.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
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The tv programme itself could sometimes be better but ERC’s YouTube output is top notch - quite fast to get stuff online, plenty of footage and even some full stage coverage of some drivers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Onboard Magalhaes SS6. A question to br21... should it be possible to hear the pop-off opening in the onboard?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5UIQU5HVzU
br21 will have for sure more knowledge about the r5 pop off,but what i have understand is that the problem with them is that they fail to keep the given maximum turbo pressure constantly(2,5 bar)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
When they fail to keep the pressure, you loose power.If the pop off valve cant reach the given target,but manage to hold some 2,3 bar,you are not going to listen something from any onboard or inside the car.
it sounds really strange to me to have these problems after so many years.
Btw at video near the end we saw Magalhaes reached 188km/h.
If you compare to Gryazin’s onboard then Magalhaes’ acceleration up the hill at the beginning is comparable.
No, you can't hear anything from onboard. You can notice from worse acceleration sometimes, but also not easy from video as instead of 1,5b boost you have some 1,15; so not that huge, huge difference to clearly see from video (especially as you have other factors, like uphill road, etc).
Recent newest 008 spec pop-off is not worse than 007 (which homologation was cancelled as it gave some opportunity to cheat). Main problem with them is that they are supposed to open close to their upper homologation limit (which is 1,65), but sometimes they loose performance and open at 1,3 for example... It sometimes happens also during gear change as if wastegate is reacting too slow then you have overboost for split second. Or during ALS when "spikes" from it make it open. Some drivers have tendency to drive less "pop-off friendly" (shifting early, etc). Sometimes it's just poor quality of them, sometimes added to heat (ambient and intake air), vibration and other crazy factors. Nowdays most R5 car manufacturers have quite good strategies to avoid pop-off opening situations plus strategies to close it when problem occurs. But it's not always 100% succesful. Normally when you have pop-off which opens few times during the loop you for sure change it to new one, usually it helps, at least for some time. As each pop-off valve has it's "life cycle" - after some number of openings combined with "working hours" it loosing performance.
And he has twice as many points as anybody else:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
https://www.fiaerc.com/standings/#
The U28 battle is the one in 2018.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
For the R5 drivers, and their sponsors doing ERC must be a much better deal. WRC2 is totally neglected for airtime.Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
The manufacturers will see and pick up the best talents also from ERC!
Some way yes, but:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
How many people watch ERC? and WRC? Is WRC audience 10x bigger ?
What about followers? How many visitors ERC.com ? WRC.com?
Difficult to compare. WRC2 you will minimum or less airtime.
Situation is probably different in every country, in Finland WRC2 is maybe bigger thing than ERC.
Yes, it is different. But it is not only about airtime. There is lot of followers of WRC.com or WRC events, but how many of them are interested/following WRC2? Everything there is focused on WRC cars and drivers...Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
The best young talents currently in WRC came from ERC - Lappi & Breen. Its a good proving ground for Driver's and ideal for them to show what they can do.
But as for publicity ERC is nothing - hence why no proper Manu entries.
Lappi drove in ERC cause of Skoda was in as a manufacturer and when R5 came out they left for WRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
WRC2 is much more nothing, especially for publicity...Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
For publicity, vs WRC, ERC is nothing, but vs. WRC2 not so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
In terms of promoting the Skoda brand (rather than the R5 car) WRC2 could even be seen as a negative for Skoda as dedicated WRC2 coverage is almost zero.. and when they appear on the live stages they are almost always the slowest because they are up against the World Rally Cars.
Anyway, I guess Skoda aren’t in WRC2 for promotion purposes these days.
At this point it's probably better to have Skoda in WRC2... They'd probably completely destroy any competition in ERC at this point. ERC is a good privateers championship now.
Yes, I am happy that Skoda is in WRC2. They are destroying also that championship as almost nobody has chance to beat their drivers...Quote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
Sponsor converted after a trip to Rally Canarias...
https://www.carfinance247.co.uk/blog...motor-rallying
Is not FIAs plan to have manufacturers in WRC level 1 and 2, juniors in 4 and forget the rest.
ERC and other regional series are for privat teams, and not manufacturers.
Making WRC2 a manufacurers series for talented drivers coming up, will at the same time make it more interesting for manufacturers to develop their own R5 car. Win-win also for regional series.