This is fairly normal practice, but these days, everybody knows about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
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This is fairly normal practice, but these days, everybody knows about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
Not good for self-confidence before new chapter in rallye-era.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Xsara Fan
indeed so commo that last time it happened was 1986....welcome to yesterday.
Following quote from Ford WRC Facebook page.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
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A crash while testing in Sweden (at 150kph) means we now won't be tesing in Arctic Rally.
The car, which requires extensive repair work, will now remain at the test location to ensure adequate preparation time for Rally Sweden.
In this article it's written that the accident happened at 150 km/h AND at 6th gear. Have I missed this, does Fiesta WRC has 6 gears or is the article just wrong. (Google Translate doesn't translate 6th gear, but it is "kuutosvaihteella".)
I guess crashes will be something usual in the first half of the year, it's not that I want those crashes to happen, I hope no one gets hurt, but considering what drivers are saying about the new cars, It's something waiting to happen.
Plus the paying drivers tend to crash heavily even not competing on the top, so I guess both Ford and Citroen will have plenty of work in the meantime.
lol...so ford posses just 1 testing car for all 9 drivers to compete in Sweden...nice. Lets hope they let the drivers drive the car and not the engineers...Quote:
Originally Posted by DonJippo
With your experience you should know it by now that this is a normal procedure to have one car for testing purposes while others are being build or under maintenance for coming events. And atleast this crash was done by JML so unless he has changed to a team engineer it looks like drivers do the driving in testing.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
I had already rather predict that there several crashes will happen this year with the new wrc cars and I hope without serious impact.Quote:
Originally Posted by Francis44
They are too fast and more dangerous.
Why haven't they decided to drive some years with normal S2000 in the WRC?
1-Fast enough.
2-Possible more car factories in WRC.
3-More drivers (that could win!).
4-More WRC T.V Coverage.
5-Probable more interesting for of sponsors.http://www.motorsportforums.com/foru...es/icons/s.gif
You're wrong!Quote:
Originally Posted by Xsara Fan
Jari-Matti Latvala: "It was my error, I tried to use the snow banks to slow the car, but it rolled in the road before vaulting the snow banks and hitting some trees. The Fiesta RS WRC stood up to the impact remarkably well and Miikka and I escaped unhurt. The fact that the team can repair it and we can continue to test this week shows just how strong it is."
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/89056
Gerard Quinn: "Accident in testing. Latvala and Anttila were unhurt in the 150kph crash but the Fiesta RS WRC requires extensive repair work. The team has revised its schedule and the car will now remain at the test location to finalise preparations for next month's Rally Sweden."