What utter nonsense.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
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What utter nonsense.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
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Originally Posted by BDunnell
Indeed. What would a Gollum-like lab rat know about women anyway?
No Ken Block in the WRC for 2015
http://www.autosport.com/news/report...medium=twitter
I am sure N.O.T. will be disappointed by this...
More cry for love...
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/118192
It's for Khalid Al QassimiQuote:
Originally Posted by Co-driven
What a bunch of losers...wondering if someone has died in this accident they would say this nonsenseQuote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
At least a sentence that start with "Ogier against" doesn't finish with "new start order". It's been a while since this milestone could happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
maybe he found a chin donor... i am happy for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by makinen_fan
But seriously he has a point. Rallying cant be driven on circuits with danger zones.Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfun
I think they both have one common point. Current safety rules are not thinking much about the situation when car fells into the water, lets say upside down. How the crew can get out from the car? When you have water pressure on both sides then you cannot open the doors anymore, it will be major effort. As far as I can remember, today rallycars cannot scroll down their widows as well? How they can get out from the car?
they have small hammers with metal points to break the windows... it is almost standard safety equipment in every rally car.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluuford
like this one (the blue one at the door next to auriol competition sticker).
https://www.flickr.com/photos/51932399@N07/16909374386/
Do they use glass windows in the doors these days?Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
I donīt know why, but I like "serious N.O.T." more than the "Troll N.O.T." ;-) Please continue like this.
The sledgehammer is useless against makrolon windows. It works only with hardened glass. Anyway it shall be easy to brake the makrolon windows. Once Prokop had to show it to our ASN technicians during pre-event scrutineering (if I remember right it was in 2011 when his car was used by Tarabus in our championship and it was the first time a car with the safety foam in the door and non-scrollable windows was here). I think there were some grooves in the window to create braking points.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
Answering my own question here. From Appendix J Art 255A:
- Polycarbonate side windows (including rear quarter panel windows) (minimum thickness 3.8 mm). It must be possible for these windows to be removed without the use of tools.
I am not sure how possible it will be to remove them under water though.
There are the small ventilation openings. You catch the glass through this opening and pull. The window brakes. This is how I think it works but I'm not sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by makinen_fan
Actually, FIA safety regs only require a seatbelt cutter - the small hammer is not mandatory. A small hammer is no use either because for group N and R where the side windows are glass, you have to apply a safety film. As for groups R4, R5 and WRC, the side windows are mostly polycarbonate.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
the safety film prevents glass fragments... the window can still break and be removed in case of emergency.Quote:
Originally Posted by jonlint
New aero kit for Citroen
http://planetemarcus.com/nouveau-kit...itroen-racing/
That will hardly make them quicker unless they put somebody else in the car...
You don't believe Meeke is quick?
Yes he is, but makes too much mistakes...
You write like there would be hundreds to pick from.
Meeke is fast, Ostberg is the point collector. That's all a team needs without high ambitions.
It is interesting topic. I think it would be nice thing to explain in next preview or in wrc.com :-) I was just trying to imagine the situation when I am upside down in the car, in the lake, strapped with HANS and seatbelts and intercom and then I have to break the window somehow...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Tanak & his co-driver got out really fast, I was impressed. Like it was part of some training or something....
Adrenaline makes wonders. I remember few years a go I was at a big roll of one car. The car ended on the side some 20 meters from me. I started running there immediately but the co-driver (girl) climbed out through a window (!) faster than I reached the car. She was in a shock and couldn't even communicate after that but still she needed less than 5 seconds to get out through a window...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight-or-flight_responseQuote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
It was the only different car in the WRC. DS was smooth and now will have ugly front arches like everyone else.Quote:
Originally Posted by jbmarcus21
How can this be possible...
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/118233
?? Isn't he realistic?
It is still early but Latvala cannot win the title... he will never be strong mentally to do it... he is still a child in mentallity... sad sad sad...Quote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
For Latvala to become champion Ogier has to throw it away... Latvala is nothing.
Well, my post was ironic...
Latvala won several rallies against two of the best driver ever. I agree he has a mental handicap that makes it very hard to win the title but he's all but nothing.
Every year is the same handicap for Latvala first few rallies, later in the season he tries to catch up. But I'm afraid Capito is right again, and this season will be probably the most difficult for him from last few with Neuville & Mikelsen rising. Latvala seem to miss his championship "train".
Latvala will not win a championship against Ogier in a straight fight. Killer instinct and consistency just is not there. I think we'll see Ogier collect his fifth title and hopefully by then something (maybe Toyota) have shook up the status quo.
Latvala simply isn't consistent enough; and with Ogier around he has to be. We get told he now has his mind sorted. But has he? We still hear him complaining about "no feeling, no rhythm, etc"
This years WRC Title is already Ogier's to lose - which considering we've only had 3 rounds is pretty depressing.
May be he had sorted out some issues, but not all of them. Still doesn't know what exactly wants from particular event, and how to get it. Ogier is tough competitor, true, but Latvala probably should isolate from this competition, and drive his own rallies, as much as he can best.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndyRAC
It was silly mistake in Mexico, and more silly excuse from him. This is not the way how to become champion
I agree with stefanvv's analysis but I want to add something more: I think Latvala is simply slower than Ogier. Maybe is just a matter of car. Polo maybe fits better Ogier's driving style. I think Latvala isn't slower than him in general but at the moment, with this car, he is.
Now he is faster only when he is in his day but it can't happen every round. And when he's not in his day he has to push more than he can and he crashes. He wants to win at all costs and it costs him many crashes.
Last year he showed a lot of improvement I hoped it continues this year but it doesn't seems so.
I think the mental problem is due to the fact that he has to be everytime on the limit, which is very demanding on the mental side. Something Ogier doesn't need.
Another cause, but I can be wrong here because I've never driven any rally car, is the fact he didn't learn some discipline in his career because he didn't rise through the ranks, he went into WRC very soon, with some PWRC and half a season in JWRC in the meantime.
That was a problem for him mostly in first year with the Polo - 2013. Last year showed some progress, and one could think he sorted out these issues with the car, but now it seem he is back there again. I don't get it.... Instead of adapting more to the car, which 1 championship contender should do easily, looks like it'll be another year of adaptation. I know it is difficult to fight Ogier, but if You pretend for the crown, You should be able find the weak spots and make the most out of each event. Sometimes it is just not "Your" event, take it easy and think of the next, while gathering some point on the way..... (just like it was in Monte as it seemed)Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14