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All the hype and discussions about the hybrid and now it hardly ever gets a mention during the rallies. The info is on the screen of WRC+ but is totally ignored. The use and deployment of the battery power isn't even spoken of by the teams and drivers.
It was stated as goal before this season that it should be as seemless and simple for the drivers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
A bit of a missed opportunity imo, some more freedom and a manual "boost button" could maybe lead to more interesting strategies.
But then again the "lack of entertainment" feel right now is mainly due to the Kalle+Toyota dominance vs Hyundai reliability+Solberg mess and MSport business operation.
Well, we can already sum up the season.
Toyota car:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...anzer_IV_1.jpg
Hyundai car:
https://resize-parismatch.lanmedia.f...POP3UlKHnGqC6R
And I can add
M-Sport car when driven by Loeb
https://cdn-1.motorsport.com/images/...ing-rb18-1.jpg
Same car driven by the others
https://cdn-s-www.lalsace.fr/images/...1595592238.jpg
Remember the first year in F1 with Hybrid engines? They used to have more indicators in some graphics.. They even started to show the "% of fuel" in the cars, probably to show how the hybrid was making it more fuel efficient.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
But I dont even remember these things being shown by round 3 or 4 haha. I may be wrong cuz I was not following F1 thaaaat close by the time, but those graphics about the hybrid are gone.
Sometimes on onboards you can see on the driver steeringwheel some graphics about the regeneration of the Hybrids.. It looks interesting, wish they could show us more of that. (F1)
Maybe the teams got all the hybrid deployment maps sorted and there's not a lot to do any more. And the drivers have already adapted and using it is now second-nature. A bit of a shame as it could've been a good area of interest and skill if it was more difficult.
Acropolis Rally 2022 Rally1 Highlights
https://youtu.be/pgars0X8Q3g
One for the nerds, Homologations list was published yesterday and includes updates so far for "Ra1-"
https://www.fia.com/sites/default/fi...ept.2022_0.pdf
In the post Safari podcast of Dirtfish they mentioned that both Toyota and M Sport are on Reiger dampers and that Toyota has people at Reiger to develop the dampers for them (possibly 5/7 post shaker rigs,...) and M Sport doesn't.
I was under the impression that all WRC teams have dampers developed specifically for them together with their supplier. Could it really be that M-Sport is buying of the shelf dampers (or at least internals) from Reiger?
Part of Rally1 ruleset is that dampers are closer to Rally2 than WRC. So for sure, I can see them use shelf dampers.