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It is highly corrosive, it eats away at the rubber o rings, and you use so much of it that it bypasses the rings on the piston and ends up in the oil.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
The breather tank is full of oil and fuel mixed.
The joys of using an ethanol based fuel.
so very dangerous for the engine.Quote:
Originally Posted by logic
Thanks mate.
There's a PR facade and than there is the real life in which things are not so rosy.Quote:
Originally Posted by lmmjvss
Pluto wrote here before Monte that Škoda sent a bulletin to its teams asking them to apply for a preventive engine rebuild after Monte Carlo. Normally the engines shall last much longer than just one event.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Not only regarding the fuel issues in Monte I wrote an article, but it is only in czech. I am not sure if google translator will help, but you can find it here - http://www.autosport.cz/clanek.php?cl=21968
But in fact, it was making big problems to all R5 cars. And in the final it was really anti-ecological...
If only there was a propulsion method where you could use a universal medium available at every corner and common to the whole world that could be produced using long list og different methods....ohh wait
I want to read next year's report to see if WRC improves. So far, FIA ERC is WAY more "sustainable" than WRC. (Lots of reasons, oc.. but its interesting anyway)Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
https://jalopnik.com/its-no-surprise...ugh-1848514507
(Theres a link on the article to the actual report)
Btw.. do u and Mirek follow the czech autocross championship? I love that series
Me not.Quote:
Originally Posted by lmmjvss
WRC2 driver Ingram splits with long-term co-driver Whittock
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/wrc2-...iver-whittock/
A great pairing who achieved so much together. :champion: Good luck and thanks to Ross Whittock.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii