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22nd August 2011, 15:53
AMSS

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Originally Posted by N.O.T

i disagree...why ??

Subaru WRC.

Why do you disagree, Subaru never ran on Öhlins as an official manufactorer??
First time they had them in a WRC event was in Rally Portugal on gravel with Marcus Grönholm...
22nd August 2011, 16:09
cali

Quote:

Originally Posted by N.O.T

i disagree...why ??

Subaru WRC.

Remember that Subaru has won several World titles, only the last models were crap due to various reasons.
22nd August 2011, 17:27
Rallyper

Quote:

Originally Posted by N.O.T

i disagree...why ??

Subaru WRC.

N.O.T. Bottom again!
22nd August 2011, 17:30
OldF

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Originally Posted by FVS

Tarmac racing is one area where Prodrive/Mini benefits significantly from their partner Öhlins. As Öhlins basically rules the track racing series with production based cars. And is single supplier to for instance MotoGp.
This must have some if not a big influence in their speed in Germany, and I don`t mean anything bad with this it`s a good thing for Mini.
On the other hand Öhlins has been more or less out of the picture on Gravel for some 10 years and also that is notable. Anyhow they sure got the resources to improve alot also on gravel so I think the Mini project looks surprisingly positive at the moment although I was sceptical at first..

There’s also been some discussion earlier about the suspension travel of the Mini being shorter compared to Ford or Citroen. How do you evaluate this, has it something to do with the better performance of Mini on tarmac compared to gravel? Imo bigger suspension travel is more important on at least Finnish type gravel roads where the car is not necessary jumping but lifting off a bit.
22nd August 2011, 17:51
dimviii

+1 @FVS
Subaru/Prodrive had BOS suspension at last seasons.
22nd August 2011, 17:55
dimviii

+1 @FVS Subaru had BOS suspension
22nd August 2011, 17:58
Mirek

Didn't they use also Sachs?
22nd August 2011, 18:07
dimviii

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Didn't they use also Sachs?

Don t think so Mirek,but i am not 100% sure.
22nd August 2011, 21:40
logic

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mirek

Didn't they use also Sachs?

They used Sachs on the S11-S12C and EXE-TC on the cars from 98-2005 , the S14's started on BOS on gronholm's rally portugal car they had ohlins.
22nd August 2011, 22:04
N.O.T

Subaru WRT have commenced an agreement with Ohlins and are expected to use the new dampers from Rally Japan onwards | RallyBuzz

i remebered they had a deal for 2009 for their official cars... They quit in 2009... don't remember if they managed to use the ohlins suspension earlier.

But the gronholm car was prepared by prodrive...and was a 2008 works car.

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