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Thread: WRC Testing
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15th December 2016, 22:54 #6421
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15th December 2016, 22:54 #6422
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What a surprise…
For sure ’17 cars will among the safer rally cars ever, despite being more powerful and more demanding to drive, but common sense and basic motorsport knowledge also makes clear than less gifted drivers will tend to make more mistakes in faster cars.
Driving it’s not all about head and heart, it also takes skills and guys like Bertelli (nothing against him…) are limited on that department. Still they naturally try to push beyond their limits, making room for accidents. The Italian had 3 or 4 big crashes during this season; it’s not hard to believe that more will happen if he gets behind the wheel of a ’17 car. The same could be said of guys like Camilli or Al-Rhaji, among others.
’17 cars are the best solution rally stockholders (FIA, RB/MH, manus, organizers…) managed to get in order to revamp WRC. It looks great, but like any other solution it has risks. Those must be manageable, other way they turn into threats.
Probably nobody imagined that the new cars would be so fast so quickly. MC will, most likely, confirm that the speed increase (s/km) is already notorious, and it’s only the season’s first rally.
FIA doesn’t need to get alarmed or scared, just cautious and ready to act in a preventive way. For sure they’re already following the tests and talking to manus, in order to get a perfect idea of what’s going on and improve, if necessary, rally safety standards. Increasing spectator control and limiting driver’s access to the new cars seems reasonable ways to do it.Rally addict since 1982
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15th December 2016, 22:58 #6423
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imho new wrc cars are NOT more dangerous than previous wrc cars at private pilots hands like Bertelli Prokop etc.
Meeke again
https://youtu.be/4FZ89vFc6XwLast edited by dimviii; 15th December 2016 at 23:02.
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15th December 2016, 23:14 #6424
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15th December 2016, 23:58 #6425
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16th December 2016, 00:04 #6426
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16th December 2016, 04:20 #6427
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At all Meeke videos have a spot of light from left front arch from optical sensor? Does it mean that C3 still in development process and this tests not only basic preparation for Monte?
VW did his last scheduled Polo 17 test near month ago. Hyundai's test seems be part of Monte preparation and not developing.
Does that fact that C3, in this stage (in month before Monte), have that sensor - told is a bit of problem with a car? And they try to fix or find solution to sort that problem?
Because I didn't see that sensor in normal, pre-event, testing.
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16th December 2016, 06:48 #6428
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16th December 2016, 07:58 #6429
TEST KRIS MEEKE MONTE CARLO 2017 , DAY 2 by lololwrc05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=237DsPpqf2Y
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16th December 2016, 08:19 #6430
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