Thread: Citroen WRT
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28th March 2019, 11:57 #1991
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28th March 2019, 14:06 #1992
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Whatever, you started this by claiming after listening to Clark that Citroen covet the manufacturers more than the drivers.
People have just told you that's not true, and why. Even using evidence such as what Pierre Budar has told you about where their priorities lie. Even if he didn't explicitly say it, you'd just have to look at the team line-up and number of cars to realise that...
Again, nobody has said they wouldn't add a third car later in the year if the chance is there to win the manufacturers, but it still won't be their priority and it's still not something on their agenda.
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28th March 2019, 22:50 #1993
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31st March 2019, 21:21 #1994
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Citroen is the only team to be on the podium every rally this year – always first or second. In 2017 they managed only three podiums and five in 2018.
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31st March 2019, 22:32 #1995
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And 4 rallies gone and Citroen still 2nd in the Championship.
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31st March 2019, 22:40 #1996
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Well yes but after this performance they will surely use any extra funds to also work on the tarmac car before Germany rather than on running a 3rd car.
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1st April 2019, 18:24 #1998
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1st April 2019, 19:45 #1999
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Can we imagine seeing the new aero kit for the end of the year at least?
"At this point, I can not give you a date. According to the results that will be obtained in tests. In function, one will homologate or not. The aero is a particular area, because it is a long job and requires a lot of calculations and possibly the wind tunnel. You have to make drawings, molds, then pieces and try to make them fit so that everything works in all conditions. So it is something that is very expensive, in terms of time and approval also in number of jokers. It is an extremely sensitive subject so I do not want to give a specific date. We will not go if we are not convinced that this is not the right solution and that it is validated. "
Especially when Sebastien asks suspension evolutions, it can complicate this arrival of the aero?
"It's not antinomic. But if we also work on suspension jokers, we will not have them on the aero, so we will have to make choices. We work on several chapters and we have to work well to use the jokers available wisely. Finally, it is not easy to make a commitment on a date, and it does not bring us much. "
Now, go to South America. What is the test program?
"In Portugal, we have a pretty heavy program next week, and we will probably try the aero again. We will necessarily work on the Argentina / Chile duo with two days per driver. As there is a link between the two rallies, we must in particular renew the same dampers, we must have a setup almost identical between the two events.
The aero is predominant now and one wonders how much?
"We have seen the importance of the aero on these new cars, it is part of the big differences between the old and the new WRC. Obviously, the higher the speed of passage and the more important it is. We tried to evaluate in tests many times the importance of the Earo, and each time, it is very impacting on performance, both on land and asphalt. What is complicated on earth is that you have to manage to make the aero run with changes of attitude that are much more marked than on asphalt. On the asphalt, the car has a more constant attitude, and in the ground, it is necessary that the aero works when the car has tancage, when it sits or when it crashes, but also when it is skidding . So it's very complicated to have aero parts that go beyond a straight line, we often destroy the aero in these possibilities. The hard part is to make the parts work in all the attitudes of the car. It's specific to the rally. Obviously, they do extraordinary things in circuit but with cars still stuck to the ground. "
Does Citroën work in the wind tunnel?
"Of course, we did that especially in England. We have a wind tunnel in the Paris region but which is not very suitable. "
How many people work on the air just?
"It's hard to divide the staff like that. We have size means we will say but we can not do what we want either, we have financial limits like everyone, unfortunately and fortunately, because it avoids us to scatter on all topics without too much reflect.
Basically, on a WRC type program, we are about 110 people. "
Finally and finally, a question about Esapekka. Is his attitude, rather casual and uncomfortable, normal and not good for the image of Citroen? Can this work?
"First, I get to know Esapekka and Janne well, I know how they feel. I do not take it for spite, but at the same time, when you do not make a good time and that it does not go, his attitude seems normal to me. On a rally like this where he had performance problems and his teammate too, we quickly realized that it was a problem of settings on the car and he is very disappointed, because we were mistaken collectively, the pilots were also present during the tests. And he's part of the collective. It is his personality to express it like that, again, we can not expect him to be cheerful and enthusiastic at the arrival of special as in Corsica. I do not mind if it stays measured in what he says. I know it might be more exciting for you if he made thunderous statements but he really wants to convey his disappointment. This is the intention he wants to pass. He's also a laid-back boy, but in all his attitudes, even when he wins, it's the famous Finnish phlegm. "
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28th April 2019, 15:23 #2000
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Lappi's car after Argentina
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