Hayden Paddon

[denkimi]

engine and transmission why? they will be inspected/rebuild .Electrical parts like fuel pumps/wiring/sensors will be tested if they are ok.Also some mechanicals parts,like calipers,exhausts,turbo,manifolds,springs from suspensions etc.
M sport has the ability and the equipment to check them properly.
there are plenty of spares that can save even from such a crash.And they are not cheap.

do you believe they would take the risk to ruin another rally by using parts that might have undetected failures in them?

just because a fuel pump works fine now, doesn't mean she could break within a few kilometers of special stage. just because the wiring seems fine now, doesn't mean it cant be damaged and start doing faulty things when exposed to heat and shocks.
would you drive a car flatout if you knew that the calipers and springs from that crash are on them? i wouldn't.

metal fatigue and overstressing are weird stuff to calculate. that's why the factory teams replace pretty much everything every service/rally. not because it's broken, but to be sure it isn't going to break untill the next service.

of course it could be that they will reuse those parts, but i find it hard to believe.

[dimviii]

do you believe they would take the risk to ruin another rally by using parts that might have undetected failures in them?

i didnt talk about undetected failures,i said about stripping detecting and saving parts.M sport have the equipment to do that.
Same procedure goes for the NEW ones.

just because a fuel pump works fine now, doesn't mean she could break within a few kilometers of special stage.

same applies for a new one that hadnt ever a crash.

just because the wiring seems fine now, doesn't mean it cant be damaged and start doing faulty things when exposed to heat and shocks.
would you drive a car flatout if you knew that the calipers and springs from that crash are on them? i wouldn't.

wiring will be checked from the same guy that PRODUCE them by hand.
Malcolm will not sent to wastebasket a wiring loom that costs some 6-7-8k euro,because car had a crash.
Same for calipers.There are spares,there are given tolerances from manufacturer,there are x rays that they will inspect something that a human eye cant detect.
And yes if they are inspected ,i havent got any problem to drive this car.

metal fatigue and overstressing are weird stuff to calculate. that's why the factory teams replace pretty much everything every service/rally. not because it's broken, but to be sure it isn't going to break untill the next service.

of course it could be that they will reuse those parts, but i find it hard to believe.

you really think that all these crashes we have seen from wrc/r5 cars,that all these spare parts went to waste basket,because fatigue and overstressing is difficult to calculate?
No way.

[pantealex]

Even TGR which has much bigger budget is fixing used parts (bumbers, spoilers etc. so quite cheap parts)

[Rallyper]

Good answers Dimitri.

[GravelBen]

But like Ligato in Argentina some years back this was a one-off that will never happen, and he might never get another chance unless a team bites the bullet and gets him onboard based off of... What exactly?

Based off his previous results, WRC win and multiple podiums etc. Its not like he's some unproven new driver!

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Paddons crash https://twitter.com/autosport/status...782743552?s=21

Can anyone see the big rock in the middle of the road ? I just see a small one on the extreme right...

[GravelBen]

Can anyone see the big rock in the middle of the road ? I just see a small one on the extreme right...

Hard to see any detail with that video quality, but they said the rock was big enough to split the sump guard in half so it obviously wasn't that small. Incredibly unlucky really, no way to avoid that. Gutted for him.

[CahunaKiwi]

Crap quality image taken from the video, but this appears to be the rock:

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Edit: and here's a picture of the sumpguard, you can see how big the gouge is from the rock.

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[Barreis]

rock or not, he was too quick also

[Portimao]

rock or not, he was too quick also

It was a flat corner, what did you expect?