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18th August 2021, 20:02 #741
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Police radars are usually under +/- 3 km/h (at least here). That's not a big margin of error and it's not worse than GPS.
GPS speed is not accurate. GPS has large latency, limited position accuracy and very bad accuracy in vertical (i.e. when the road leads uphill or downhill it can not correctly count the real distance you drove during the signal period). It's accurate basically only when the speed is high and constant over a certain period of time. For dynamic driving where you accelerate and brake and nothing in between it is useless. It is also useless when you drive really slow. Basically the faster you move the lower GPS error (because it comes from the position accuracy which is usually around +/- 6 meters). When you walk GPS gives total bullshit speed numbers which is normal. With rising speed that bullshit gets more reasonable.
The most accurate measurement of speed is via optical or radar sensors mounted on the car itself (those tubes pointed on the ground you see during testing). The stationary radars are second best, if well calibrated (there are more precise ones than those used by police as well).Last edited by Mirek; 18th August 2021 at 20:07.
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19th August 2021, 08:31 #742
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I’ve always suspected that was the case, 185/190kph just seemed a bit slow for what I was watching.
Didn’t someone use a gun on Monte in 2017 and record something like 212kph? I’m sure as has been explained there is some error in that, but I doubt it’s 20/25kph error
I wonder if the displayed speeds on WRC+ are deliberately low so as not to advertise just how fast they really are going? I would imagine the new cars should have more top speed with more power and less aero drag…
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19th August 2021, 09:03 #743
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I've understood the 2.0L WRC cars constantly did over 200 km/h speeds but since the 1.6L cars the gear ratios have been shorter, leaving top speeds lower.
I don't know why WRC+ would like about the top speeds. If something, they would probably make the top speeds appear faster than they actually are!
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19th August 2021, 10:12 #744
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I know about the problems with gps, but when we are talking about max speeds that means at the limiter on a long straight for some time. In those conditions gps is nearly perfect.
The problem with radar is that it has to calibrated at the exact spot in the exact conditions to work perfect. Only fixed radars wil be surely within those 3km/h. Manually placed tripods and especially handheld devices like in the video have even smaller accuracy, even when calibrated often.
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21st August 2021, 16:50 #745
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23rd August 2021, 13:42 #746
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23rd August 2021, 13:54 #747
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28th August 2021, 01:31 #748
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Another Rally, where Tänak showed, that he cant be competitive behind the wheel of Hyundai. Strange, that first stage there seemed to be a hope of good speed, but after he just diffused away, like every rally, he just looses his speed or there will be a technical failure. Think it is a karma he left Toyota. Hyundai, just isnt a car for personal titel.
Hope, 2021 Hyundai will more like to Tänak, because we know, Tänak is a very good developer
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30th August 2021, 12:42 #749
In my opinion it wasn't too bad. After day 1, he was the best of the rest behind Neuville and Breen, who both had previous experience from this rally. Apart from Breen, everybody else lost over 30s to Neuville after day 1 and Tänak was "leading" the pack. Also he won PS so speed was there just not the experience. It was a very specific rally where previous knowledge seemed to play an important role.
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30th August 2021, 12:50 #750
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the guy hasnt followed this season at all it seems to me based on that post....
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Something tells me a Toyota will be standing at that top step of the podium come Sunday, as they have in 2019, 2021, 2022 & 2023, hopefully I’m wrong.
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