Deutschland rally 2016

[Mirek]

I assume also the aerodynamic door sills are made of strong carbon and thus bring something to the side impact safety. Still I'm surprised that in all the prototypes where we could see inside there was pretty common rollcage cross in the door area.

The severity of a crash is determined by how fast the object at speed (driver and car) is halted, and we are not talking a 50% speed increase in the corners here. Probably maximum 10% if even that. Wk=mv²/ 2 gives an increase in kinetic energy of 21% if the increased speed is 10%. This is not what determine life or death in a crash situation.

Also with R2-power and WRC safety you could kill someone in a sideways impact in finland towards a tree... or say that the same car in a high speed event hits a rock on the inside of the corner and it throws the car on it's side into a tree, just so that it hits the windshield.
I can guarantee that will be bye bye both driver and codriver considering how much damage there was to that area of Camili's car in Monte this year from a relatively low speed impact.

The increased speed is not what will make or break the safety situation.

I don't argue about some huge increase of risk with the new cars (although it's pretty clear there is an increase). I just wanted to point out that speaking about the speed on straights is missleading.