Do they use salt on the roads in winter? Maybe that's why the section Rovanperä went off was so slippy as it makes the roads more dirty and not much rain yet to clean them
The reason why the local asphalt (especially old one) is so slippery is that they used limestone gravel for it. You can be sure as hell that the real fun starts when it rains.
Lewis Hamilton grateful to Ferrari for tolerating ‘relentless’ quest for F1 improvement.
“Well firstly, I wouldn’t be in this team without Fred… Fred is the one that made it happen, and of which...
it would be immensely funny if WRC27 would accidentely kick off another aerodynamic race. Since the bodywork is not tied to any road car anymore.. why not take the most aerodynamic sensible one? ;-)
Aaaaanyway.... back to WRC27 ;)
Notes on the Toyota WRC27 prototypes by WRC Wings:
https://www.wrcwings.tech/2026/06/14/notes-from-the-toyota-wrc27-prototypes/
To be fair most people were onboard with the idea of the 2022 cars being hybrids as at the time most manufacturers were already using this in their road cars, or they were aiming to go full EV....
Do they have this superior technology, strategies and secrets that other teams can't copy them? Even if they would hide nothing no one from other teams would scout over them.
Lewis Hamilton grateful to Ferrari for tolerating ‘relentless’ quest for F1 improvement. “Well firstly, I wouldn’t be in this team without Fred… Fred is the one that made it happen, and of which...
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