Quote Originally Posted by Ucci View Post
Well, you will not convince me with stories "which WRC is the best". You obviousley forgotten situation few years ago, when Loeb was dominating scenary with Xsara&C4: all the time there were constant roumors about Focus lack of power...and then came Finland, where the power is Nb.1 fact; and Focus suddenly won. Why: car was top and the driver (with help of local knowledege) pushed 101%. As he should do all season, like Loeb....Yust crying, looking for excuses bring no result.
The only "big" difference between the cars are the roll centre, and the diff strategy. Roll centre-vise ve are talking about tens of millimeters, with Ford in the one, Citroën in the other, and VW smack in the middle (unsure about the Hyundai.) On the diffs I believe VW is running 65 degrees ramp on throttle, with a smal difference between the drivers of (at leat on gravel.) The other teams do not have such steep ramps.

I dont know if You can remember, but Ogier was quite frustrated during testing of the Polo. Until Latvala came abooard, and agreed to Ogiers direction. I dont know, but I would think that this had something to do with the roll centre, or other factors that makes the VW not quite as extreme as the Citroën.

But as I said, Ogier would win in a Citroën (as he has showed), a Ford, a Hyundai (if it lasted a complete event), and of cource a VW. I do not believe that there ever has been a time where the WRC cars have been more similar in performance as now.