Toyota announces WRC plans

[janvanvurpa]

It's Correvit optical sensor used for measurement of absolute, longitudinal and transverse speed, distance and tyre slip angle from which many other values can be further counted.

Check here various versions with datasheets: https://www.kistler.com/cz/en/applic...sensors_csmota

That sensor has been used in the past and I have read a long interview with
Christian Loriaux

In it he said that the data gathered when testing on asphalt was fantastic "because the drivers cannot tell us" much useful.
However he went on to say that it was essentially useless on gravel where to paraphrase "too much is going on and drivers can "correct" for so many quirks" or "drive around" problems..

That car do not look to be going particularly vigorously....driver? or car?

Who can say?

[Mirek]

The sensor is no wunder stuff. We used to have similar one even in our low-budget university test-lab (although radar one). It's quite a standard thing used in all car testing including stock ones.

[dimviii]

According to rumors Hirvonen will be at test in Italy today. If true I guess he will be driving and not just in the service.

[Mirek]

Has Hirvonen ever had some reasonable development influence in M-Sport or Citroën? I thought it was quite the opposite but maybe I am wrong.

[AL14]

Nice pictures. It seems he has driven the car as well, would like to know his sensations.

This is the clear case about how silly are rally journalists. I mean, not the one who have blog, magazines and do their job only for passion (often better than actual journos), where were the ones who ask you to pay to read their useless opinion? Don't they have Hirvonen's telephone number? email? Skype? Some friend in Toyota who say how are things going over there?

[dimviii]

Mikko testing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSEn...ature=youtu.be

[EightGear]

Nice pictures. It seems he has driven the car as well, would like to know his sensations.

This is the clear case about how silly are rally journalists. I mean, not the one who have blog, magazines and do their job only for passion (often better than actual journos), where were the ones who ask you to pay to read their useless opinion? Don't they have Hirvonen's telephone number? email? Skype? Some friend in Toyota who say how are things going over there?

Yes, we're still waiting for someone to find out and report what the hell is going on at Toyota.

Could it be they're just running the car for engine development?

[Simmi]

The plot thickens. If Mikko is "Tommi's" guy - but he's testing for TMG - then clearly the two sides are working together a bit more than we've been led to believe. Will TMG be one test team and TMR the other? Why are they building separate cars at separate factories?

It's still very confusing...

[GigiGalliNo1]

TMG not working with Makinen.

[Grundo Farb]

Yes, we're still waiting for someone to find out and report what the hell is going on at Toyota.

Could it be they're just running the car for engine development?

Yes, I thought the same thing but does it really need to be done on every surface around the world? Probably not.