Kenotec Ypres Rally 23-25 June 2016

[tommeke_B]

Ypres consists of many junctions followed by long straights and extremely fast sections. I think the PSA R5's don't really have a perfect gearbox for it... The long one is too long, the short one lacks top speed which you need on some parts of the stages. Also in the exit of the junctions and slow corners I believe the Fabia and Fiesta have some advantage. Last year Freddy was nowhere with the Fabia R5 (especially in terms of set-up, the car wasn't really as he liked yet, last year), and still he won. This year he knows the car better and has a (nearly) perfect set-up, and the stages remain more or less the same.

[RS]

What about the changes to the EVO PSA cars though? I thought they promised much stronger engine?

[Jarek Z]

I would like to see Bryan do well too, but I feel he has not quite been the driver he used to be the last couple of years.

He was second last year, that's not so bad, is it?
http://www.ewrc-results.com/final.ph...res-Rally-2015

[Mirek]

What about the changes to the EVO PSA cars though? I thought they promised much stronger engine?

PSA cars have strong engines.

[WUff1]

...but it is going to be a R5 car! Great news! That makes it 26 R5 cars already! I hope Bryan wins this rally!

As RS already said, Bouffier probably isn´t as fast now as he was even some few years ago. And not even then he could beat Loix at Ypres.

[dodge33cymru]

I hope it's a PSA. Just because they sound nicer stageside

[Andre Oliveira]

What about the changes to the EVO PSA cars though? I thought they promised much stronger engine?

Rumours in Rally de Portugal that is not a big advantage. Even EVO kit is bad.

[RS]

PSA cars have strong engines.

Top power, yes? But torque I thought was poor compared to the Fiesta Evo and Fabia?

[Mirek]

Yes, there is less torque but on the other hand the peak power is a lot higher than for example in Fiesta. In my opinion the far biggest problem of those cars is that they are overall difficult to work with and to drive. As a result they suffer with a lot of reliability issues and often the teams don't even use the best engine maps because of pop-off issues, overheating etc.

You can see that properly serviced PSA cars can win on the events where torque is very important. See Andreucci in Italy for example.

[dodge33cymru]

i20 zero car:

https://motorsport.hyundai.com/en/r5...1&listType=all