WRC Testing

[rogef]

Teemu Suninen testing Toyota in Italy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yydQ...em-uploademail

New suspension settings? I seems much softer, and with higher stroke, in front at least...

[Sulland]

Gravel setup on combined asphalt/gravel stages.

[Jack4688`]

What relevance is testing on a combined gravel and tarmac stage?

[Lundefaret]

What relevance is testing on a combined gravel and tarmac stage?

Catalunya?

[dimviii]

or maybe its just a small asphalt part at the gravel stage they choosed to test.

[Toyoda]

Nice to hear is being rev-ed properly, engine actually sounds nice,
Are the dimensions a but weird, it looks tall and narrow compared to the others?

[Jack4688`]

Catalunya?

But they change the set up overnight for Catalunya, not do a stage that has both surfaces.

[Lundefaret]

But they change the set up overnight for Catalunya, not do a stage that has both surfaces.

Terra Alta?

[Jack4688`]

Terra Alta?

I stand corrected. Not just Terra Alta by the looks of it http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/calendar/s...-703-682-.html (by the way that is just the first result from googling 'Rally Cataluyna Terra Alta')

However, it still seems silly to test for something so rare in the WRC. Unless there is something to be learned which isn't specifically how the car works on mixed surface.

[Lundefaret]

I stand corrected. Not just Terra Alta by the looks of it http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/calendar/s...-703-682-.html (by the way that is just the first result from googling 'Rally Cataluyna Terra Alta')

However, it still seems silly to test for something so rare in the WRC. Unless there is something to be learned which isn't specifically how the car works on mixed surface.

There is actually quite a lot of running with gravel set up on tarmac, off course Catalunya, but also on Super Specials.
But this can well be that it was a section on a stage, and not really a focus point.
But you always learn something by testing on different grip levels.
Remember that the Toyota is still very early in development and its good to get a lot of different experience n different grip levels to try to understand the car and chassis.
We saw in the Ogier-test that Toyota has some struggles in low grip (tarmac), so could be good in this respect.