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    My best memory of the R11T rally car was on a stage of the Tour de Corse 1987, where Ragnotti lost just 1 sec/km to the time of a 205 T16 Evo2 from 1986 !

    Here was his car's secret:
    "To be competitive we have to make the car as light as possible with as high a cornering speed as we can get."
    "A component part of cornering is braking: the more efficient and stable a car's retardation, the quicker will be its elapsed time through a corner. And it's a complete understatement to say that there are many corners in Corsica. The multitude of twists, turns and gradients on the roads of this island make a car's braking performance critical to its Tour de Corse competitiveness."

    That this 1.4T FWD car was capable of mixing it on tarmac with the 4WD Delta HF and RWD Sierra Cosworth & BMW M3 I think was incredible.
    Last edited by Fast Eddie WRC; 4th June 2017 at 15:44.
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