[WRC] News & Rumours (part V) 2017

[Fast Eddie WRC]

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.