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20th February 2018, 12:17 #1
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WRC drivers' styles and techniques
I'm curious to know about the driving styles and techniques of the current WRC drivers. I hear often hear stuff like "the car does not fit his driving style" or "he has a unique driving style", but no further details
All that I know is that:
- Hayden Paddon likes to drive the car "more from the rear"
- Andreas Mikkelsen does not left foot brake, but Kris Meeke, Craig Breen and Stephane Lefebvre do
- Sebastien Ogier is great at preserving the tyres
What else? Supposedly Østberg and Latvala are also very sideways drivers?
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20th February 2018, 13:16 #2
Once we would have had our friend Lundefaret writing walls of text answering questions like this. I wonder if he still read this forum
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20th February 2018, 13:23 #3
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Did anyone else notice Østberg in Sweden was doing A LOT of leftfoot braking. Brakelight strobe if you watch him. Seems that he was compensating for wrong diff settings.
Tänak has made his driving style smoother in my view. Year on fast wearing softer Dmacks has done him good.
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20th February 2018, 13:41 #4
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All the Hyundais are very nosy drivers except for Paddon, who is very, very sideways (part of the reason why he struggled last year). Ogier and Hanninen are/were very nosy too.
Latvala used to be McRae sideways back when he began but he's started to keep it slightly cleaner, though he's around Ostberg and Paddon in sideways-ness still. I almost forgot Suninen, too!
I'd say the descending order of sideways would be Suninen, Paddon, Ostberg, Latvala and Meeke, and maybe Tanak if you classify him as such. I thought Tanak was like Latvala and Paddon but he might have become cleaner than before.
I'm glad you brought this thread up though because I'm not quite sure about a few other drivers. I've no idea about Evans' style, nor Breen's (I suppose he'd prefer nosy coming from tarmac experience but he might have adapted to the C3), nor Lappi's style, who I think might be sideways as he's Finnish but coming from R5 might have taken a cleaner approach.
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20th February 2018, 13:44 #5
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20th February 2018, 16:25 #6
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20th February 2018, 21:55 #7
If you want to see someone who is really sawing at the wheel in corners watch any in-car footage with Carlos (El Matador) Sainz. A lot of correction, over correction and under correction haha.
He was as aggressive with the wheel as Anttik7 is with his keyboard filing complaints.
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20th February 2018, 22:44 #8
I think Lappi is generally the most aggressively sideways of all the current WRC drivers from what I've seen.
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20th February 2018, 22:50 #9
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21st February 2018, 05:09 #10
Definitely. But thats just my opinion/observation, others are free to disagree.
I guess it partly comes from the roads they develop their skills on - Finland and NZ both have quite smooth, flowing gravel roads whereas some other places have tighter, more technical or rougher rally stages that suit a style with less sliding.
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