Quote Originally Posted by Mirek View Post
This is an old quote of Nandan from late 206 WRC times (I read it in Czech so please pardon my translation into English):



I think that many of us remember what followed shortly after this - the 307 WRC disaster. For sure Nandan brought many revolutionary technical solutions into the world of rally such as the 206 WRC with longitudinal gearbox mounted on the transversal engine but I myslef as an engineer (in different field) feel that we tend to think that we know best and in a sport which is mainly about driver's confidence there shall be someone keeping the engineer's minds on reasonable level so that the drivers stay first. Let's remmember that another engineer Willy Rampf from VW always told in his interview that the first and foremost was how the drivers felt the car.
It was Nadan who was over the development of the 307 WRC ?