Hyundai WRT

[Barreis]

you can say whatever you want bur Sordo will bring more points under pressure thwn Mikkelsen and lots of other drivers

[Fide]

Sordo can compete in Drift Races he always has a reason why not to make a good race

[mknight]

Loeb in Hyundai colors http://motorsport.hyundai.com/qa-with-sebastien-loeb/

Not even the epic Loeb-cool factor can make the light blue Hyundai T-shirts look good.
At least the dark blue race overalls look much better.

[Ds3]

Of all the read news, I can bet that Loeb will not finish Dakar Rally. The car will be "broken" for justification. So do not worry about the tests will start on time.

[deephouse]

He probably have last shot at it. I don't think that he will jeopard it just for Monte tests. He will have them anyway even if he finish Dakar. It's just that he will not have much time to rest between events. I will not be surprised if he will take it easy at MC and finish close to the podium or even on it, hahaha.

[irish_tiger]

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 ?

[Mirek]

AFAIK yes. I think he left after 2005.

[mknight]

The gearbox story on 307 is the definition of perfect engineering meeting inperfect reality.

Engineers calculated that each shift costs some time so it's better to have 4 gears with very good engine that has good power over wide revband and therefore less shifts and in the end better speed.
In reality drivers always "felt" they were in wrong gear and changed gears more often, losing time. (can argue that it could work if drivers just "learned" the car, but that could take quite some time)

After a year(I think) they changed to 5 speed gearbox and 307 was relatively competetive even with 2nd rate drivers (Stohl, H. Solberg, Galli) for quite a while. (even though it was bigger than most other cars).

I have no idea how much Nandan was involved in all that though.

[SubaruNorway]

It was Nadan who was over the development of the 307 WRC ?

Also Suzuki Sx4

[AnttiL]

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