WRC Testing

**AnttiL** · 17th August 2019, 06:45

Originally Posted by dimviii

from videos we had seen till THIS time ,yes it was true.
Of course at future plenty changed.

how was it true? did we have a timed test stage for all the cars? Was there so dramatic differences in Monte? Which car was leading the championship after Sweden?

**EstWRC** · 17th August 2019, 08:11

Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

More on Bottas: https://www.rallyssimo.it/2019/08/16...la-yaris-dice/

"The same Finnish driver is enthusiastic about these experiences on rally cars, as he himself states:

"It's really fun. When I tested the Yaris it was great, driving such a powerful car on the tarmac is incredible, especially for me coming from the track. At the end of that day, I was in line with the times of Kris Meeke, who had tested a few hours before me.

really? i find it hard to believe after seein him with the Ford and all the other test vids with him. He is clearly overdriving

**Allez Andruet** · 17th August 2019, 08:42

I don't get the comparison vs. Meeke. Bottas has never driven the Yaris on tarmac?

**EstWRC** · 17th August 2019, 08:45

according to that article i get that he was also driving with the Yaris on tarmac on the same day as Meeke did Rally Germany PET

**Allez Andruet** · 17th August 2019, 09:05

Originally Posted by EstWRC

according to that article i get that he was also driving with the Yaris on tarmac on the same day as Meeke did Rally Germany PET

That's gone completely under the radar.

**Tarmop** · 17th August 2019, 09:11

Originally Posted by EstWRC

really? i find it hard to believe after seein him with the Ford and all the other test vids with him. He is clearly overdriving

It`s not your average Yaris/Fiesta you use to get from lace A to B. Even there there are differences to get used to, not to mention the difference between rallycars.

**denkimi** · 17th August 2019, 09:48

Originally Posted by Rally Power

Even on a stage sometimes it’s hard to tell how effective a car/driver can actually be; I remember watching all 4 cars testing here prior to 2017 gravel events and Meeke’s C3 looked mindblowing fast.

that is because the c3 was mindblowingly fast. in testing at least, when they had the setup absolutely right and knew the road.

**mknight** · 17th August 2019, 09:52

Originally Posted by denkimi

that is because the c3 was mindblowingly fast. in testing at least, when they had the setup absolutely right and knew the road.

Which is pretty much same situation as here...and people assume Suninen wil be fast in the rally based on that.

**Allez Andruet** · 17th August 2019, 10:06

Originally Posted by denkimi

that is because the c3 was mindblowingly fast.

It looked like it.

**lnvs** · 17th August 2019, 10:27

Originally Posted by EstWRC

according to that article i get that he was also driving with the Yaris on tarmac on the same day as Meeke did Rally Germany PET

I had to use translator for that site and I didn't get that impression. Originally those comments are from crash.net and the article was about testing with Toyota. There is comments like “That was quite encouraging for a first day in gravel.” So it was before Rally Finland.

https://www.crash.net/f1/news/927462...ota-rally-test

Rallyssimos text is just overlook of Bottas with WRC-cars this summer.