WRC future

[Morte66]

100 km WLTP is around 5-10 km of race regime...

270 kW charger is nice thing on paper. Now imagine you need to charge dozens of batteries at the same time at the same place. Would you build a power plant in the service park or how are you going to do that?

I love the idea of a great big marine diesel-electric set from a submarine, sat round the back of the service park behind some crates, to recharge the EVs.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Jesus. The state of that...., my washing machine is louder. I wouldn't waste the time and money to venture out in the stages to watch something like that....., surely there could be ways to add some "noise"?

Indeed. He said it was easily done so why is it not on the car now ?

A reminder from today of the importance of noise to the spectacle of rallying:

https://youtu.be/Tl8EjxwImB8

[RS]

Future is quiet?
https://www.facebook.com/paddonrally...0417595183994/

Maybe people who dismiss R5s on the basis of sound would like to have a rethink.

[Mirek]

Maybe people who dismiss R5s on the basis of sound would like to have a rethink.

EV sounding terribly don't make the R5 sound great...

[EstWRC]

https://dirtfish.com/rally/tanak-wan...-from-the-fia/

Mattons answer is just priceless...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Toyota managed pretty well with getting their brand new Yaris WRC designed, built & tested ready for Monte 2017...

https://progressivel1-a.akamaihd.net...tories_EP7.mp3

[Mirek]

https://dirtfish.com/rally/tanak-wan...-from-the-fia/

Mattons answer is just priceless...

This makes me sad (also because I worked in automotive for ten years and this is a common management approach in there). Yes, the engineers mostly can do their job in shorter time than they want BUT they are human. They need some private life and some rest as well. This is the best way to make them leave soon for some less stressful job. I know that motorsport work is stressful from its very principle but there is no need to add extra stress just because someone can not decide in time.

[djip]

This makes me sad (also because I worked in automotive for ten years and this is a common management approach in there). Yes, the engineers mostly can do their job in shorter time than they want BUT they are human. They need some private life and some rest as well. This is the best way to make them leave soon for some less stressful job. I know that motorsport work is stressful from its very principle but there is no need to add extra stress just because someone can not decide in time.

+1
and don't forget that Matton, who keeps claiming that he knows what he is talking of as the former Citroen Racing manager (i) Got the team from top dog to bottom feeder (then extinction) (ii) a team that took 2+ years to develop / launch the C3 while running only a few events (and the car was an utter failure out of the box)
i don't know what credibility can he get from that track record to make such assumptions ...

[RS]

EV sounding terribly don't make the R5 sound great...

No, but one day in the not too distant future we may appreciate them more.

[dimviii]

Paddons kona incar sound
https://twitter.com/HaydenPaddon/sta...42635394719744