Wrc 2/3 2021

[Mirek]

This is not necessary not the best way. You need many different drivers to develop, so you get a flexible car, that responds well on setup changes. Otherwise you can end up as the Cit C3, both WRC and R5.

As far as I can tell C3 R5 works fine.

One main development driver and a validation test with someone else here and there is pretty much common way of doing things I think. The reason is that few drivers are able to give the engineers an efficient feedback ("I don't like it" really isn't helpful for anything) and a fast driver doesn't mean the same as a good development driver.

With the French cars the issue was usually in the fact that their world used to be somewhat less driver-centric and was more engineering oriented, i.e. they sometimes tend to choose solutions which are much better in theory than they turn to be in the real life with a real guy behind the steering wheel. That doesn't mean it can't work - it often does but such car is usally not very easy and friendly to drive.