[WRC] Arctic Rally 2021

[Mirek]

On a long strait to me power is worth a lot driving on 6th gear. It says itself more hp will give you a higher speed faster..

Power yes but I was not argueing about power because I believe there is minimal difference between the cars in the maximum power.

IMO in rally car when people talk about weak engine it means in reality that the engine is low on torque, I really don't believe there are big differences in peak power. Even the really terribly outdated 20V Fabia WRC engine was quite ok on peak power but it was very bad on torque. Lack of torque doesn't really matter on straights or flat out corners but it does matter a lot on events which are full of long medium-fast or even slow corners (depends what we consider slow and what level of grip is available). The lack of torque IMHO also adds to traction issues.

In general the message was - if M-Sport suffers here from the engine it will suffer much more in other more twisty events.