WRC Testing

**EstWRC** · 15th December 2024, 12:58

Congrats Fourmaux!

First time driving and first win right away

**doubled1978** · 15th December 2024, 13:08

Originally Posted by EstWRC

Congrats Fourmaux!

First time driving and first win right away

Yeah, good start for him.
Interesting to see that today there were quite big swings in time from stage to stage, but overall they were only 0.5 seconds apart for the whole day. Adrien’s advantage came from yesterday.
It’ll be interesting to see what, if any feedback about the tyres comes out.

**AE1WRC** · 15th December 2024, 13:15

The main difference came in SS2 (This was due to the tyre choice I believe). I watched some videos and saw that Kalle looked more clean and cautious on ice whereas Adrien took more risks. TBH, I was expecting Fourmaux to be first in this rally because Kalle hasn't been in this car on Tarmac more than a year. I believe he is a bit rusty on Tarmac.
However this is a test rally for them so I wouldn't take this very serious.

Congrats to Fourmaux also.

**TypeR** · 15th December 2024, 13:41

Equal status..

Fourmaux used Thierry's overalls (sponsors were duct-taped)

But this little thing aside, nice start for him in Hyundai!

**Fast Eddie WRC** · 15th December 2024, 13:54

Pirelli stickers on Fourmaux's car today. Was Rovanpera mostly testing the Hankook's ?

https://x.com/AdrienFourmaux/status/1868272602982273401

**doubled1978** · 15th December 2024, 17:41

Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

Pirelli stickers on Fourmaux's car today. Was Rovanpera mostly testing the Hankook's ?

https://x.com/AdrienFourmaux/status/1868272602982273401

I saw a brief interview with Fourmaux where he said he didn’t know because they never tried the tyres in these conditions. I assume he meant the Hankooks.
Maybe the Pirelli stickers are there contractually until 2025?

**EstWRC** · 16th December 2024, 05:09

Fourmaux and Kalle
https://youtu.be/CiVqr5WhbUI?si=4s9pioBdYJ8HKExp

Really really good test for them with all sorts of conditions I have to say

**Fast Eddie WRC** · 16th December 2024, 10:02

Originally Posted by doubled1978

I saw a brief interview with Fourmaux where he said he didn’t know because they never tried the tyres in these conditions. I assume he meant the Hankooks.
Maybe the Pirelli stickers are there contractually until 2025?

On the first day there were no tyre stickers on his car, but on the second day the Pirelli logos's appeared...

**EstWRC** · 16th December 2024, 10:22

“To begin with the car wasn’t set up for me, it was giving some understeer at the entry to the corner and then quite snappy oversteer at the exit. We worked throughout the event on the geometry, the bars, the springs and the differential. The car was quite stiff, so we softened it towards the end and I was really comfortable.”

Hah. Sounds so familiar

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/fourm...monte-warm-up/

**Fast Eddie WRC** · 16th December 2024, 11:10

Originally Posted by EstWRC

i wouldnt take those seriously at all

we dont know which tires they are using for which stage and i saw some footage of the first stage where it seemed Kalle is ploughing the snow, so the conditions were also uneven

Adrien seemed to...

“I didn’t expect to beat Kalle because he knows the car,” said Fourmaux. “It was really nice to have him there to compare our times and then it’s really positive to win against him. We can only be glad for this result.”