Rally Discussion and Bar Talk Thread

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Good advice. No specific WRC topic, what I could recognize.

What there has been is in "World Rallying" ...

https://www.rallyforums.com/forums/world-rallying.9/

[spark13]

If this site ever dies, maybe we could all migrate to another forum, like the following one ?

Bookmark this for possible future use:

https://www.rallyforums.com/forums/#...rld-rallying.3

It's way more modern and similar to other car forums I use.

Thanks for that, would be great if all active members will be able to join, as as it seems this forum can die in any moment.
I try to visit here every day and out of 10 attempts its works for me every 3 on average.
Still not giving up though =)

[WRCStan]

I don’t know why the forum has been giving me trouble lately, sometimes it says it’s unsecured because it doesn’t encrypt with https, in my 13 (next week) years on this forum, I’ve never had any sort of issues like that and from what I gather I’m not the only one?

It's been flawless for me since last week, very surprising because it's been awful for months before.

I posted on the Feedback section weeks ago but had no reply.

There's two spam posts in there too, I guess the report feature is broken even. PLuto?

[Rallyper]

What there has been is in "World Rallying" ...

https://www.rallyforums.com/forums/world-rallying.9/

From 2025-ish...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

From 2025-ish...

Yes, strange.

I dont know anything about this forum but it just seems a waste that it's a functioning rally forum that's barely being used.

[ZoomanSP206]

I have a question for the technical experts here:

Back in the days, drivers would often use the Scandinavian flick to set up the car for a corner. It is often said that this changed when Sébastien Loeb introduced a cleaner, more racing-like style, which was faster and subsequently got adopted by the other drivers.

Now I was wondering: Was the cleaner style always the faster one, and people just didn't know better? Or was the Scandinavian flick actually faster for the cars in the 70's/80's/..., but less fast when used with modern-day rally cars?

If it is the latter, what were the changes that led to the advantage of the cleaner style? Would it be possible to undo these changes or introduce new regulations that lead again to an advantage of using the Scandinavian flick, without compromising safety?