VW News 2012 & WRC 2013

[Motorsportfun]

wiegand tested the polo wrc: Google Übersetzer

According to Capito, earlier today, will test the car again, but will not run the Polo in any rally this year (he told me neither his home round in Germany).

[Viking]

“The third car was always planned to come, and we chose to have a one-car team in order to give Andreas his fair amount of test days and not to have to share them with our other drivers,” he said.

“Also we are a manufacturer, so in order to have the proper space in the service park the complete package for a one-car WRC team was much more interesting to us.”

World Rally Championship - News - Volkswagen registers second team for Mikkelsen

[darkstar]

wiegand will drive the polo wrc in germany at "Powerdays Europe" (by armin schwarz ):

Google Übersetzer

[Kielder]

[JRodrigues]

As anyone seen VW merchandise? I've seen it already, but forgot where! :\

[Antony Warmbold]

"its more important for the engineer to understand the wish of the driver..."

--> I like this guy! VW engineers have understood that the driver has to be happy! That's half the battle already won there.

[Mirek]

Great article, Kielder. I found a time to read it complete only today but it worth it!

[DonJippo]

"its more important for the engineer to understand the wish of the driver..."

--> I like this guy! VW engineers have understood that the driver has to be happy! That's half the battle already won there.

Well he must be new on his job, hasn't learned yet that it's the engineers who knows best ...

[noel157]

Well he must be new on his job, hasn't learned yet that it's the engineers who knows best ...

Wrong! He hasn't learned that it's the accountants who know best...........

[tfp]

"its more important for the engineer to understand the wish of the driver..."

--> I like this guy! VW engineers have understood that the driver has to be happy! That's half the battle already won there.

I remember reading something like that in your blog. I also remember a magazine interview with a ford mechanic last year, he was speaking of JML in France. JML insisted on using the "x" tyre set up thing (a pair of softs front left and rear right, and hards front right and rear left) the mechanics were inclined to use this set up, but they diddnt want to risk loosing their drivers confidence, even though they knew this set up wasn't going to work.