[ERC] Geko Ypres Rally (19. -21.06. 2014)

**Mirek** · 4th June 2014, 22:27

I presume they kept the DSG there?

**mousti** · 4th June 2014, 22:30

There will be one in the national Rally at Ypres

And maybe if Snijers doesn't start in competition he could drive the Fabia RS for VIP's on the stages

**nafpaktos** · 4th June 2014, 23:50

Originally Posted by RS

.. but 20kmh less top speed than the peugeots.

Yes but is this crucial to ypres?i mean the stages are not like the greek ones.

**dimviii** · 5th June 2014, 00:07

Abbring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=pBv1u2nREmI

**Mirek** · 5th June 2014, 00:18

Originally Posted by nafpaktos

Yes but is this crucial to ypres?i mean the stages are not like the greek ones.

Yes, it is. For example stage Heuveland has several very long straights with up to 30 seconds in rpm limiter each. In the past Škoda was benefiting from higher top speed than Peugeot and Ford in Ypres a lot (for some strange reason they didn't use long gearbox in Greece). Two years back there was a video with speed gun from one such straight and Van den Heuvel with R4 Evo made over 210 km/h there...

**dupanton** · 5th June 2014, 09:41

Originally Posted by Mirek

I presume they kept the DSG there?

Yes they did. It is apparently very difficult and even dangerous to drive with in a rally...

**Mirek** · 5th June 2014, 09:49

Maybe they would need to change the programming? The PDK was originally invented for motorsport use and DSG is working on fundamentally same principle. I admit I have never driven stock DSG but I can believe it might sometimes pre-shift up while You need shift down or vice versa as the automatics doesn't see the road in front of the car. It just follows the user when he is accelerating to high rpm it pre-shifts higher gear.

RS · 5th June 2014, 11:22

Can't be that hard to disable the automatic shifting surely and just use the paddles?

**vino_93** · 5th June 2014, 11:39

How does the shakedown work ? Will all the cars do it ? How many time can we see each car ?
Do we have to pay to see it ?
Where are the historics ?

**PLuto** · 5th June 2014, 12:00

Originally Posted by vino_93

How does the shakedown work ? Will all the cars do it ? How many time can we see each car ?
Do we have to pay to see it ?
Where are the historics ?

Historic shakedown is on different place in different time. Normal shakedown starts with this stupid format of qualify, so first you will see 3x all priority drivers and then the rest. And there are spectators tickets in Ypres.