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

**Mirek** · 5th June 2014, 12:03

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 ?

Last year first was free runs of priority drivers. Each one twice and than qualification. That was with 2 minutes gap I think. After that normal shakedown for all crews except priority drivers continued for another maybe three hours. I don't remember exactly. Bad thing was that due to the qualification the priority drivers did only three passes each.

Originally Posted by RS

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

You can not disable automatics with double clutch gearbox. It always have two gears shifted in the same time and operates via those two clutches. They key is to have correct gear pre-shifted at the second clutch however that is difficult to automatize for racing use. I don't know how exactly Porsche PDK had it done. I guess normally the system pre-shifts higher gear if You keep accelerating and pre-shifts lower gear if You are braking or if the rpm goes down.

**mousti** · 5th June 2014, 17:29

Originally Posted by Mirek

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...

Reninge has also some straights on old tarmac that the limiter definately will be reached.