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

[bluuford]

lets wait and see what was the reason.I cant believe that is from cutting,for a car with sumpguards at asphalt,except if something is not designed properly.
My guess is that engine has gone,and they just wanted to protect engine from a totally failure,oils at the road,bad publicity etc.
of course after all these problems,i will not believe Peugeot sports announcements.

Yeah, we do not know. It just came to my mind. It is the rally with the most extreme cuts and fo tarmac rally they use much lighter sumpguards, so, I see some logic here. I remember when there were several retirements in WRC (Loeb etc.) when the sumpquard was not good enough and they retired because of damaged engine (oil on the tarmac). Was it Spain? or Corsica? Markko won then.

[nafpaktos]

Is it early to say the project(208) failed?

[bluuford]

Is it early to say the project(208) failed?

Not yet.. the car is fast.. but extremely unreliable. Remember that M-Sport also had a lot of mechanical failiures at the beginning and they had huge amount of cars testing everywhere in the world.

[dimviii]

[br21]

Just for information - in WRC, S2000 and R5 cars most of the time you use thicker sumpguards for tarmac and thinner for gravel. Simply because 6mm plate is strong enough for gravel and is lighter than 8mm and gravel spec car is normally heavier, so you don't need extra weight from sump and diff guards.

Rear spoiler mounting design in 208 and DS3 is not done properly, always they have problems with it on bumpy tarmac...

[dimviii]

Simpson on the ditch.

[dimviii]

Kevin Abbring facebook

A huge thanks to Sainteloc Racing, Peugeot Sport, Peugeot NL, my co Seb Marshall and everyone who came to support us @RallyYpres!! It was such a great feeling!! The car did a really good job aswell! This 50th anniversary should have been ours! Third time we retired from the lead this year, quite unlucky so far. We don't know yet what the problem is, enjoy the last couple of stages everyone! Again, thank u all, one of the greatest and fastest weekends of my life!

[bluuford]

Just for information - in WRC, S2000 and R5 cars most of the time you use thicker sumpguards for tarmac and thinner for gravel. Simply because 6mm plate is strong enough for gravel and is lighter than 8mm and gravel spec car is normally heavier, so you don't need extra weight from sump and diff guards.

Rear spoiler mounting design in 208 and DS3 is not done properly, always they have problems with it on bumpy tarmac...

Thank you for technical information! I didnt know that:-) So, basically that means it was stronger but not strong enough..

[nafpaktos]

@br21 i saw in the past sump-guards made from plastic-fiberglass or something like that.it is not used anymore?i think i saw this in a wrc car!and one more question i thought that a wrc has the same weight irrespective gravel or tarmac specs,and this is because of the regulations <Minimum weight is 1200 kg empty and 1350 kg with driver and co-driver >.so i suppose all cars are 1200 kg.

[dimviii]

@br21 i saw in the past sump-guards made from plastic-fiberglass or something like that.it is not used anymore?i think i saw this in a wrc car!and one more question i thought that a wrc has the same weight irrespective gravel or tarmac specs,and this is because of the regulations <Minimum weight is 1200 kg empty and 1350 kg with driver and co-driver >.so i suppose all cars are 1200 kg.

what br 21 wants to say is because wrc/s2000 cars are much lighter than 1200kg,they choose to put weight where is less disadvantage for the car.This is the lower points =sumpguards for diffs and engine.Thats why you can find thicker sumpguards at ashpalt.
Because an asphalt car is lighter than in gravel spec,they choose to install heavier sumpguards to be ok with the weight they have to be.
thats a trick well known from focus wrc 03.