en ja er zijn ook bewegende beelden
Mini Countryman WRC , Portugal - Ponte de Lima 14/09/2010
MINI terug in Rally na 40 jaar afwezigheid: Countryman WRC
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Ja ja wrijf het er maar lekker in hoor.
Wij horen bijna niets meer. Optrekken bij ons in de parkeergarage is echt niet leuk meer
Wij horen bijna niets meer. Optrekken bij ons in de parkeergarage is echt niet leuk meer
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Welke uitlaat, zit er een onder danpimmy schreef:Weet iemand misschien al het bestelnummer van deze uitlaat?
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"Mini Countryman WRC" by Markko Märtin_2º Day of Tests at Ponte de Lima, Portugal 15-10-2010
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Mini Countryman Rally Car - Test results
Voor de rally liefhebbers, het plaatje kreeg ik er helaas niet op.
Mini set for increased test programme
By David Evans
Friday, September 24th 2010, 11:24 GMT
MiniProdrive technical director David Lapworth says the team will be testing the Mini Countryman WRC for one week per month for the rest of the year - with the car's first asphalt outing scheduled for November.
The car ran for the first time in competitive trim in Portugal last week. The team has now returned to Banbury where the data from the test is being analysed before the next stage of development.
"We've planned to test a week each month until Christmas," said Lapworth. "We will be working on the base car, I guess we call it the Super 2000 car if you like.
"Obviously, that's the base car for the World Rally car, we will be able to work on the two cars together because obviously they're both very similar. In the end, we will have to work separately because the WRC will have to be tuned for a different power output and for different aerodynamics."
Lapworth admitted the next tests would be similar to the running completed last week.
"We're going to test the car through the whole range of conditions, we're not going to be going into using X or Y millimeter roll bars or X or Y front springs - it's not that detailed yet."
Marcus Gronholm is due to tell Prodrive whether he has accepted their offer of a contract for next season in the coming week.
Should the Finn sign up, he is likely to begin test work with the Mini straight away. Otherwise, Markko Martin is a likely candidate for the development programme, the Estonian worked with the team, improving the Subaru Impreza WRC in the Japanese manufacturer's final season in the sport in 2008.
Q & A: Lapworth on Mini's testing
By David Evans
Friday, September 24th 2010, 11:25 GMT
Prodrive has committed to an increased test programme for its new Mini Countryman for the remainder of 2010.
Technical director David Lapworth talked to AUTOSPORT.com about the running conducted so far and plans for the future.
Q. How was the first significant test of the Mini in Portugal?
David LapworthDavid Lapworth: Good. It went very well. That was the first genuine test of the car. We'd done some systems checks in Britain the week before, but Portugal was the first real running. The test was about confirming the car had a good base platform without any engineering faults. It was about making sure the steering worked, the brakes worked - we were making sure there were no obvious shortcomings with the car; and we're happy to report there weren't any.
Q. You tested a few drivers, though...
DL: I'm not going to discuss drivers.
Q. You've run Mads Ostberg, Marcus Gronholm, Kris Meeke, Markko Martin and Ott Tanak in the car. Isn't that a bit much for a one-week test?
DL: As I said, I'm not going to discuss drivers at all. As far as we're concerned, we had three people in the car last week - and we were very pleased with the feedback from them.
Q. Would it have been better to have one driver, to give more consistent feedback?
DL: Not really, no. I can see the argument for that, but this is such an early stage for the car that it really didn't make any difference. Actually, it was really good to get the feedback from three different people. It's not like we were into a set-up or performance test.
Q. How many roads did you use?
DL: We used four different venues and they were a bit rougher than we'd expected, which was a bonus as the car ran through them with no problems at all.
Q. What's the next step?
DL: We continue testing. We've got plenty to do. So far we've run the car on one surface and four roads, so we've still got to look at mud, asphalt and slippery surfaces: snow and ice.
Q. Given that you're missing Sweden, snow and ice are not the priority?
DL: No, they're not our top priority, but we need to do it. We don't anticipate running the WRC on snow and ice, but that doesn't mean we might not have a partner who wants to do a winter rally.
Mini set for increased test programme
By David Evans
Friday, September 24th 2010, 11:24 GMT
MiniProdrive technical director David Lapworth says the team will be testing the Mini Countryman WRC for one week per month for the rest of the year - with the car's first asphalt outing scheduled for November.
The car ran for the first time in competitive trim in Portugal last week. The team has now returned to Banbury where the data from the test is being analysed before the next stage of development.
"We've planned to test a week each month until Christmas," said Lapworth. "We will be working on the base car, I guess we call it the Super 2000 car if you like.
"Obviously, that's the base car for the World Rally car, we will be able to work on the two cars together because obviously they're both very similar. In the end, we will have to work separately because the WRC will have to be tuned for a different power output and for different aerodynamics."
Lapworth admitted the next tests would be similar to the running completed last week.
"We're going to test the car through the whole range of conditions, we're not going to be going into using X or Y millimeter roll bars or X or Y front springs - it's not that detailed yet."
Marcus Gronholm is due to tell Prodrive whether he has accepted their offer of a contract for next season in the coming week.
Should the Finn sign up, he is likely to begin test work with the Mini straight away. Otherwise, Markko Martin is a likely candidate for the development programme, the Estonian worked with the team, improving the Subaru Impreza WRC in the Japanese manufacturer's final season in the sport in 2008.
Q & A: Lapworth on Mini's testing
By David Evans
Friday, September 24th 2010, 11:25 GMT
Prodrive has committed to an increased test programme for its new Mini Countryman for the remainder of 2010.
Technical director David Lapworth talked to AUTOSPORT.com about the running conducted so far and plans for the future.
Q. How was the first significant test of the Mini in Portugal?
David LapworthDavid Lapworth: Good. It went very well. That was the first genuine test of the car. We'd done some systems checks in Britain the week before, but Portugal was the first real running. The test was about confirming the car had a good base platform without any engineering faults. It was about making sure the steering worked, the brakes worked - we were making sure there were no obvious shortcomings with the car; and we're happy to report there weren't any.
Q. You tested a few drivers, though...
DL: I'm not going to discuss drivers.
Q. You've run Mads Ostberg, Marcus Gronholm, Kris Meeke, Markko Martin and Ott Tanak in the car. Isn't that a bit much for a one-week test?
DL: As I said, I'm not going to discuss drivers at all. As far as we're concerned, we had three people in the car last week - and we were very pleased with the feedback from them.
Q. Would it have been better to have one driver, to give more consistent feedback?
DL: Not really, no. I can see the argument for that, but this is such an early stage for the car that it really didn't make any difference. Actually, it was really good to get the feedback from three different people. It's not like we were into a set-up or performance test.
Q. How many roads did you use?
DL: We used four different venues and they were a bit rougher than we'd expected, which was a bonus as the car ran through them with no problems at all.
Q. What's the next step?
DL: We continue testing. We've got plenty to do. So far we've run the car on one surface and four roads, so we've still got to look at mud, asphalt and slippery surfaces: snow and ice.
Q. Given that you're missing Sweden, snow and ice are not the priority?
DL: No, they're not our top priority, but we need to do it. We don't anticipate running the WRC on snow and ice, but that doesn't mean we might not have a partner who wants to do a winter rally.
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