WRC drive
 

Uffff ...
Yesterday I got a chance to drive Peugeot 307 WRC (ex. Marcus Gronholm) for a few laps on a nice gravel circuit. Amazing, that's all I can say. First I was driven by Nicolas Voullioz (ex. mountain bike champion and now semi-works driver), then I had to wait for mechanics to fix the car (he jumped waaay to fast so sumpguard broke), then I had my chance ... It's very easy to drive fast, I was a bit suprised at that ... Slides rally nice, and the piower of the engine is just crazy. I'm not so impressed with 4-speed gearbox, though. I would prefer 5-speed.
It eas a bit tight behin steering wheel (the seat was not set for Gronholm, who is tall, but for Voullioz, who is short, so i bumped my hed on the roof on every bump), but not too much. Steering wheel gearchange is extremely fast (I have driven some kicars and ST cars, but this is completely different), you can shift from 3 to 4 while slidnig the car through a corner without breaking the slide. And steering whell has just over 1 turn lock to lock ...
Some pics (me driving):
http://img103.exs.cx/img103/2913/jw4.th.jpg
http://img103.exs.cx/img103/4227/jw3.th.jpg
http://img103.exs.cx/img103/1096/jw2.th.jpg
http://img103.exs.cx/img103/4214/jw1.th.jpg
http://img103.exs.cx/img103/5102/jw0.th.jpg

I thought you would be the firs one ... I'm a journalist ... And how did you know tha they call me Lucky (really, not kidding, that's how everybody calls me)?
Anyway: next task: to drive Impreza WRC ...

dide, that is awsome, very lucky to get to drive one - damn

diden't know they had a 4 speed gearbox!

They have 4 or 5 speed, depending on rally. This one was from rally GB, so it had a 4 speed ...

This must be an amazing experience, lucky you!! And did you manage to set some fast times or were you scared to crash an expensive car like this?

jakaracman what magazine do you report for ?

That is one awsome jod if you get to go in cars like that :o but me i hope to be doing the real thing in a few years :)

Look at the pics and you'll se that it was quite fast. Didn't go at 100%, though (more like 95%), you cat got 100% imediately in a road car, they are not that different from each other, but not in a race car or some supercars. So I do not want to know lap times if I don't have time to to get to know the car really well (at least 20 lap or so, now I did 5)

Mk 2 fan: Avto Magazin (from Slovenia) ... Real thing? You do rallying?

Yes i do rallying, im going to be in a Peugeot 205 1.6 GTi from Next June

im only just gonna be able to drive then and im going straight into it :D

P.s. If you want to do a article for your Mag its ok ill do it :)

want to sponsor me ? ;)

The pics are stunning! :shock: How did it accelerate in comparison to a road car?

Hmmm....
Couldn't measure it, bud from seat of the pants feeling I wolud say about 5 sec to 100 km/h on gravel ... And on gravel it brakes better than 911 on road tires on normal road ...

Looks like fun.

Be sure to scan the article to share with us when it goes to press.

Thats gotta be amazing. Do you have or less respect for rally drivers now?

I would say more, but I allready had very high respect for them ...

nice pics, some shots from the inside?

god I would love to be in your shoes.

uhhh.... ENVY!