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mercredi 11 mars 2015

WRC ; Brèves du Mexique…/ Wednesday’s WRC notes: Mexico

Vous avez été nombreux à demander le retour de la rubrique des brèves. OK, alors en voici quelques-unes rapportées dans nos valises du Mexique.

-Certains pilotes et copilotes ont profité du voyage pour prendre quelques jours de vacances : Los Angeles et Miami pour Ogier et Anttila avant le rallye, Costa-Rica et Miami pour Julien Ingrassia et Andreas Mikkelsen après l’épreuve.

- Après Pontus Tidemand (1^er scratch d’une R5 en Mondial) et Yurii Protasov en Suède, Martin Prokop était tout près de remporter sa première victoire de spéciales en WRC, mais il a été battu d’1/10^e de seconde dans la Superspéciale de Leon (ES6).

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- La vidéo de la sortie de route de Tanak avait fait 6,2 millions de vues en une seule journée sur les réseaux sociaux du WRC. Les plus anciens se souviennent d’une sortie similaire de la Britannique Louise Atken-Walker au Portugal ..

- L’équipe M-Sport s’y est reprise à deux fois, mais elle est parvenue à faire repartir la Ford n°6 en course (changement de capteurs, faisceau moteur et boîtier ECU le samedi). Le team aurait pu retirer la voiture dimanche pour bénéficier d’un moteur neuf en Argentine, mais la mécanique a été jugée OK pour la prochaine épreuve. Ott et Raigo sont montés sur le podium final avec masques et tubas !

- Victoire heureuse de Nasser Al-Attiyah en WRC-2 après la sortie de route de Protasov, alors leader. Après le Dakar, le Qatar Rally et le Mexique, le duo Al-Attiyah/Baumel poursuit sa série de victoires en 2015. Les deux hommes se sont directement envolés pour le Koweit (2^e manche MERC) dimanche soir.

- Apprentissage difficile pour Stéphane Lefebvre (DS3 R5) en WRC-2 avec une touchette/roue cassée vendredi et une sortie de route samedi. Rallye encore plus difficile pour l’Italien Lorenzo Bertelli (Fiesta WRC) avec une sortie de route quotidienne.

- Pas de rallye de doublure, ni d’épreuve de championnat NACAM cette année au Mexique où le parc d’assistance faisait un peu « pauvret ».

- Dans sa sortie de route, Thierry Neuville a perdu son téléphone portable. Raigo Molder a retrouvé le sien dans la Ford après 10 heures passées au fond du lac. Et il fonctionnait toujours !

- Ca y est ! La Finlande et la France sont ex aequo au nombre de victoires en WRC avec 172 rallyes remportés chacun.

- Et pendant le Mexique, Toyota était en tests dans la neige de Suède. Des représentants du constructeur japonais étaient soi-disant en visite au Mexique.

Many of you have asked us to reinstate our ‘Wednesday’s WRC notes’ feature. Here are some of the anecdotes we brought back from Mexico.

- Several drivers and co-drivers took advantage of the long trip to organise a few days’ holiday. Ogier and Anttila visited Los Angeles and Miami before the rally, while Julien Ingrassia and Andreas Mikkelsen headed for Costa Rica and Miami after the finish.

- After fastest times for Pontus Tidemand (first fastest time for an R5 car) and Yurii Protasov in Sweden, Martin Prokop came close to collecting his first stage victory in Mexico. He was beaten by just one-tenth of a second on the Leon super-special (SS6).

- The video of Tanak’s watery ‘off’ was watched by 6.2 million people in a single day on the WRC’s social media. Some recall Louise Atken-Walker’s similar mishap one year on the Portugal Rally

- It took M-Sport two attempts to get the Estonian’s Ford back into the event after they swapped sensors, the engine wiring loom and the ECU on Saturday. The team could have chosen to retire the car on Sunday in order to benefit from a new engine for Argentina but the mechanicals were declared to be okay for the next round. Ott Tanak and his co-driver Raigo Molder appeared on the finish ramp wearing scuba diving gear!

- Nasser Al-Attiyah collected WRC2 honours after the class’s initial pace-setter Protasov crashed. After their Dakar and Qatar Rally victories earlier in the year, Al-Attiyah and co-driver Mathieu Baumel are on an enviable winning streak. On Sunday evening, they flew directly to Kuwait for Round 2 of the 2015 MERC.

- It was a tough Mexican debut for WRC2 runner Stéphane Lefebvre (DS3 R5) who broke a wheel rim on Friday and crashed on Saturday. It was even tougher for Italy’s Lorenzo Bertelli (Fiesta WRC) who crashed once per day.

- There was no parallel ‘national’ event or NACAM round this year. The service park consequently felt almost deserted.

- Thierry Neuville lost his mobile phone when he went off on Friday. Raigo Molder recovered his after it had spent 10 hours under water in the Estonian’s Ford. It still works!

- Drivers from Finland and France have now amassed the same number of WRC wins: 172 each.

- During Rally Mexico, Toyota was busy testing in snowy Sweden.

THE LOUDER – YAMAHA XS650 ’78

Written by Donny Ariyanto & Galih Priambodo

Look tough and enable to ride through any terrain is what Don Sugeng wants to make his ideal motorcycle. Stock engine is the main consideration by Bro Don for his custom project. With a lot of information for this project, his choice for the machine goes to 1978 Yamaha XS650 engine, with superb and ready-to-use condition. Choosing XS650 engine is the way to enjoy the best performance engine-work from Yamaha Motor Company with 654 cc, 4 strokes inline, two cylinder and 4 valves configuration, this machine had 50bhp 36.4 kW @7200 rpm for maximum power. With this magnificent power, making this machine is the most chosen stock-engine by the other horse steel lover because it was suitable to any custom and any concept. The chosen concept by Bro Don was referred from Scrambler concept because make XS650 fit in to the main concept. After STUDIO MOTOR and Bro Don had discussed every parts that will be used, so we will begin to work on his concept.

The first thing to do is making a brand-new chassis that will be suitable to the concept, but when the rebuilding-engine process is occurred, one of my friend offering an intact chassis from Honda CB650. We noticed that chassis will be extremely fitted to this concept, in no time we are agreed to choose this chassis for the concept. “It’ll need a little change at the engine mounting at the chassis!” We said, so the main-engine will perfectly attached. It’ll make a wonderful appearance. At the forks we are prefer to be 41mm telescopic front end with the TK Japan 18X2. 50 inch wheels and combined with Dunlop K180 120/80-18 tire, which it has the best pattern for dual purpose motorcycle. Honda CB 650 swing-arms were beautifully mated with TK Japan 18X3.00 inch wheels plus Dunlop K180 130/80-18 tire at the rear. For the rear shock were using 360mm YSS Z-Series type. I’ll take you to the main body, here, We have a gas tank, fenders, and side cover to keep the battery and other cables feeling safe from the 1.2mm galvanize plate materials. It’s coloring time! Creamy brown with the red-stripped at the upside gas tank giving calm and ferocious impression. “See? Isn’t its cool right? Blending opposite color-traits” that was Bro Don said. The basic materials of color was chosen by Komet Studio, they were using base coat and finishing coat by Sikkens. Last part, all the proponent parts were installed, the handlebar was in style of fatbar was selected to giving a comfortable handling. Front and rear lights was in stylized from aftermarket was bring out a tidy appearance design. Using 2 in 2 configuration at the exhaust, was produced a “Jarring” sound.

“Trim-shaped, comfortably ride, and superior engine will produce an overwhelmingly motorcycle was exactly as I predict…”, Bro Don said when He was set eyes at his ideal motorcycle finished. “THE LOUDER” was the perfect name to this riding-machine, when the test ride session was be held, the fierceness of the engine still work when it was being accelerate. Few people were appreciated at this ‘old brew’ engine. ‘Have a nice ride Bro!’