Wing mirrors ?

[Mustang]

I know that this is a bit of a strange thing to ask, but why are these wing mirrors soo far back ?

[Blue Supra]

could it be so that the dirt/dust that the front wheels kick up dont obscure what he can see?

[Tuscan666]

You dont really need to check whats behind u in a Rally car?

[Matra et Alpine]

Coz the driver is set WELL back in the Focus. His head is in line with the door pillar.

Then we get simple physics and reflection laws.
To see as much as you can behind, you want a miror as close to your eyes as possible. That gives you the largest field of view. So getting it further back lets them keep the mirror small and maxmiise rear visibility.

Critical in a modern rally car as you CANNOT turn your head to see ANYTHING. So if you do get into a nasty situation and have to reverse back up an exit road or do a 3-point turn you ONLY have the mirrors to see with. So getting large field of view takes precedence over it looking liek the street car

Now, how long do you think it will be before the burberry cap crowd start fitting them to their Focii ? sad

[drakkie]

Focii

haha :d nice how u used the latin in it...
:d:d if there was still rep id give u

[henk4]

haha :d nice how u used the latin in it...
:d:d if there was still rep id give u

part of his signature used to be: Part time Latin teacher on UCP

[Mustang]

Coz the driver is set WELL back in the Focus. His head is in line with the door pillar.

Then we get simple physics and reflection laws.
To see as much as you can behind, you want a miror as close to your eyes as possible. That gives you the largest field of view. So getting it further back lets them keep the mirror small and maxmiise rear visibility.

Critical in a modern rally car as you CANNOT turn your head to see ANYTHING. So if you do get into a nasty situation and have to reverse back up an exit road or do a 3-point turn you ONLY have the mirrors to see with. So getting large field of view takes precedence over it looking liek the street car

Now, how long do you think it will be before the burberry cap crowd start fitting them to their Focii ? sad

OK, so if the focus drivers sit so far back then why are the mirrors here an this car then ?

I take it its just different events different car setups ?

[Matra et Alpine]

OK, so if the focus drivers sit so far back then why are the mirrors here an this car then ?

I take it its just different events different car setups ?

I suspect it's lessons learned
Those mounted farther back came later ??
I'm not sure where the WRC regs stand with that, so they may be asked to move them back.

The limited rear view in a top rally seat in full helmet is VERY restricted.
They may have learned by bitter experience when they had to reverse, or maybe an engineer came up with it and proposed it as 'better'. Guess we won't know for sure untill M-Sport come out and tell us

[henk4]

BTW, if you want to add a mirror to a Focus in Latin (and plural) it can be considered as a movement, which would mean 4th case, plural, and 4th declination so that is simply Focus (How romans would pronounce it is another matter), Focii is probably wrong.

[UK CARS]

why dont you just dont use latin.
I dont have a clue how to read it, same with most other members.

[henk4]

why dont you just dont use latin.
I dont have a clue how to read it, same with most other members.

The problem is: Focus is Latin, so Ford started it

[UK CARS]

The problem is: Focus is Latin, so Ford started it

haha!

[Chinky_boi]

the first pic seems to be cameras to me. If it were mirrors. Why would it be dangling from that tiny piece of steel?

[escort mexico]

because it saves weight