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ADVERTORIAL LADA SPORT special The racing engineer of James Thompson is Marco Calovolo, one of the most expert technicians of the WTCC scene. As all the other manufactures engineers he has now to face the 2014 Championsip rules changes and he gives his comments about this revolution and the development of LADA Granta Sport car. 2014 : THE WTCC TECHNICAL REVOLUTION
Mr. Calovolo, from the point of view of a racing engineer what is your attitude towards new technical regulations? They will provide more freedom to modify the car. Will it be helpful for LADA? “New regulations are, for sure, very interesting from the technical point of view. Actually, we are making a new car, not only develop an existing car. This is a big challenge, and I believe, that LADA will benefit more than other competitors. The point is that with existing WTCC regulations we didn’t have much freedom to change some parts, to modify the car the way we wanted in order to compensate the small dimensions of our LADA Granta. Next year the rules will provide more freedom for engineers, we will have much wider car and will have a possibility to adjust something in a suspension. Perhaps we will benefit more, because we came into the Championship with a brand new car, and continued to develop it during the racing weekends, so we gathered a number of technical solutions, which will be used while creating a new evolution of LADA Granta. I mean we have an adjustable car, which is highly perceptive to various changes and engineering experiments. That is our advantage.” How is the process of developing a new car going? Which will be the hardest task for the engineers in terms of creating a new car? “Now we are going on some studies regarding aerodynamic package, but it’s fundamental, because the car will be much different to the car we have now. There will be much more down force, different body parts, bigger wing, bigger splitter. Also the mechanical parts are being studied now and the engine as well. In parallel we have started to design several parts of the car, the car will be ready by mid-February. The hardest task will be to find the best balance between all components of the car. I mean the engine will be much powerful, comparing to what we have now, the brakes will be bigger, there will be more down force, the car will be lighter. The fundamental thing is to have harmony between all these parts, and to have a car which is easy adjustable.”
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