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The Citroën Total World Rally Team Abu Dhabi has unveiled its challenger 2017 C3 WRC Abu Dhabi this afternoon with the team boss Yves Matton indicating he wants the car to win rallies next season.
The French team is the last of 2017 manufacturers reveal how he interpreted the new technical regulations coming into force of Monte Carlo Rally in January and have radically changed the look and performance of the latest generation World Rally Cars.
After just completing a selected program of events in 2016, returns to action Citroen WRC as full-time next season and the team has high hopes that the new C3 WRC catapult back in contention winning regular rally so it can add to an end 96 rally wins and eight titles manufacturers.
In 2017, we want to win races in normal conditions, beating our competitors, said Matton And in 2018, our goal is to bring home at least one world titles.
The interesting changes to the 2017 WRC technical regulations have been one of the catalysts that Citroen convinced to return to the series with its new model C3.
Matton said At first glance, one could easily think that just a major upgrade to previous regulations but it is much more than the increase in engine power, the growing influence of aerodynamics and the return of the differential are centrally controlled by three major changes.
We applied our unique expertise on these three points, taken from our previous World Rally Cars and our recent experience in track racing that allowed us to go faster than we could possibly have and above all, to go far in our thinking.
Citroen new eye catchy C3 WRC goes against cars as beautiful M-Sport, Hyundai and Toyota on the WRC calendar 13 all next season and many predict the championship will offer a show in 2017, recalling the time Gp B that made WRC, a series must watch the mid-1980s.
Comparing the latest regulations with those in the period Gp B Matton said C3 WRC certainly remember the cars that captivated a generation of rally fans, including me thirty years, fortunately, everything has changed, especially in terms of security.
But the sense that drivers must tame an aggressive, roaring beast is something that we will definitely see next season when I saw Kris Meeke first main driver driving the car of the test team, I said that we had achieved our goal There is a spectacular side of this new generation of WRC.
C3 WRC carries an aggressive aero package that fully exploits the body of rules next year.
Below front lights two levels characteristic of Citroen, the front bumper is a divider and winglets to generate support and reduce the air intakes understeer provide fresh air to the radiator, the intercooler turbo and brakes while the hot air is drawn through ducts on the hood and at the bottom of the front fenders.
The ventilation holes on the rear doors are used to cool the brakes as the front, the hot air exits from the bottom of the wings.
The rear end is dominated by a huge rear spoiler to two elements which consists of a bottom scoop and a complex higher level below the rear bumper is designed to quickly spit gravel and snow on soft surfaces.
Under the hood is a direct injection engine with four cylinders 1 6 liters turbo based on Citroen unit of the car C-Elysée WTCC With the new turbo limiter control WRC 36mm, it produces about 380bhp.
The transmission wheel drive has also undergone a major change, with the return of an active central differential, while the suspension changes include longer and geometry that will travel in different versions asphalt and gravel car.
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