LEUVEN

Subarus are made in japan in right hand drive form, and right hand drive for uk, but forwhat reason are the rally cars left hand drive?

Does anyone know why?

alcazar

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'Cos most rallys are run in countries which drive on the right, and most rally cars are driven by drivers who learned to drive on the right?

Alcazar

tonybooth

........Which probably explains why the British, Japanese, Aussies, Cypriots and Indians don't win all that many races

TONY

pbee

depends on the team, the 01 focus wrc was right hand drive but are now all lefties probably due to the drivers, I thought the subaru's still had the wheels on the "right" side do they not !!

pbee

depends on the team, the 01 focus wrc was right hand drive but are now all lefties probably due to the drivers, I thought the subaru's still had the wheels on the "right" side do they not !!

clarence

It's because most WRC events are run in LHD areas, & LHD cars are more convenient for road sections.

flat4

03 Focus is now based on the US version because it's longer, hence the move to a left hooker

Scoobydid

Clarence,

How come LHD is better for road sections, surely they have about the same number of left & right hand bends (on average)

Scoobydid

Think I can answer my own question here, I read road sections as tarmac sections, presuably you meant the link sections

johnfelstead

the focus WRC has only ever been LHD, it has never been RHD, the USA shell, pre 03 car has no implication here. You have to go back to pre Escort Cosworth WRC spec to find the last ford RHD homologated car as the Escort WRC was never RHD homologated, the GroupA Escort Cosworth hasnt been RHD homologated since they introduced the 7.5" front diff asembly which is too big to fit with a steering column on the right.

It's simple, you have to standardise to one homologation, so LHD was chosen due to the majority of drivers starting out LHD. All the works WRC cars have only ever been LHD homologated.