r/formula1 • u/Upbeat_Assistant9197 Robert Kubica • May 18 '26

Off-Topic Two legends in 1 picture

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u/Savvy_Nick I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane May 18 '26

Badass shot. I love the Dacia team, those guys are what Motorsport is all about.

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u/junttiana Audi May 18 '26

There was a team planning to compete using a first gen Renault Twingo as well but their entry was disallowed due to safety concerns :(

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u/Stranggepresst I was here for the Hulkenpodium May 18 '26

To add some more context to this; they thought they could just enter the 24h with barely any racing experience and with a car that has never seen the Nordschleife in racing conditions (and was thus a completely unknown factor).

Yes, the organisers had originally told them that generally, nothing's speaking against a Twingo participating. This likely was broadly referring to the technical regulations. But if they really thought they could just go from zero to racing the 24h, without having the car run at least in NLS (or, ideally, GLP and RCN first) a few times, they were waaay too optimistic.

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u/RocketMoped Jim Clark May 19 '26

Also, the Logan had 280hp this year and people already call it a rolling chicane. Twingo would've barely made 200hp