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Often on Monte test the cars look bad or weird, a lot of it is they are testing all the tyre options so don’t have the maximum amount of grip.
I think some of the videos it looks like he has the...

Yeah, the Makinen one was a bad one.
Thankfully the lads are ok in this case, but I hope whatever damage has occurred isn’t a set back to the programme for the others.

Looked a bit unlucky, certainly with where he ended up. The glancing blow didn’t even look like it broke the steering, just deflected him into the bank. Let’s hope it’s just superficial damage.

For me it’s the Toyota I don’t like, I can’t get used to the rake in the chassis. I quite like the Puma, the Hyundai seems a bit stretched, I actually prefer the Rally2 car.

It would be interesting to know what the actual causes for these accidents are, is it just the drivers getting caught out having a less capable car to the previous one? It is odd that there have been...

Mate, I’m with you. All I can say is let’s be grateful those two lads are ok.

Not surprised, they can’t have taking too much away from what running they did do.

I guess they could have done without those conditions. While it might help on MC, creeping around at 50kph isn’t really loading up the car to get a good feel for it.
I also have an irrational hatred...

I also wonder if the hybrid boost/re-gen could be a big differentiator between even different drivers with the same car. If one guys style just doesn’t work the system the right way, it ‘could’ be a...

I’m with you, I think the testing ramped up a notch this week. The cars look more edgy for sure.
Let’s see what this ‘real’ Hyundai is like when some videos appear.

I would say the Puma does look stiffer than the Fiesta from the videos we have seen, and in honesty better for it, yet the Hyundai appears to have gone the opposite direction on the evidence we see...

I’ve avoided saying anything for the same reason, but I have to agree there is something odd about the way it squats and understeers under power. Looks really strange.
I’m sure they will sort it...

I disagree, I think the car looks to have a much better and stable rear end than the current Fiesta. It squares up well and drives forward on power and doesn’t seem to over pitch or over rotate off...

Corner looks familiar…did Kubica go off there in Alsace rally?

I agree, we don’t want it to turn into a programmers competition…I would prefer it’s on the driver to push the button, but I don’t think the FIA want that. At least then it’s a driver controlled...

Of course testing is testing….
That wild rake they have in the car will take some getting used to tho!

I’m not sure what to make of that, but something doesn’t seem right. It almost looks like the gearing is long to use the hybrid boost, but the hybrid wasn’t working or connected. It looked, and...

Big moment on the bump, code brown for the cameraman!

I’m not judging the speed, speed is only relative against the others and until the first rally, we won’t know. What you can do is look at the attitude of the car, and see what it’s doing and in my...

You can sort of pick the bones out of what he writes, but I agree some of it seems odd.
The R5 quote I would assume he means in sharp, very slow corners where the weight will work against the new...

Yeah it looks pretty good, you can see a few traits that they have tried to improve over the old (current) car, but some of it might be to do with the new regs.
It does look long tho!

Loeb?

It’s only a short clip, but the Puma looks pretty good in that video, seems quite stable.

The bodyshell looks like it’s mounted too far forward, large front overhang and no rear overhang…it’s probably for aero, but looks odd.

I tend to agree, not getting the juices flowing just yet. It may well be a sound thing, but the Toyota just looked slow 🤷🏻*♂️