Hyundai WRT

[Myrvold]

or he really follows the "once a paydriver, always a paydriver".

There's something about it though. Marcus Ericsson, while having won three IndyCar-races, including Indy 500 and being 2nd overall so far this year, he is reportedly struggling to keep his seat as he is expected to bring money.

[EstWRC]

I’m surprised this article wasn’t mentioned here.

Well I missed it also myself and now found it

“I learned a lot from [Tänak] as well on the technical side. However yeah, our driving style was different,” Neuville added.

“With EP we are more on a similar philosophy, so I think it’s going in a good direction.”

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/hyund...lappi-synergy/

I’m no expert but for me it seemed from the Tänak Hyundai years that you have to drive that car more aggressively which doesn’t suit his style. Remember Latvala said this during last year at Rally Estonia and Ott himself during Finland and admitted he can’t do it on every rally (the aggressive driving)

But Lappi on the other hand drives very sideways and more aggressively and that’s why I think he has matched well with the Hyundai so far.

I can say now he definitely made a right move to take this contract. He is doing very good so far

[skarderud]

Neuville's drivingstyle is a little "unortodox" maybe, using the handbrake alot. Watched a historic rally he did in a Peugeot 306 maxi, and the use of handbrake was wery visible, and seemed not like it was for show, just his style.

Quite different from others it seems, but is it a effective way of driving? I'm not sure, to be honest.

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[seb_sh]

Neuville was asked about this during Sardegna and he said using the handbrake is not his preference but it's necessary to go fast in the Hyundai.

[skarderud]

He has done that for years, if the behaviour of the car is not right, why on earth are they still there? Fundamental wrong engineering? For many years?

The list of good drivers that dont manage do ho fast in the Hyundai is quite long.

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[EstWRC]

https://www.motorsport.com/wrc/news/...kage/10506115/

[Managarium]

[Eli]

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/f-x-d...media-silence/

An interesting interview with Hyundai’s latest recruitment, F-X.

[Yugo_para_siempre]

Now that Ott will be back.

How things will end up in terms of the car set up?

I mean, this year we read some comments from Thierry that the setup they use this year is much more suitable to him and Lappi. Also he mentioned that the setup preferences of Ott was very soft and all over the place sometimes.

[er88]

Tanak has to be convinced he can make it work. Doesn't look too good if he makes a 3rd move since Toyota and can't make it work to the maximum (title and loads of wins) at either Hyundai x2 or msport.

He must have been given assurances by Cyril that theyll work towards a car he is happy with, and Tanak will have seen the progress this year at Hyundai. Lappi has had good pace on most events and isnt a top tier1 driver, but they still need to work on reliability (just not to the extent msport do).

Hopefully Tanak and Neuville can work together properly under strong management, to get the car consistently on the level of Toyota. We dont need kalle domination or Ogier winning every time he does an event.