To fight for the title, pace doesn't just need to be there, it needs to be great, possibly better than Toyota. Otherwise no way to counterbalance Toyota's great reliability and Hyundai's bad...
The pace on gravel will be there for Hyundai, the question lies on reliability. Is Ogier starting in Kenya?
The gap between Toyota and Hyundai seems even bigger this year. I bet Thierry can't wait to stop driving this iteration of the i20. If to retire or to try the 2027 cars I don't know. Fourmaux must be...
DirtFish @DirtFishRally Toyota has repeated a feat only Audi has previously achieved: locking out the podium in the first two rounds of a WRC season.

Evans is always mentaly destroyed by Ogier, and I mean every single time. And here when he wasn't around he was just wonderful. He should drive like this all the time and he could snatch the title...
[WRC] Rally Sweden 2026