[WRC] Safari Rally 2022

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Originally Posted by jmwachuya

Loeb has retired...

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Conformation from the team?
Edit: yeah, just saw Loeb explaining what happened to Dirtfish, says it's over.

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

Toyota has huge Safari history and experience to draw on and look they are the top 4 cars. M-Sport doesnt have the budget to do more, so the only one to criticise is Hyundai (again).

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Think that is an big overstatement.

Toyotas heritage is forgotten inhouse, so I think everyone was on step one last year. The cars are simply not built for these hard conditions and why they haven´t adapted might as well be FIA´s fault. I don´t know.

Seeing this mornings failures gives even more reasons to stop the Safari adventure for coming years...

Neuville in the Media Zone: "Problems already in the start of the stage, I was losing power. We carried on, in the sandy part it got worse and in the end we had no power at all. My air filter box came loose and obviously all the sand went in."

So either crappy design by hyundai, or crappy service by the team. Nothing to do with it being rough.

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Originally Posted by Sulland

He has told us, but I missed it as well!!

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I suspected that since I recently added co-driver named Jamie for crew #41 (was TBA on original entrylist). :D

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Originally Posted by denkimi

Neuville in the Media Zone: "Problems already in the start of the stage, I was losing power. We carried on, in the sandy part it got worse and in the end we had no power at all. My air filter box came loose and obviously all the sand went in."

So either crappy design by hyundai, or crappy service by the team. Nothing to do with it being rough.

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I would definitely go with crappy service by Hyundai team. Just check this team preparation video for Rally Italia Sardegna WRC 2022 on 2:48 where a mechanic is tightening the hub assembly with just one arm using the other arm to handle his phone https://youtu.be/UD0cOG44eEw?t=168

So many issues. Seems it's partly the cars but also some drivers are pushing like it's in Europe.

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

Think that is an big overstatement.

Toyotas heritage is forgotten inhouse, so I think everyone was on step one last year. The cars are simply not built for these hard conditions and why they haven´t adapted might as well be FIA´s fault. I don´t know.

Seeing this mornings failures gives even more reasons to stop the Safari adventure for coming years...

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And I think yours is a big over-reaction.

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

And I think yours is a big over-reaction.

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Well, everything is relative.

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

Well, everything is relative.

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Yes. And remember in the old Safari the cars got more servicing with teams helicopters following them.

Plus the current cars can break on any rough rally.

Meanwhile some news from closed circuit racing that might have an inpact on WRC: Ogier drops out of Richard Mille WEC squad