you laugh now but you won't be laughing when the new "Hyundai Thierry" comes out to a dealer near you! :D
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Line-up confirmation coming soon... and Moncet knew Tanak was leaving before Rally Spain:
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/hyund...ted-next-week/
When one makes up conspiracy theories, they have to be realistic, there is an art in lying. If you put up an ad offering an iPhone for 2 euros, nobody will click on it, because they'll immediately know it's a scam.
Suggesting that a team listens more to one driver's feedback is realistic, it has happened. Suggesting that a driver basically decides who the company hires (lol), fires other drivers (lol) and is responsible for the car's poor reliability (lol) is not realistic. Unless you were Ove Andersson, both driver and team principal of Toyota.
focus206, but what about Tänak saying that he is “not like my team-mate” Thierry Neuville who is “organizing the drivers in the team”?
Tanak can say what he wants, he said he was going to drive a Hyundai for sure next year... I think his biggest dislike was that the i20 was developed more to Neuville's liking, which is the only thing I find believable.
Can Neuville pitch a preference of teammate to higher-ups? Of course, they probably trust him enough as he's been at Hyundai forever, unfortunately. Can Neuville decide who drives, who gets released and control everything behind the scene like the master of puppets? That's just paranoia.
At this point Im just cheering for Lappi to win the world title with Hyundai and go like "Eh, the car is really good, idk why all the drama" :P