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The lack of Hybrid wording is mainly what surprised me when it's a new era of car.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
And I meant the livery looks like before, not the car.
A few hybrid logos and maybe a flash of green would make the i20 look like it was something really different...
I also liked the last iteration of the C3 WRC, otherwise, good liveries beforehand would be, VW's which was pretty neat imho, M-Sport's 2013-2015 liveries, and the now classic(?) C4 & DS3 Red-bull liveries.Quote:
Originally Posted by lmmjvss
True. quattro system did same for Audi, it was small brand compared to BMW/Mercedes.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
I should have used word "mostly" before Sporty models.
Personally I don’t like it.. it’s not the 1980s any more.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
I’m sure it’s function over form though. Talking of which what are the homologation/joker rules around aero parts? We’ve seen teams making quite frequent changes in recent years. This can’t be cheap.
Hyundai using a show car. Not a real rally car.
Julien Moncet the new team boss ?
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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
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Things seem to boil there a little.. not a nice comment in my view when the decision to retire was based on health reasons. I guess the comment is just made on pure emotion after a disappointing event but still..
Yep, not nice at all.
They need a boss to keep drivers under (some) control, in the absence of a boss Neuville is seemingly starting to act a bit like one.
In light of all their issues Adamo's departure seems more and more like either sacking or running away when he saw where it was going.
His testing crash hurt the team a lot more…
my 2c he ran away seeing the writing on the wallQuote:
Originally Posted by mknight
Only if you knew the real reasonQuote:
Originally Posted by seb_sh
One picture speaks a thousand words…hopefully this year won’t be a rewind of 2021 for him or the rest of the team.Quote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
The whole team seems lost and frustrated. I hope they can get it together.
I hope they get a new team boss before we get to Sweden, and I hope the car won’t have reliability issues, or at least not in the same scale we’ve seen in Monte-Carlo and last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
A new team boss will not solve anything instantly. You think they have people there who dont know what they have to do?Quote:
Originally Posted by Eli
Has adamo controlled any of the drivers before?Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
You look at things through rose tinted glasses.
No I don’t think it will solve everything or anything in an instant, I’m sure they know what they’re doing but there’s a reason why you have a team boss, and in times like these, Hyundai could use a good one; to lift their moral and to push them in the right direction, to lead them somewhere better and not to be lost as they (judging only by MC of course) seem now.Quote:
Originally Posted by logic
LOL ok....Quote:
Originally Posted by Eli
The main issue is not having a boss right now; it’s about the car and Loriaux knows the technical part for it.
The question mark is to know if they are still in the development process (not only finalizing and updating) because they are late compared with other manufacturer (in that case, they have to limit losses in Sweden and maybe Croatia but after that, they can benefit from the 5 gravel-rally streak).
If there are at the same stage of car development (to the final version) than the other manufacturers, the season will be very loooong...
I don’t tell it’s useless to hire a boss, I’m just speaking in terms of priority.
The car is homologated. Major things cannot be changed anymore. The team has only one test day per driver per rally.
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Originally Posted by Danny0405
That is not the main issue but carry on.
so which is the main issue?Quote:
Originally Posted by logic
the main issue is having solberg senior around.
Solberg senior is not a part of Hyundai.Quote:
Originally Posted by wyler
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Several things with Hyundai it seems.
Thierrys coment about oliver is only showing who's nice or not. You dont say stuff like that out loud.
He crashed the testcar himself, thats the reason they are behind.
Ott's catastrophic tire"strategy" is another one, thierry didn't critisize that?
Thierry himself lost the potential wdc atleast 4 times only because of himself, maybe its time to take a look in the mirror....
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Neuville had same tires tbh.Quote:
Originally Posted by skarderud
I really don't think things are as bad as in Alzenau as last weekend in Monte Carlo is making people think.
The tyre gamble - well, they had to gamble. There was nothing to gain from copying everyone else, and not really much to lose. You can say for sure that they wouldn't have done that running 1st and 2nd overall!
The seeming lack of urgency in appointing a permanent team principal is, if anything, a good thing. No knee-jerk reaction, taking their time to make sure the next appointment is the right one. Would an Adamo-style reaction to the performance in Monte be a good thing, in the circumstances? I would say not.
It is extremely unlikely that they've developed a fundamentally bad car - the chassis will be more than good enough, they just need to work out how to get the best out of it. As much as homologation limits major changes, there's still a huge range of damper, anti-roll-bar, spring and weight distribution adjustments that can be made to get the best out of it, and make it work for different drivers. That just takes time, and testing. Writing them and their car off after one rally would be a mistake.
I think they have bigger problems right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by wyler
Yeah, and in the end Ogier and Loeb also ran the second pass of Sisteron with slicks.Quote:
Originally Posted by bandit12
As for having only one spare, it's risky indeed. However, we don't know whether Tänak crashed because of another puncture or if he got another puncture because of crashing. And while it seems he retired because of the radiator issue, he was seen trying to fix the broken tyre on the liaison onto the tyre zone so maybe they could have worked on that radiator as well? However, it seemed quite severe since they weren't able to continue on Sunday (or then it was engine change tactics)
he retired because of radiator failure, you could see at the stage end that all the fluids were on the windscreen.
to estonian media he said they tried to continue but it was hard for the engine and they stopped.
Moncet said that they didnt continue on Sunday cause now they have the possibilty to have extra engine or smth like that
How involved is Petter these days?Quote:
Originally Posted by wyler
For Sweden:Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Hyundai 3 days
Toyota 4 days + full month in their Snowy Jyväskylä testing area.
I don´t see "Arctic surprise" coming from Hyundai...
And this last surprise was largely because they participated in Otepää Winter Rally, which gave them many "free" testing days. This year they won't participate as this is already this weekend and I don't know if there will be any winter rallies in Finland or Sweden in the coming weeks.
We have some rallies, but it's not as easy to participate with the Rally1 car, I've heard from people working in Arctic Rally organization.
Not at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
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Yeah, but both take the gamble, one lost. Its not first time, he lost that gamble.Quote:
Originally Posted by bandit12
Just plain stupid.
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