Again, I've heard similar stuff about Neuville and his special politics inside of Hyundai back in 2019 already.
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Again, I've heard similar stuff about Neuville and his special politics inside of Hyundai back in 2019 already.
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”To be honest, …”Quote:
Originally Posted by lmmjvss
How are you so fast with this car??Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
,,To be honest, it's the driver..''
:D
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/monce...e-in-question/
Seems like it's Moncet's last rally with the team.
On his (seems to be personal) fb page he wrote 4 days ago: 'Not the last 2022 trip but definitely the last rally (this year and...).
Let's enjoy a trip through Taipei and Tokyo before ending up this amazing season on a high.'
Interesting days ahead of us.
Last rally with the team? Or last rally as deputy team leader? He still has his main job as the drivetrain manager?
Neuvile to be confirmed team principal and chief engineer after Japan. of course now it all makes sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Also starting next year he will co-drive himself.
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Originally Posted by seb_sh
co-drive himself................... you have humor to be honest.....................
Now, when Moncet is/will be gone, will Neuville hire Tänak back and this was just a "game" that Tänak leaves.Quote:
Originally Posted by seb_sh
“If everything is fine then next week we will be able to announce something,” Hyundai deputy team director Julien Moncet told Autosport.
“This is still to be confirmed but hopefully that is something we can achieve. Obviously our focus right now is Rally Japan because we want to achieve a good result.
“Honestly speaking not everything is finished. We want to wait for all the confirmations.
“For sure [I’m happy with the driver-line-up]. We have lost Ott which is a big loss for us and this has changed or upset a little bit our plans, but there are some other opportunities.
“I think we have come up with something quite solid and interesting, and I’m looking forward to it.”
Ott Tanak, crowned World Champion in 2019 with Toyota, will leave the Hyundai Motorsport team at the end of this Rally Japan. The Estonian pilot detailed his choice at the microphone of Olivier Gaspard, the special envoy of the RTBF in Japan.
"I'm leaving Hyundai for several reasons, a lot of things have happened during this long season, said Ott Tanak. Let's say it's better like that. Three wins this season? I'm not counting wins, but rather world titles It was not an easy reaction to take, but I think I made the right choice. My relationship with Thierry has nothing to do with it, it was good to fight with him. I tried to try my best, but we didn't manage to be strong enough to fight for the title. As for my future, for the moment, I have nothing. After this rally, we will take a little rest , and we'll see what happens next."
https://www.rtbf.be/article/ott-tana...edans-11101918
Amazing turn around with the second half of the season. With first 4 races it seemed they are so lost and there isn’t hope
Actually their best ever season with 5 wins. They have never had as much in one season
But still a lot of work to do. The car isn’t on Toyotas level yet IMO
That’s what happens when you have Tänak in your car, nothing is impossible. I mean with all due respect to Neuville, he never had a team mate who could challenge him until 2020 and I’m assuming if not for covid, we would’ve seen this happen earlier. Great shame we can’t see him help develop the car further as I’m sure they’d match the level of that Yaris.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Well, the second part of season is clearly excellent and shows their great technical skills. Also shows that clearly, the reason for their bad beginning of the season is the bad timing of decision of the brand to go to the new regulation.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Hopefully for Toyota that Tanak leaves the team, else it could have been very difficult to face them next season (and not sure for Tanak it’s a good decision if he wanted to follow his career in 2023 and if his exit is not for personal reasons); only point is that they made a lot of evolutions this year (maybe Toyota is more preparing long-term evolutions thanks to their early margin).
In last 6 rallies:
- In Rally1, 4 wins including a 1-2 and a 1-2-3 (and could have been another 1-2 without Neuville mistake in Ypres) and they made podium in the 2 other rallies.
- in Rally2, 3 class wins + 1 administrative-lost one
Neuville on Tanak:
“But I understood he hasn’t signed anything yet. So maybe he’s coming back, I don’t know.”
What a plot twist that would be! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
As a team principal and send Neuville away .. :D
“I think the strongest team-mate has unfortunately left the team. So what we can do?” Neuville said.
“We keep fighting, we were both fighting together. He gave up a bit earlier than me.
“But I understood he hasn’t signed anything yet. So maybe he’s coming back, I don’t know.”
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/what-...-hyundai-want/
There's only a 12 point difference in the championship between tanak and neuville.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eli
Compare that to the 121 points difference between rovanpera and evan.
Even ogier+lappi only have 155 points.
Rovanpera has carried toyota, without him they would have had neither title. But neither tanak nor neuville has carried hyundai alone.
Yes I'm aware, I didn't talk about Toyota though and I'm not saying Neuville didn't deliver, I'm just referencing the fact that you can't ask for a better (results-wise) team mate than Tänak, as you said yourself, Evans & Co. were miles off Rovanperä this season, to the extent that Evans didn't win any event(s).Quote:
Originally Posted by denkimi
There was an interview with Solberg this weekend:
https://www.nettavisen.no/sport/solb.../s/5-95-739137
Besides the usual lack of self-insight "I was beating everything in the lower categories" there is only one interesting thing.
He says one of his teammates at Hyundai was "not the nicest person "...."even daddy (Petter) has never met such people before".
I don't think it was Sordo since he was giving him lot of advices and helped with recce and notes when he was not starting. So that leaves two drivers.
Definitely not SordoQuote:
Originally Posted by mknight
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Maybe Ott and Thierry wont be so nice to you if the situation is already hard and you are the one making stupid mistakes. I know that Ott and Thierry are big competitors and want to win always… This lack of self-insight will plague his devlopment. He really needs someone from outside to help with this because it seems that Petter and Pernilla arent realistic with Oliver like Harri was with Kalle.
Tanak specifically said that Oliver had had a tough time as a junior in the struggling team... and "I didnt send Oliver away".
I'll bet it is the guy who said there was a solution to continue in Monte despite not providing a solution to the car filling with exhaust fumes over several services.
And Neuville said in an interview he would like Oliver in the team in a fourth car...Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
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Might be the one that didn't want to pay his co driver 2500€ a month during covid even if there was no events.
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Originally Posted by mknight
It can only be Neuville,He sent his dissatisfaction to Solberg. At that time, Solberg retired from the race because of the gas leak in the car. He said that Solberg should insist on racing for the team.
Suninen will drive a Hyundai next year – but isn’t sure which
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/sunin...nt-sure-which/
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Originally Posted by mknight
To state what everyone else has already sayd, it had to be Neuville. Since in a dirtfish interview Tänak sayd he heard about Solberg being kicked out from Petter via text.
Why would Petter text Tänak if Tänak was the one who pushed Solberg out and was bad with him
Solberg is not saying that some driver pushed him out of the team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyest
Just saying that one driver in the team was not "nice" to work with. Which on first look sounds more like Tanak from the rumors that are around.
But in second part of sentence Oliver says that Petter has not seen behavior like that before either, which then points more to Neuville.
My logic still stands, why would Petter text and talk with Tänak if he was rude with his son?Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
on pure theoretical point, to ask about it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyest
Also we need to talk into account that Petter is the father of Olivier. What happened might not have been a big thing but as a parent you might see it differently.
https://www.dhnet.be/sports/moteurs/...CXFHK7GEQFRE4/
Crazy if it's true, guess we'll soon find out.
Oh dear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eli
Oh dear exactly.....Is that the best they can do?
Just to confirm, it is Neuville...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyest
Tanak is good friends with the Solbergs.
It's tricky because who would want to go there right now? Car might be getting results finally, but the team is still in a big mess with a lot of senior and important members/engineers/mechanics leaving at the end of the season - plus who knows how long the job will last if Hyundai pull the plug?Quote:
Originally Posted by AndyRAC
Hyundai will end by 2025??Quote:
Originally Posted by Eli