https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/tanak...ais-president/
Apparently it was the team president, Noh, who instructed to hold positions.
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https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/tanak...ais-president/
Apparently it was the team president, Noh, who instructed to hold positions.
Neuville’s patience was then tested when DirtFish’s Colin Clark pointed out that swapping the drivers wouldn’t have affected Hyundai’s formation finish, but did disadvantage Tänak’s drivers’ title bid.
“Stop asking the same question,” Neuville responded, before walking away from the interview when Clark pointed out he was just trying to get to the bottom of the reasoning.
video version of this conversation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiZJvrWlVnc
Interesting answer from Ott regarding next year. Good grilling from Colin for Moncet
and Neuvilles behaviour after question, well...
it's just ridiculous if they don't give team orders:
- smaller cap with Kalle benefits also Hyundai manu champ., more pressure on toyota driver
- having a world champ in your team will benefit Hyundai in overall marketing vice etc.
- doing right and hard decisions is what's needed for healthy team climate
Tänak has paid his dues by giving up wins in previous years and now worked himself back to a position where everything could be possible. Neuville needs to understand that he has to put himself in a fav. position first and then others will also gather behind him.
Hyundai with bad car preparation kind of owns some points to drivers also
i don't get all this fuzz. hiunday historical position is always been to privilege manufacturer championship over drivers one. they are keeping their line.
it's strange that people speak about neuville pushing for orders when the real pushing is -rightly so for his personal point- from tanak (in the interview is bitterly referring to Sordo on friday).
it's seams to me a lot of people are losing context. in the end, the accusation of not being a team player to neuville and sordo, looking at their hiunday carreers, is mispointed. on the other side, i think tanak was in his entire career (leaving toyota for mainly that reason) very self oriented -that is legit, don't get me wrong, just analizing-. it seems to me that there's no "team neuville" in hiunday, just "team" and tanak is not there.
anyway, time will tell!
as a fan of Tänak (you know, just being a estonian) I just need to state - Neuville is not guilty to leading or take the win here. He deserves that.