Perhaps they’ll do the opposite, give us an ugly car for Monte-Carlo, only to change it to something beautiful in Sweden.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
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Perhaps they’ll do the opposite, give us an ugly car for Monte-Carlo, only to change it to something beautiful in Sweden.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Like Toyota, Hyundai also with the same livery https://x.com/hmsgofficial/status/18...C1kV5QC61vX5Xg
Sorry my language but so fucking boring from both manus, hope m-sport saves the dayQuote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Ugly….no way they’ll do this for Monte-Carlo only ey? Hate it, hated it last year when they presented it and hate it still now.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Maybe `team principal´ likes this livery... :)
i find unbelieveable stupid these factory teams dont choose to do some cool liveries because its literally the thing we will be looking at the whole year! make a good looking livery and you'll get 10000000000x more exposure because people will not tire to take more and more pictures of the cars! i'd even say paint each car with one different livery (on the same team). that would be so rad! i understand thats "bad" for when they need to replace parts during the breaks/overnight..... HOWEVER, absolutely ZERO fans would bother seeing different colors on each driver's car - like ott on a "darker" i20 having to use a "red" front bumper from tierry's livery because thats the spare they had on the pits, u'know? f that, mate
thats one of the reasons rally will never be succesfull like F1, look at them, every car manufactor is fighting to get into F1, Rally ist fighting since 10 years for 1 new entry and nobody has interest, even when F1 is 10x more expensive...nobody cares about rallye, not even the marketing people of the companies that are involved....normally every marketing guy must cry out loud if he see the livery of Toyota, but nobody cares....
Hyundai´s Livery is at least a Livery even if it is the same as last year...but Toyota is just a shame...
Toyota's livery has very little to do with WRC itself, though. It's Gazoo Racing's branding and they use it on all their racing activities. Even Haas in F1 has black colored surfaces with TGR's logos on them.
It's not one of reasons and F1 has their fair share of bad or boring liveries. There was plenty of complaining of too much "naked carbon" on F1 cars to save weight.Quote:
Originally Posted by WRC1
This article suggests Hyundai have recommitted to WRC, although not for how long.. maybe just to end of current ruleset?
https://www.the-race.com/formula-e/w...rmula-e-entry/
Come on dude, liverys are least of WRC's problems.Quote:
Originally Posted by WRC1
And yet almost every F1 team looks basically the same year after year after year...Quote:
Originally Posted by WRC1
Seems like they will use the golden roof all year round? In 2024 they had the blue/red roof in Monte (different livery), Sweden, Chile, CER and Japan. So there's your livery change for 2025 (in worse) :D
Lotterer in the Hyundai next to Neuville on the shakedown
https://www.instagram.com/p/DFK47qBokz7/
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DJqDg51kJ/
Hyundai should launch their new car just like this 🤣
(seems there isn't sound, and I can't find original on YT)
Click on the loudspeaker icon (bottom right) to un-mute. It plays the James Bond theme.Quote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
First one of the season: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgku4QcTNJ8
Hyundai WRT stops investments after safarirally.
End of story obvious.
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Not a surprise anymore.
Source?
https://worldrally.se/hyundai-wrt-sl...0FCW4MSMox7ANAQuote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
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https://rallyjournal.com/strong-rumo...dais-wrc-team/ I read it the same here, better explained. But officially it's still rumours.
https://rallyjournal.com/is-hyundai-...ss-speaks-out/ So he finaly admit it they will leave. He said that 2027 regs aren't what Hyundai's vision is. And (again) they try to change those to be more like they want them to be. Why would anyone bother if Hyundai will leave anyway? I mean, what's the point. They already got many advantages and wishes granted... For what. Not appreciate it and still run away.
https://youtu.be/qrkdaa8qJoE?si=mHU8_07CprKrvioP
The headline is ironic. Yes, we didn't see what was wrong with Tänaks car or how the team reacted to different problems during the weekend. Instead we mostly saw Thierry driving and giving interviews.
so if 2026 Hyundai become private team and run by Neuville, how can Neuville be the team manager and driver at the same timeQuote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
He is doing that for some time now. 🤣 You know what I mean 😜Quote:
Originally Posted by 1988senna
I don't think it's so clear cut. It's the new Regs and their short timing that's the issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
Hyundai may be looking for some time extension, or a dispensation of a kind (like the Jokers they had brought forward), to allow them to continue.
And with no guarantee of new Manufacturers coming in 2027 the WRC may want to keep those they have at any cost...
I don't buy it. Of course the regs came too late for everyone. But the field will be the same for everyone. What they want? 10 years to prepare? 20 more jokers? Additional testing days? Ballast on competitor cars? Why Toyota or M-Sport don't demand those ridiculous things for them to justify their participation? Why M-Sport, who really don't have any chance of having a good result even bother? Excuse that Hyundai don't have any available model for rallying isn't everyone's else fault, but it's theirs. Also taking them forever to won only 3 titles also, if that's the problem (if they think they will won straight away in a huge field in WEC, they should just wake from their dreams).
I think that they already had a 10-year plan, when they start this journey. And then Cyril just help them drove out of the sport, because his heart isn't really here. I also think that 2027 regulations will be "official" excuse for them to leave for good. Thank god we have them, for all the battles and help keeping the sport alive, but if that's it, right before it could be saved again, it's a huge blow to the whole world.
I'm just realist and not having fingers crossed anymore, because it doesn't have any point.
Kenya road book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qyc5FWiIhA
Can’t wait to see Canarias road book
lol
Building service area - 10min of black screen silence - packing service area and leaving :DQuote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Based on this article I would say they are definitely gone from the series
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/hyund...s-dont-change/
And about Portugal. Tänak sounds quite pessimistic in an interview given to Estonian media saying that they haven’t tested the car on gravel. Which is a half lie IMO because at the end of the last year they were testing. I guess he means the new car and the new tyres combo.
Like reading same whining article for 10th time.. we want this and we want that..
I hope they leave. Atleast Toyota won't be able to pretend anymore that they have any competition and that they aren't just collecting Mickey Mouse titles
WRC cant go on with just Toyota and M'Sport though, so Hyundai have them over a barrel.
Plus Hyundai do need to promote their road cars which aren't pure ICE now, never mind from 2027.
Focusing on manufacturers is what's gonna kill WRC. Just allow independent constructors. It's not like current cars have any road relevanceQuote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
TBH I dont know how much support Ford will continue to give to M-Sport in future as the Mk2 Puma will be pure EV. Maybe unlike Hyundai they'll just he happy with the FORD name being promoted by WRC rather than the tech.
Good summary of the situation by RallyingUK:
https://x.com/RallyingUK/status/1917175290771447902
Ultimately, if they do decide to pull out, I would think they will have to go to Rally2 in the short term to ensure some sort of competitive championship.
In the broader terms, the car industry is clearly pulling back on the speed of transition to EV as the sales (despite whatever rubbish people claim) just aren’t sufficient with private buyers, in the Uk anyway. We have seen numerous announcements from manufactures reinvesting in ICE technology.
The current status quo will have to change as the manufactures/dealers etc just can’t sustain the level of pre-registrations and discounting to meet arbitrary targets.
If that leaves space for the WRC to run as ICE only with manufacture support indefinitely, I don’t know.
And here we go again. Why would rulemakers even bother listen to them, if they will leave anyway, no matter what rule will be changed, just because of them. They threat now for so long. If there is really interest from manufacturers and tuners for 2027, I think that they should not change anything. And Hyundai, we are sick of complaining. Just go already and ashame yourself even in WEC, I bet Toyota and all others will beat them there too.