Hyundai i20 WRC

http://m.smh.com.au/drive/motor-news...010-2va4w.html

Actually it says 10 cars. 6 for rallies and 4 for testing.

Neuville might be the one they look to for championship points, and Atkinson has proven he can get the bucket of crap Italia Mini to 5th place on numerous occasions.

Hyundai has buckets of money, one of the few manufacturers who are debt free.

Their venture into this is to sell cars, and build a sport car division so they can have a product to sell to young males. They will want names that they can use to sell cars, not win rallies.

They would be crazy NOT to talk to Block

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Originally Posted by litifeta

http://m.smh.com.au/drive/motor-news...010-2va4w.html

Their venture into this is to sell cars, and build a sport car division so they can have a product to sell to young males. They will want names that they can use to sell cars, not win rallies.

They would be crazy NOT to talk to Block

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You are joking?

Of course they want to sell cars but they also want to win, otherwise they will become a joke. Not sure the writer of the article knows much about the sport when he describes the 3 test drivers as "three promising young rally drivers" and " custom-made suspension" ....................

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They will want names that they can use to sell cars, not win rallies.

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They can hire Britney Spears at this point. What are all the tests for? If they don't care about winning rallies...

Britney would be my choice. Miley Cyrus could be the in the junior team, navigated by Robin Thicke..............after rally party would be good fun.........

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This is a slight concern. If they were building customer cars, then fair enough bulid a car for various driving styles, but they are not. So build it to suit one driver, i.e. Citroen - Loeb, VW - Ogier.

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Lol... So you think they develop a car for a certain N°1 driver, and nobody else can drive it properly?

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No, of course not. But why would you have drivers deveolp a car tht someone else is going to drive? Doesn't make sense to me if you want to win.

It reminds me of Suzuki, hiring Lindholm and Bernardi to test the car and do a couple of events in 2007, neither of which had ever won anything previously......then they put Gardemister and PG Anderson in the car for 2008?

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This is a slight concern. If they were building customer cars, then fair enough bulid a car for various driving styles, but they are not. So build it to suit one driver, i.e. Citroen - Loeb, VW - Ogier.

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Lol... So you think they develop a car for a certain N°1 driver, and nobody else can drive it properly?

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No, of course not. But why would you have drivers deveolp a car tht someone else is going to drive? Doesn't make sense to me if you want to win.

It reminds me of Suzuki, hiring Lindholm and Bernardi to test the car and do a couple of events in 2007, neither of which had ever won anything previously......then they put Gardemister and PG Anderson in the car for 2008?

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I don't think anything Tajima and Suzuki did could be seen as a good example. Granted it was a half hearted, under funded venture but still.

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This is a slight concern. If they were building customer cars, then fair enough bulid a car for various driving styles, but they are not. So build it to suit one driver, i.e. Citroen - Loeb, VW - Ogier.

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Lol... So you think they develop a car for a certain N°1 driver, and nobody else can drive it properly?

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No, of course not. But why would you have drivers deveolp a car tht someone else is going to drive? Doesn't make sense to me if you want to win.

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something you havent understant about rally cars testing.As you can see Neuville can drive much faster fiesta,even it ''didnt build it around him''

Yes, but the same bloke is running Hyundai, Nandan ;) Probably irrelevant, just an observation.

On the other hand they might do a great job and build a car everyone likes, i.e. M-sport and the Fiesta.

Latvala has struggle to set the VW up to his liking - Ogier's car.
Sordo openly said, at the start of the season, he can't drive the Citroen - Loeb's car
No but apart from Burnsie got to grips with the Mitsubishi Evo - Makinen's car

What do all 3 of these cars/drivers have in common? They all dominated the sport for a period. Ogier has embarrased everyone else this year and will continue to do so. That is why I believe the car needs to be build around one driver to win the championship, and the others can suffer it and bring home some points for the team.

No, of course not. But why would you have drivers deveolp a car tht someone else is going to drive? Doesn't make sense to me if you want to win.
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something you havent understant about rally cars testing.As you can see Neuville can drive much faster fiesta,even it ''didnt build it around him''[/quote]

See my point above about the Fiesta! I also think the 206 falls into this catagory of car that suits all driving styles.

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See my point above about the Fiesta! I also think the 206 falls into this catagory of car that suits all driving styles.

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no is wrong mate.There are not cars build around a driver.Thats impossible.Plenty of examples last 30 years.
Cars are build around regulations.Each driver must find the right setup at EVERY ROUND.There is not setup for one driver.