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A shame to see zero engine upgrades for M-Sport.

Huh, how about that...

This softened in 2018 after the Citroen fiasco. They had negotiations for Kris to drive this season.

WRC 2 for Hyundai, not in the main game.

Huh, good spot.

My understanding – as it stands – is that Greensmith, Gryazin and Tidemand will contest WRC2 with M-Sport ('factory' WRC2 cars) with a number of events split across them in a third M-Sport WRC car....

Elfyn Evans finally gets a decent salary in the WRC, a just reward. Hopefully, he can stop working in the Suzuki dealership and focus purely on rally at least for two seasons.

I'm hearing that potentially a contract between Meeke and Toyota was signed before the Ogier deal, which may mean that the team had to buy out two contracts (Citroen and Meeke's)

My guess:

If Toyota can pay enough to get through the contract and pay Ogier, then it happens. No smoke without fire, they are taking.

If that happens, Citroen leave right now.

The only way...

I'm not saying this will happen or it's possible with this particular contract, but he could retire on December 30th and un-retire in January. Something similar happened in car racing a few years...

Interesting. I could see Mikkelsen or JML going there, but perhaps not both (Ostberg has good ties, Lappi and - cough - Ogier under contract)

There's a huge budget behind making the 'N' a well-known performance brand. You don't hire the head of BMW 'M' and give him a blank cheque for nothing.

There's a new i20 out soon with the first...

They're wrong. He's signed for Hyundai.

Good point. Although I believe they have a new car on the way.

Now it makes sense why Mikkelsen has had his management changes and was being paid by Pirelli to test tyres. Mainline WRC career over?