WRC Testing

[Portimao]

So all the rumors saying Tanak is leaving are bullshit

[EstWRC]

Gallery of Tänak https://www.facebook.com/79714105035...603505472/?d=n

[EstWRC]

Tänak Rally1 by Aa26 https://youtu.be/DAIE7ruEdFw

[cali]

So all the rumors saying Tanak is leaving are bullshit

We'll see before Monte for sure.
But it's kind of strange that no Monza but before the rally he has time to test the new car.

Whatever is happening I find it quite strange. And I thought Miika Wuorela has lost his plot completely but now I'm starting to think he maybe has a point.

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[bandit12]

There is possibility, that Tanak has made some kind of statement to Hyundai. That either developing the car wents that direction, that he wants or he packs his things together.
He has been polite whole year, when car hasn't worked the way he wants, but now seems that he has enough.
And Monza is just showing that he is willing to do so

[EstWRC]

We'll see before Monte for sure.
But it's kind of strange that no Monza but before the rally he has time to test the new car.

Whatever is happening I find it quite strange. And I thought Miika Wuorela has lost his plot completely but now I'm starting to think he maybe has a point.

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One guy also asked this in Twitter from Wuorela that why is he doing the testing then. And the answer basically was that cause he has a contract till the end of the year.

But I’m thinking, why do you do testing and development with a driver who isn’t even driving for you the next year?

[mknight]

Personally I still have trouble believing any of the rumors, still it's fun to speculate, especially since not much is going on in WRC atm.

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But I’m thinking, why do you do testing and development with a driver who isn’t even driving for you the next year?

To try to convince him to stay, using the argument that the new car is good.
(afaik during the last two tests he was the last driver to test the car, so driving when the car is "best")

There is possibility, that Tanak has made some kind of statement to Hyundai. That either developing the car wents that direction, that he wants or he packs his things together.
He has been polite whole year, when car hasn't worked the way he wants, but now seems that he has enough.
And Monza is just showing that he is willing to do so

Plausible.
It's possible that Hyundai put some early pressure for him to re-sign like: "Deadline by May or you will not be allowed to try our Rally1"? And now that he is signed he doesn't have many options on how to get them to do what he wants.

[Andre Oliveira]

And the other rumour? About him retired from WRC? That allow him to test no?

[ouvreur]

One guy also asked this in Twitter from Wuorela that why is he doing the testing then. And the answer basically was that cause he has a contract till the end of the year.

But I’m thinking, why do you do testing and development with a driver who isn’t even driving for you the next year?

If the reason he is testing the 2022 car is because he has a contract until the end of the year... does 2021 end on the 18th of November?

It's either that or, as I suspect to be the case, Miika Wuorela is talking out of his ar...

[seb_sh]

Yes it's fun to speculate. I don't know where Wuorela is getting his info but I'm not buying it at the moment. It seems more like Tanak has given up on this year and wants to focus on the next instead of driving a rally that will probably not appear in the WRC again. Hyundai can evaluate Suninen, Tanak can do more testing of the Rally1. That's also an option but is much less attention grabbing than "Tanak is going to retire". That's my view but we will see in January at the latest