Hyundai WRT

[masa90]

This season has been a horrible showing for the team. I hope that the rumours about them leaving are not true.

[focus206]

This season has been a horrible showing for the team. I hope that the rumours about them leaving are not true.

If we didn't have just 3 manufacturers, I'd love to see Neuville and Tanak abandon Hyundai and see Hyundai quit in embarassment. They deserve nothing for being such an amateur village team (borrowing NOT's definitions).
Zero faith in them in improving the car at any time.

[denkimi]

Perhaps hyundai could ask Msport to build their car and run their team. They clearly can't do it themself.

[WRCStan]

Does it tell anything that Hyundai only have just enough cars? Thierry and Ott have contested every round in the same cars despite issue after issue. Oliver's Monte hotbox has not been used again, second burnt in Croatia, third car shared with Dani since. In the past they had at least different cars for the long hauls.

Compare to Toyota who have 2 cars for each 4/5 drivers, none of which have been destroyed. M-Sport doing some sort of rotation but have a 4th and customer capacity.

[Eli]

I just hope we don’t get to an October 2019 type of situation where we see Hyundai announce leaving WRC effective immediately after 2022.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Does it tell anything that Hyundai only have just enough cars? Thierry and Ott have contested every round in the same cars despite issue after issue. Oliver's Monte hotbox has not been used again, second burnt in Croatia, third car shared with Dani since. In the past they had at least different cars for the long hauls.

Compare to Toyota who have 2 cars for each 4/5 drivers, none of which have been destroyed. M-Sport doing some sort of rotation but have a 4th and customer capacity.

Sounds from this that they have a limited budget. Maybe the only way the HQ would agree to keep the team in WRC and partly why Adamo quit.

[mknight]

There are some pretty bad signs, also looking like Citroen last years.

- "big boss" kicked for failing
- "engineer" with seemingly little authority to make big decisions takes over and stays om the job
- low number of cars/starters (3 only, paying guys told to go elsewhere)
- "cheap" lineup ( talking about Sordo/Solberg here, Sordo said it's his last season and Solberg certainly doesn't get big salary)


Let's hope they improve and Hyundai waits at least another year, given the invested money.

A positive sign is that the Rally2 now starts to look both competetive and reliable. Should prbly hope new Skoda doesn't best it too much.

[Sulland]

Hyundai need a leader, that knows what is important and not, to get a good fast and reliable car.
And they need it now!

[mknight]

Well Loriaux should know, but somehow that doesn't seem to make enough difference.

[Eli]

There are some pretty bad signs, also looking like Citroen last years.

- "big boss" kicked for failing
- "engineer" with seemingly little authority to make big decisions takes over and stays om the job
- low number of cars/starters (3 only, paying guys told to go elsewhere)
- "cheap" lineup ( talking about Sordo/Solberg here, Sordo said it's his last season and Solberg certainly doesn't get big salary)


Let's hope they improve and Hyundai waits at least another year, given the invested money.

A positive sign is that the Rally2 now starts to look both competetive and reliable. Should prbly hope new Skoda doesn't best it too much.

Yeah but the question is, for how long both Neuville & Tänak are willing to put up with it? And where would they go, assuming Tänak doesn’t want to retire after this year.