Oliver Solberg

[mknight]

(it never broke under Huttunen)

You mean this year. It used to break every 1-2 stages in 2018.

[cali]

Hyundai is not worse than Fabia or Polo. And Gryazins speed is another reason.

Hey br21, can you share a light about Gryazin's speed this year?
For me it seems like in a Fabia and Polo drivers seem more comfortable and confident. The i20 needs to be handled with a care, but hey what do I know, it's just my perception.

Anyway I'm glad to see Oliver in the fight next year with a Hyundai and he seems to have huge amount of potential. My favourite young gun for sure!

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[AnttiL]

You mean this year. It used to break every 1-2 stages in 2018.

Yeah, I was talking about this year. Before this year we really didn't see anyone making good results with the i20 R5. I remember Huttunen started a technical gravel rally and said to Finnish media something like the radiator will break if he tries to push at all.

[br21]

Hyundai is really good car, some recent upgrades made it really competitive and engine is still best from the category.
Gryazin before 2020 was testing/driving more than any other driver (incl. WRC ones), etc... but that's Oliver Solberg topic.

[Sulland]

First Hyundai in the garage, chassis 26A.
https://www.ewrc-results.com/carinfo...0-r5/?car=4388

Unboxing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=I...ature=youtu.be

[dimviii]

How can he cope with coming to a team where not everybody is speaking his same language – how does he cope with going to the empty hotel room and being on his own every night? It’s a different movie for him now.

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/why-o...at-comes-next/

[Rallyper]

First Hyundai in the garage, chassis 26A.
https://www.ewrc-results.com/carinfo...0-r5/?car=4388

Unboxing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=I...ature=youtu.be

That´s some crazy thing. Just imagine yourself being in that position. I´d love it!!!

Congrats Oliver!

[Rallyper]

How can he cope with coming to a team where not everybody is speaking his same language – how does he cope with going to the empty hotel room and being on his own every night? It’s a different movie for him now.

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/why-o...at-comes-next/

Well, one thing is for sure. He will not be left alone on hotels as one Beth Harmon, if they suggest that. I guess he will be surrounded by some family stuff for quite a bit of time.

[mknight]

The interesting information is that Adamo talks about Huttunen being involved maybe even as much as Solberg and Veiby in WRC2.

Other than that I don't trust Adamo on anything about future.
While he certainly has introduced more entertainment in WRC he has shown he makes snaps decisions on a whim, treats drivers differently depending on whom he "trusts" (his own words), and changes his mind about approach just about every 2 rallies from one extreme to the other. One rally he tells drivers to have faith and believe and criticizes them for complaining about car, next rally he praises drivers that did so well with "not so good" car and a few rallies later runs 5 hour meetings for listening to their comments (after Mexico this year, again his own words). Latest is how he in Sardinia boasted about micro-managing Sordos pace, then in Monza says that drivers know what to do and he is not their mother.

Note how in the interview he already talks about putting them under some pressure, before Solberg ran a single km. Not exactly something Tommi would do openly. Hope Solbergs contract is pretty waterproof on the number of starts in the two years.

[Sulland]

How can he cope with coming to a team where not everybody is speaking his same language – how does he cope with going to the empty hotel room and being on his own every night? It’s a different movie for him now.

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/why-o...at-comes-next/

What nationalities are in the Hyundai team, they are not all germans I guess. And the working language is english, and as we know, ALL Solbergs are almost native speakers when it comes to english ;-)

Oliver is quite good in english, he also speak french, and is dual in Norwegian/Swedish.
He will charm the whole team, is my guess!