[WRC] News & Rumours 2021

[Eli]

What fresh hell is this? i thought they had committed. Or was that just buying two hybrid kits that Adamo mentions?

Don't know but it doesn't seem too promising for the 2022 season, especially when we've heard nothing about other manufacturers entering from 2022 on-wards.

[mknight]

It's a problem with hybrid... per defition its a mix of both.

Existing teams and many fans want petrol only and continue as is
Manus want either low costs (so continue as is) or showcase electric.

Hybrid doesn't fully satisfy anyone.

[T16]

What a fucking mess. Gutted with the way this seems to be going.

[Francis44]

It's a problem with hybrid... per defition its a mix of both.

Existing teams and many fans want petrol only and continue as is
Manus want either low costs (so continue as is) or showcase electric.

Hybrid doesn't fully satisfy anyone.

And with full electrics you wouldnt have either M-Sport or Toyota there aswell, maybe for 2-3 yeras.

[AndyRAC]

Entirely predictable........

[mknight]

Tbh at this point the purpose of this very article is to do exactly what Adamo says he can't do:

"“I’m Andrea Adamo,” he said. “I’m a small Italian immigrant living in Germany trying to do my best in motorsport. I am nobody to send blackmails to the Hyundai board saying: ‘But there is a deadline!’."

[RS]

Surely they know starting later with this project than their competitors might curtail their performance, which doesn’t give me much hope it’s going to get the green light.

i suppose if they have the kits they can at least run the powertrains on dynos though?

[TypeR]

Another year(22') with same cars to keep Hyundai and maybe figure out some proper new car rules?

Would (old/same cars) get boring for fans and drivers/manus?

[AnttiL]

Another year(22') with same cars to keep Hyundai and maybe figure out some proper new car rules?

Would (old/same cars) get boring for fans and drivers/manus?

At least a problem for Toyota who is still running on the old faced Yaris. But I guess one extra development year would soon be needed.

[AnttiL]

Entirely predictable........

https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/1...gulation-talks

What would you have done at this point in 2018 when the manufacturers said "give us an alternate energy source or we quit"? Should Todt have said "we're going with R5", against the manufacturer requests?

For me the current solution was perfect in the sense that it would have kept the action as much as it is now (with the current powerful engines) but allowed the teams to tell their manufacturer executives "we have hybrid cars". Also, full EV rally cars might sound possible this year with STARD and Paddon's team doing demo runs, but in 2018 it wasn't even discussed, most rally fans just laughed or dismissed the idea.