Top seed of non-WRC entrants, par for the course. They did the same last year for the one or two WRC cars that weren't eligible for championship points I think.
They did it for a lot of years. The slowest drivers with WRC aren't in the top of the list, but after the FIA sanctionned championships.
Last year, you have f.e. Coffey in Germany.
Yeah imo making upgraded Rally2 makes perfect sense for Hyundai, they made a good progress with it, and given how bad their newly developed cars usually are, continuing on developing it is just a...
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