Suninen and Lappi started on karting and won Finnish Championships, but would you believe it based on their Rally Deutschland performances? Rallying on rough tarmac is a different sport.
Not saying it always works, but for example Mikkelsen focused quite a lot on tarmac when he was 17-18 and now he is able to fight in the top on tarmac. Think JML also did some tarmac at that age.
I think, it will impact the WEC program too, if Hyundai Motorsport uses same resource for WEC and WRC.
I already read lots of facebook and reddit comments about Toyota who participate in WEC, WRC,...
It is good, if Hyundai's golden boy Neuville says this. Then it has to mean something for them.
Hyundai WRT