It´s in the interest of everybody, organizers, promoters, sponsors, fans, to watch the drivers do what they are good at: driving fast on stages. Rules could be changed if just take a look from above. And adjust rules so that a driver missing a spare wouldn´t be excluded. (ACM rules differs, if they didn´t, this maybe wasn´t as big problem)
I´ll be silent in that matter now.

Hyundai drivers' went radical trying everything to gain some grip and speed... https://www.motorsport.com/wrc/news/wrc-sweden-what-happened-to-the-hyundais/10797782/
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