There was an interview with Solberg this weekend:
https://www.nettavisen.no/sport/solb.../s/5-95-739137
Besides the usual lack of self-insight "I was beating everything in the lower categories" there is only one interesting thing.
He says one of his teammates at Hyundai was "not the nicest person "...."even daddy (Petter) has never met such people before".
I don't think it was Sordo since he was giving him lot of advices and helped with recce and notes when he was not starting. So that leaves two drivers.
True lower down, but a manuf couldn't homologate a World Rally Car or Rally1 without also entering the manufs championship. That got some manufs doing a season or two just for the paper stamp, Skoda,...
WRC mainclass from 2027