Quote Originally Posted by dimviii View Post
The eight-time world champion wouldn’t comment to the stage-end reporter about what had happened, but once he returned (late) to the service park he opened up to the media and revealed that the same hole that sidelined Neuville was where his afternoon first unravelled.

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/ogier...is-rally-exit/
" “The whole afternoon was actually quite eventful,” Ogier said.

“It started actually I think the same corner Thierry had his issue, I also had an impact in this place because it’s quite hard to avoid this hole, and my front-right wishbone was also a bit damaged.

“But obviously it was still drivable and I managed to fix it and I was still managing to have a good pace on this stage and also on the next one."

As I said earlier. Toyota hits hole - survives. Hyundai hits hole - retirement. Sure, different driving styles and maybe it was sliiightly deeper for Neuville, but the point remains, the car is too fragile to compete against Toyota.