I don't think they changed anything fundamentally to be good on gravel, they just have a fundamental problem with the car being good on tarmac. The head of Hyundai pointed out many times that Japan will be difficult again and they hope to be better after that.
I hadn't even noticed the date for japan was moved and we end the year with 7 gravel rallies in a row. It will be difficult for evans to keep the lead.
This sounds fair to me. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen again, but to avoid situations like this in the future, maybe we could create a “season pick’em” that would be used if something similar happens....
Amazingly, we are back to discussing how to make WRC a clone of Formula 1.
Read the text in the link below. It looks like we are back to trying the impossible:...
This sounds fair to me. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen again, but to avoid situations like this in the future, maybe we could create a “season pick’em” that would be used if something similar happens....
WRC 2026 Pickems