Yeah have to assume Hyundai just weren't willing to swallow that cost of a works-run R5. And getting Andreas up to speed and potentially impacting that title fight is a bigger priority. I get that.

It is a shame as they've granted Hayden a couple of tarmac events this year in the R5. Partly to help gel with Seb but they were still giving him those opportunities on his weaker surface. Not sure whether he'll return to Rally Legend again this year. I did wonder whether he'd approach that as another opportunity to learn tarmac last year but he opted for complete hoonage which the fans loved.