Could it be that the final decision has yet to be made and that it could well be Andreas and Dani sharing a car?
No.
Paddon has been the slowest Hyundai everywhere except Finland.
The diff for Paddon that you talk about was introduced before Finland, so there were 3 gravel rallies where to use it, he wasn't slowest only on one of them.
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