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.
There was talk of bodywork tuners having to associate with a WRC27 chassis manufacturer and this is when there was talk of production engines. That 'association' makes some sense because whatever the...
what? i could swear i read that builders needed to have some kinda of manufacturer 'agreement' and that the body pannels needed to be more or less like an actual road car. i think NOT having to...
So in theory an independant tuner could turn up with a WRC27 car and a 1980's GpB lookalike body within reason without the 1980's wings. Or something that looks like a Lancia Stratos or Mk2 Escort.
There was talk of bodywork tuners having to associate with a WRC27 chassis manufacturer and this is when there was talk of production engines. That 'association' makes some sense because whatever the...
WRC mainclass from 2027