Quote Originally Posted by Mk2 RS2000 View Post
Interesting to read the comments regarding Mikkelsen and making allowances for the car either being set up for Neuville or having mechanical issues considering most people making these comments were not so generous to Paddon when he faced similar issues last year. I guess the difference is that Mikkelsen talks about the car issues in public where as Paddon didn't.
The obvious difference is that Paddon has been driving Hyundai for a while and was very much competetive in 2016. It did not seem very likely that the concept and behavior of the car changed so much from 2016 to 2017. Also Paddon has never really been terribly slow in it, just a few places slower than before. In Mikkelsens' case the difference on tarmac from C3/Fabia/VW is on completely different level.

In either case it does seem that adapting the car to other drivers is not a priority at Hyundai. Will likely cost them manu title this year (last year they lost it on reliability (Sordo and Paddon cars) ).
Btw. at Toyota it also starts to look a bit similar with regards to Latvala and Lappi comments.