Quote Originally Posted by pantealex View Post
He had money for new car and he bought TCR-model...

Why not (i20) R5 ???

He is still doing rallies with very very old model i20 which isn´t even FIA legal. No chance to compete even in WRC Australia...
Quote Originally Posted by Mk2 RS2000 View Post
1. Are you sure that he brought it?
Paddon told Autosport/Evans: "Seat time is still so important and driving in a variety of conditions is really useful. The chance came to buy an i30 TCR and bring it down here and we jumped at the chance."

"I'm always looking for ways to help work on my driving, especially on asphalt and this is another way to do that."

"Maybe we'd do some of those races [TCR in New Zealand] - but everything is still absolutely geared to getting me back to the WRC."

https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/1...wrc-return-bid

Seems odd to me. But IIRC a TCR car is less than half the price of an R5 and presumably easier/cheaper to maintain. Maybe Hyundai NZ wanted to get involved in circuit racing/TCR NZ and Paddon is just taking the money and facilitating it?

Nevertheless, pretty poor that Hyundai Motorsport couldn't spare a bit of budget to co-fund some kind of R5 campaign with Hyundai NZ...