WRC Testing

**EstWRC** · 4th July 2019, 19:08

Our review of the front aero modifications Hyundai has been testing today in Finland, thanks to the excellent pictures from @VuorinenHenri @HMSGOfficial @RallyFinland @WRCLive #WRC

https://t.co/bsxLQYd1IN

credit https://twitter.com/llluis555/status...32913645867008

**EstWRC** · 4th July 2019, 19:10

Mikkelsen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZB506UKV64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7wGjUlMMwg

**dimviii** · 5th July 2019, 17:05

Νeuville
https://youtu.be/Luv-JOQEddY

**mknight** · 5th July 2019, 17:19

Originally Posted by dimviii

Νeuville
https://youtu.be/Luv-JOQEddY

Strange that he has old aero on the very start of the vid in wet while all the rest is new both in the dry and wet as far as I can see. Maybe someone spliced the vid with some older one?

**EstWRC** · 5th July 2019, 19:17

doing back to back tests with old and new? to compare..

**racerx1979** · 5th July 2019, 22:09

Originally Posted by mknight

Hyundai (Mikkelsen) testing in Finland:

https://twitter.com/VuorinenHenri/st...01845961814016

https://twitter.com/HartusvuoriWRC/s...94683965513728

first pic with revised front for more aero grip.

Still the whole situation is funny.
Hyundai had a similar front already until Spain 2017... and you can say it was the best car until then. For 2017 spain they removed one of the fins on each side to lower the downforce and subsequently they improved rear downforce with bigger Toyota-style wheel arches.
Since then the car struggled with massive understeer and now after almost 2 years they go "back" to almost same front as they had.

EDIT: 2017 front for comparison:
https://www.ewrc-results.com/image/349167/

Yes, but it's more complicated. When you increase rear aero you need to compensate in the front. Also they might have added additional exits and cooling to compensate. Looks the same from the front, but the exits of the air, cooling, underside aero and rear cooling are one big package and hence are most likely updated.

**EDIT** see post #9631 above to see all the updates

**Toyoda** · 5th July 2019, 23:45

Interesting how Paddon was complaining about this for half of 2017 and all of 2018 and they only try new aero to fix it now, I remember he was trying to fix this with softening suspension settings and in the end managed to get a new rear diff out of them before Finland last year finally which lead to his best result, funny how a Loeb in the team gets things done.
This should back them more than competitive in Finland if it gives them the front grip they need and not to much extra tyre wear.