Quote Originally Posted by dimviii View Post
Why Adamo gave Huttunen a second Hyundai chance

Hyundai Motorsport team principal details Jari Huttunen's current arrangement with the manufacturer

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/why-a...yundai-chance/
"Second" chance? More like first. In 2017 he won the challenge and as a "reward" he got to drive the ( at that time) slowest and least reliable R5 ( on gravel at least, not counting DS3)

After struggling for a year they demoted him to testing and finally started developing it, but he only got to drive very few rallies.

It really seemed that when Adamo came his first actions were to get rid of all drivers signed by Nandan one way or another. (Paddon out and not even asked about Finland, Huttunen out of competition and to testing, Mikkelsen immediately reduced starts).

Following that start it later looked like he changed his mind a bit and started focusing on car changes and development, rather than kicking drivers. Good for Huttunen that he now get his first real chance.

Note that now for new R5, the first tests are by Tanak and Huttunen, rather than Neuville, who developed the WRC so that 3 drivers with 83 WRC wins among them all struggled with it.