Wrc 2/3 2021

[rp]

Huttunen has no idea why he was dropped from Acropolis. He says the power steering problem "is not a reason not to drive in Greece" but in the next comment adds "There's nothing we can do about it at this phase of the season", so does it mean they need a homologation joker to fix it?

Must be. Very bad for Hyundai if there never was the same problem before and they were testing a lot, but not enough. Hyundai is not paying a lot of the costs of Huttunen´s program, so there is no sense for GRX Team to compete in Greece if the car is not reliable. Maybe they can not drive WRC events with the old car anymore, because Hyundai is trying to sell already new Rally2 car...

Huttunen´s treatment by Hyundai and Adamo shows that the best thing for Huttunen would be to drive something else than Hyundai. Solberg is Adamo´s golden boy and there is no future for Jari in any case. But it´s not yet sure at all that Oliver is good enough to be Rally1 manufacturers’ works driver...

[mknight]

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Huttunen has no idea why he was dropped from Acropolis. He says the power steering problem "is not a reason not to drive in Greece" but in the next comment adds "There's nothing we can do about it at this phase of the season", so does it mean they need a homologation joker to fix it?

When I think Hyundai couldn't handle Huttunen any worse they always top it .........

The reason could be that they fear the car will break on the rough Acropolis + there is a tough entry list and he has one extra round over Solberg, so can skip one.
Therefore they send him to Spain instead, even though he maybe isn't so far on that surface, the car should handle it better and there will be few entries to fight with.

But all this is just speculation. Kinda interesting he even goes public that he wasn't told.

Adamo states they never saw the power steering hose problem before and i guess the parc fermé retirement was just a forgotten master switch? Easy to do after a long rough day.

I think I read somewhere that Solberg actually started driving the roadsection before retiring.

[Danny0405]

The choice of not taking Huttunen in Greece is not that bad in my opinion.
As Hyundai is registered as a manufacturer, its drivers could only make 6 rallies in Europe + 1 outside. And they could only register with 2 cars in 6 European Rallies.

Currently, Huttunen has made 4 rallies and Solberg 3. And Hyundai has already 4 European rallies as a manufacturer.
Theoretically, Huttunen and Solberg will both make Finland. So we can imagine that they will also make Spain; not a bad choice considering that Toksport will not be in Spain (but a Japan cancellation could change the championship rules).

But from a global perspective, yes, Hyundai’s management of Huttunen is quite awful. Apparently, he will stay with them last year, not a good pick.

[mknight]

I think Hyundai only has 3 rallies as manufacturer tbh. (here it says 2: https://www.wrc.com/en/results-stand...son-2021/wrc2/)

In Arctic they had two cars so that should be 3rd, but the points aren't listed.
In Sardinia due to Veiby and Scandola not starting it was just one car and therefore it didn't count. Monte was without points as Solberg wasn't nominated for points.

But yes the choice itself isn't terribly bad, but seemingly not telling Huttunen sounds bad.

[Co-driven]

Sorry, but how does the entries regulations work? Can a team simply withdraw from one event after the entries are closed and entry list is published?
As far as I know, only on force majeure situations the FIA allows this...

If this is possible, everybody will send entries to events, and after entry list is published and they see who will be competing at that event, they will withdraw without any further problem.

[bomber21]

It would be interesting to see if Solberg can be faster than local Athanassoulas with the same car…

[mknight]

Sorry, but how does the entries regulations work? Can a team simply withdraw from one event after the entries are closed and entry list is published?
As far as I know, only on force majeure situations the FIA allows this...

If this is possible, everybody will send entries to events, and after entry list is published and they see who will be competing at that event, they will withdraw without any further problem.

No idea.

The only clear thing is that Hyundai "scored" as manu in Portugal since Veiby even drove Shakedown.

Yet they didn't score in Sardinia even though they were on entry list with Veiby (and even Scandola), cause both couldn't start because of COVID. This example likely qualifies as force majeure.

[Lancia Stratos]

I think Hyundai only has 3 rallies as manufacturer tbh. (here it says 2: https://www.wrc.com/en/results-stand...son-2021/wrc2/)

In Arctic they had two cars so that should be 3rd, but the points aren't listed.

They had two cars but they weren't nominated for teams points.

[dimviii]

It would be interesting to see if Solberg can be faster than local Athanassoulas with the same car…

Without problems Solberg will be faster.Lambros is a fast driver,but not at same level as Solberg,specially with so many years without enough drives with wrc2 cars

[bomber21]

Without problems Solberg will be faster.Lambros is a fast driver,but not at same level as Solberg,specially with so many years without enough drives with wrc2 cars

Yes but Lambros is local and knows these SS very well and he has proven he can be equal with the ERC guys at least in the past. Besides this, in the recent Rally Corinth he used a Mitsubishi Evo and was faster than some R5 guys…