Silly Season 2022

[AnttiL]

So, next year Hyundai's WRC2 team will include Solberg, Huttunen, Lopez, Veiby, Suninen and Paddon?

[mknight]

So, next year Hyundai's WRC2 team will include Solberg, Huttunen, Lopez, Veiby, Suninen and Paddon?

Go big or go home?

Sadly I think if it comes down to money Huttunen might get the short straw.
I'd guess Solberg will start in Rally1 even if he is not scoring.
Dunno what's the attitude with Veiby since he "hurt" the team quite bad by his actions. But maybe money talks.

[denkimi]

So, next year Hyundai's WRC2 team will include Solberg, Huttunen, Lopez, Veiby, Suninen and Paddon?

Why not. It's easier to compare drivers when they're all in the same car. Now we just need mikkelsen, ostberg, gryazin, bulcacia, rossel, kajetanowicz, ingram and lukyanuk in hyundai rc2.

And the best gets ranked gets to be the 3nd Hyundai drivers besides sordo.

[AnttiL]

https://www.rallit.fi/teemu-suninen-...oiko-han-niin/

Adamo has promised more drives for Suninen, likely in Monza

[Eli]

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/latva...-toyota-drive/

So as previously discussed here, a rotation between Lappi & Ogier for 2022, seems to be only a matter of formality now.

[er88]

Things shaping up. Lappi in at Toyota and Breen already signed with Msport, which is a 2yr deal I believe.

Question marks over Hyundai's 3rd seat and Msports 3rd seat, alongside Breen and Fourmaux. Gryazin will likely do a few events with the team too, and in the last few months Greensmith has been bigged up by Msport....

[skarderud]

And M-sport 4 and 5 seat.

Greensmith and Fourmaux in the payteam, Loeb+Fourmaux, Mikkelsen and Breen in a RedBull ford M-sport team.

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[Danny0405]

One thing is not really clear for me about Gryazin: he was supposed to switch to Ford Rally2 and explicitly told that he would use a VW in Finland only as it was part of a already signed agreement (which I can understand).
But he will do Spain with VW according to the entry list. So not really sure of how much he is committed with M-Sport (or perhaps he was afraid by the level of the car in Greece)

[mknight]

https://www.rallit.fi/teemu-suninen-...oiko-han-niin/

Adamo has promised more drives for Suninen, likely in Monza

Driver-type wise Suninen would fit to pair up with Sordo.

In a way it would be quite ridiculous if Suninen leaves MSport after being dissatisfied with the car and team effort and takes Breens spot in Hyundai who goes to MSport cause he doesn't get enough chances at Hyundai.

Anyway that's for next year. Short term the question is how satisfied (and fast) Suninen will be with the Hyundai Rally2 car.

[mknight]

One thing is not really clear for me about Gryazin: he was supposed to switch to Ford Rally2 and explicitly told that he would use a VW in Finland only as it was part of a already signed agreement (which I can understand).
But he will do Spain with VW according to the entry list. So not really sure of how much he is committed with M-Sport (or perhaps he was afraid by the level of the car in Greece)

In Greece he was laughing how bad the car is with his codriver after most stages.
So I only see him being interested in Rally1 drives.

Since Portugal (in WRC) and Liepaja (ERC) he has also been a bit off the pace in Polo as well.