Rally1 hybrid cars (2022-)

[rallyfiend]

Other people may have eyes, but if all they're looking at / reading is PR or carefully managed interviews, they're not really seeing anything at all.

It's all a smokescreen. Diversion. Don't get me wrong, I respect what Adamo is trying to do, and I'd be doing the same in his position. Underplaying his hand, lowering expectations, making everyone think Hyundai are on the back foot. Takes the pressure off for Monte - if the car wins, amazing! If it fails, oh well, they were so far behind.

But based on what I see and read from elsewhere, that's no mule they've been testing. At least, it sure as hell isn't an i20 Coupe with a suit on. It has the proper cage, or at least a first version of it - how else would the co-drivers have sampled the new seating position / know how warm it gets with the new exhaust routing?

We may see a car with different bodywork / aero. But the idea that only now are they starting to test fundamental chassis concepts? Never in a million years.

I don't think the car they're testing is even the same MODEL of car that will be used for the Rally1 car....

I could be wrong, but I don't believe they'll use the i20....

[AnttiL]

I don't think the car they're testing is even the same MODEL of car that will be used for the Rally1 car....

I could be wrong, but I don't believe they'll use the i20....

Have you seen the pics today? There’s an i20 Rally1 being tested, but with many new parts to the previous i20 Rally1 test car

[WRCStan]

They announced the i20 N Rally1 which makes sense, use rally to push the hot-hatch.

[rallyfiend]

They announced the i20 N Rally1 which makes sense, use rally to push the hot-hatch.

Have they? Where?

[WRCStan]

Have they? Where?

Of course they being WRC.com that's definitely what I meant. https://www.wrc.com/en/news/2021/wrc...undai-in-2022/

I'm trying to get on to https://motorsport.hyundai.com but it's down. Wonder why that is? No worries, https://www.hyundai.news/eu/articles...r-line-up.html has NO mention of i20 N Rally1.

[ouvreur]

I don't think the car they're testing is even the same MODEL of car that will be used for the Rally1 car....

I could be wrong, but I don't believe they'll use the i20....

I'm not trying to have an argument with you, but do you seriously think that they've tested two iterations of an i20 N-based car, the latest being seen in public for the first time this weekend, only to throw it all in the bin with just under a month until the homologation deadline and build it into a completely different body style?

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Adamo said they would be testing the 'new car' at the end of Nov, so this is it, the i20 that Tanak has been testing.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

I think its confirmed..

Oliver Solberg @OliverSolberg01
Fantastic to be behind the wheel of @HMSGOfficial's 2022 car today.

And...
https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/h...cover/6832767/

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Rich Millener (M-Sport) after the recent Puma Rally1 test:
“It was interesting for some of the guys who had been in the current [Fiesta WRC] car in Monza the week before – that offered them the chance to really feel how the two cars were working and the feedback on the Puma was very, very positive."

https://www.wrc.com/en/news/2021/wrc...ess-continues/

[Fast Eddie WRC]

New i20 Rally1 aero review by WRCWings:

https://www.wrcwings.tech/2021/11/30...-i20-n-rally1/