Hyundai WRT

[ouvreur]

I really don't think things are as bad as in Alzenau as last weekend in Monte Carlo is making people think.

The tyre gamble - well, they had to gamble. There was nothing to gain from copying everyone else, and not really much to lose. You can say for sure that they wouldn't have done that running 1st and 2nd overall!

The seeming lack of urgency in appointing a permanent team principal is, if anything, a good thing. No knee-jerk reaction, taking their time to make sure the next appointment is the right one. Would an Adamo-style reaction to the performance in Monte be a good thing, in the circumstances? I would say not.

It is extremely unlikely that they've developed a fundamentally bad car - the chassis will be more than good enough, they just need to work out how to get the best out of it. As much as homologation limits major changes, there's still a huge range of damper, anti-roll-bar, spring and weight distribution adjustments that can be made to get the best out of it, and make it work for different drivers. That just takes time, and testing. Writing them and their car off after one rally would be a mistake.

[AnttiL]

the main issue is having solberg senior around.

I think they have bigger problems right now.

[AnttiL]

Neuville had same tires tbh.

Yeah, and in the end Ogier and Loeb also ran the second pass of Sisteron with slicks.

As for having only one spare, it's risky indeed. However, we don't know whether Tänak crashed because of another puncture or if he got another puncture because of crashing. And while it seems he retired because of the radiator issue, he was seen trying to fix the broken tyre on the liaison onto the tyre zone so maybe they could have worked on that radiator as well? However, it seemed quite severe since they weren't able to continue on Sunday (or then it was engine change tactics)

[EstWRC]

he retired because of radiator failure, you could see at the stage end that all the fluids were on the windscreen.

to estonian media he said they tried to continue but it was hard for the engine and they stopped.

Moncet said that they didnt continue on Sunday cause now they have the possibilty to have extra engine or smth like that

[Sulland]

the main issue is having solberg senior around.

How involved is Petter these days?

[pantealex]

The car is homologated. Major things cannot be changed anymore. The team has only one test day per driver per rally.

For Sweden:
Hyundai 3 days
Toyota 4 days + full month in their Snowy Jyväskylä testing area.

I don´t see "Arctic surprise" coming from Hyundai...

[flat_right]

And this last surprise was largely because they participated in Otepää Winter Rally, which gave them many "free" testing days. This year they won't participate as this is already this weekend and I don't know if there will be any winter rallies in Finland or Sweden in the coming weeks.

[AnttiL]

We have some rallies, but it's not as easy to participate with the Rally1 car, I've heard from people working in Arctic Rally organization.

[skarderud]

How involved is Petter these days?

Not at all.

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[skarderud]

Neuville had same tires tbh.

Yeah, but both take the gamble, one lost. Its not first time, he lost that gamble.
Just plain stupid.

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