Hyundai WRT

**becher** · 10th February 2022, 11:34

Originally Posted by Rallyper

Questioning Petters technical knowledge is just lack of memory from person who said it.

I think Petter proved he can have a lot of balls in the air at the same time. Running Hyundai departement would suit the Solberg couple well.

You what? A driver is not an engineer full stop. A technical director is unlikely to do any design work himself, but he needs an intricate understanding of what is going on to direct people in the technical department. Years of discussing setup with a race engineer won't prepare you for that. It seems the drriver x developed car x pipe dream is still allive in this forum. The design office developes the car, a (test-) driver tests it and gives feedback, he is not getting busy with the calculator or CAD.

**Rallyper** · 10th February 2022, 13:57

Originally Posted by becher

You what? A driver is not an engineer full stop. A technical director is unlikely to do any design work himself, but he needs an intricate understanding of what is going on to direct people in the technical department. Years of discussing setup with a race engineer won't prepare you for that. It seems the drriver x developed car x pipe dream is still allive in this forum. The design office developes the car, a (test-) driver tests it and gives feedback, he is not getting busy with the calculator or CAD.

Agree 100%. But you say Petter doesn´t have the qualification? Then we disagree...

M5 · 10th February 2022, 15:22

I was not saying tech director, but a tech boss in charge of further develop the Wrc2 car. The deep engineering staff will be hyundai wrt. Call him the same as jones, does not matter. He will make the Rally2 into a neutral car easy to adopt to different driving styles.

They have sold 8 cars in 8 months. Says it all.

**mknight** · 12th February 2022, 19:30

Watching latest episode of "team solberg", from Acropolis last year.

On friday they say the damper canister breaks off under braking and also hits the steering arm.

Petter than says the same thing happened on previous two tests and he told them to add another attachment point on top so the canister doesn't vibrate as it is only attached at the bottom. (dunno if that needs a joker to homologate).

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In other news after watching a few episodes Oliver seems totally mentally unprepared for this. Basically acting like a 12 year old and needing his parents for everything (or they are used to helping him all the time).

Johnston seems to get fired for trying to steeer Olivers drama queen tendencies.

**bandit12** · 13th February 2022, 06:58

Well. You can see from his onboards. All that time he uses to show his emotions... He could really use it to consentrate to driving

**AnttiL** · 20th February 2022, 12:48

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/hyund...ally1-upgrade/

Hyundai looking forward to first homologation jokers in April

**Danny0405** · 20th February 2022, 14:00

Originally Posted by AnttiL

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/hyund...ally1-upgrade/

Hyundai looking forward to first homologation jokers in April

Quite consistent with what we could expect after Monte Carlo.

Hyundai will have to limit the losses during the next two rallyes (Sweden and Croatia) and then, they will try to benefit from good road positions + jokers in the 7-out-of 8 gravel-rally series between Portugal and New Zealand.

I think it will really be complicated for the manufacturer championship with a big gap + the Toyota’s roster which is really big.

Driver championship may be a target if they limit the loss in Sweden and Croatia (and if the jokers are really fixing the main issues). I would bet more on Neuville than Tanak to do so.

I think after Sardinia, we will have a clear of where they are and they can expect for this season. It may then drive their decision to stay or not in WRC.

**flat_right** · 21st February 2022, 12:05

I have a question about the jokers. Quote from the article: “We will have to once again prioritize – we have more ideas than jokers. We have to go for the ones with the best potential. But we don’t know yet which exactly.

Could they test these jokers wherever they want in their testing area (this 10 km radius location)? And based on this testing they choose what helps or not? Or is this somehow restricted that you can only test a car that is homologated (so basically only tuning some settings)?

**AnttiL** · 21st February 2022, 12:22

Of course you can test with unhomologated parts, that's what testing is for. Actually the permanent testing area is where you will likely see new parts being tested, since rally PET's are mostly done with homologated parts to fine-tune the setup.

For Hyundai, they are now only catching up with something they should have already had while the other teams will be pushing forwards for completely new things. It's not like Toyota and M-Sport would not use those homologation jokers in April...

**Sulland** · 7th March 2022, 15:55

We will get a netter status on the Rally1 Hyundai after Croatia, but we need to wait until the gravel of Portugal before we have a more precise answer on how far behind the i20 is.

But the same goes for the two others. We have an idea after the two first special rallies of the season. But as always it is a moving target, and they are hard to hit!