Hyundai WRT

[Galev62]

Marshall doesnt fit into the car

Is he too Tall or why?

[Galev62]

Anyone hear the Dirtfish podcast where they back Solberg's driving talent with reference to his speed at a young age in a 600hp RX car. And also in the high-spec Subaru WRX STI on his first experience of American rallies ?

He clearly has a big talent and I cant see him taking a step back from Rally 1. Small mistakes are punished hard at this level and look how many mistakes even the mighty Tanak made over the years before he became the finished article...

didn't Tanak take a step back in 2013 and 2014 to Subaru and fiesta r5 and it helped him a lot

[mknight]

to me, best way for hiunday would be to make a satellite "monster energy" team with Solberg family running it, 1 car for oliver development without pressure and maybe another one for paying youngsters.
Main team with 3rd car free for rotating even 10 drivers if they fit.

Agree, full season with 4th Rally1 like Katsuta the last 2 years should work if they insist on Rally1 or full season (not just 7 Events) in Rally2.

Anyone hear the Dirtfish podcast where they back Solberg's driving talent with reference to his speed at a young age in a 600hp RX car. And also in the high-spec Subaru WRX STI on his first experience of American rallies ?

He clearly has a big talent and I cant see him taking a step back from Rally 1. Small mistakes are punished hard at this level and look how many mistakes even the mighty Tanak made over the years before he became the finished article...

I hear it over and over again how driving around a small circuit in RX car shows he "can handle it". Lately I tend to agree with what other people wrote. That RX-mindset with full push every corner is actually a disadvantage at this point. He has shown he has top speed over a stage or a few sections, it's the balance of keeping less than 100% speed over multiple stages that is the problem.

Tanak and Evans were both kicked from WRC to R5 (or even "out" for Tanak) at MSport. They came back stronger, so I don't buy the "step back". Oliver only ever won a single rally in R5 on WRC level (Estonia 2020) and a single ERC rally (Liepaja 2020). So it's not like there is nothing to learn.

[denkimi]

I hear it over and over again how driving around a small circuit in RX car shows he "can handle it". Lately I tend to agree with what other people wrote. That RX-mindset with full push every corner is actually a disadvantage at this point. He has shown he has top speed over a stage or a few sections, it's the balance of keeping less than 100% speed over multiple stages that is the problem.

Indeed. We've seen kubica and raikkonen, they were used to even faster and more powerfull cars but they never made it to the top level in rallying.

Driving 5 corners 100 times requires a very different skillset than driving 1000 corners 2 times.

[becher]

Anyone hear the Dirtfish podcast where they back Solberg's driving talent with reference to his speed at a young age in a 600hp RX car. And also in the high-spec Subaru WRX STI on his first experience of American rallies ?

He clearly has a big talent and I cant see him taking a step back from Rally 1. Small mistakes are punished hard at this level and look how many mistakes even the mighty Tanak made over the years before he became the finished article...

Driving an RX car says nothing about the talent. That is the usual unscientific BS Dirtfish puts out every now and then. Every top rally driver should be able to handle a RX car around a RX circuit with one hand tied behind his back.

[Eli]

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/hyund...focus-to-2023/

Not anything new really, I think Moncet mentioned that last week when he was interviewed by Dirtfish that they're now focusing on getting the car ready for 2023.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Replies re Solberg's speed in an RX car may be fair enough, but what about himi n the ARC in a top Subaru ?

I dont think the problem is that he 'cant handle' a Rally1 car.

[becher]

Replies re Solberg's speed in an RX car may be fair enough, but what about himi n the ARC in a top Subaru ?

I dont think the problem is that he 'cant handle' a Rally1 car.

He can handle a Rally1 car for sure, but he definitely can't handle the Rally1 competition.

In all honesty, we ask for more Rally1 seats, but there are only 10-15 people in this world which would be "good enough" anyway.

[Eli]

He can handle a Rally1 car for sure, but he definitely can't handle the Rally1 competition.

In all honesty, we ask for more Rally1 seats, but there are only 10-15 people in this world which would be "good enough" anyway.

We ask for more Rally1 cars which in turn bring more seats but if we had let's say 12 cars in each event from 4 manufacturers I think we'd be in the sweet spot IMHO.

[AnttiL]

Replies re Solberg's speed in an RX car may be fair enough, but what about himi n the ARC in a top Subaru ?

What does that prove? The Subaru is a completely different car and the level of competition in ARA is different. When the ARA top guys come to WRC, they can hardly get into top 10.