Quote Originally Posted by flat_right View Post
If Hyundai holds together, wouldn't bet against Neuville in this rally.
Interesting comments from Toyota technical director Tom Fowler about Neuville:

“I mean Thierry obviously knew all the tricks of Ypres last year,” he told DirtFish. “That was clear that he had a few tricks when we analyzed what he was up to during the race.” But when pushed about what ‘tricks’ Neuville was able to pull off exactly, Fowler confessed the nature of the rally makes it difficult to master, something the Hyundai driver was able to figure out better than his rivals.

“I think one of the things is it looks very same-y as a rally, and it’s easy to be drawn into ‘ah every corner’s the same’, which it is from a TV point-of-view,” he said.

“But when you look into the detail technically, what you need to do stage by stage, there’s more to it than that actually.

“And Thierry knew that and of course told some of his team that.”

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/should-neuville-be-feared-in-ypres/