[WRC] Ardeca Ypres Rally 2022

[DrLill]

A very interesting day. Shame that Neuville continues to be toxic whenever he can. At some point, I almost liked him and thought that he has changed, but yeah, Neuville is Neuville. Happy for Tänak but one long and stressful day is still remaining. Would be nice if he scores 30p from Belgium, but probably he will take it easy during the PS if he can. 8.2 seconds is just small enough that you cannot really relax and have to push, but fingers crossed that he will score his third win in the season tomorrow. Hyundai in general seems quite competitive on the tarmac here.
I am not sure, but if Tänak wins tomorrow, is he the first who has won on the tarmac with Hyundai since 2017 besides Neuville?

[Tauri_J]

Jos the Boss

[doubled1978]

Let’s be honest, this was a bad error when he had a decent gap to Tanak.
I like Neuville as he is usually good value, but I do fear that a Championship will elude him because he is prone to dropping the ball at bad moments.

On another note, let’s give a bit of credit to Oliver, he has had a solid day and hopefully will return a decent result for the team.

[Eli]

Yes, that is correct.

Edit: forgot to reply on quote, would appreciate if someone deletes this post instead, thanks!

[Eli]

A very interesting day. Shame that Neuville continues to be toxic whenever he can. At some point, I almost liked him and thought that he has changed, but yeah, Neuville is Neuville. Happy for Tänak but one long and stressful day is still remaining. Would be nice if he scores 30p from Belgium, but probably he will take it easy during the PS if he can. 8.2 seconds is just small enough that you cannot really relax and have to push, but fingers crossed that he will score his third win in the season tomorrow. Hyundai in general seems quite competitive on the tarmac here.
I am not sure, but if Tänak wins tomorrow, is he the first who has won on the tarmac with Hyundai since 2017 besides Neuville?

Yes, that is correct.

[EstWRC]

https://youtu.be/XylFH_VxyUo

https://youtu.be/aFehxXwKBrI

[AnttiL]

Whole last year's Ypres podium trio has crashed out this year. And each no1 driver of their team (you could say Neuville was no1 for this rally at Hyundai)

[macebig]

Would be interesting to see if the "micro drama" that took place with Hyundai today and costed Neuville in the end escalates. Now, the less said about Breen the better. He only had to keep the car on the road for an easy top 5 (and potentially a podium) but he screwed up royally chasing windmills...

[focus206]

No, poor Hyundai that waste seat and resources on him.
In 7 years, or more.

lol
funny thing is, he could crash for all the remaining rallies of the season and teams would still pick him. You know why? Because nobody thinks "Neuville won't win a WDC so let's pick a driver even less likely to do so and that at the end of the year will have half of his points". So unless you pick a world champion instead of him, good luck wasting a seat on someone better.

I'm not really surprised, instead. This season has been too bad for him, it will be hard for him to win a single event.

[meh]

Would be interesting to see if the "micro drama" that took place with Hyundai today and costed Neuville in the end escalates.

I'm not sure how micro it is. Maybe it is quite strong inside but have not popped to the public so far, because they have had common enemy (not working car) so far and that's why there was impression, that they actually can work as a team.