Hyundai WRT

[EstWRC]

Amazing turn around with the second half of the season. With first 4 races it seemed they are so lost and there isn’t hope

Actually their best ever season with 5 wins. They have never had as much in one season

But still a lot of work to do. The car isn’t on Toyotas level yet IMO

[Eli]

Amazing turn around with the second half of the season. With first 4 races it seemed they are so lost and there isn’t hope

Actually their best ever season with 5 wins. They have never had as much in one season

But still a lot of work to do. The car isn’t on Toyotas level yet IMO

That’s what happens when you have Tänak in your car, nothing is impossible. I mean with all due respect to Neuville, he never had a team mate who could challenge him until 2020 and I’m assuming if not for covid, we would’ve seen this happen earlier. Great shame we can’t see him help develop the car further as I’m sure they’d match the level of that Yaris.

[Danny0405]

Amazing turn around with the second half of the season. With first 4 races it seemed they are so lost and there isn’t hope

Actually their best ever season with 5 wins. They have never had as much in one season

But still a lot of work to do. The car isn’t on Toyotas level yet IMO

Well, the second part of season is clearly excellent and shows their great technical skills. Also shows that clearly, the reason for their bad beginning of the season is the bad timing of decision of the brand to go to the new regulation.
Hopefully for Toyota that Tanak leaves the team, else it could have been very difficult to face them next season (and not sure for Tanak it’s a good decision if he wanted to follow his career in 2023 and if his exit is not for personal reasons); only point is that they made a lot of evolutions this year (maybe Toyota is more preparing long-term evolutions thanks to their early margin).

In last 6 rallies:
- In Rally1, 4 wins including a 1-2 and a 1-2-3 (and could have been another 1-2 without Neuville mistake in Ypres) and they made podium in the 2 other rallies.
- in Rally2, 3 class wins + 1 administrative-lost one

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Neuville on Tanak:
“But I understood he hasn’t signed anything yet. So maybe he’s coming back, I don’t know.”

[AnttiL]

Neuville on Tanak:
“But I understood he hasn’t signed anything yet. So maybe he’s coming back, I don’t know.”

What a plot twist that would be!

[TypeR]

As a team principal and send Neuville away ..

[drive]

“I think the strongest team-mate has unfortunately left the team. So what we can do?” Neuville said.

“We keep fighting, we were both fighting together. He gave up a bit earlier than me.


“But I understood he hasn’t signed anything yet. So maybe he’s coming back, I don’t know.”
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/what-...-hyundai-want/

[denkimi]

That’s what happens when you have Tänak in your car, nothing is impossible. I mean with all due respect to Neuville, he never had a team mate who could challenge him until 2020 and I’m assuming if not for covid, we would’ve seen this happen earlier. Great shame we can’t see him help develop the car further as I’m sure they’d match the level of that Yaris.

There's only a 12 point difference in the championship between tanak and neuville.
Compare that to the 121 points difference between rovanpera and evan.
Even ogier+lappi only have 155 points.

Rovanpera has carried toyota, without him they would have had neither title. But neither tanak nor neuville has carried hyundai alone.

[Eli]

There's only a 12 point difference in the championship between Tänak and Neuville.
Compare that to the 121 points difference between Rovanperä and Evans.
Even Ogier+Lappi only have 155 points.

Rovanperä has carried Toyota, without him they would have had neither title. But neither Tänak nor Neuville has carried Hyundai alone.

Yes I'm aware, I didn't talk about Toyota though and I'm not saying Neuville didn't deliver, I'm just referencing the fact that you can't ask for a better (results-wise) team mate than Tänak, as you said yourself, Evans & Co. were miles off Rovanperä this season, to the extent that Evans didn't win any event(s).

[mknight]

There was an interview with Solberg this weekend:

https://www.nettavisen.no/sport/solb.../s/5-95-739137

Besides the usual lack of self-insight "I was beating everything in the lower categories" there is only one interesting thing.

He says one of his teammates at Hyundai was "not the nicest person "...."even daddy (Petter) has never met such people before".

I don't think it was Sordo since he was giving him lot of advices and helped with recce and notes when he was not starting. So that leaves two drivers.