Hyundai WRT

[Eli]

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/lappi...y-be-his-last/

I'm aware his performances this year (besides Sweden) were sub-par, but Imho it would be a real shame to lose Lappi, a great character, always love to watch his stage end reviews, and a good human-being, I really hope this season won't be the last we'll be seeing of him in the WRC top category.

[doubled1978]

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/lappi...y-be-his-last/

I'm aware his performances this year (besides Sweden) were sub-par, but Imho it would be a real shame to lose Lappi, a great character, always love to watch his stage end reviews, and a good human-being, I really hope this season won't be the last we'll be seeing of him in the WRC top category.

I agree with you about Lappi, I like him, but in the current WRC, there aren’t enough cars.
Pajari, Sesks and Solberg are all knocking on the door and deserving of an opportunity in top cars.
Of course it would help if MSport were able to run a genuine 3 car team, rather than the 1 + Munster we currently have.

[mknight]

A) As I wrote on twitter I think people (DF) focus too much on that one comment from Abiteboul which was more about not letting drivers come to a rally with little practice (citing Lappi in Latvia and Mikkelsen in Monte). The idea to change to full time seat was said as a possible solution. But there are also other solutions.

Seeing that Hyundai won both their previous titles due to part time drivers and Toyota is basically only a threat this year due to part time drivers it would seem weird to go for different strategy just like that.

B) In recent years most of the times DirtFish "announces" rumors about someone moving somewhere long before the end of the season things turn out completely different. So I don't put much into the talk about Fourmaux to Hyundai.

C) With regards to Lappi he has now had quite a few full seasons in last years in all teams (Toyota, Citroen, MSport, Hyundai) and seems to do much better when he is part-time. Everytime he does full season half of it is a disaster. So if Hyundai would indeed go for full season 3rd car I agree that Lappi is not a good candidate. But I still don't believe they aim to do that.

[Eli]

Real shame to see them leave the vacuum, albeit they weren’t competitive in WRC2 this year but still, one less Rally2 car is never a good thing, wish the FIA would start getting on top of things, yes I’m aware the i20N has been discontinued in February this year: https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/whats...is-rally2-car/

[skarderud]

Seems Hyundai put down the i20 next year? Not just a new modell?

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[EstWRC]

Slowly pulling the plug from the series and putting the plug into WEC hybrid machine

[Eli]

Slowly pulling the plug from the series and putting the plug into WEC hybrid machine

They did say they might run in both series but I then Citroën comes to mind with their WTCC & WRC programs back in 2014 and how that ended up…and WEC require (I’m assuming) more resources.

[Backa]

They did say they might run in both series but I then Citroën comes to mind with their WTCC & WRC programs back in 2014 and how that ended up…and WEC require (I’m assuming) more resources.

WEC require more resources than WTCC but it's also provide better visibility for brands. It's not only about costs but also benefits.

Toyota is able to have WRC and WEC programs, some manus have F1 and WEC programs. Hyundai definitely can keep both programs, for me it's more about what WRC can do with regulations to keep them.

[AndyRAC]

The rumours are Hyundai in the WEC, and in IMSA in North America, badged as Genesis, run by a US team.....(who have recently lost the Cadillac WEC programme to Jota)

[denkimi]

Slowly pulling the plug from the series and putting the plug into WEC hybrid machine

Let's first see if they win any wrc titles this year.