Hyundai WRT

[WRCStan]

That sounds more like an admission of fault rather than excuses from Abiteboul.

[wyler]

That sounds more like an admission of fault rather than excuses from Abiteboul.

it's just they can't do everything at the same time. we all know that the project was late, and regaining time is not easy, especially with "low" funding and limited testing.

[Steve Boyd]

Abiteboul explains why it went wrong for them in 2025:

"We spent a winter finally working on this new car. And we did not work on three new elements that appeared: the end of the hybrid, the change of tyres and the change of fuel. All our efforts, our focus, our test days and our jokers went into this new car and not into these three elements, which changed things quite a lot and penalised us in the end. We arrived in Monte Carlo not at all prepared for how the Hankooks work on tarmac because we had been working on other things”

Interesting choice of priorities They must have thought the old car was really bad in the areas they worked on to ignore the those three big changes for 2025 season.