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.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Paddon decided, just send it ...

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/the-e...ns-wrc-career/

[Fast Eddie WRC]

More from Abiteboul interview to Belgian media after Saudi Arabia:

"We also know that Toyota redesigned the gearbox ratios. Because of the hybrid system, it's something we couldn't have done because all our spare parts had already been used up. There were also internal mistakes, design flaws in the car. But ultimately, it's primarily a lesson in risk analysis and what we really need to do. And I think we all need to draw some conclusions from this. Next year, the challenge is not to get sidetracked again. We're not that far off, we've seen it several times, we could have won.

Above all, we need to solidify our reliability. Often, we had the pace, but not the reliability. Again this weekend, we came very close. We need to solidify our understanding of the Hankook tires. And then, we have some technical issues that we absolutely must focus on without getting sidetracked. This also involves internal reorganizations, with some people being a bit more involved, focused. We've diversified our activities, and that's had an impact. Now, we need people who are absolutely focused on the few changes that need to be made."