Yes the car was worse on Saturday as the stages were fully dry. As usual Neuville said he had no balance and understeer and pushing or changing his driving made it even worse.
Just slow on Tarmac as they have been (pretty much) from MC last year.
I am not yet up to date with watching the stages: Did something happen with the Hyundais or are they really minutes off the pace?
That's a mega entry and Creighton confirmed in the Lancia and Philip Allen there too !

The difference is crazy. When the Hyundai is off pace, its not like, 0.1 sec a kilometer, its a second / seconds a kilometer
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