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Behind the scenes of Christian Loriaux's departure from Hyundai

The Belgian engineer left Hyundai Motorsport a few weeks before the Monte Carlo Rally (January 23-26). This information had barely been released when the interested party was announced at Overdrive / Toyota Gazoo Racing with the mission of developing the Hilux that will be entered in W2RC next year.

Published 08/01/2025 à 13:12

Dominique Dricot

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Behind the scenes of Christian Loriaux's departure from Hyundai

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At 58, Christian Loriaux finds himself, for the second time, working within a team from his country. No, it's the first time, corrects the Belgian whose sense of humor has not aged a bit over the years. When I was at RAS Sport (team based near Charleroi which was well established in the 1980s and 1990s. Editor’s note), I was a slave. I cleaned the rims of the Porsche by Robert Droogmans. I wasn't paid and I

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