Hyundai formalizes Tänak's departure at the end of the season

We announced it to you in recent weeks, it is now official. It's over between Ott Tänak et Hyundai. The South Korean team announced this Sunday evening that the Rally of Japan (November 10 to 13) will mark the end of their collaboration that began in 2020 and which continued until 2023.

« Hyundai Motorsport and Ott Tänak have brought an early end to their contractual agreement which will see the Estonian driver leave the team at the end of the season, » can we read in the official press release.

A few weeks ago, the 2019 world champion had already left doubt about his future within Hyundai, when it was announced in the small papers of M-Sportbut also WRC. « I haven't decided anything yethe explained. I am indeed under contract, but the question is not just limited to knowing which team. I also need to evaluate whether I continue. I'm not under pressure to choose, so I can't say when I would make my decision. This is not related to this season's results. I first want to see how the situation in my family will unfold during the end of this year. Then I will evaluate whether I should stay with her or whether I continue."

If we do not yet know what his future will hold, we know in any case that it will not happen on the side of Hyundai where relations had deteriorated during the season. According to the latest indiscretions, his name was mentioned at Toyota whose leaders would not be fully satisfied with all its crews. This is only a rumor at the moment but it could be that Ott Tänak quickly bounces back to another structure unless he decides to really take a step back and move away from the WRC for a while.

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