Nightmare day at Hyundai in Mexico

" What can I say ? We've had bad days, but we've definitely had better ones. We didn't expect to lose two cars on the first day, let alone fight for the lead. rally »

Andrea Adamo, new director of Hyundai Motorsport, appears fatalistic at the end of a first stage of Rally Mexico who clearly did not smile at his pilots.

It is first of all Thierry Neuville qui a connu une crevaison dans l’ES2, vraisemblablement causée par une pierre ramenée sur la trajectoire par la Toyota YarisOtt Tänak, first to open the road.

“This morning’s puncture ended any real hopes of a positive weekend here in Mexico, laments Neuville. About 5 or 6 km into the SS we almost went out to avoid some big rocks and hit one, causing the puncture. We couldn't do anything. »

If the Belgian logically went down the hierarchy, Andreas Mikkelesen then took over and took the lead in the race against Sébastien Ogier. But here again, contact with a stone caused a puncture, and, more seriously, the breakdown of the suspension on the Norwegian's Hyundai i20 Coupe.

The disaster scenario for Hyundai ended after SS6 with the abandonment of Dani Sordo on the route to SS7, following an electrical problem.

“We need to stay calm and focus on what we can salvage from this weekend of missed opportunities. » concludes Andrea Adamo, but it seems that the Mexican weekend will not be the most productive in view of the championships for the Korean clan.