Monte-Carlo – Hyundai already under pressure

Hyundai expected to have a complicated first race, but the scale of the work facing Julien Moncet and his troops appeared much greater. Performance was average and reliability was not there.

Published on 24/01/2022 à 17:00

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Monte-Carlo – Hyundai already under pressure

Hyundai under power

Among the many questions that arose initially, there was that concerning Hyundai. The decision to get involved in the WRC hybrid for three years was only taken in March 2021 by the management of the Korean manufacturer, while M-Sport et Toyota had dived nine months earlier. How had the team managed to use the little time they had to develop a car, fine-tune it and make it reliable? If the team had continued to move forward in certain areas by telling itself that “yes” would prevail, the production of this Rally1 only really accelerated recently and experienced two other penalizing events. The crew accident Thierry Neuville-Martijn Wydaeghe in tests at the beginning of December, notably generated delays in the schedule. The sudden and unplanned departure of Andrea Adamo from the management of Hyundai Motorsport inevitably p