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Thierry Neuville: “Two minutes behind the leader, I don’t know how we can bounce back”
Thierry Neuville is already 2 minutes behind after 5 stages at the Sardinia Rally - Photo Nikos Katikis / DPPI
After only 5 special stages Rally from Sardinia, Thierry Neuville has probably already seen his hopes of victory dashed. The pilot Hyundai Motorsport, which had lost around ten seconds during SS2 due to visibility problems, saw its transmission cost it more than two minutes. “ To be honest, I don't know (what happened. Editor’s note), declares the Belgian. We just lost rear-wheel drive and had to do the whole stage with front-wheel drive. It appears the driveshaft was broken. »
SS5 🇮🇹 16:37.7
🚨Technical problem, losing a lot of time.
“It looks like we have a transmission failure.”#WRC #RallyItaliaSardegna #HMSGOfficial pic.twitter.com/YQnYfBWoRZ
— Thierry Neuville (@thierryneuville) June 3, 2022
« I mean we're two minutes behind the leader now, so I don't know how we can bounce back. The top six or seven cars are within a few seconds, so that's it for us this weekend, there's not much to add. » The native of Saint-Vith may harbor regrets. “ It wasn't that difficult and there were no rocks on the road, and we had a clean ride, I had more and more good feeling with the car. »
With these new reliability problems, Thierry Neuville is starting to lose motivation. “ We keep fighting, fighting, fighting and we don't get anything in return and we are hit with problems in all the rallies, so this is the current situation », Explains the Hyundai driver. With " little chance » to regain positions this weekend, the Sardinia Rally promises to be long for Thierry Neuville.
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