WRC News No more performance updates for Hyundai this year Hyundai Motorsport won’t be bringing any performance updates to its i20 N Rally1 until the start of 2024, instead prioritising reliability for the rest of this season…. Read more by Luke Barry September 20, 2023 2 min
WRC News Suninen logs valuable asphalt Rally1 miles Teemu Suninen couldn’t be more grateful for the opportunity he’s been afforded by Hyundai Motorsport. To be given the keys to a factory i20 N… Read more by David Evans September 18, 2023 2 min
WRC News F-X Demaison breaks his media silence François-Xavier Demaison is the man Hyundai perhaps didn’t just want, but needed. Ever since being appointed team principal in January, Cyril Abiteboul has made it… Read more by DirtFish Media September 16, 2023 3 min
Rally Opinion Suninen’s CER entry is telling for his WRC future Dani Sordo paused. He thought about the question. Then he momentarily pretended he might not have heard it. Then he answered. Sort of. “I don’t… Read more by David Evans September 15, 2023 2 min
WRC Features Why Hyundai’s Acropolis defeat was so painful There are few characters more tenacious in the World Rally Championship than Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville. But midway through last weekend’s Acropolis Rally Greece, the… Read more by Luke Barry September 14, 2023 3 min
WRC News Toyota and Hyundai’s Acropolis testing impacted by fires Hyundai and Toyota have had their pre-Acropolis Rally tests affected by the fires still burning in the central Greece region this week. Both teams have… Read more by David Evans August 25, 2023 2 min
WRC Features Neuville’s 10-year “struggle” between Rally Finland podiums Thierry Neuville’s done it. It’s hard to believe it took him a decade, but in 2023 he returned to the Rally Finland podium for the… Read more by Ida Wood August 7, 2023 5 min
WRC News Hyundai’s 2022 decisions boosting Neuville’s 2023 Last year, it simply wouldn’t have happened. We know that because it didn’t. Thierry Neuville and the Hyundai i20 N Rally1 were not a podium-claiming… Read more by Luke Barry July 27, 2023 2 min
WRC News Slow puncture for Neuville gives Rovanperä big Estonia lead Kalle Rovanperä’s Rally Estonia lead has ballooned to over 20 seconds after Thierry Neuville suffered a slow puncture on SS12. On the preceding stage, the… Read more by Ida Wood July 22, 2023
WRC News Hyundai has a hybrid weakness – Abiteboul Hyundai team principal Cyril Abiteboul says the installation of the hybrid unit is a weakness of the i20 N Rally1, which is in part why… Read more by Luke Barry July 21, 2023 2 min
WRC News What happened to Neuville’s fast rally confidence? When Thierry Neuville scored a sublime second place on Rally Finland 2013, beating all the Scandinavian drivers, nobody would have believed you if you had claimed… Read more by Luke Barry July 17, 2023 3 min
WRC Features “It’s now up to us” – Lindholm on his Hyundai chance “Obviously, the targets are even higher,” the Finn told DirtFish, one month on from winning the second-biggest prize in the World Rally Championship last year…. Read more by Luke Barry July 16, 2023 3 min
WRC News Suninen worried for younger drivers in the WRC As he stands on the verge of his top-flight World Rally Championship return, Teemu Suninen has told DirtFish of his concerns for the next generation… Read more by David Evans July 14, 2023 2 min
WRC News Hyundai needs to feel Demaison’s impact by Estonia Hyundai team principal Cyril Abiteboul wants the team to feel the impact of its new technical director, François-Xavier Demaison, by next week’s Rally Estonia. Demaison… Read more by Luke Barry July 13, 2023 3 min
WRC News Why Hyundai won’t ever give up on 2023 As the World Rally Championship’s finest continue their preparations for the second half of the season, there’s plenty still to play for. Kalle Rovanperä has… Read more by Luke Barry July 11, 2023 2 min
WRC News Sordo: Hyundai needed more pace on Safari Safari Rally Kenya was a tough event for Hyundai in so many ways. It started with unreliability issues for Esapekka Lappi, followed by a suspension… Read more by Rob Hansford June 29, 2023 3 min
WRC News Rally1 cars set for Goodwood Festival of Speed For all but one of the 46 years between 1973 and 2019, the World Rally Championship visited British shores religiously. Every autumn they came, they… Read more by David Evans June 28, 2023
WRC News The positives Lappi can take from Safari Rally Esapekka Lappi has four very good reasons to forget last weekend’s Safari Rally Kenya – all four of them propshaft related. But the Hyundai driver… Read more by Luke Barry June 27, 2023 3 min
