🗣️'It will be difficult to make a bulletproof car with three jokers this year.' Hyundai will likely have to wait until October to fully address its WRC reliability issues seen in Kenya, according to new technical director Francois-Xavier Demaison ⬇️
Hyundai's weaknesses with its i20 N Rally1 have been thrust into the spotlight in Kenya following three prop shaft failures on Esapekka Lappi’s car.
Hyundai deployed containment measures to address the prop shaft problem, utilising assistance from the team’s Alzenau base, but it wasn’t sufficient to avoid a third failure on Lappi’s car. “We had an issue today and it is difficult to develop car with the number of jokers you can use,” Demaison told Autosport.“WRC is a really difficult series because you homologate the car and you have that for a long time. If you have made a mistake, it is really difficult to change things.Photo by: Fabien Dufour / Hyundai Motorsport
“The next homologation joker is July 1 but we haven’t presented anything. We should have presented earlier. The next open window is October 1. Team principal Cyril Abiteboul confirmed that Hyundai will be working on further containment issues regarding the prop shaft weakness before next month’s Rally Estonia.“When you have reliability issues in motorsport, you first work on some containment issues which is frankly something we have tried to do here this weekend after the shakedown.
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