The snowball effect behind Hyundai's WRC Rally1 false start
Hyundai was left lagging behind its World Rally Championship rivals at the 2022 season-opener in Monte Carlo, with only one of its new hybrid-equipped machines reaching the finish. That's the result of multiple setbacks one after another during the winter that mean it has work to do to catch up with M-Sport Ford and Toyota
It's fair to say Hyundai's start to the World Rally Championships new Rally1 hybrid era in Monte Carlo was one to forget. The 2019-20 world champion team was plagued by a concoction of reliability issues and self-inflicted decisions on the Cote d'Azur, leaving it to face an uphill battle to regain the ground lost to their Toyota and M-Sport Ford counterparts.
Only one of Hyundai's three entries reached the finish, Thierry Neuville hauling his "scary" handling and fragile i20 N to sixth, after suffering a front right damper failure on Saturday. Ott Tanak, the 2019 world champion with Toyota, is still awaiting his first Monte finish with the team he joined in 2020 - the Estonian sliding off an icy road and into rock face after electing to run slick tyres, causing terminal damage to the front of his car.
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