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Neuville: WRC Safari retirement “has hit us very hard”

The Hyundai driver was sitting fourth, 35.3s adrift of rally leader Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier, when he hit a compression that broke the front left suspension on his i20N during stage six.

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Rovanpera gives former F1 stars Hakkinen and Coulthard a WRC outing

Former McLaren F1 team-mates Hakkinen and Coulthard joined Rovanpera’s Toyota team for a pre-event test in Sardinia.

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WRC Sardinia: The Good, The Bad and a Hyundai revival

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Toyota to investigate WRC water splash weakness

Three of the team’s four drivers encountered issues with the GR Yaris while traversing water crossings during last weekend’s rain-impacted round on the Italian island.

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Neuville felt Breen was with him in WRC Sardinia victory run

Neuville scored Hyundai’s first WRC win of 2023 after coming through challenging wet conditions to lead a 1-2 for the South Korean marque, with Esapekka Lappi finishing 33.0s behind.

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Abiteboul: More “energy" required for Hyundai to close on WRC rivals

Toyota has emerged as the current pacesetter in WRC having won four of the five events to date this season, while Hyundai is the only Rally1 team yet to score a victory this calendar year following M-Sport-Ford’s success in Sweden.

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Ex-Williams F1 technical director Demaison joins Hyundai

The experienced engineer has previously held the technical director role at Volkswagen during its domination of the World Rally Championship, where it scored four drivers’ and manufacturers’ titles form 2013-2016.

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Tanak: M-Sport has the data to tackle "big job" of developing Puma WRC

The 2019 world champion once again showed flashes of speed during last weekend's WRC round in Portugal, but ultimately finished fourth, 2m04.1s adrift of the eventual winner Toyota's Kalle Rovanpera.

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Sordo felt like he was in different category to Rovanpera

Rovanpera claimed a ninth career WRC victory in Portugal and his first of the season after dominating the rough gravel rally to defeat Hyundai’s Sordo by 54.7s.

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Sordo: Rovanpera's Portugal WRC pace like I was in another category

Rovanpera claimed a ninth career WRC victory in Portugal and his first of the season after dominating the rough gravel rally to defeat Hyundai’s Sordo by 54.7s.

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WRC Portugal: Relentless Rovanpera in control after Saturday domination

The reigning world rally champion won five of the day’s seven tests to transform an overnight 10.8s advantage into a 57.5s lead, as the Finn moved closer to a first WRC win since New Zealand last October.

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WRC Portugal: Tanak leads from chasing Rovanpera on Friday morning

Tanak produced an impressive showing in his M-Sport Ford Puma, winning one of the three morning stages to lead Toyota’s Rovanpera by 3.0s.

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Neuville dedicates maximum attack WRC Power Stage win to Breen

Neuville left nothing on the table as he produced a blistering run to edge Toyota’s Kalle Rovanpera by 0.9s in stage 20 to claim the five bonus World Rally Championship points on offer.

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Hyundai reveals Craig Breen WRC tribute livery

The South Korean marque announced earlier this week that it would honour Breen, who died in Rally Croatia testing crash last Thursday, by running a special colour scheme on its entries for the fourth round of the WRC.

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WRC and FIA retire Craig Breen’s number 42

The factory Hyundai driver tragically succumbed to injuries in an accident last Thursday in preparation for this weekend’s WRC round in Croatia.

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Latvala hails “unique” Ogier WRC Rally Mexico performance

Ogier will head into the gravel event's final day equipped with a 35.8s advantage over Toyota team-mate Elfyn Evans, as the eight-time world champion goes in search of a record seventh WRC win in Mexico.

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Lappi rates Mexico drive among the best of his WRC career

Competing in his third event for Hyundai after switching from Toyota, the one-time WRC winner set the fastest time on five of the day’s eight stages to lead six-time Rally Mexico winner Sebastien Ogier by 5.3s.

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M-Sport still "has work to do" despite breakthrough WRC win

M-Sport boss Malcolm Wilson says his World Rally Championship team has 'a lot of things we need to improve' despite scoring a breakthrough win in Sweden.

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Breen: Sweden WRC podium has “given confidence to keep pushing forward"

Craig Breen says finishing second on his World Rally Championship return in Sweden has restored confidence levels that had taken a hit following a difficult 2022 campaign.

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Tanak: Unexpected WRC Sweden triumph is an "emotional one"

Ott Tanak says his Rally Sweden victory was emotional after admitting he wasn’t expecting “too much” from a second World Rally Championship outing driving an M-Sport Ford Puma.

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WRC Sweden: Tanak pulls clear, Neuville hangs onto third

Ott Tanak moved a step closer to scoring M-Sport’s first World Rally Championship win in more than a year after extending his Rally Sweden lead on Sunday morning.

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WRC Sweden: Tanak surges into slender lead from returning Breen

M-Sport’s Ott Tanak has claimed the Rally Sweden lead as the leaderboard underwent a significant shake up on Friday morning at the World Rally Championship’s snow event.

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Bertelli investigating more WRC opportunities after Sweden

Lorenzo Bertelli is already working to secure another World Rally Championship outing this year following a planned drive in a rented Toyota GR Yaris at Rally Sweden in February.

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Toyota WRC boss Latvala plotting rally return

Toyota World Rally Championship boss Jari-Matti Latvala is plotting a competitive rally return with an outing behind the wheel of Toyota’s new Rally2 GR Yaris.

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Abiteboul identifies first tasks as Hyundai WRC boss

Defining a clear structure and creating a strong team spirit are among the first objectives Cyril Abiteboul wants to achieve as team principal of Hyundai’s World Rally Championship programme.

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