Hyundai alleged his 2025 WRC car upgrade for Safari rally Kenya

Hyundai insisted that the next week’s safari rally Kenya has been made a “better option to contest the election without a 2025 car update package started in Sweden last month.

The South Korean manufacturer will be the head of Africa for the most difficult event on the WRC calendar, which will be with a trio of the i20 N Rali 1 cars competing in the specification ending the 2024 campaign (with the 2024 campaign (with the Minus Hybrid Unit and with air restrictive changes) to end up with air restrictive changes).

Hyundai spent a lot in working on an important upgrade package for 2025 last year, in which four home -freedom clowns were used to improve their i20 N for drivers. Thierry neurville, Oat Tanak And new signature Adrian FormoxThe improvement is concentrated around a modified suspension layout and weight loss.

The package was largely pleased with the team’s performance with the team’s Principal Cyril Abytbol on Sweden’s snow stage last month, designed mainly for gravel and asphalt rallies despite the upgradation.

However, the combination of factors has inspired the team to place those updates on ice for a trip to Kenya next week before returning to their full 2025 package. However, Abytbol is confident that the decision will not have an impact on the team’s performance.

“(The car we will use) -2024 will be at the end of the specification, so this is not the imagination that went to Kenya last year because obviously there were many issues around the transmission especially after Kenya (which was addressed), so what the car will run in Kenya this year,” Abbatbol said.

“This is a decision we have made to customize the availability of parts because we had very busy winter because we got 2025 specifications very late and made it very marginal to make it with freight (Kenya). This was an adaptation to the overall operation that led the decision.

“We don’t think there will be any deficit in the context of performance or a big difference. It is all credibility and sign-off and mileage (on parts) and overall the car driving the car as it was at the end of 2024, better than running a 2025 car.

Nothing was wrong with “(updated in Sweden), but clearly we did not actually designing those changes for Sweden for snow, we have designed the changes for changes that we are facing this year, which are mainly gravel and slightly tarmac.

“But if you look at Thierry and Adrian, by the end of the weekend it is very clear that the car was performed there or after.”

While Hyundai’s WRC Challenger would be without its 2025 updates, it would be a new upgrade upgrade for the hardness of Kenya’s infamous hard gravel roads.

The team has developed a revised snorkel. Snorkels are devices that spread from the bonnet of a car designed to protect the engine from water or dust, which can affect combustion and also severely damage the engine. It is particularly effective at the safari rally, which has thick fashion sand and deep water splashes.

Abytbol said, “We would have a better example using us last year – (last year’s snorkel) was probably a little basic, so it also shows some homework that we have completed.”

Homework addressed in a challenging pre-phenomenon test

Kenya has proved to be a particularly challenging rally for Hyundai, as it has recorded only one podium finish of its four attempts, when Tanak finished third in 2021. The main rival Toyota has won each version since the return to the calendar in 2021, scoring a major 1-2–3–4 in both 2022 and 2023.

Hyundai’s collapse has been largely collapsed by the issues of credibility, but the team has focused on addressing those concerns after each visit to Kenya. The third round of the championship has continued to solve the problem next week, after a challenging pre-phenomenon test, has been held under difficult conditions, which has highlighted an electrical fraud.

“Hope we have taken a step, but I know whatever issue we have faced last year in Kenya have been addressed – but every time we go to Kenya we find out new issues,” Abitebol said.

“We had actually a quite a very prone phenomenon test for Kenya, where we saw something that was not at all the level we want, especially if it is raining a lot.

“The pre-phenomenon was challenging for the test team and I would have to give credit to the team to do very strong work to give maximum preparation to drivers.

“But it shows that this is not an easy challenge. I like to find these credibility issues in testing during the rally. We were talking about doing our homework, but that box was tickled. ,

Safari rally Kenya starts with the first of the 21 stages on next Thursday.