Tanak: Hyundai Toyota was ‘unprepared’ for WRC Canary Islands after defeat

Oat Tanak Hyundai was ‘clearly unprepared’ for the demands of the rally Islas Carrias after facing a crushed defeat for the World Rally Championship rivals Toyota.

Hyundai admitted that it underestimated the difficulty of the pure asphalt incident before the 2025 WRC season, as it was unable to take the fight for a major Toyota that recorded an impressive 1-2-3-4 results.

Korean Market was led to Canary Island Thierry neurville The rally showed strong speed on the Spanish Termac roads in Sierra Morena. However, in the Canary Islands, the team struggled with set-up and handling in their three cars and Hankuk could not extract the most from the hard compound tires.

The pre-event selected differences appear to be an important part of the problem and some teams cannot reversed as components are sealed. But the team admitted that the rally had highlighted some fundamental issues with its advanced i20N rally 1 car. Consequently, in a luxurious test session designed to learn more about your car for future events in Saturday and Sunday stages.

Adrian FormoxThose who selected a distinct gap compared to the teammates of the team, Nuvile and Tanak, emerged as the fastest Hyundai, who finished fifth in the fifth 2M31.0s of runway winner Kalle Rowanpera.

Hyundai has a homological clown that should highlight significant changes in its i20N rally 1 to deploy its sleeves so that it is necessary to resolve issues. Tanak believes that the root cause of lack of speed is not direct fix.

“Clearly we were not well prepared for this rally, and it was a kind of rally that shows it well, because we can see that the speed was coming from another manufacturer,” Tanak told Autosport after finishing the sixth, 3M11.4S adrift.

“It was a pure-demonstration phenomenon and we were not ready for this one, and the other team was very strong and well prepared, so it is where the big difference came from.

“Surely large lessons will be taken, but it is definitely not clear what we need to do and should be at the speed of Toyota. I also think it is not so straight to change it.”

While disappointing with Toyota being unable to fight, Formox believes that Hyundai would solve its problems and the previous weekend was a rally rally-specific, meaning that they should not be an issue when the asphalt returns to WRC at the Central European rally in October.

“I am really disappointed because we were unable to fight, but we found some interesting things on the car that we could improve, the things we could not really do on the rally, it’s more for the future,” Formox told the Autosport.

“Personally I am happy to be the fastest of the three because it was a fight within the team at the end and I think it was the only battle throughout the weekend. Some are positive because in the end we won the ‘Hyundai Cup’.

“I am confident that Hyundai is not a team that does nothing wrong (goes wrong), so we will work hard and be better, faster and strong.

“There is only one rally in the Canary Island season, and we should be fine until there are many more smooth, dry tarmac events. The rest are fine, it should be fine.”