Hyundai Motorsport cannot possibly be satisfied with its first adventure in Pure ETCR, the electric touring championship that saw the Korean manufacturer engaged with the Veloster N ETCR.
After a lot of development tests and a lot of money invested, the results were not what we had hoped for. Beyond the title lost in the last race by Jean-Karl Vernay against Mattias Ekstrom’s Cupra e-Racer, there are many choices that have proved wrong.
Vernay and Augusto Farfus have – let’s say so – saved by showing their value anyway, while running into some blunders, while Tom Chilton has disregarded every premise and the intangible John Filippi has not gone beyond a level of mediocrity that inevitably has affected the final results.
Among these there is also the technical management of Sébastien Loeb Racing, to which Hyundai Motorsport had entrusted the collaboration for this first adventure which its Director, Andrea Adamo, admits failed in all its aspects, also considering that only a third place, behind the privates of Romeo Ferraris who certainly had much less resources than the Korean brand.
“The approach of the people involved was wrong at the beginning, on the design and management of the car and so on,” admits Adamo speaking in an exclusive interview with Motorsport.com.
“I do mea culpa because I made the choices and they turned out to be wrong, as the results later said”.
“For next year, rest assured that everything will change. And when I say everything, I mean everything”.
Augusto Farfus, Hyundai Motorsport N, Hyundai Veloster N ETCR
Photo by: Pure ETCR
The fact that the regulations do not provide for a homologation and freezing of the vehicles will allow to continue to develop and evolve the electric Hyundai in all its ‘free’ parts.
“The car will have evolved, continuing the development and growth process that has already been done in 2021”.
“As I work on the vehicle, for now you can do everything you want, there is no homologation for this type of machine”.
It remains to be seen how the championship will also grow, which will enter the FIA series and will have to hope to have more cars and teams involved, given that only the Cupra-Romeo Ferraris-Hyundai trio could have worked just as a launch season.
“Increasing the starting grid is not a job that concerns me, it is the promoters who have to find and convince Case to enter. As far as Hyundai Motorsport is concerned, we confirm our two cars”, concludes the Piedmontese engineer.
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