Dani Sordo and Cándido Carrera were shown as children with new shoes before his new ‘toy’, the Hyundai i20 N Rally1 hybrid. It was the turn of the Spanish couple in the simulation competition that the Korean team has been developing in recent days in Italy. After Ott Tanak-Martin Jarveoja and Thierry Neuville-Martin Wydaeghe, now they are the ones who start adapting to the new mechanics of the 2022 World Championship.
Like his peers, Sordo and Carrera got up early to get behind the wheel of their new car. They complete an intense day as if it were a rally, with several timed sections, links in which the electric motor is used when passing through towns, assistance and even remote assistance, that also change next season. Everything in the Piedmont region, on the stages of the Rally di Alba.
“Next year will not be the same”, Dani explains. “It’s not going to be like now, which is getting to the stage and running as much as possible. New factors will intervene and maybe the one who runs the most will not win, but the one who manages the news best. We must adapt to many new things. I want to try it, but I almost have even more desire to race in Monza “, he acknowledges with a smile from ear to ear.
Sordo and Carrera close three intense days of work in which the Hyundai team wanted to reproduce all the situations that can occur in a rally so that all the members of the team, not only the drivers and co-drivers, but also engineers, and other members of the line-up enter the new hybrid era of rallying and adapt to the novelties.
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