announced that he’d exercised an option in his deal to end his contract with Hyundai a year early. It is a bold move from the 2019 world champion and one that is set to trigger a number of potential driver line-up changes in the service park.Before assessing the make up of the 2023 field it is pertinent to understand how this situation has unfolded. Tanak’s WRC future has been uncertain for a matter of months despite holding a contract for 2023 with the South Korean marque.
When the i20 N burst onto the scene in Monte Carlo it was far from a finished product. It was unreliable and struggling to match the GR Yaris and Puma counterparts. To Hyundai’s credit it has managed to transform its i20 N into a winning machine, with Tanak taming the car to record victories in Sardinia, Finland and Belgium. However, a series of reliability issues have proven to be the i20 N’s Achilles heel that has left Tanak frustrated.
“The rest, it's up to the management to work out how we could continue. The potential in the car is huge, they've done a great job first designing it but now to put it together it needs another good effort, but it needs a team effort, all together and that's what we are working for.”Photo by: Fabien Dufour / Hyundai Motorsport
“If you are to fight for [the drivers'] championship then it was wrong and if you want to have good PR it is the right decision,” he said. “It depends whose perspective you are looking from. My perspective is I want to fight for the championship, but it is shame that we couldn’t do it in a fair fight.”
“What I like is to have Ott as my team-mate because he is the strongest team-mate I have ever had,” said Neuville. “It makes an additional challenge for me but it is also motivating as well for me.”Photo by: McKlein /Tanak’s departure statement didn’t offer much in terms of his future plans other than a “I feel that I am at a stage of my career where I need to embark on a new challenge” comment.
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