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Tanak: 2025 Rally1 vehicles are how a “rally automotive ought to be”
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Tanak: 2025 Rally1 vehicles are how a “rally automotive ought to be”

By Miles Cooper January 26, 2025
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The 2025 specification World Rally Championship vehicles with out hybrid energy are a lot “less complicated” and “so much simpler” to drive, based on Hyundai Motorsport’s Ott Tanak.

The WRC will usher in new technical laws this season after the FIA determined to take away hybrid energy from Rally1 vehicles, which can even now run on a brand new management tyre provided by Hankook.

Because of the regulation change, Rally1 vehicles at the moment are anticipated to be slower minus the additional 130 horsepower that was generated by the hybrid unit, linked to a 1.6-litre turbocharged engine. Nevertheless, the removing of hybrid energy has additionally made the vehicles roughly 87 kilograms lighter and due to this fact extra agile.

This week’s season opener in Monte Carlo will see the 2025 vehicles in aggressive WRC motion for the primary time.

WRC crews have been testing the non-hybrid variations of their vehicles because the again finish of final 12 months and in pre-season to adapt to the change whereas gathering priceless information in regards to the new tyres.

Tanak believes this newest spec of Rally1 automotive is “like how a rally automotive ought to” and the discount of energy has made the automotive no much less thrilling to drive.

“It has been an enormous job to adapt the automotive to the regulation change,” mentioned the 2019 world champion.

Tanak: 2025 Rally1 vehicles are how a “rally automotive ought to be”

Ott Tänak, Hyundai World Rally Group

Photograph by: Vincent Thuillier / Hyundai Motorsport

“The idea of the rally automotive is far less complicated once more, as earlier than we had every kind of methods after which we needed to play with the hybrid and the way and when to make use of it for each stage, and add it into our pacenotes. That is now again to a fairly fundamental [car] and the way it was years in the past.

“It’s much more less complicated. I feel it’s a bit simpler to run the automotive however it’s also so much simpler to drive the automotive.

“Driving-wise I prefer it, it is sort of a rally automotive ought to be. The automotive is lighter which is nice as in motorsport, weight is every thing and whether it is lighter the automotive is extra playful, which is optimistic.

“We misplaced one millimetre on the turbo restrictor which for a driver is just not so optimistic with much less energy, however altogether the idea is just not too unhealthy.”

Regardless of a number of unknowns surrounding the efficiency of the brand new Hankook tyres, Tanak truly feels extra at dwelling in his i20 N heading into the beginning of the 2025 season in comparison with final 12 months.

“To start with, we positively really feel far more snug going into the season than we did final 12 months,” he added.

“We already know the automotive and the workforce and we’re positively much more ready than we had been a 12 months in the past. I really feel fairly good within the automotive and particularly on the finish of final 12 months on tarmac I truly felt good within the automotive and I had far more confidence.

“It [Monte Carlo] is a rally perhaps used to take pleasure in a bit extra prior to now. Within the hybrid time it has been demanding however I’ve been going again and ahead throughout the groups, so yearly I’ve been in a brand new automotive with a brand new workforce so this has been difficult to start out a season.

“This 12 months coming again in the identical automotive we’ve got learnings from the previous, so this helps so much.”

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