Former F1 team boss-turned-Hyundai rally chief Cyril Abiteboul says Toyota’s impressive start to the 2023 WRC in MonteCarlo is “nothing to worry about' 👇
have also struggled to extract speed from the upgraded i20 N, leaving the pair a distant seventh and eighth overall.
“We are much better than what we were last year in Monte Carlo,” Abiteboul told Motorsport.com. “Frankly, it just shows the distance that you can cover within a year. “We maybe were a tiny bit conservative [going into the rally on set up]. I guess maybe the habit of changing conditions and maybe we could have been a bit more aggressive given the weather is much more clement this year. We are all learning and it is going to be a long season. I prefer it to be like that, then the other way around.
“It was a better day than yesterday definitely,” Neuville told Motorsport.com. “We are still missing some performance especially in the fast stuff, we are too soft and the car is not precise enough and moving around too much. This is where we are losing the time, but we were expecting colder and more tricky conditions than what we have.
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