Posted Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 10:00pm
There was a lot of hullabaloo last week about whether Thierry Neuville wanted to stay or wanted to go from the World Rally Championship.
That’s all been sorted now: Neuville is here to stay, so long as the manufacturers do likewise. End of. If Hyundai offers him a contract for 2025 he’ll sign it.
But it’s worth digging further into how that whole narrative came about: it was a misunderstanding from a point of view focused on the new direction of WRC regulations spelled out by a World Motor Sport Council meeting a few weeks ago. He doesn’t think it’s right and he pointed out that if all the manufacturers walked, it would be the end of his WRC career – but not by choice.
