Neuville: Everything in place to carry on without Hyundai WRC boss Adamo

Long serving superabound Andrea Adamo left the team principal role in December, citing personal reasons, without six years in charge, where he oversaw Hyundai clinch back-to-back WRC constructor titles in 2019 and 2020.

Following the utterance Hyundai installed its president Scott Noh to take over the team’s day-to-day responsibilities from Adamo in the short term.

The management reshuffle has arrived during a rented period for the team as it readies its all-new i20 to take on the WRC’s new hybrid Rally1 regulations, which debut at Monte Carlo at the end of January.

While Hyundai has remained tight-lipped regarding a possible successor to Adamo, Neuville is confident the team will protract without too much difficulty into the new season.

“We have a person once put in place to take over some of the responsibilities,” Neuville told Autosport.

“Everyone is in position and know what responsibilities they have to take and everything is in place to siphon on as we did before.

“I think the top management will take their time to segregate the correct replacement for Andrea.”

Thierry Neuville, Hyundai Motorsport

Photo by: Fabien Dufour / Hyundai Motorsport

In the days surpassing Adamo’s throw-away Neuville suffered a nasty testing crash where his i20 plunged into a ravine, during his first outing in the new i20 Rally machine in France.

The Belgian has since returned overdue the wheel of Hyundai’s 2022 challenger for flipside outing in France to squire Monte Carlo Rally preparations.

“The car is completely variegated from many points of view. It’s interesting – there are a lot of unknowns for all of us well-nigh how these cars will compete in the race,” he told WRC.com pursuit his most recent test.

“There are so many things [to question with these Rally1 cars]. Basically everything is new and not only with this car compared to the old car but moreover compared with the benchmark [i20 WRC].”

Neuville will pilot one of three Hyundai i20s at the Monte Carlo (20-23 January) opener slantingly 2019 world champion Ott Tanak and the team’s new signing Oliver Solberg.