The grip issues Hyundai is suffering on gravel rallies probably cannot be cured until the 2017 World Rally Championship, reckons Hayden Paddon.Though Hyundai has won two rallies with Paddon and Thierry Neuville this year, it has struggled for pace on the first pass of gravel stages when grip is lower....

Dani Sordo's pre-Rally Finland crash has ruled him out of the next round of the World Rally Championship. Hyundai has confirmed Kevin Abbring and his co-driver Sebastian Marshall will step in for the injured Spaniard on the July 28-31 event.Team principal Michel Nandan admitted the decision had been taken with...

Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Dani Sordo has fractured a vertebra in a crash during his pre-Rally Finland test.Both the Spaniard and co-driver Marc Marti spent Friday night in hospital following the accident and both were discharged the following day.Marti escaped injury, while Sordo is nursing the fracture at home.A...

Thierry Neuville's Rally of Portugal preparations were interrupted when he crashed Hyundai's test car on Tuesday.The Belgian and his co-driver Nicola Gilsoul were uninjured in the crash and the team is reporting the i20 WRC has been repaired and is running again in Portugal."The accident happened this morning when Thierry...

Hayden Paddon has retained his Rally Sweden second-place finish after successfully returning to the service park.The Hyundai driver had been in a comfortable second place behind Sebastien Ogier heading onto Sunday's final stage, Varmullsasen, but clipped marker posts on his run through the powerstage.Paddon completed the stage but his New...

Thierry Neuville insists he still goes into 2016 Hyundai's top World Rally Championship driver, despite a slump that led to a team status demotion at the end of this season.The Belgian gave Hyundai its first WRC win in Germany in 2014 and began this year as undisputed number one driver,...

Hyundai has unveiled the New Generation i20 WRC that it will use for the 2016 World Rally Championship season. The team retains Thierry Neuville, Hayden Paddon and Dani Sordo to field a three-car lineup on every event, with Kevin Abbring making occasional appearances alongside test duties.The car will only be...

Hyundai has delayed its new World Rally Championship i20 until 2016 and canceled plans for the next car to be a three-door version.The team had intended to run a three-door coupe i20 for its next generation World Rally Car and had scheduled its debut for the second half of this...