WRC main class in 2025

[macebig]

Hyundai behaving like spoilt children once again (see WTCR Nurburgring 2020...) and getting away with it... Disappointing...

[EstWRC]

Hyundai will have the opportunity to deliver 50% of its new-for-2025 car after a deal was struck with rival manufacturers allowing the Korean manufacturer to use two years’ worth of homologation jokers next season.

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/hyund...tion-for-2025/

It sounds like they were threatening to quit WRC if they didnt get this deal. But strange to announce it when the Regs for 2025 still aren't decided.

It doesn’t sound like that but Rich literally confirms it

“I totally understand that perspective, but at the same time if we actively push back on everything and force a manufacturer to leave [WRC] because they don’t feel like they’ve got a chance, then what’s better?

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Would they have needed permission to build the 100% new car?

Not if the Regs didnt change, they'd just need to get it homologated under the existing Regs.