Kevin Abbring makes history at rally of Sardinia

Posted on 13-06-2016 at 7:46 pm by RubenPriest – 26 Comments”

It is the first ‘victory’ for the Dutchman.

The 27-year-old driver is also the first Dutchman ever to a special stage on the world cup rally knows to win. He grabbed the second place. The Belgian Thierry Neuville wrote the final victory to his name, only not entirely without merit. More about that later. By Abbring as the second managed to finish, he scored bonus points for his team. It was before the Brabander for the first time that he for Hyundai two points able to drag. The performance of Abbring is extra remarkable because he drove a Hyundai i20 WRC in the specifications of last year.

The 50,000-euro fine for shoes with windows
The victory of team-Mate Neuville got later in the day a different direction. The models that Hyundai will be participating in the races depart from the models that are presented on paper to the FIA, as was last night known.

The difference lies in the windows. Roal motorsport team principal Michel Nandan admitted that the i20 Thierry Neuville on lighter windows than the homologatiemodel. The windows, respectively, 17 grams to 19 grams lighter. According to Nandan were these windows are used because the windows in the homologatiemodel in the practice didn’t fit. At the time of the inspection of this model, the doors were still not fully assembled and so were the windows, there was not yet in.

The fact that there are then other windows were used for the racer is never reported to the FIA. After an investigation of the technical staff of the autosportfederatie was Hyundai Motorsport punished with a fine of 50,000 euros!

Photo via Neuville