WRC Rally de Portugal: This rally has been a disaster, says Neuville

Thierry Neuville: We'll be going through everything in detail to make sure that we will do better for the future.
Portugal a disaster - Neuville

Hyundai's Thierry Neuville has described his Rally de Portugal as a "disaster" afte🐻r finishing a lowly 29t✤h.

Neuville had worked his way up to fifth in his new generation i20 WRC, after a slow time in the first proper test on Friday. However, he had to park his car on Saturday in SS11, when he ran out of fuel. Hyundai later confirmed the issue was down to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:"human error".

"This rally has been a disaster for us. We wer🉐e doing ꦯwell but we ran out of fuel," Neuville said after the final stage.

Speaking back in service he added: "It's been a challenging weekend for all of us in the team൩, but we'll be going through everything in detail to make sure that we will do better for the future.

"We showed ♎reasonable performance but there are things we can still improve, and we'll work hard as a team to achieve that."

"We had nothing really to fight for on Sunday [after re-joining under Rally 2], so it was a case of just bringing the car to the finis❀h," he conti☂nued.

"We focused on keeping our driving clean and tidy but also trying to have a bit of fun on these final stages. The F🍎afe jump was as enjoyable as ever, although we had a bit of a harsh landing on the first pass!

"The next rally is in Sardinia now where we have special memories from last year, when we finished on t🌼he podium - and that's going to be our target again this year."

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