Permitted under 2017 WRC regulations, Hyundai’s system is hydraulically operated and brings the i20 into line with the latest Fiesta, Polo and DS3 cars. It will fitted to the cars of Thierry Neuville and Dani Sordo, while Hayden Paddon’s Motorsport N car will continue with the earlier manual shift. The upgrade comes seven weeks after a revised fuel injection system was introduced at Rally Guanajuato Mexico. The team had planned to debut the paddle-shift at the same time, but the date was pushed back for technical reasons. “We found an issue with the software, and because we are allowed only one software homologation per year we didn’t want to do any mistakes,” Hyundai team...
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