Hyundai takes covers off new Elantra N TCR automobile

The South Korean producer has won both editions of the WTCR sequence for TCR machinery because it took over from the World Touring Automobile Championship in 2018, with BRC Racing drivers Gabriele Tarquini (2018) and Norbert Michelisz (2019) both using the i30 N.

Josh Files additionally added final year’s TCR Europe title in a Target Competitors i30 N, whereas the Veloster N that’s predominantly campaigned in the US won final year’s IMSA Michelin Pilot Insist with Bryan Herta Autosport.

The new Elantra N TCR has been finding out since June and to this level performed 5,000km of working, with a Hyundai release explaining that it has visited ” deal of circuits around Europe” – understood to be Hockenheim and Vallelunga – “to originate both hotfoot and lengthy-distance purposes in parallel”.

This may be powered by a brand new manufacturing-execrable 2.0-litre turbocharged engine, but retains the identical six-trudge, rush-shift operated gearbox as Hyundai’s existing TCR offerings.

It has additionally switched from hydraulic to digital guidance.

The well-known chassis is determined to be dropped at customers sooner than the pause of 2020, to be ready for opponents next year.

Hyundai Motorsport Crew Most most considerable Andrea Adamo said: “After three months of finding out and constructing work I’m extra than satisfied to in the slay be in a space to sigh the Elantra N TCR to the world.

“By starting with a tidy sheet of paper, the Buyer Racing division designers and engineers had been in a space to grab good thing relating to the choice to extra toughen all-spherical efficiency of the automobile, as properly as spend the total working out and skills won from two years of racing with the i30 N TCR and Veloster N TCR.”

Tarquini has been one of many drivers tasked with the Elantra N TCR’s constructing, and said its increased dimension when put next with the i30 N became not noticeable from its efficiency.

“As a driver the Elantra N TCR felt very nice, even from the first assessments,” he said.

“I’ve already been in a space to total rather about a laps in the automobile to find out, using both the hotfoot and patience versions, which can per chance per chance very properly be being developed collectively and we were in a space enact real growth in constructing the new automobile from the initiate up.

“There are many cramped changes which buyer groups and drivers will if truth be told admire, equivalent to improvements in the guidance machine over the outdated vehicles.

“Clearly the Elantra N TCR is some distance bigger, but the handling approach that in the help of the wheel you may not study the variation.”

Hyundai just isn’t going to aid its WTCR title this year after all four works-supported i30 Ns were withdrawn from final weekend’s Nurburgring spherical, explaining that “Hyundai Motorsport has the sensation that neither the firm nor our buyer groups are given equal medicine in the sequence to other opponents and customarily are not made to feel welcome”.