Communiqués de presse - YOUR 5x WRS CHAMPION!

YOUR 5x WRS CHAMPION!

... Is not Wynn Hunter! Let me be the first to congratulate Visvaldis Cels on an utterly phenomenal comeback.

I'll save the round-up for others as there is already an ongoing season review, but for those who have followed this duel for the ages, Hunter lead the field for 10 straight weeks... Until the final day... Literally, the final day. Cels needed to dig REAL deep to recover a sizeable points gap early on, and did just that! We won six, and finished P2 in the other eight, I can't really qualm with that!

Now comes the pinnacle challenge, and I am a man of my word! I came into rally with the following goals:

• Win the title
• Win the title twice
• Win the title with more than one manufacturer
• Compete for 10 seasons

We took the crown four times, twice with Toyota, twice with Ford, Hunters name is etched into pretty much every accolade, every record (whether it still stands or not), and with this, we also had push goals:

• Win the title three times or more
• Clean sweep wins over the whole season

I'm proud to say we secured each goal, and push goal, well within the ten seasons! I've been in rally long enough now to know it front to back, I'm confident to say that with literally maximum skills across every rally skills, every mental skill, and every calculable driving skill, as well as fitness, it is not Hunters ability that prevents him from taking the fight to Cels, but likely the age gap... Or the bravery to challenge higher aggression.

And so, with that, for Hunters tenth and final rally season, I will be conducting one final swan-song experiment, a tradition dating back to my previous driver, Mack Zaggro and his departing season from Indy.

Each and every round of WRS in Season 51 will be conducted with full, unabated and unwavering 100 aggression, in all areas, of all stages. We already run 100 mechanical and 100 tyre aggression, but we left margin on the table as rally can be a brutal sport, if it goes wrong, it goes very wrong, and that driving aggression balance is key for any aspiring rally driver...

But now, it's win it or bin it. With that I can say we left nothing at all on the table, no margin, no foul, no quarter, and Hunter can grab his muddy boots and drive sidewards into his early retirement at the ripe age of 32 at seasons end in Japan...