Ahead of this weekend's Rally Mexico, Thierry Neuville recalls when a bottle of beer helped Hyundai secure its first WRC podium.
helped elevate Neuville to fifth at the end of Friday, albeit 2m30.2s adrift of runaway leader Volkswagen's Sebastien Ogier.damaged the suspension on his Citroen DS3. The relentless high rate of attrition coupled with improved speed from Neuville, lifted the Belgian into the third, 4m37.0s in arrears.
"We got a hot temperature alarm and we saw we had a hole in the radiator, so we had to fix it and it was very stressful for us as we still had a long road section to go," says Neuville. "It is always nice looking back at the footage from the past," Neuville adds."I remember that situation. I mean at that time it was very important to secure the first podium for Hyundai in WRC after only three races. We were close to losing it all after the finish of the Power Stage, but we handled it and made some good advertising at the same time. We benefitted from it."
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