First-ever Hyundai i20 N Line rally car to race in INRC

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J A Motorsport has revealed the first-ever Hyundai i20 N Line rally car for the Indian National Rally Championship (INRC).

The i20 N Line rally car has been built to the caller INRC3+ regulations that volition beryllium introduced adjacent year. The caller people volition see accumulation cars powered by turbocharged engines, dissimilar the existent harvest of rally cars that usage people aspirated motors.

To make the i20 N Line rally car, J A Motorsport had to marque respective changes to the banal machine. On the exterior, the car gets a extortion scoop, bonnet clamps and 15-inch rims. Under the skin, it has 3-way adjustable double-piston dampers, a limited-slip differential, a hydraulic jacking system, an aluminium sump guard, composite underbody extortion and a fully-welded FIA-grade rotation cage.

Inside, the i20 N Line rally car has c fibre doorway pads and a centre console, a navigator footrest, a operator grip pad, FIA-grade Sparco seats, a steering wheel, and spot belts. The car is besides equipped with a Stilo intercom to facilitate connection betwixt the operator and navigator.

The i20 N Line rally car is powered by a banal 1.0-litre, 3-cylinder turbo-petrol engine. However, J A Motorsport has remapped the ECU truthful that the motor present produces astir 138 BHP. It is paired with a 6-speed manual gearbox.

Source: Autocar India

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The i20 has been successful the WRC rally circuits since 2014, truthful the information that it has the close genes to marque an INRC debut shouldn't travel arsenic a astonishment astatine all.

Contrary to fashionable content though, the 2014 i20 wasn't Hyundai's archetypal effort astatine rallying successful the WRC. Their archetypal effort was successful 1998 erstwhile Motor Sport Developments Limited (MSD), a now-defunct privately held steadfast successful Milton Keynes co-developed a short-lived WRC car based connected the Hyundai Coupe/Hyundai Tiburon.

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In 1999, again, co-developed by MSD, they unveiled the Accent WRC which raced betwixt the years 2000-2003 aft which they exited WRC owed to fiscal constraints.

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In 2012, Hyundai formally established Hyundai Motorsport GmbH successful Alzenau, Germany.

In 2014, starting from a cleanable expanse of paper, Hyundai unveiled the first-ever i20 WRC.

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In 2016, came an all-new WRC car based connected the caller procreation i20.

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In 2017, the i20 coupe WRC car entered the fray. This was an improvement from the 5-door i20 to the 3-door i20.

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2021 saw the introduction of the "N" branded cars from Hyundai connected the WRC stage.

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2022 saw Hyundai determination the WRC cars to the new-gen Hyundai i20 N. This further was enhanced successful 2023 with the Hybrid Hyundai i20 N WRC car arsenic per the latest WRC norms.

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And now, we person a commencement person location successful the signifier of the Hyundai i20 N-line INRC signifier 3 car from JA Motorsport.

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Here's to putting each that rallying pedigree to bully usage