Loeb started his 2003 season with a win ahead of said teammates.
And he had to leave Citroen.Quote:
Did Ogier believe he had to support Loeb. No, he is 6 times world champ.
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Finnish media IS reports that Toyota actually didn't have to pay anything to get Ogier released from his Citroen contract. The story claims Ogier handled that part himself, bypassing Budar and negotiated directly with Citroen's top management. If the story's true, Ogier had decided already in August that he would not drive for Citroen in 2020 and started to look for options. Allegedly Ogier convinced the Citroen bosses that they would save a huge amount of money by just releasing him from his contract and eventually that happened. Sounds silly but perfectly fits this silly season we're still living in.
Yep. Budar said too that he realized after Germany Ogier doesn’t want to continue.
What a power one guy has.
So Tommi and Ogier conspired from germany onwards
So that means Mäkinen didn't want to sign Tänaks contract.
Märtin wasn't lying
I think that's somewhat hasty conclusion. Yes, it could be that Mäkinen didn't want to sign Tänak's contract, but I find it hard to believe it would have been because of Ogier. Why would Mäkinen prefer the services of Ogier (who's anyway available for only one year) over Tänak's?
What comes to this Märtin/Mäkinen debate, I'm 150% sure that neither one of them is telling the truth as we know it. Ofcourse both sides tell the story as they see it, which usually means that "the truth" is there somewhere in-between.
Yeah
Theres always two sides to a story
Truth is probably somewhere inbetween
Probably both are somewhat at fault 😃