Originally Posted by
liposh
If I am not mistaken people from Toyota never said their 3rd driver will be Lappi. He is just testdriver. Maybe there is unofficial agreement between Lappi and Makinen about at least 5 european rounds but they can change it very easily because he has written contract (only) as test driver. As Eddie Jordan once said: "Don´t trust anybody. Even me." Toyota´s third driver can be anybody. Mikkelsen, Suninen, Lappi, those two kamikadzes from Japan...anybody.
...thinking about it maybe Skoda can sign Mikkelsen. Lappi´s seat is empty. If so, I think driving one year for Skoda factory team is not a luck, when you are Mikkelsen level driver, but it isn´t also disaster.