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But all of this just confirms that he actually left voluntarily and wasn't kicked.

(After he said.he would rather stay at home than drive a Hyundai)

Rather risky move.

I actually thought you wrote England....

Anyway huge sigh of relief from me that we will have a championship, cause as TypeR says, while strong this lineup indeed doesn't seem unbeatable....

My understanding was that the road car was basically modified to give the WRC car big advantage. (One clearly visible one is the sloping roof for more air to the rear wing).

Fowler mentions this...

Counting to 2 isn't that hard is it?

Winning a single rally in your home country on a surface run on one rally in the championship means a driver is automatically better everywhere and has nothing...

- Actually until Finland Mikkelsen drove much more kms in WRC than Lappi in 2021, and some 6-10 testing days in 2020

- that one I find a bit funny. He drives two rallies and wins both, only one vs...

Appart from him being from Finland and previously driving with them....

The main sporting reason would be that he is better match for switching with Ogier.
Lappi is likely better than Mikkelsen...

Definitely better looking than current Yaris especially from frontal hemisphere. Not so much due to the livery, but the agressive looking "mouth" with radiator.

While front is somewhat ok the rear is horrible.

Ok they want to make one corner black, but why make the black line straight so it looks like the car is not symmetric? Could have easily just...

Not hard to do a better job than Makinen in that part.

Yet Hyundai developed significant upgrades to I20 in the same period, while Toyota seemed to have stood still and then showed up in Estonia with wrong setup.

Sounds very harsh... JML hasn't been "inside" the team?

Might this JML stuff be Japanese response to Makinen losing Tanak?

Also note how vocal Toyoda was that the Yaris (and team?) is "missing...

Exactly, good leader does not necessarily need to act like Adamo, neither does he necessarily need to micro-manage.

That said not applying team orders, and not rotating drivers like they did this...

Latvala as Ogier's boss... that really sounds interesting.

Note how the biggest letters say "winner of WRC...".. and the next biggest say "FIA World Rally Champion"... and only in the very smallest ones you have "Manufacturers"

Good illustration of how...

Fans sure... but for marketing purposes it's about equal value imo ("WRC Champion 2020", is quite typical sign you see getting thrown around, "Winning car" also works and is used both for driver and...

That can be read both ways:
a) "we two did more than enough (better than Tanak/Neuville) but the third guy didn't
b) "we didn't have good strategy for 3rd car
c) "the rules are bad" (well he can...

Yeah that's the exact problem. Rovanpera will likely improve, but how much? (maybe you can see after a few rallies?)
How about the rallies that he hasn't really done yet? (not being nominated might...

I agree Rovanpera wasn't bad, maybe a bit better than expected. Though definitely not as good as predicted by many people after Sweden.
A tiny nitpick is that off course Rovanpera ended 5th... cause...

Old in 2021

So Hyundai upped their game. (looking at performance of all 3 cars, not just Tanak).

Now what will Toyota do for next year? Hastily restart the development of Yaris GR? Probably not enough time...

Well the whole idea of developing a car for just one season was a bit crazy in the first place. Yet Hyundai did the same in 2016. So question is what Hyundai does now, the i20 was supposed to get...

One of the three will either be cleaning the road or have some issues (punctures, offs). Looking at last year the only european events where none of the 3 had issues were Portugal and GB. On the...

Yes I agree.
For me the overseas and new events are the ones that will be most interesting. On the european ones I expect him to be around 3-4 place at least after what we have seen so far.

Definition of "hype" is promotion consisting of exaggerated claims. = saying something is better than it actually is.
In other words "positive" lies. Therefore hyping in "negative" way is...

I really wonder how he does on the overseas and new rallies. Cause that's where both Lappi and Suninen have struggled the most and mostly still struggle.