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weird how so many manufacturers are trying hard to stop building the cars the public wants.

2022 - 6 wins for kalle
2023 - 3 wins for kalle so far.

Ogier is making a big difference this year. He has taken 2 wins away from rovanpera and 1 from Neuville.

ogier has done 3 rallies this year and only a penalty+flat tyre in croatia have stopped him from winning them all 3. ogier and tanak were in the same team in 2017 and ogier had 42 points more at the...

somewhat related but not quite: do some people think that either tanak or rovanpera would have been champion if they would have had a full season doing ogier as teammate?

His best chance was 2017. He should have been champion then but he blew it by crashing in the first 2 rallies while having no reason to push.

But some people seem to forget that he's 5 times vice...

It's a lot weirder that neuville has stayed with Hyundai for so long when they have only once given him a car that could win a championship.

Had he gone to toyota perphaps he could have been...

For me the obvious thing to do would be hiring andreas and putting solberg in a 4th car to see how he compares. Even better would be to create a junior team with another driver like rossel or gryazin.

All they need to do is buy an existing team.

The only issue is finding one that wants to be sold to them 😛

There's only a 12 point difference in the championship between tanak and neuville.
Compare that to the 121 points difference between rovanpera and evan.
Even ogier+lappi only have 155 points.
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indeed. some drivers go around big stones and potholes and some go straight through, Tanak is one of the latter. I can't remember which year or rally, but i still remember video of a blind crest...

I never understood how a big team like hyundai could be so stupid as to hire solberg. It's like they didn't even wanted to try and fight for the manufacturers title. So many better drivers available.

Indeed. We've seen kubica and raikkonen, they were used to even faster and more powerfull cars but they never made it to the top level in rallying.

Driving 5 corners 100 times requires a very...

Perhaps hyundai could ask Msport to build their car and run their team. They clearly can't do it themself.

Remember there were only 7 rallies last year. That still a 30% win ratio for each.

In 2013 he had a 64% win rate, in 2014 and 2015 it was 61%, in 2016 he was at 46%. Today he sits at 57% so far,...

Out of those last 14 rallies, 10 have been won by toyota. 6 of those were by some bloke called Sebastian.

What i feared at the end of 2019 has come true, we are back at vw levels of dominance with...

Perhaps hyundai should try new young drivers who have not setteled in a driving style yet.

Older, experienced drivers often seem to be less able to drive around problems. Instead relying on...

The car is so shit neuville was the vice champion the last 4 years.

I agree. Although it hardly matters since both neuville and tanak finished, i believe mikkelsen would have done a better job here.

Elena made me smile too.

Both ogier and neuville seem convinced that the toyota was the fastest car. And i assume if anyone should be able to tell, it should be ogier.

In a few weeks we'll know for sure.

nobody ever thought he had any talent, not even himself. :p

mikkelsen is one of those examples of how you can only buy your way up to a certain level. latvala, ostberg, greensmith, ... are all the same.

with a little talent you can pay for a drive and get...

That means that Neuville is convinced that he has a better chance against tanak in the same car than against tanak in the toyota.
Which means he believes the toyota is the better car.

he would have hired ogier in 2017 and hyundai would by now have 3 constructor titles and 2 driver titles.

He did 3 scratches in spain, as much as sordo and more than ogier. Only neuville and tanak did better.

So the speed still is in there somewhere, but he just can't seem to get it out on a reliable...