Andreas Mikkelsen

[denkimi]

btw: do ogier and loeb look so similar in style?

Didn't looked like that to me. I always thought loeb was driving cleaner than ogier.

But then again, i have not seen them at the same age in the same car.

[wyler]

Didn't looked like that to me. I always thought loeb was driving cleaner than ogier.

But then again, i have not seen them at the same age in the same car.

me too!

[dimviii]

Didn't looked like that to me. I always thought loeb was driving cleaner than ogier.

But then again, i have not seen them at the same age in the same car.

+1 Ogier was more impressive more sideways,more sliding,Loeb was cleaner and more straight at his driving.
Of course Mikkelsen has totally different style from them.Reminds me Latvalas style.

[cali]

+1 Ogier was more impressive more sideways,more sliding,Loeb was cleaner and more straight at his driving.
Of course Mikkelsen has totally different style from them.Reminds me Latvalas style.

Actually Loeb's style was the most impressive - I still don't understand how he could be so fast and so straight at the same time.

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[AnttiL]

Actually Loeb's style was the most impressive - I still don't understand how he could be so fast and so straight at the same time.

Sideways equals slow in today's rallying.

[cali]

Sideways equals slow in today's rallying.

That's what I was telling. It's more easy to push for the time and the car starts to go sideways. It's actually an art to keep the car straight and being ultra fast at the same time

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[wyler]

Sideways equals slow in today's rallying.

totally agree till 2016.
not sure about '17 specs. seen it live, exactly same place, same drivers, totally different behavior. to me, it looks like new wrcs allow to mantain corner speed even sliding, but its just a spectator impression.

[the sniper]

Sideways equals slow in today's rallying.

If I had to name one name of being visibly guilty of that, it's Mikkelsen. Particularly in the i20. I don't know if that's his natural style or he's doing it to adapt to the car (though I imagine the former, having been watching some 2016 Polo '17 test videos lately), but on the last two Rally GBs I've seen him on (not so much in Finland), you could trust him to be more sideways and spectacular than even silliest bloke in a Mk2 Escort. Great entertainment, but couldn't be the quickest way round.

EDIT: Just to add, I've always thought that the '17 WRC regs should have been called 'WRC+', as there's such a difference between the pre and post 2017 cars. If nothing else, it'd have helped differentiate the two in 2017, and would probably be useful again in future if/when the 2017 cars are entered in national rallies. They're a substantially different class, so could do with something other than the cumbersome '2017' tag.

[AnttiL]

EDIT: Just to add, I've always thought that the '17 WRC regs should have been called 'WRC+', as there's such a difference between the pre and post 2017 cars. If nothing else, it'd have helped differentiate the two in 2017, and would probably be useful again in future if/when the 2017 cars are entered in national rallies. They're a substantially different class, so could do with something other than the cumbersome '2017' tag.

I agree there should be some way to distinguish the three generations of WRC, but making up your own is not the way to go.

Remember, there were also the 2.0 WRC's before 2011 and they don't have a separate class name either.