Kris Meeke

[AnttiL]

I've heard that Latvala was chosen over Mikkelsen because Latvala has more experience from developing cars. Also the reason why Hänninen is driving this season is that he's the main guy developing and testing the car and it's a part of the development program to complete the season, not to collect maximum manufacturer points.

I didn't know Meeke was negotiating with Toyota, but after Rally Finland 2016, I think anyone would have wanted him.

[WUff1]

so Matton decision was right? before he was leading rallys, now his confidence is shot.
Do you really expect him to come back from a layoff and be winning rallys.. how does that work in your head?
Sordo, Lappi, Latvala, Ogier, Breen, Neuville, Tanak were all totally out of road today, and only by pure chance they didnt take a wheel off. Meeke took it easy today and took no chances, after yesterdays mistake, now your blaming him?

You know it´s not only Germany.

Meeke looks like a psychological wreck sometimes.

[wia5958]

Going into stage 7 when his engine blew up he was 1.5 secs ahead of Neuville. Hardly a domination really. People are still citing Corsica as the event where it "was not his fault", but lets be fair, with Neuville chasing him hard in the event where C3 was supposed to dominate with couple of stages to go, the mistake was lingering there somewhere and it only didn't happen because his car gave up first.

Yeah going into 7 it may have been that. Meeke never started stage 7. His engine blew in the last kms of stage 6 and he coasted to the end of it. His lead prior to that over neuville was nearly 20s if i mind right. But feel free to correct me if im wrong and do ur research a little better. And as for him crashing id love to c the crystal ball u have when ur so certain he would have crashed. Give the guy a break. Yeah performances lately havent been great. If ur boss undermines something u do at work when u know you have busted ur balls doin it. and he says thats not good enough ur sweeping the floor for a week. Are u gonna give it ur all again or say f@*k this and lay back and do the least amount required for a while

[dimviii]

Yeah going into 7 it may have been that. Meeke never started stage 7. His engine blew in the last kms of stage 6 and he coasted to the end of it. His lead prior to that over neuville was nearly 20s if i mind right.

that's right

[KKS]

or Mikkelsen came and said it was crap (like Mikkelsen did in Sardinia)),

Meeke said that but team has "own opinion" about this and ignore all that.... and here Mikkelsen come and says exactly the same and after that Matton start to think a little bit.

Yeah, Meeke is not mentally strength guy but it's not good team spirit inside a team when tech do what they want and driver must use to it. You never be fast in this circumstances. Why they sign Meeke and then "eat" him inside a team....

as for question:

Name one team in WRC that would pick Meeke over Mikkelsen. Meeke is over the top. Mikkelsen is young and talented.

M-Sport.

Mikkelsen is grew up on VW totall domination and he always be 3rd on this cheaty car. All this talks about "He beat Ogier in same car" it's blablablah. How many times he do that? Ones? per 4 years? Really great achievement! And he looks strong at 2016 cuz Latvala was mentally down and couldn't drive at full strength. But he not good as Ogier or Latvala.
And gravel rallys show that he on Breen level... or maybe a little bit higher.

[mknight]

And gravel rallys show that he on Breen level... or maybe a little bit higher.

Which rallies?
Poland where he beat Breen clearly in same car?
Also where is Meeke on gravel rallies compared with Breen looking at points and Finland result?

Two of Mikkelsens wins are on gravel, both in rallies where Ogier and Latvala didn't have tech. issues.

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Btw. Matton said that Loeb used Breens and Mikkelsens setup on his test but not Meekes cause it was "too much of a racing car". Kinda puts doubt on the ideas that "the engineers" developed the C3 contrary to Meekes wishes.

[wia5958]

Which rallies?
Poland where he beat Breen clearly in same car?
Also where is Meeke on gravel rallies compared with Breen looking at points and Finland result?

Two of Mikkelsens wins are on gravel, both in rallies where Ogier and Latvala didn't have tech. issues.

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Btw. Matton said that Loeb used Breens and Mikkelsens setup on his test but not Meekes cause it was "too much of a racing car". Kinda puts doubt on the ideas that "the engineers" developed the C3 contrary to Meekes wishes.

Ever think that this could mean he preferred meekes setup giving that loeb is quite a nose first driver as racecars normally are and that driving mikklesons and breens setups may have give him some insight to where the flaws are in the car. Just because he said meekes setup was like a racecar it does not mean he didnt like or prefer it

And as for mikklesons wins he inherited 2 of them poland where tanak was unlucky with a puncture spain ogier crashed and he won in australia a last event of the year where ogier had the title and nothing to fight for im not taking his wins away from him but they are the facts

And if u want to compare the 3 drivers at least do it on rallys where the 3 of them competed against each other and on the same events and were all in top form for this go back to 2016 instead of comparing 1 driver on 1 rally to another driver on a completely different rally

[mknight]

Ever think that this could mean he preferred meekes setup giving that loeb is quite a nose first driver as racecars normally are and that driving mikklesons and breens setups may have give him some insight to where the flaws are in the car. Just because he said meekes setup was like a racecar it does not mean he didnt like or prefer it

You mean he will on purpose not try the settings he prefers on a car that he has never drive before? Uhh.

Anyway it's just a comment Matton made in the pre-event press conf+interview. Maybe no need to read too much into it.

[wia5958]

Do u know what the exact purpose of loebs test was. Cause i dont. Do you know if he was told get in and drive the car as fast as u can in your preferred setup or was he told seb drive the car can u tell us what u think can be done to make it better

[wrc2017]

Sometimes its better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression your stupid than to open it and remove all doubt

You mean he will on purpose not try the settings he prefers on a car that he has never drive before? Uhh.

Anyway it's just a comment Matton made in the pre-event press conf+interview. Maybe no need to read too much into it.