what was HOT and was NOT in 2009

[N.O.T]

so what did you like from this year championship

- Loebs 6th championship
- the final round and the flat out battle
- Ogiers performance on his first wrc season
- Sordos pace on some gravel events and his improvement
- Rally polands stages
- Novikovs mental attitude
- the fact that the best driver won at the end

what i didn't like

- Fords and Citroens tactics
- Solbergs constant whinning and excuses
- Latvalas accidents lost us a 3rd title challenger
- Loebs accidents gave a chance to hirvonen to win a championsip by quitting to 2nd places and not driving on most events
- the sick dog championships of PWRC and JWRC and their paper useless champs with no future
- the performances of Rautenbach and Wilson in top eqquipment
- Novikovs crashes

[Langdale Forest]

N.O.T was NOT in 2009.

[bluuford]

I add a few.
HOT;
Nikkaras performance with GrN Evo 10
Lambros in Greece and in Spain
More reliable splits in WRC.com
Superb delivery of stagetimes and notes by http://www.vysledky-rally.cz/vysledky/

NOT:
Unreliability of PSD cars
Poland tactics
Too many exclusions in PWRC

[JFL]

HOT 2009 :
The battle for the title in the last round
Rally Norway, Rally Finland, Rally Poland
Petter Solberg

NOT 2009:
N.O.T
Tactics

[pettersolberg29]

HOT 2009 :
The battle for the title in the last round
Rally Norway, Rally Finland, Rally Poland
Petter Solberg

NOT 2009:
N.O.T
Tactics

I agree 100% although I'd add Dani Sordo's gravel performances into the HOT section.

[RS]

+ Mikko and Sordo really showing improvement
+ Petter Solberg putting in a proper effort to keep his career going
+ Right guy won the title in the end

- JM Latvala still accident prone, now with less speed
- FIA still dithering about future technical regs
- Not enough tarmac on calendar

[urabus-denoS2000]

This whole tactical-2 cars-gravel-gentleman driver-rich children-icecream men- season is a huge NOT

[Langdale Forest]

HOT.

• Hirvonen's almost ledgend speed on the last day of rally GB[/*:m:gv33q8bw]
• Solberg in a Citroen C4[/*:m:gv33q8bw]
• Novikovs stunt in Finland[/*:m:gv33q8bw]
• Ogiers 2nd place in greece[/*:m:gv33q8bw]
• PWRC win for a Skoda Fabia S2000 in Greece[/*:m:gv33q8bw]
• Loebs amazing number of wins (50+)[/*:m:gv33q8bw]

NOT

• Latvala being a complete showoff in Poland[/*:m:gv33q8bw]
• Citroen's pathetic and brutal team orders against Sordo in Spain[/*:m:gv33q8bw]
• The Australia Citroen controvesy[/*:m:gv33q8bw]
• Dave TV coverage in the UK[/*:m:gv33q8bw]
• Ford's bonnet clips[/*:m:gv33q8bw]

[Simmi]

I'd also go with Petter and Novikov's balls as HOT points. But apart from that I'm clutching at straws.

NOT
Talent on the sidelines (1 drive for Atko)
Starting the year off in mediocrity. No Monte hurt the series.
Latvala
Rules that encourage/lead to tactics (I can't blame the teams in most instances)

There's probably plenty more.

[Langdale Forest]

Like Matt Wilson ...