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    Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
    a while ago there was quit credible rumors about Citroen having in 2018 only two works cars and one customer car run by PH Sport.
    I'm going further with this...would it mean that Meeke drives a full season, Breen has to alternate with Loeb and Qassimi in the 2nd car while someone else drives the customer car?

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    Its quite puzzling to see that even now they aren't trying to get Tiedemand or Suninen, which are both cheap and talented. Matton should be shown the door.

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    Tidemand and Suninen bring nothing better than Breen. What they badly need now is not another inexperienced drivers.
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    Maybe, but those guys are there only chance to see some better results. All their current drivers have hit their ceiling.

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    Quote Originally Posted by er88 View Post
    Matton gambled too much on Seb and turned his nose up (twice!!) on Andreas, who is a very good driver. In fact anyone in the wrc would be better than Lefebrve right now, but because he's French he stays? Citroen would be better off trying to offer Hyundai a good solution to take Sordo back or get Paddon, or they should go for Tidemand. All three would be better for the team as 3rd driver alongside Meeke and Breen.

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    Do you really think Mikkelsen wanted to stay in Citroen when he had the chance to go to Huyndai...? I don't think so
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    Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
    a while ago there was quit credible rumors about Citroen having in 2018 only two works cars and one customer car run by PH Sport.
    Yeah, I remember that.... don’t know why I think what I do, but just get the feeling they haven’t made enough noise about 2018 to indicate they are staying. PSA as a group may be sat upon a potential emissions scandal and this will cause a withdrawal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SubaruNorway View Post
    Do you really think Mikkelsen wanted to stay in Citroen when he had the chance to go to Huyndai...? I don't think so
    Not after seeing how much he struggled with the car on gravel, but he would've signed a proper deal with Citroen early in the season, or before the season even began imo. That's when Matton should've offered him a long term deal and it was obvious at the time.

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    You really start to wonder how much time Matton has left in his job now. I don't feel like he has done anything in his years as the boss.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira View Post
    Citroën critical mistake was not stay with Mikkelsen.
    What Citroen needs is a competent leading driver, able to motivate the whole team. In that sense, I don’t think Mikkelsen would make a huge difference from Meeke, besides being a more reliable driver. Ogier, with his constant winning focus and proven tech expertise would certainly push all Citroen staff members into a winning path; that’s what he did in VW and MSport.

    On a hopeful note, we should remember Peugeot recent Dakar experience. Their first 2008DKR, in 2015, was a major flop, but with the help of a retired PSA tech guru (JC Vaucard) and the motivation of their leading driver (Peterhansel), they’ve managed to fix it and get a winning machine that’s still dominating the event.

    Maybe Citroen new tech chief (Besse) work and a further involvement from Loeb on the C3 development can operate a similar result…fingers crossed!
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    You forgot something, Citroen brings in this season quite a show. Still they have huge numbers of selling passenger C3's. And Serderidis car looks amazing. That livery rocks. All of official liveries are quite not much special this year, except Kremer's Fiesta was nice. Hyundai have better last year. And M-Sport was good looking for eyes some years ago with Castrol EDGE and Abu Dhabi. Really ugly I could say Bertelli have not taste at all.

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