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    Quote Originally Posted by itix View Post
    Like Porter I believe that this is indeed from above Budar's head. Likely Jackson or someone else from top management.

    Kris had crashed more times than he had started rallies at the midpoint of last season.

    Malcolm fired Tänak after one season so I'm frankly amazed that Citroen put up with Kris for 4 whole seasons.

    Call me crazy, but I think Citroen should give Lukyanuk a go. Maybe he'll crash, in which case he can't be worse, maybe he'll stay on the road as he has done the last couple of competitions, and produce some amazing driving.
    Agree with Luky, the sport lost a fast guy and someone who was known in the public to offer good tv action.... i think giving a chance to luky is a wise choice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by itix View Post
    ... Call me crazy, but I think Citroen should give Lukyanuk a go....

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    Quote Originally Posted by itix View Post
    Call me crazy, but I think Citroen should give Lukyanuk a go. Maybe he'll crash, in which case he can't be worse, maybe he'll stay on the road as he has done the last couple of competitions, and produce some amazing driving.
    You are as crazy as the Russian. But I like Your way of thinking. Give this man a WR car, I'm afraid he might fall asleep at some stage in this year ER championship.
    "With that car, your brain can actually never keep up"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE1hI

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    Quote Originally Posted by itix View Post
    Call me crazy, but I think Citroen should give Lukyanuk a go. Maybe he'll crash, in which case he can't be worse, maybe he'll stay on the road as he has done the last couple of competitions, and produce some amazing driving.
    You are crazy. He will either crash as much as meeke, or he'll be slower than ostberg.

    But perhaps i'm wrong and he turns out to be a fast and reliable driver. We will never know unless someone gives him the chance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sal the 2nd View Post
    Yes give the drive to a man involved in a fatal testing accident they should be able to square that with their safety first approach. Oh and why not give the other car to Novikov. He got Citroen more youtube hits than just about anyone nearly back flipping a C4 in Finland.
    It's funny you should mention Novikov. I wondered what happened to him a few days ago so I checked. He has been gone completely from rally except for one masters show somewhere. Probably slaving away at some gulag these days to repay his sponsors.

    Luky is a likable guy though. He does seem to be a bit more steady in recent years (although we said that about Meeke too). You never know until you try him out. I never said to give him a full year contract. Draft him in for three rallies and see how he does...

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    Quote Originally Posted by itix View Post
    It's funny you should mention Novikov. I wondered what happened to him a few days ago so I checked. He has been gone completely from rally except for one masters show somewhere. Probably slaving away at some gulag these days to repay his sponsors.
    Doing some co-driving https://www.ewrc-results.com/coprofi...geniy-novikov/

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    Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
    Huh... Forgot to check the co-driver page. Well, thanks. Enough said about that now, let's not change the subject

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    Suggesting Lukyanuk is nuts.

    - Leadership above Budar kicked Meeke due to crashing and "danger", so now he should go to them and suggest "this guy from Russia who often has high-speed crashes and was recently in a deadly accident"

    Ignoring this "minor" issue lets look on the performance side:

    - Lukyanuk simply does not have experience on the rallies that are driven in WRC, that's quite important, despite his age just about all of them will be completely new to him. Even in this era of onboard-watching it's still a disadvantage

    - The few times he did WRC rallies against WRC2 pilots (Sweden 2017, GB before), he was 5-6 in term of speed, clearly behind Tidemand, Sunninen, Camilli etc. Don't see how switching to WRC will suddenly make him faster than them.

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    Why not Meeke in a third MSport Fiesta WRC or even R5, rest of the season?

    At least Malcolm could try him in Finland and Rally GB.
    Last edited by Rallyper; 27th May 2018 at 11:18.
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    Oh yes, he wants to spend that money...

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