Quote Originally Posted by Mirek View Post
I for a change think that it doesn't matter at all if Camilli, Latvala or whoever can drive Escort gr.4 if they can drive the car they actually use. And no, I don't think it's so easy

So how do explain Camilli making such good results with such little experience?

I labor under a misunderstanding that experience must be learned--experienced in other words and I somehow thought that to do top level results in any endeavor required a LOT of experience in this case in training and/or competition.
Is he just a prodigy?

even Mozart was raised from an infant with his father guiding him...

And Mirek, droogie, I stress RELATIVE...
I don't say to drive modern current car with all the driver's aides (4wd is one thing, modern turbo engines are another, unbelievably fantastic long travel suspension is another) is EASY....It is r-e-l-a-t-i-v-e-l-y easier than a n.a. 2wd car.
(I have driven on gravel well prepped FWD, RWD and 4WD turbo cars....It is relatively easier driving a turbo motor with relatively broader power and abundant torque than a high performance, narrower powerband n.a. motor: if you do not keep the n.a. motor perfectly flat out you go nowhere fast... And be late or early on every gearchange and you are in the bottom of the results...Much easier (for my brain) to go fast with big broad power.)

I think the proof is that when there was all n.a. 2wd cars you would have never seen a man make a SS win and a handful of SS 3rds etc with only 9 gravel events total to his name.

But as always, wot da fuq do I know?