Wrc Rally Argentina 2017

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So Meeke basically just said that this was his biggest ever crash but they were uninjured... so that's alright then !

He seems to have become the new Colin McCrash... Krash Meeke.

Can he really carry on like this, only finishing about 1 rally in 4 ?

Tbf he'd have had two wins in a row this season if it wasn't for the engine blowing up in Corsica, and I'm pretty sure he will win at least one of the next two or three rallies as well. The reality is that Citroen have no championship ambitions this season, they said before the year started that they wanted to win some rallies and prepare for a full on championship assault in 2018. The biggest problem people have had is having too high expectations for Meeke at the start of the year. He'll be really quick, he'll probably be in the top two or three drivers at the end of the year in terms of total wins, and he'll also crash and retire a lot. It's hardly unexpected.

Citroën's plan sadly didn't alter even with VW withdrawing, but Lefebvre won't be there next year so you'll see one of Andreas or Ogier in that team alongside Meeke and Breen imo. And hopefully next year after collecting all the data from this year's rallies and learning from their mistakes, Citroen will solve the set up issues that hampered them in Monte and Sweden, fix the few small reliability issues they've had and be able to maximise the potential of the car they've built. I still think that the C3 has the highest ceiling out of all the cars, and when the set up is right it's the quickest. In basically every test video we see the car looks rapid and the most impressive but they can't seem to translate that speed in testing to actual rally conditions.

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Tbf he'd have had two wins in a row this season if it wasn't for the engine blowing up in Corsica, and I'm pretty sure he will win at least one of the next two or three rallies as well. The reality is that Citroen have no championship ambitions this season, they said before the year started that they wanted to win some rallies and prepare for a full on championship assault in 2018. The biggest problem people have had is having too high expectations for Meeke at the start of the year. He'll be really quick, he'll probably be in the top two or three drivers at the end of the year in terms of total wins, and he'll also crash and retire a lot. It's hardly unexpected.

Citroën's plan sadly didn't alter even with VW withdrawing, but Lefebvre won't be there next year so you'll see one of Andreas or Ogier in that team alongside Meeke and Breen imo. And hopefully next year after collecting all the data from this year's rallies and learning from their mistakes, Citroen will solve the set up issues that hampered them in Monte and Sweden, fix the few small reliability issues they've had and be able to maximise the potential of the car they've built. I still think that the C3 has the highest ceiling out of all the cars, and when the set up is right it's the quickest. In basically every test video we see the car looks rapid and the most impressive but they can't seem to translate that speed in testing to actual rally conditions.

very well said.