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17th November 2017, 16:22 #221
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Excellent job by Mikkelsen. Makes you wonder what he and Hyundai could've achieved if they'd done the sensible thing and brought him in at the start of the year ...
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17th November 2017, 16:45 #222
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17th November 2017, 16:49 #223
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17th November 2017, 17:10 #224
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Before the start of the season he was not an obvious choice for Hyundai, given that they had 3 drivers under contract and Paddon had about same speed as Mikkelsen on gravel.
If you mean after the test in Portugal, then signing him could have made them win manu champs. But it's easy to be clever about it now. It didn't look like a bad choice at first either, Paddon was in the lead in Sardinia before crashing and ended 2nd in Poland.
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17th November 2017, 17:31 #225
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There’s no record of Meeke complaining before MC, on the contrary. After Sweden it was pretty clear the WHOLE team was completely lost about the car issues and Meeke started getting vocal, while Matton stated that during development tests drivers didn’t report any major issue. Apparently, confidence was mutually broken.
More than excusing or blaming Meeke, what matters now, once the team kept all drivers and has a new tech chief, it’s to look ahead and hope for a fast and successful evolution of the C3. Citroen needs to be able to fight for the title. Fingers crossed.Rally addict since 1982
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17th November 2017, 17:49 #226
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17th November 2017, 18:21 #227
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17th November 2017, 18:31 #228
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gonna be intereting if it is like this
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17th November 2017, 18:58 #229
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One question I don't understand. Right now I'm watching service live on official site and why the hell only Ogier's car is in?? Why don't everyone start working on cars at the same time?
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17th November 2017, 19:08 #230
Today without bigger drama for Rally1, so expecting tomorrow lot of retirements maybe, because there is NEVER rally without issues. Let's see guys, favorizing Ogier for the win probably, depends on...
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