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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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    Quote Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC View Post
    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 ...
    You have to wonder how the bromance between Mikkelsen and Neuville will develop next year, as for sure they will both have a go at the title, and they are on the same level...

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    Quote Originally Posted by wrc2017 View Post
    Breen doing well, but also remember Citroen/Meeke did not do Rally Australia last year, and alot of the stage are different, so first time doing these stages for Meeke also.
    good point,i had forgot it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC View Post
    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 ...
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by er88 View Post
    Meeke was pushing for changes to the car for months (even before the season started), but Matton only finally listened after Andreas' feedback and trouble in the car too.
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mknight View Post
    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.
    Yeah. Mikkelsen with Hyundai it's a because Paddon get worse

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    Quote Originally Posted by spiderem View Post
    You have to wonder how the bromance between Mikkelsen and Neuville will develop next year, as for sure they will both have a go at the title, and they are on the same level...
    Wel we wil find out next year, but for this rally lets not forget he has Had a better road position for day one.

    If there really good friends, it could.benefit them both. Neuville had to do it on his one this year, teammates werent there to take away points very often.

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    gonna be intereting if it is like this


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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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    Quote Originally Posted by ESTR View Post
    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?
    all rally cars have each specific start time. Ogier car in service at 3 min before Paddon and he 3 min before Tanak. Citroens service now waiting for Meeke and Breen who service time starts 18 and 9 min after Ogier

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