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**Allez Andruet** · 2nd January 2019, 19:33

Originally Posted by deephouse

He have a hot wife

They're engaged, to be precise.

**T16** · 2nd January 2019, 20:34

Originally Posted by deephouse

He have a hot wife

What an odd thing to say.

What point are you trying to make?

**dimviii** · 2nd January 2019, 20:53

Interesting comment from Robert Reid about Nandan
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsJD4E3A...d=le8vciaxe92o

**Barreis** · 2nd January 2019, 21:43

well, Neuville sacked him with his drives. Mikkelsen also

**mknight** · 3rd January 2019, 00:05

From R. Reid:

I always got on fine with Michel but did get the impression that Drivers in general were maybe a necessary evil to him and sometimes got in the way of the technical solutions. I’m guessing a bit now but having an engineer as Team Principle maybe doesn’t prioritise the areas of the team where the biggest gains can come from – the management and motivation of the drivers...

well prepared and confident driver can perform miracles…

In context of Neuville's last interview it's rather telling.

**stefanvv** · 3rd January 2019, 00:17

Originally Posted by mknight

In context of Neuville's last interview it's rather telling.

We don't have it as a Bible. Care to elaborate?

**KiwiWRCfan** · 3rd January 2019, 02:22

Originally Posted by stefanvv

We don't have it as a Bible. Care to elaborate?

Neuville comments in Autohebdo

Originally Posted by dimviii

But the presence of the nine-time world champion can bring only the most according to Thierry Neuville.
"We are three drivers to have the same feelings, the same comments, told us the vice-world champion 2018. If now Sebastien Loeb arrives more and abounds in this direction, we will be four. If we can not convince our technicians to change things, then they have to ask questions. "
https://www.autohebdo.fr/wrc/actuali...ai-199936.html

**br21** · 3rd January 2019, 08:05

Adamo is also engineer...

**Mirek** · 3rd January 2019, 13:28

This is an old quote of Nandan from late 206 WRC times (I read it in Czech so please pardon my translation into English):

The drivers are those who confirm the correct choice of changes not those who select them. You can see the result yourself. With that I don't want to say that the driver is not important for the development. It's always great to have a good driver who goes always flat out and mainly all the time with same style.

I think that many of us remember what followed shortly after this - the 307 WRC disaster. For sure Nandan brought many revolutionary technical solutions into the world of rally such as the 206 WRC with longitudinal gearbox mounted on the transversal engine but I myslef as an engineer (in different field) feel that we tend to think that we know best and in a sport which is mainly about driver's confidence there shall be someone keeping the engineer's minds on reasonable level so that the drivers stay first. Let's remmember that another engineer Willy Rampf from VW always told in his interview that the first and foremost was how the drivers felt the car.

**sindroms** · 3rd January 2019, 15:20

Originally Posted by Mirek

This is an old quote of Nandan from late 206 WRC times (I read it in Czech so please pardon my translation into English):
The drivers are those who confirm the correct choice of changes not those who select them. You can see the result yourself. With that I don't want to say that the driver is not important for the development. It's always great to have a good driver who goes always flat out and mainly all the time with same style.

Finally the last piece of my puzzle are in place! All season I had a feeling that Huyndai could be/is most powerful, solid car in WRC and after visiting Finland WRC that feeling became only stronger. When I was asked from my fellows about Huyndai my answer always was - they are struggling with setups. I wrote it down to "four different drivers - four different setups" but this one above made a click for me.