Atkinson's third year of three year deal. Time to deliver.

[L5->R5/CR]

Atkinson is having probably his best rally to date(of the ones he finished). 1 year old car, new tyres, not very experience in tarmac and he's 5th!(and hopefully will finish 4th).
If he can keep than speed and confidence I see him doing great things in gravel rallyes(if Subaru get thigs right with the 07 car of course)

I'm all for cutting drivers slack in a foreign surface but lets be honest. This is Chris's what 10th or so Tarmac event. He knows it well enough to give it a go if he ever will. Out pacing his team's lead driver in his least experienced surface and people still make excuses for him?

[datto57]

Out pacing his team's lead driver in his least experienced surface and people still make excuses for him?

Out pacing his team's lead driver on his least experienced surface and people still give him a hard time. What does he have to do to make some accept him as worthy of being there?

[janneppi]

Who exactly is giving him a hard time after his performance here?
He's certainly surprised me this weekend in a positive way.

[datto57]

Its in the quote I used

[RJL25]

I'm all for cutting drivers slack in a foreign surface but lets be honest. This is Chris's what 10th or so Tarmac event. He knows it well enough to give it a go if he ever will. Out pacing his team's lead driver in his least experienced surface and people still make excuses for him?

whos making excuses? No one, hes having a great rally why do we need to make excuses for him? Im thinking your just clutching at any straw you can find to lay the boot into him even tho there is no justifyable reason to criticise him on this performance

[A.F.F.]

I started this thread and I'm glad to notice I didn't have to wait but one rally for Chris to deliver

Subaru is worse car than Focus but Team Ford had poor selection of tyres. That is something to remember.

However, Ford's tyre choise isn't Atkinson's fault and do not take anything away from his performance. He drove a solid and fast rally and I'm sure that taking over Mikko on that very last super special stage gave him a huge boost of self-confidence for the later rallyes

Well done and hopefully we see continuum for these kind of results. Not behalf of Mikko though :

[pino]

Great job Chris I expect the same in Sweden and Norway

[1LM1]

Atko:
Very impressive.
A new tarmac specialist??? I think so.

[Ranger]

I dunno about Tarmac specialist. But he's been pretty good as far as his two MC attempts go!

[jens]

I wouldn't call him a tarmac specialist, a couple of years ago he was more like a gravel-specialist. But now he can be good everywhere.

Can't wait for the new Subaru. If it's a success, Chris might score his maiden WRC win this season.