Kris meeke- the fastest driver with no seat

Just a question out of curiosity. Who has crashed more, Meeke or JM Latvala?

Latvala.

Depends if the question is about overall number or percentage from number of starts :)

Very disappointing, but he still lacks seat time.

Matton made a big strategic error of not trying Kris or some else earlier in the season. He left it too late and put Kris under stupid pressure to try and save Citroen's season.

Still reckon Kris deserves a least two full seasons to see if he can build on his speed.

Never going to get consistency with proper seat time.

you have to realise that the golden years when teams and sponsors spent stupid money to invest on almost every driver with potential are long gone... maybe those years are never coming back. It is not a mistake by citroen... citroen/ford would love to have the funds to prepare for the future but they do not... It i not because of Citroen that meeke drove only these events... if they had the money they would have 10 meekes driving the whole season....

It is not about choices it is about money.

Anyway the truth is last three rallies Sordo 37 - Meeke 0

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Originally Posted by rallyfun

Anyway the truth is last three rallies Sordo 37 - Meeke 0

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That's nice but does not help to understand the real situation. Matton saw clearly through the season that a team of perfect No.2 drivers can't win the championship. This season is lost and he must desperately find some way to defeat Volkswagen and Ogier. With Hirvonen and Sordo he will never manage that. So he tried Meeke as a logical step when he was already in the team as main test driver. The attempt failed but that doesn't mean it didn't worth trying when there was nothing to loose.

Matton said he has a choice of 7-8 drivers on a list from which shall be decided drivers in next years line up. I guess we can count in Neuville as #1 driver. Why not a youngster like Pontus Tidemand (yes - I know what yuo´ll accuse me for) but he is one out of a very few drivers who has his future still coming. And he´s proven fast even in a WRC car. I think he´d be #3 i Citroen. Mikko of course stays at Citroen as #2.

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Originally Posted by NxOxT

you have to realise that the golden years when teams and sponsors spent stupid money to invest on almost every driver with potential are long gone... maybe those years are never coming back. It is not a mistake by citroen... citroen/ford would love to have the funds to prepare for the future but they do not... It i not because of Citroen that meeke drove only these events... if they had the money they would have 10 meekes driving the whole season....

It is not about choices it is about money.

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well said. the era of mcrae and other wasters is gone. the factory seats are very few, the patience of team managers is even smaller. you must quickly prove you are efficient in the crashing : points collecting ratio, or you are gone. drivers like Ogier and Neuville are the future (and the presence of course)

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

Matton said he has a choice of 7-8 drivers on a list from which shall be decided drivers in next years line up. I guess we can count in Neuville as #1 driver. Why not a youngster like Pontus Tidemand (yes - I know what yuo´ll accuse me for) but he is one out of a very few drivers who has his future still coming. And he´s proven fast even in a WRC car. I think he´d be #3 i Citroen. Mikko of course stays at Citroen as #2.

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When did he say that?

I guess Hans Weijs would be one of them too.