No, he simply wanted to do all WRC rounds as a part of WRC2 field.
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Thinking of guys who ran pretty much all the rounds last year - what happened to Yuriii Protasov?
Since Škoda entered Lappi and Kopecký to Australia where nobody fast except Fuchs goes, we can safely guess one of the Škoda guys will take a victory there. It's quite sure that who is going to win Australia will be determined already in Wales...
Mechanical failures can happen
Of course but hardly for both.