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Originally Posted by 'Mirek Fric [Cze]Don't You think that it's not very likely that Meeke lost his last year's performance suddenly? The reason for his bad results is just that Skoda works more efficiently. Anyway two retirements were technical failures, two crashes but in both cases he was given orders by Quesnel to try to defeat Skoda for any cost. It's no wonder it led to accidents. His problem is not his speed but Peugeot philosophy where engineers have the main word in setting car and driver has to obey. Another problem is that Peugeot fired other good drivers (Vouilloz and Loix) who were supporting Meeke last year. At all respect Magalhaes and Neuville are not experienced enough to substitute them. Moreover those fired guys turned to Skoda and helped it to defeat Peugeot and Meeke. It's a fight which Meeke could win only in extremely lucky circumstances. And we could see that miracle hasn't come.
Ketomaa is great on gravel but has no experience on tarmac at all and for car development that's VERY important skill. Sandell? Sorry, but what did he prove? He drove superior car in PWRC for two years and didn't achieve anything remarkable. Now he has the best Skoda in SWRC and besides quite surprising performance in Deutchland there is again nothing remarkable.
That is exactly correct, what a well written post......
