He had his chances, but in not so competitive car back in 2006-or 2007 I think. Did crash at Lankanmaa stage if I remember correctly. Wasn“t that fast but as for many others he didn“t get so many drives in WRC.
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Look at Breen or Bouffier. Breen has been winning ERC events quite regularly this year. Even in Ypres he was able to fight with Loix. He has been absolutely nowhere near Kopeckż here. I think that it has also a lot to do with the car as also Kremer or Kreim were fighting with Breen and Bouffier which is imho not normal. I don't know why Kremer and Kreim retired but in speed it looks like other R5 cars are way slower than Fabia now.
In my opinion with Neuville they will be in the same place like they are this year with Ostberg. I think they should give a castle and big amount of money to JML. He is the only one who can fight with Ogier, ok sometimes he attack too much but when he find his rhythm he's fast as hell.
8 years a go here in Germany Kopeckż finished 5th overall in a private car 0,5 sec/km behind Loeb (he kept 5th since early day 2). Behind him Petter Solberg, Gardemeister, Latvala, Henning Solberg, Atkinson...
The whole career of Jan is connected with Škoda. He would never became what he is without Škoda and they would maybe never build Fabia S2000 without him. He didn't make it to a WRC star but ok, he has had a nice career anyway :)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c97hUq3OYY
That could be, I know he's not under pressure from Hyundai etc. and he keeps learning. And he's pretty much always been faster than Lefebvre, for example in the 208 cup in 2013 or Ypres this year (although he crashed). Although Lefebvre probably has a slight advantage being in the DS3.
But we'll see, I'm not losing hope on his potential at all yet.