Originally Posted by
denkimi
He has had everything handed to him. He never had to do anything but drive, always with the best preparation and equipment, while everybody else has to start when they get their drivers license on a small budget, without professional backup, between work and school.
Its not about that starlet, it's about his dady taking him to latvia to drive, its about the 60.000€ c2 r2 when he was 13 years old. Its about the 300.000€ car when he was 16.
Its about the hundereds of thousands of euros that his 2017 season must have cost.
Ordinary drivers have to prove themself first.
Its easy to be the best when you basically can live like a professional driver, with all the best material and unlimited access to testing and help, and you compete against amateurs with lesser cars and almost no testing.
He seens talented and perhaps a future champion, but we are only starting to see how he does compared to other factory drivers. So far imo he does really well, not exceptional, but more then what i expected.
If he can up his level a bit to rise above the others he might be in a wrc car not so long from here.
Ogier, neuville, loeb, tanak, meeke.
There are where they are now because of their talent, not because of their rich daddy. And that's wat differates them from drivers like ostberg, mikkelsen or even latvala.
They say it's easier to make a fast driver reliable than to make a reliable driver fast.
Winning seven stages and crashing will get you more attention then seven 10th places and staying on the road.
