First of all the driver picks the set up, so how are the engineers making it so bad? Use a bit of common sense before chatting.
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Well, from some close to the team, to say.
But i don't understand why, if you want to get rid of someone, just terminate the contract.
But i don't see an obvious candidate to step in at the 3.seat?
Have the new teamboss a favorite outside the team?
This is just what i heard, but it is written as a question, is it at all something in it?
If Oliver is out after ypres, we probably know its something in it.
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..and Paddon and Loeb. They all suddenly forgot how to drive. Loeb won the last rally in previous team (Catalunya 2018) and first in next (Monte 2022).
Some guys see Mikkelsen mentioned among 3 other drivers (Paddon and Solberg here) and go full retard. Back to the topic...
... on topic:
Every team has a limited number of resources. Be it money, people/hours or homologation jokers.
At some point things get prioritized.
When a driver is winning/taking podiums with the car the teams rarely prioritize using resources on a driver that struggles in a few rallies. Sometimes even out of fear of making the car worse for the driver that brings results. (Ex. Changing the car for Loeb while Neuville is winning with it).
Other examples are Lappi at Toyota 2018, Lappi again at Citroen 2019 (says it took the team half a year to finally make a diff he wanted, for sure was different for Ogier).
I don't believe anyone is doing this "on purpose" to get rid of a driver. But when asked to prioritize there clearly will be multiple levels and there can be personal reasons too.
Right now for example Hyundai would surely prioritize making the car good for Tanak, instead of making changes for Solberg. No need to "want to get rid of Solberg" for that.
Don't shoot the Messenger, i just wrote what i has been told from a realible source, and asked question if that is possible.
I want the best drivers in the best possible tool to go as fast as possible. WRC is nowere near that these days.
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