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Life split between my native island in the Caribbean FWI and South of France.
Toy Land Cruiser for rough terrains, Audi 2.0Q cab, Clio RS for the Lady who's a fine and quick driver, former regional...

Still on time to celebrate Evans :beer:, Ogier/Ingrassia, Wilson Sr, his top pro croonies and eventually the cheapies at Ford.

Bunch'o wins and titles for a bargain, well done !

RIP Grand Master.

Stunning piece of carbon, design and attention to details.

Looks like the mirror also offers some mini wing like aero effect (?)

jparker, not sure if you're refering to 2005, 06, 07... discussions in the forum but it's true that MSport was criticized here and beyond the forum for using team orders and satellite teams more than...

I fail to see anyone making TGR king of anything.
People just share their joy for a new comer in the series and gently laugh at the prediction floppers.

They came to learn and delivered a lot...

In all fairness, it's not only him.
We now have the armchair doubters coming to apologize one by one.
Hilarious.

Fantastic rally.
Hyvä Latvala and TGR !

Did they ? I think you know the figures then.
Different situation, Ogier developped the Polo, he knew where he was going.
Test drive with TGR was more a Mäkinen's tactic to measure the work done...

Mirek, my response to Eddie is that they're pro like any other serious teams. I did mention the record acheivements.

Your points are unfortunately repetitive and empirically numbered.

1) They...

No.

They're pro as expected from a manu, improved the all time win share % vs competition and built an excellent car but one has to keep in mind it was served 4 years by the best line up any team...

Fixed that for you :-)

That is a nice iteration of a rally car.

I'll celebrate when the Czechs cut off the German leash.

Just noticed that France is now on par with Finland, 14 drivers' titles (7 different drivers for Fin, 3 for Fra) and 136 rally wins by World Champions on each side.

1 Ogier 2 Meeke 3 Sordo 4 Neuville 5 Mikkelsen 6 Breen 7 Latvala 8 Ostberg

The other way around.

1 Paddon 2 Ogier 3 Mikkelsen 4 Sordo 5 Latvala 6 Ostberg 7 Neuville 8 Camilli

1 Ogier 2 Latvala 3 Mikkelsen 4 Paddon 5 Sordo 6 Meeke 7 Ostberg 8 Neuville

Lost in translation...

'Yogurt pot' refer to all small cars in Ogier's / Ingrassia's language and it started with the 'original' Fiat 500.
Although weird the meaning is rather 'small & cute'...

1 Latvala 2 Ogier 3 Mikkelsen 4 Sordo 5 Paddon 6 Ostberg 7 Neuville 8 Evans

79, Fiat-Abarth took a sabbatical year.
06, Citroën was officially out and Loeb was mostly alone against Grönholm/Hirvonen.
07, same Ford team, Sordo did a bit better but still not enough. 06/07 :...

Cynically enough, neither Ford or Wilson want to win. Wilson : "Hi Ford, want some glory ? please pipe in some bucks.", Ford : " Hi, no, thanks, we're fine with you losing for us on a regular basis....

Wow, impressed !
Don't forget Mads mental abilities.
While being 'almost' 2 min slower he still managed to force Sordo to use that additional evil tire.

Put it simply, had Ogier not opening the roads for 2 (!) days, the odds of Latvala winning Mexico would have been troubled, to say the least.