Quote Originally Posted by Mirek
Quote Originally Posted by Francis44
Still, much better line-up than last year Sordo-Mikko duo. This team can atleast guarantee speed, because last years's duo wasn't able to guarantee neither speed or consistency.
Sorry but are You joking? I have nothing against Meeke and Ostberg but some common sense in Your statement would be welcome...

You said Sordo and Hirvonen couldn't guarantee speed and consistency...

Together they won 16 WRC events (15 Hirvonen, 1 Sordo) and reached 102 WRC podiums (66 Hirvonen, 36 Sordo). They finished on WRC podium in 39% of all their starts (44% Hirvonen, 33% Sordo). Hirvonen finished 84% of events he started, Sordo 83%. All stats including starts with lower tier cars.

Fact is that Ostberg and Meeke are nowhere near that record. Of course they can do well but praising them as clearly better than Hirvonen and Sordo is at the moment very very exaggerated.
Clearly statistics support your opinion. However looking at last year Mikko had an abnormal number of mistakes, and so did Sordo.
Looking at last years results solo paints a very different picture
Let's not talk about speed either, because that was even worse.