Quote Originally Posted by EstWRC View Post
Great interview...thanks a lot!

what still buzzes me and always will (because i have asked this before but havent got an answer) is what went wrong between 2016 and 2017....i remember him sayin good things about the new car in 2016, i think it was at finland that year where he said "just wait till I get into the new car".

But then came 2017 and all is suddenly so wrong.
My guess would be they didn't know what the competition would be like, they could only compare performance to the previous gen of car. Being behind the curve in 2017 led to the inevitable overdriving.

Two sides to this story (car has problems, but Meeke was the development driver of it), but will be good to move on from it. I would have liked to see Meeke at MSport (he may be the only driver on the market capable of winning in it) but glad to see him get another 'final' shot next year.