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[tonis_t]

To be honest, I do not understand why would Mäkinen let Rovanperä finish before Ogier.
Rovanperä is still learning and even though huge talent and future promise he can not be trusted to be sable for the full year and there fore to be the force to lean on to bring home either individual nor manufacturers title.
Mäkinen has openly stated, that one of his goals is to convince Ogier to continue next year. No doubt to help to develop 2022 car.
Pissing off Ogier is not the way to achieve this goal. If at the end of the year he will miss drivers title by few points I'll bet he will remember Sweden.
Last year Mäkinen did not want to give out team orders so Latvala and Meeke tried to fight with Tänak until they went off. In my opinion Mäkinen lost the manufacturers title because he would not force Latvala and Meeke to play ball. Toyota was clearly the fastest car and still the title went to Hyundai.
Then he let Tänak to go to Hyunday. I do understand that it was pretty weird stuff with the negotiations however Tänak was heavily involved with Fords 2017 car development (1x manu title and 2x drivers title) and then further developed the Toyota to winning car (1x manu title and 1x drivers title and Ogier choose Ford after testing Toyota in 2017). Now Tänak will help to develop 2022 Hyundai and I'll bet he will make current car faster also.
Mäkinen now has some one he can lean on to develop the next gen car and he is willing to let him go just because he is not willing to give out team orders? I'm not sure that Adamo's way is the correct way however Mäkinen's way in my opinion, is also short sighted.