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    Quote Originally Posted by Rallyper View Post
    But still - all guys in WRC have had so much more drives before they started getting proper times, believe me.
    Exactly! In the times when Loeb, Ogier, Tanak or Mikkelsen were starting their careers it was possible to drive WRC cars without being in a factory team. I think Mikkelsen had had over 30 starts in a WRC car before he joined a factory team. Now it is actually impossible to drive a current WRC car as a private driver. Both Tidemand and Greensmith are victims of this situation. They have to learn this car during a WRC rally.

    Have a look, Mikkelsen was driving a WRC car already in 2006, 7 years before joining Volkswagen Motorsport in WRC, he had plenty of experience:
    https://www.ewrc-results.com/profile...eas-mikkelsen/
    Last edited by Jarek Z; 15th September 2019 at 19:12.
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