Quote Originally Posted by Mirek View Post
He will be definitely able to demonstrate the capabilities of the Korean machine to potential customers. The point is that I do think that the machine lacks in suspension performance and will suffer from non-existing know how related to specific Czech roads (despite that this year's Barum is reasonably less bumpy than some other editions).

Also nobody came and won on Barum on the first attempt since 2007 (lucky victory for Vouilloz) and only two drivers managed that in 21st century (Travaglia in 2002 was the second one).

The names which tried in between are quite big... some succeded on several attempts (Hänninen, Loix, Basso), some never (Mikkelsen, Neuville, Tänak, Lappi, Meeke, Novikov, Rossetti, Wilks, P-G andersson etc.).
I think wie should also add, that 2007 Vouilloz was lucky because the Fabia S 2000 wasn't ready, Kopecky didn't start and Kresta and Pech were driving with Gr N Lancers.

If Kopecky has no major problems I wouldn't bet a single cent on Sordo.