Quote Originally Posted by dimviii View Post
and because that happened once,it will be such for ever?
Obviously not, but the risk is there and it's not small, rather the opposite.

Typically you don't have freely available 4th driver that both knows the car and can be relied to take points off the top3. (Haninen can't reliable take points off them, neither could Sordo last year). If a driver is so fast that he can you'd want to nominate him for manu points... but then what's the point of the 4th not-nominated driver again?

The cost-benefit calculation doesn't look nice. This is why Nandan didn't do that in 2017 (his own words) even though he was talking about considering it. His reasoning was that if the 4th driver could at least "block" manu points of other drivers (i.e if he finished 6th the manu nominated driver behind him would get manu points for 7th) then it might have been interesting, but with rules as they are it wasn't worth it.