[WRC] Rallye Monte Carlo 2021

[Winner]

Just because Greensmith pays doesn't make him a 'gentleman driver'.

He's still young and has been in rally for years going through all the classes. He has some talent, otherwise how did he win the R5 class at Rally Monte Carlo 2019: https://www.ewrc-results.com/final/5...-2019/?ct=1018

The vitriol aimed at him because he pays is just not fair and not necessary. I cant see the same being given to Katsuta or Loubet. Gus is not doing any harm and we should be glad he is bringing money into the sport.

He will have a good battle against the R5 cars this weekend too by the looks of it!
Shameful pace in a WRC car in supposedly a works team with latest spec car.

[jparker]

Most of the time the ditch is a bitch, but in Teemu's case the luck of one rolled the car. Pity.

[T16]

He will have a good battle against the R5 cars this weekend too by the looks of it!
Shameful pace in a WRC car in supposedly a works team with latest spec car.

Starting to worry about him making the 6pm curfew tomorrow TBH.

[T16]

What I don't get about M-sport is the balance of how they spend their funds. Can't understand why they make so, so much profit, looking at their accounts, yet they won't shell out and spend a few quid on someone else to drive alongside Suninen.
This isn't good enough.

[Winner]

Starting to worry about him making the 6pm curfew tomorrow TBH.

He should be first on the road it will be ok

[focus206]

Nothing new really. Matthew Wilson had some 7th places overall in seasons where he got a lot of 5th and 6th places in rallies.

And was it not in 2006 where Manfred Stohl got 4th in the championship with the privateer-run 307? All respect to him, he is a PWRC World Champ after all, but it wasn't exactly a sign of the strength of the WRC-field in 06!

I don't consider Stohl anywhere close a gentleman driver nor a slow driver... he was doing great also in the Kronos Xsara in 2005 against 6 works team. And Wilson achieved few 5th places in what, 6 full seasons? But I do remember Rautenbach getting a 4th place in Argentina in 2008, so I guess you need to go back to early 2000s to have really strong fields, which is a long time ago.

[lnvs]

he was on 3rd gear just before crash

5th gear corner and downshifted 4th just before first impact. His car is number 3.

[meh]

Drivers are immediately different persons when they are talking in their own language and don't need to have "translator in head processing". Especially Taka.

[EstWRC]

better quality

[Myrvold]

I don't consider Stohl anywhere close a gentleman driver nor a slow driver... he was doing great also in the Kronos Xsara in 2005 against 6 works team. And Wilson achieved few 5th places in what, 6 full seasons? But I do remember Rautenbach getting a 4th place in Argentina in 2008, so I guess you need to go back to early 2000s to have really strong fields, which is a long time ago.

The Krono Xsara was a better car than the 307 though. His absolute top results in 05 came in Cyprus or Acropolis (one of those abrasive, rallies) and the Australia where all top guys retired, Duval won and Rovanperä in the Lancer was 2nd. In 07 Stohl was back to that pace again.
If you look at Wilson and Greensmith, the results are quite similar, 7th, 8th, 9th, random 5th and so on.

Obviously the huge difference is that Wilson was just an added driver who didn't really take the seat from anyone at all. A bit like Katsuta in the 4th Toyota.

Anyway, my point was, that while the quality overall is a bit "meh" in 2021. It's not that much different from some of the late-mid 00's.