Well in connection with this I am getting a bit tired of the "you can make a fast driver reliable but you can't make a reliable (and slow) driver fast" that gets now often repeated by J. Porter on ALLlive among others.

Often it seems that people assume that a it means you will make a fast driver reliable.

There is a lot of examples of fast drivers that never got reliable, detailed count might even show that the majority of fast and unreliable drivers never became reliable.
From the likes of Novikov and Duval to the more normal examples like Meeke.

How Solberg or even Rovanpera end up is still in the future. But the days when you can win championship while crashing every few rallies are definitely gone.