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13th October 2021, 09:17 #311
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13th October 2021, 11:29 #312
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It seems that Breen signed to M-Sport a while ago as he couldnt turn down the offer of a full-time drive.
This then left Adamo with a problem of who to sign to help their 2022 Manu's challenge, while also keeping the Solberg's on-board for the future.
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13th October 2021, 15:47 #313
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Besides the aparent chaos i don't think the Hyundai driver choice was and is bad. They already have 2 potential champion drivers and Sordo/Breen for the third car was not bad at all. Toyota accepted a risk and put Kalle in the third nominated car and it paid off. They could do that as they had Ogier and Evans, also two potential champions. Now Hyundai is taking the risk with Solberg but since he's not proven they are mixing their chances and keeping the "known quantity" in Sordo, putting this in context of still having the two potential champions Tanak and Neuville, then the risk is only for one car for half a season. I don't think that's the problem. I think the problem at Hyundai is pressure and rushing things which leads to mistakes, unpreparedness and reliability issues. At least that's the vibe i'm getting.
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13th October 2021, 15:55 #314
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Millener says Breen came to them himself in Sardinia asking for a drive which was signed after Safari and before Estonia.
There seem to be some good reasons for the timing of the first meeting:
- Solberg just announced for Safari and didn't start crashing (that much) yet (= the reason)
- Suninen crashed on first stage again (= the opportunity)
- Fiesta just did some good stagetimes in Portugal and Croatia (= also a reason)
But on the other side Breen had pretty meh results before Estonia ( 4th and last Hyundai in Arctic that should suit him and crash out of 5th as last Hyundai in Croatia), so maybe the most surprising part is that Malcolm wanted to sign him at that point.
Anyway it is then possible that Adamo maybe got more interested in giving him a full time drive after Ypres, but by then it was too late.
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13th October 2021, 21:06 #315
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13th October 2021, 21:21 #316
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Solberg had a bad season, all drivers have this kind of season sometimes, remember Rovenpära also had a season like this in Skoda (2019?).
Its a risk to promote him to top class, but it was also a risk to put Rovenpära in top class in 2020. Worked quite well.
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13th October 2021, 21:43 #317
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Rovanpera did an entire season of WRC2 only, frequently showed strong pace, and won the championship at the end of the year.
Solberg has finished two (2) WRC rallies all year and retired from six (6), four of those retirements owing to damage he caused on the stages.
It's not a risk to promote Solberg to the top class right now, it's just delusional.
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13th October 2021, 23:27 #318
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14th October 2021, 03:56 #319
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14th October 2021, 05:55 #320
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