I never said Latvala is a perfect points scorer - I said he's the perfect number 2 driver for VW/Ogier right now. When you have the dominant car/driver combination like VW do then why would you rock the boat? Jari can have a mediocre year and they will still pick up the manufacturers title.
But so they would with Mikelssen too.
The disappointing thing about Poland was that he was slower than Mikelssen, and then he crashed.
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