Quote Originally Posted by mknight View Post
For some reason Paddon has nowhere near the amount of people excusing his mistakes and when he crashes neither him nor his fans start blaming the car first.
Quote Originally Posted by wrc2017 View Post
He team mate is winning rallys, and his pace is gone south. I wouldnt be complaining about the car either.
Breaking down his season so far (for the record)...

Monte - Crash. Would have continued if not for spectator fatality.
Sweden - 7th, power steering failure. Best stage placings 2nd & 3rd but did take a while to get his head back into it after Monte.
Mexico - 5th, engine (and other) problems. Was 3rd before engine problems.
Corsica - 6th (still not top pace on tarmac, but probably closer than last year).
Argentina - 6th. Weird slow-motion roll in the middle of the road lost 2.5 minutes on friday, broken ARB saturday, power steering failure sunday. Won a couple of stages.

Guess you can blame the car for a fair bit of it then if you want to and its not as bad as some suggest, hopefully his luck improves for the rest of the season though. I think we'll see more of the expected speed and results again before too long.