Quote Originally Posted by wrc2017 View Post
Of all the gravel rallys this is the least, if any, advantage for road position. he was substantially faster than other driver around him. anyways, we will see.
He was 0.7s ahead of Tanak (who had same road position), before Tanak crashed. Fact is all of Meeke's rally wins have been on gravel rallies where he started at least 5 positions behind, so quite hard to judge his real gravel speed vs others. On rally GB last year in wet conditions he wasn't exactly beating everyone.
But hey this year he has road position advantage again.

My point is Citroen need to say that in the pre event presser. no?
What they say in press release is totally up to them, don't think it helped Meeke in any way when they said before Argentina that they go for rally wins.

right, so Poland was supposed to be his best.
The fact that Poland is historically Mikkelsen's best rally does not mean he will perform best on it every single time.

This year he was a little faster than Lefevbre if you remove all the timeloss from 4!!! off-road excursions. That means 4th or 5th place speed-wise. He also scored Citroen's best powerstage result of the year (discarding Lefevbre in Monte on dry tarmac, where it was snowing for everyone else). Given Citroen's huge issues on Friday and road positions on Saturday it was ok result, not good, not terribly bad either.