[WRC] News & Rumours (part V) 2017

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it's all about 2018. And Tanak move to Toyota and Mikkelsen 3 rally for Hyundai. It's just warm-up and practive with a car for 2018

But Tänak would have like 4 months to learn Finnish if he needed to.

Usually estonians already know finnish quite well as our languages are very similar

I remember trying to talk English to a taxi driver in Tallinn and he said he speaks better Finnish than English. But it's that for the older generations who grew up in the Soviet years and could only see Western TV by tuning to Finnish stations and learning the language that way.

BTW I was thinking further about the language factors in Toyota. It could even be a problem if a part of the team speaks Finnish and some people don't understand it, even worse if there's a Finnish clique and an Estonian clique. I think Juho Hänninen said they try to remember to speak English at all times. But of course it could help the Finnish drivers with their limited English skills for the crucial discussions with the team managers, or trying to explain technical things to the engineers. Can't imagine how it's for Meeke and Breen at Citroen, and how it will turn if Ogier joins the team.