Some thoughts over this weekend: the star Nb.1 by far Mr.Loeb ! He took away all the attention alreday before the start, but with every stage even his biggest enemies realized, that ''the devil ate the joke''. Nobody expected the he will lead the rally! Period! All attemps from other occasional guests driving new gen.WRC cars were-said gently-unnoticed. The change from former gen is way to big and therefore difficult.....but not for Mr.Perfect. I'm 100% sure, that the permanent WRC drivers will have some sleepless nights until Corsica.
Ok, enough praise for Loeb.
Seb Ogier surprised totally (look at the pickems), even himself. He used the same approach as many times: attacked where all others sufferd problems, drove some advantage & control it. Simple as white bread.....Good to see him back on the first position in the WRC ranking. He deserves it. And even took some points on PS.
Dani Sordo- very good result, he must be excited. This is going to be a huge pressure for his teammate Paddon.
Meeke-his face at the award ceremony tells all. He fuc#&* up the whole event; was very lucky even to finish it.
Mikkelsen-was he driving?? Completely unnoticed, loosing time....I expected much more from him.
Neuville-event to forget. Troubles, every day cleaning the road (welcome in club, Thierry); at the end the 6th place is more than expected after such a terrible event for him.
Toyota boys: even worse performance than 2017. I would expect from village boys to learn something from last year, but they skipped this lesson.
Ok, move to Europa & tarmac.