Quote Originally Posted by mknight View Post
One final thought about Ogier at Monte. I read a lot of comments how he now wasn't the fastest while he won all those previous year.

Yes discounting the VW year he won in 2017-2019, but he wasn't really fastest in any of those years.
In 2017 Neuville was beating him quite clearly, even if you remove the 40s lost in a ditch.
In 2018 again Neuville was quicker most of the time (but lost lot of time in start stuck on the side of the road)
Finally last year Tanak was clearly fastest and Neuville could also have beat him if he didn't go off road on that junction.

In light of that this year's performance doesn't really stand out. The only catch there is that he wasn't clearly beating his teammate.
Yeah, I think Ogier was as fast as always, Neuville just managed to keep it together this time, and Evans was faster than usually.