Quote Originally Posted by mknight View Post
There is no confiusion. Ogier is dominating by combination of speed and brains.

Stagewins most of the rally after you crash out with own mistake on second stage are worth exactly nothing.

One would think that after his last 4 (likely) titles Ogier has shown everyone how you win WRC.
1. Agreed. Ogier is doing steady job of cleaning the roads with very good pace and then controlling his own rhythm to get the best points finish possible.

2. You need more than one rally to get to 23 stage wins. Considering that Tänak was nowhere in Croatia and Monte, has been retiring or using SuperRally at least in 4 occasions, it's even more impressive. In Estonia he missed 6 stages after his retirement alone. By no means he would've won them all but it would have been close fight with Kalle. It shows exactly that the speed is there. How much have they sacrificed reliability to get to the speed is yet fully unknown but one could guess just by looking at the results that they have compromised too much. Speed alone doesn't win titles and that's where they have failed as a team.
Maybe for it's not worth much and pointswise it's also true, you can't deny that the speed has been up there.

3. Agreed.