Rally Sweden 2022

[EstWRC]

Well it used to be Toyota that was always the more fragile and less reliable when Ott was there...

At Toyota the other guys were also having a lot of problems, in 2019 the only failure it had in Otts hands was the notorious Sardegna PS stage power steering failure, which also Latvala had and was because of faulty part as i remember? the 2019 Yaris must have been quite a tank then

the guys who are saying he has agressive style or being too harsh with the car, can you explain more? its not that im not believing you or defending Ott, it just really interests me cause theres definitely a pattern with him having a lot of mechanical troubles compared to others and it just cant be bad luck all the time.

For me his style doesnt seem that agressive, especially after the period he was teammates with Ogier, you could see the change. I remember in 2020 before Rally Mexico, our rally legend Murakas was asked who will be 1-2 at the rally? He answered that Ogier and Tänak, and when asked why, he said cause those two have the smoothest style and you need it in Mexico. and guess what, the result was 1-2 at that rally in that order.

Last year when had the rear suspension failure at POrtugal, i went and looked all the onboards until that stage, including that one, cause a lot of guys here said he drives aggresively. Again, so smooth and nice style, not letting the car slide at all and keeping it on middle of the road. I remember George Donaldson sayin the same at Dirthfish podcast after he looked the same onboards.

is he then hitting things at wrong times then, pushing at wrong time, landing badly or whats the issue?