Quote Originally Posted by RS View Post
If as rumoured Tanak leaves Hyundai, then Mikkelsen no.2 to Neuville and Sordo/Suninen sharing the third car seems like a good plan.
So, the plan is...

-Have their weakest full-time driver, who's struggled with the car all season and crashed it four or five times, as the 2023 team leader
-Put a guy with zero Rally1 experience, and who was pretty mediocre the last time he worked with the team, into the car full time
-Share the third car (because that worked so well this year) between the older, reliable guy trying to wind down his career and who will only do the events he likes (of which there will likely be less next season), and another guy with zero Rally1 experience

It's a good plan alright. A good plan to finish third in the manufacturers' championship. The only saving grace is that the Puma looks like it's made out of chocolate and tinfoil, so the famously gentle Ott Tanak will probably be seeing the recovery truck as many times as Breen next year. Owners of towing companies around the world will be rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of an Estonian-Irish partnership at Ford.

Hyundai might just about grab second at that rate. If they're lucky.