Quote Originally Posted by Wim_Impreza View Post
Yes, I think that already for more than 5 years that Kopecky deserves a chance in the WRC. He is for sure as good as Mikkelsen which he proved in the IRC and he dominated the ERC last year.
Comparing Kopecky to Mikkelsen is not fair to any of them.
Mikkelsen, at his best, is on a completly different level than Kopecky.
Remember rally Poland in 2009? If I remember correctly, this was the first rally for Andreas Mikkelsen in a WRC car since he - due to the financial crisis of 2008 - had to put his WRC efforts on a hold. He was driving a Skoda Fabia WRC, not by any means the fastest car in the field. And he started right of the bat setting fourth and fifht times.
A truly incerdible drive, wich says something about Mikkelsens ultimate potential.
Unfortunatly the team around Andreas has not been able to work in such a way that they have been able to let him fulfill his potential as fast as expected, and they have made some strange desissions regarding codriver etc, something that has lead to more inexperienced drivers like Neuville, Meeke etc being able to steal the limelight some what. But in the end - in my mind - he has a lot greater ultimate potential than Kopecky.
But its a "little" frustrating seeing that a talent of Mikkelsens calibre is adjusting both his driving style and other things to go slower with higher risk, in stead of faster with lower risk, but that is anoter story all togheter.