Quote Originally Posted by RS View Post
Of course not but first you have to get there, preferably with a manufacturer team, and have the skills to stay there. Kubica has the money but he was/is not ready as a driver.
I'm not saying the guys who came from E/IRC were fully developed either, but you can see from the season when he won WRC2 what the results were from his starts in ERC. When he was pushed harder, as he was when he stepped up to WRC, he kept falling off the road.
Jari-Matti Latvala had nothing of it and he's doing fine in WRC. ERC is not the only path to be a good rally driver.