Quote Originally Posted by stefanvv View Post
Of course, I realize that. But taking part in WRC2 for 2 years of these drivers mean that they can transfer the immediate output from the events to develop and test the WRC car. That's what VW did with Ogier in 2012 and it was perfect for the start of their 2013 season, wasn't it?
Yeah I'm not disagreeing with you. The only difference with VW/Ogier was that Seb already knew intimately what the benchmark WRC car felt like. You can't say that for the young guys but Toyota have lots of time to get everything in place.

Maybe after a year out they might be able to coax Hirvonen into a test role in 2016.