Quote Originally Posted by N.O.T View Post
The problem is that ERC is a ladies cup with no real competition and if you get stuck in there you end up like Hanninen...
Maybe not ERC so much the last two years, but certainly IRC was the only serious support championship of recent years. All the recent new WRC event winners (Neuville, Meeke, Mikelssen) spent significant time there.

Hanninen's problem was more his age and lack of WRC seats at the time. I actually think at the end of his Skoda days he was a more complete driver than Lappi is right now.