Quote Originally Posted by RS View Post
In the case of Camilli and Lefebrve they haven't even proved themselves to be amongst the best in the next category down yet. In F1 it is common for GP2 backmarkers to make the jump but the top WRC drivers should be a pretty elite group.
Was thinking the same! Of course Lefebvre won JWRC last year and WRC2 in Monte Carlo, but nothing else during this season. Yes, he had many problems with the bad DS3 R5, but made also many crashes and mistakes and was not able to fight with the WRC2 top drivers. Nothing impressive also behind the wheel of the DS3 WRC, but we have to remember that Citroën seems something else and he did not need to show his speed, but just learning.

Surely it would have better for Lefebvre to try to win WRC2 Championship first and exactly the same thing with Camilli. He has so little experience at all that it will be a huge risk if he is not able to show something special next year. We know that Malcolm Wilson has always high hopes about a new driver, but after one or two years he will lost his interest if the driver is not fighting all the time with the top drivers.

But both of them are the French drivers and they are dominating the WRC nowadays, so it will be possible that they are following the route of Loeb and Ogier...