Quote Originally Posted by Simmi View Post
Okay I'll admit it, I've never run a WRC team. But having Finnish gravel roads on your doorstep is great - if you want to set your car up for Finnish gravel roads.

There's a reason WRC teams test all over Europe, on old stages, in the region of the rally. So I think simply saying they have amazing gravel roads on their doorstep is not enough, and certainly doesn't outweigh all the positives and infrastructure TMG already has set up.
At this regard I keep asking myself why, if TMG was not doing the job Toyoda wanted, they didn't decide to change some of the people and or managers at TMG keeping the structure and some valuable worker and maybe sending there Tommi Makkinen and some of his fellows friends.