Young talented drivers

[Lundefaret]

I would like to know where did you learn to speak estonian?

In the university of Tartu.
Just kidding

But I have been to Estonia, have driven trough it - and a little bit around in it - on the way to Russia on a crazy trip with an old Lada and three of my friends.
It was in February 2003, freezing cold, and I wanted to see Tartu since that is where Markko Martin comes from (I had interviewed him earlier for a Rally Year Book I made).
Tartu was really nice.

Tough I dont speak Estonian, but I can still understand some thing about how You use pace notes, and how important You think working on pace notes are.
These are the things that lead me to believe that he needs to improve his pace note work:
- Ott has changed co drivers a few times, and he have also taken on very inexperienced codrivers.
- He is often very fast on stages he either knows, or stages that are "easy" to read out of the topography etc.
- He is often fast on super specials when You really dont need pace notes that much if You have memorised the route.
- A few of his offs have been typical pace note errors. Either getting the note to late, or having the wrong one. This You typically spot when a driver is entering a blind corner way to fast. As he has done on some occasions.

Ott is off course a great driving talent, and he could be an event winner if he had worked harder on the "boring" and analytical stuff, that is my belief.

The general rule in the WRC is that talented drivers only get as far as their talent/will power/work ethic takes them.
There are no real rally trainers - like in other sports where You work with a whole team of trainers - which can help You over come Your hurdles regarding the craft of rallying, be it driving technique, set up, pace notes, analyzing work, etc etc. So drivers like Ott stop in their tracks when their own talent etc won't take them any further, and they really could need some outside help.