Quote Originally Posted by ArtooDetoo View Post
By all means be critical, but Paddon had a 14+ second gap, not 12 seconds. And given that Ogier has significantly more experience at the top level of the sport and in this event specifically, Paddon's win over the world champ can easily be seen as a lot more than "promes", despite the Frenchman's reducing the lead by 16 seconds on the final day.

You're right that Paddon has much capacity to improve in the future. But as the power stage of Rally Argentina proved, it's clear he doesn't have such a "long way to go" as you say... no?

Or did I miss something?
Long or not there is still a way to go. whether it is long, short or a medium one we don't know, or it is just a matter of what are our standards of short and long ways.

I just wanted to point out to all the enthusiastic result-oriented people that their enthusiasm maybe was just too much... But that together with them I share the opinion (and the hope) that Paddon could be a threat (in the future).
Luckily Paddon himself agree with me.