Quote Originally Posted by jacko View Post
There you again, how do you know about "the whole structure of the team is worthless from top to bottom" ? You don't know nothing, you're pretending yourself as a insider but you know no shit at all what's going on.
Makinen is a four time world champion and he wants to be succesfull again for sure. He's not doing something just for the fun. He will do everything to make this Toyota project to be a winning team, count on that.
Hanninen as a test-driver was the first good decision because he's a lot of experience with different cars, we all know that. Can you name one driver who was a better choice right now ? About engineers etc., i think also that Makinen and his team will take good people stepping onboard. TTE is making a strong engine, this car will be on the front in 2018 i certainly believe in.

I have said it before: please looking for a new hobby because from the first moment you've arrived here on the forum only the Loeb & Ogiers could find some credits from you but the rallysport is a lot more than only these champions and your comments in general make most of the time not any sense, has no contribution to anything. Just negative and i can't see why you're still here. You just love the reactions about your comments but in the end you're a poor lonely the only.

I like the raw pure speed of Ogier like i do the same with a showman Ken Block or a specialist driver like Panizzi, the dedication of Kubica and a good average topdriver like Mads Ostberg. In the end i just love rally, the whole package.
And offcorse i criticize some things in the WRC like some stupid rules in the past (or present), the WRC approach from Suzuki in 2007 was a thing indeed or the ever wasted time of Matthew Wilson as a topdriver.
But specially nowaday i'm really happy the things in the WRC are in progress, there will be five (!) manufacturers in 2017 (and only one of them could be champion so you know that by now) and the WRC2 is just something really really succesfull also. It's good to have so many same cars and the entry-list is growing and growing with each rally (national & international) with good drivers where you can make also more a good justment about who's really fast or just fast (or in your words slow).
I never claimed to be an insider, i am just using common sense...

The car looks slow (as was the mini and suzuki and when i was saying that mini looked slow i was still getting abuse) and the team structure is a worthless assortment of finnish guys who probably got together because they think they might get revenge because the french on all levels treat them like dogs all these years because the days where finnish managers were infesting the sport with useless people is over...

If it is hard to accept that a person has a better perception of the sport than yourself then just do not bother with the top form of rallysport which is the WRC, visit local village events that are fun and you can count WRCs in the hands of dogs you consider rally drivers...

I am just better than you at perceiving the sport, i know it is hard to accept someone is better than you but life is like that sometimes, you can shout abuse all you want but the truth won't change.