Quote Originally Posted by liposh View Post
Wuff1 is right. No matter how good driver Paddon is, he has "very big mouth". I have noticed it many times during last 3 or 4 years. Not only in case of talks about Neuville. It is his first attribute which characterize him best.
Wuff1 is wrong and so are you. Paddon talks directly without much of a public-relations filter, true, but he has NEVER said anything arrogant about how he could win everything or anything.

Even in lower series and such he never talked like that - in the NZRC he avoided talking about his leads, championship chances etc. almost to a point where it was humorous he didn't because he was winning so big. It is a cultural thing in New Zealand - "tall poppies" get cut down first - bragging is just not done, especially not when it's not justified by actual achievement.

That's not to say he hasn't said some brutally honest stuff about other drivers that nobody else would have said, and got in that public argument with Ogier that one time, but that's not the same as arrogantly thinking or saying you are better, and I'd argue that having some honest characters is good for the sport.