Mirek, my response to Eddie is that they're pro like any other serious teams. I did mention the record acheivements.

Your points are unfortunately repetitive and empirically numbered.

1) They fully committed and spent their war chest (pun not intended) in the rally program, Citroën 2017 line up is a farce.

2) Any driver being offered a huge amount of money with a gigantic ambitious program would have signed up instantly.

3) Repeat of 1)

4) Other teams won from the start. They've been sitting for years watching the big boys doing the real job, learned their hard lesson from the Skoda epic fail in the WRC then gathered the money, hired good people from inside/outside VAG and eventually decided to chime in before leaving like chickens at the end of 2016, dropping 3 drivers at the very last moment.

5) Repeat of previous points.

Polo wins are way too much inequally split in Ogier's favor, fact.

My point is Ogier made the final difference. He would have acheived his records in a Fiesta, DS3 or the late I20.