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    Quote Originally Posted by SubaruNorway View Post
    Have you forgoten that Østberg did the whole 2012 private with 3 podiums and started with a 2nd in Sweden. Bouffier 2nd in MC 2014. Not to mention several by Solberg from 2009-2011
    Østberg and Solberg were old factory drivers who could easily buy a factory car and get sponsors by that point for their own professional rally team and Bouffier drove for M-Sport. But we're talking about someone new coming and making a result with a private car to impress the teams, something like Jarmo Kytölehto did in Finland 1996 and 1997 by being third on a private Escort, hasn't happened in a long time. Now, you'd drive an R5 car and make a good result in WRC2 to get noticed. Kind of what Suninen's doing.
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