Citroen WRT

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I didn’t comment Breen’s Germany alleged absence because I found it hard to believe. There’s a lot of misinformation and some journos (brits, french, whatever…) are acting like vultures around Citroen. With so many fantastic things going on in WRC (epic fights; new talents rising; amazing tech developments, etc) to keep messing around with one team misfortunes is a waste of time and a sad way to report the sport. Citroen, the WRC and us, the fans, deserved better.

Mate if you want to live in an alternate world where everything is rosey, and where you can have your head wedged in the clouds, then this thread isn't the place for you

There's vultures circling around Citroen because;

1) They took a year out to prepare for this year
2) Built a fundamentally flawed car with risky strategies in engineering
3) Ignored Mikkelsen and Jari when they became available, instead sticking with Lefebvre.
4) Refused to let Ogier test their car (if they really wanted him they should've let him test the car on dry tarmac, he might have actually signed)
5) Arriving at Monte and Sweden with setups totally wrong, having not tested anywhere near enough on mixed/snowy conditions before RMC.
6) Underperforming drivers. Meeke crashing way to often and Lefebvre crashing too much and showing little to no pace
7) Mechanical failure denying Meeke and Citroën successive wins.
8) Dropping the driver who actually managed to test the limits of car, and win them a race. Scapegoating Meeke before then admitting the car was flawed and the risky strategy (implemented by Matton and engineers with backgrounds probably in WTCC) had backfired.
9) Belatedly bringing in Mikkelsen for Sardinia, only for the Norwegian to drive like he'd forgotten he had a pair of balls and a right foot.
10) Then deciding to give Mikkelsen the only car with new components and Jokers spent on it for Poland (an event Mikkelsen loves), only for Andreas to get beaten comfortably by the slowest driver in the WRC this season (Lefebvre), who was in an older c3.
11) Now sidelining Lefebvre for 4months, after Lefebvre's only decent drive of the season. Potentially ruining his confidence and rhythm.

The WRC has been superb this season, no doubt. It's as competitive as it's been for 15yrs but that shouldn't hide the fact this has been an absolute shambles of a year for Citroën, and their drivers and management.
Considering their great history in the WRC, Citroen are a big talking point in general. So it's only going to create more talking points and debate (just look at this thread) when they're up Shit Creek.