Quote Originally Posted by dimviii View Post
why are you talking about Saturday at Monte that was mostly dry,and don't talk about Corsica which was bone dry? Monte has compromises at set up,its not a dry setup.
Ok we have understand that you are not a citroen/ Meeke fun,but Meeke after 4 stages was 10 sec faster than the 4 time champion and 25 sec faster from the faster driver this year Neville. It was the SAME as we had seen and talk at tests.Exactly the SAME!!!
All teams use to test at small distance stages which make repeat passes.Citroen didnt test someway different from other teams,or from what was testing at previous years.
The problem wasn't at this point.
You completely missed Matton's point, that I am trying to emphasize with examples.

The car is fast when the setup is perfect for the conditions, something that is easy to do for test or a stable conditions/road rally = Corsica.

Whole day at monte is not stable conditions with some ice bits here and there => bad performance. Testing for Monte is stable conditions (same road, memorized by drivers), even with some minor weather changes => good looking test and feedback.

The problem clearly was at that point, the "sensitivity" of the car itself was not revealed by the tests. (without speculating who's fault that is, you can blame anyone depending on your angle, designers for design choices, drivers for feedback, people setting up the tests... team management for not getting other test drivers etc etc.)