Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
Yeh, some championships are more valuable than others. When Biasion won his titles in 1988 and 1989, there were really no other realistic contenders other than his teammates, who weren't even driving a full program. The rival teams were the RWD Ford and the underdeveloped Toyota.
Yes, it true that Miki's titles came when Dr. Alen was already slightly past his prime (as well as not driving full program as you already wrote), Kankkunen was basically out of any title contention due to underdeveloped and unreliable Toyota and the new generation of drivers (namely Sainz, Auriol, Delecour) were still too green. But... I don't think that should downplay Miki's resume. He was really close snatching the title already in 1987 and pretty much matched the pace of Alen and Toivonen during his Jolly Club days in 1984 and 1985. So Miki definitely deserves to be ranked right up there with other greats.