Remember, he was talking about last year's shakedown & stages. Mikkelsen just said that this year's shakedown is the most representative of actual stages in the whole championship (due to amount of snow & snow banks, IMHO), which wasn't the case last year, I believe.
It seems a bit slow to be comparable to the actual event, av.sp "only" ~96kph
On previous he said that Hankook wet tire is quite ok but now he hit something that with recce tire was ok but not with rally tire. Nothing bad, just explaining the situation.
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