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
Peter Thul (WRC Promoter) says WRC27 will go to ERC and national championships as soon as 2028/29 and FIA are actively discussing timelines https://youtu.be/vrojMnqI2iw?t=1185
Like every other top athlete. Still no sympathy. They doing theire dream and get good paid.
Its 2000 rallydrivers last 20 years that would give everything to make a swap.
Its like every other...
So it's cropped? In my opinion that should not be accepted!
I quite like this one:
https://cdn.riddle.com/embeds/v3/images/transformed/w_1440,h_960/2a2/2a2fdd77be251322486a8a84988837b7.webp
Peter Thul (WRC Promoter) says WRC27 will go to ERC and national championships as soon as 2028/29 and FIA are actively discussing timelines https://youtu.be/vrojMnqI2iw?t=1185
WRC mainclass from 2027