Citroen WRT

[EstWRC]

ridiculous team, you dont do like that to your driver with half the season to go

absolutely ridiculous...

[er88]

Well that's Citroen even more of a nothing team this season. Breen and Ostberg fighting for the 5th at best, the Sheikh struggling to beat wrc2 drivers and Loeb pushing too hard to compete at the front when he returns in Spain.

They'll pull out at the end of the year now surely?

Portugal could've been so different. I mean, Meeke would've been fighting Neuville had the two unlucky punctures not happened. Argentina was the same.

He should've just settled down after his rally was over though, and backed off and taken 7th or whatever position he was in.

Should've just let him see out his contract. They would've had a few more crashes to deal with, but also maybe a win or two to celebrate as well. Now their only real chance is a retired Loeb to win in Spain before they pull out and put themselves out of this misery.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

I dont believe it.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Shit, its true...

[bassist]

Not great news at all, but to be honest I'm not surprised! Don't think we will see Citroen next season.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Seems they are saying the publicity of the crashes is damaging the Citroen brand ...

[KKS]

fck it! Idiotic team with an idiotic decisions!

[KKS]

Who will step in his car Al Qassimi? Lefebvre... .

Yep... dream team on his way

[AnttiL]

Two car team rest of the year with more drives for Østberg? Al-Qassimi on third when he wants

[Simmi]

Press release reads like Citroen are saving Meeke from himself. In reality I think they are looking at a hefty chassis and parts bill and someone has made a call. I can't remember who said it earlier but he's not worth what he's costing them. I think the manner of this is bad from Citroen. It's a bullshit press release. But I don't think the end result is all that surprising.

As for Meeke's own social media post. Let's be real Kris isn't sat there at his computer doing this all himself. His brother Barry does his social media for him so it could be that this post has been ready for a while and it just was posted unfortunately very close to Citroen's announcement. You'd like to think they told him more than an hour before slapping out the press release. Or I guess it could have been deliberately timed to make Citroen look bad. Who knows - the comment about the support of Budar particularly stands out. But maybe just with hindsight.

Sadly I'm not sure how Meeke fits back in now at WRC level. Perhaps he could replace Elfyn next year if his general trend this season continues. But I think that may be it.