Quote Originally Posted by dimviii View Post
copied from French forum

Bitter, Thierry Neuville balance. But claims to have as many chances of being crowned at the end of the year as before the Turkish event: "75%, that has not changed, we will be in England, we are going to have trouble in Spain. Australia, we will be competitive there too, but because of the sweeping phenomenon there, I would prefer to go to the championship final with 5 points behind 5 and to open the road on Friday. "
As he says in GB and Australia he should be able to fight for the win, with road sweeping mostly important in Australia.

But Spain is the key, he will likely still sweep the road on friday and unless a miracle happens with the new parts coming before Spain he won't have a chance on tarmac.
He can hope that Loeb will take the win (helped by road position on Friday) and take the 25 points from Ogier/Tanak.