Actually it doesn't. Lappi and Latvala look very good when you look at points. But the relative number of stage wins and even more number of stages in lead seem to tell that they are actually not doing all that good relative to the fastest guy in the team.

As to the "bad luck":

[troll] Time to introduce "bad luck index". This time it's easy.... technical issue 1 point, technical retirement 2 points, didn't care about weighting it and didn't care about checking much tbh. Don't count "bad luck" in crashes. Higher number=more bad luck.

Mikkelsen 8 (Monte, POR, SARD, TUR)
Latvala 5 (Mex, Sard, GER, didn't give him any points for Argentina or Portugal)
Evans 3 (Tur, GB)
Lappi 1

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