Quote Originally Posted by Oliverk View Post
Mby Lappi is just not good enough? With Rovanpera coming, Tommi just don't care about him. He has the best driver/car builder at the moment. And prob best second driver that is accepting his role. Neuville or Ogier as second driver is obvious no go. So prob he sees some commercial value in Meeke to offer him a drive for a year until Rovanperä arrives.
Lappi has more points than Latvala and has been regularly faster than him most of the season. It's Lappi's first full season (so he has not driven 1/3 of the rallies before in WRC). That's seriously early to think he is not good enough, though yes he might be slower on pure speed than Meeke atm, but likely getting better points.

Off course none of this means that Tommi "believes" in Lappi, which might be what you mean.

Btw. Ogier on his first full season (2009) was told to learn and take it easy and was basically the slowest factory WRC in all rallies. (He even had lass points than Matt Wilson overall)

Without discussing whether Latvala is best second driver (pretty close with Lappi and Mikkelsen there), I wonder how you get that he is accepting his role.