Quote Originally Posted by Rally Power View Post
Can you guarantee that he really asked for specific improvements and the team refused them? Probably you base that acceptation on a few comments from ‘unidentified sources’ that the Brit press eagerly spread. The same press that forgot to mention that Alexis Avril, the C3 WRC chief of project, is a good friend of Meeke (since the C2 Junior days) and always supported him. The same press that failed to mention that Poland ‘suspension’ was settled by the team with Meeke agreement, as he felt a break was needed. The same press that only question Meeke driving approach after he was fired, ignoring his error prone attitude through the years.

Meeke is a top WRC driver, certainly one of the bravest and fastest around, but to ignore his limitations and blame the others for his faults won’t help him to improve, as it didn’t help so far. Hopefully, he’ll manage to get a more sensible approach while avoiding raise expectations too high; that’s probably the best way to enjoy next year(s) and provide Toyota and the fans a fantastic show. Fingers crossed!
You are correct in what you say but you're too far to Citroen's side. Matton was the problem, he was in charge and got so many things wrong that we'd be hear all day talking about them. Meeke made mistakes and so did the engineers and design team. Simple.

Meeke was pushing for changes that Mikkelsen and Loeb backed up. They all said the same thing, but Matton's management was poor and he sat on his hands till it was crisis management.

The new technical director who came in even said Citroen's own engineers and development team had taken risks which backfired and that due to the previous successes, were perhaps too stubborn and stuck in their ways to make the changes earlier that the drivers wanted. Direct quotes.