Quote Originally Posted by er88 View Post

@Mknight. I'm comparing Mikkelsen to his team mate in the same car. Hyundai had a rally winning car in terms of pace in Turkey, yet Mikkelsen ended the opening day behind Neuville who opened the road, and ran 4 cars ahead of Andreas. So yes, that's not exactly something to write home about.

.. Makinen was an idiot for overlooking him for Jari
He was a bit worse than Neuville in Turkey with 1s behind on friday. But the argument how bad it was is a bit crazy. If you use the same argument on Tanaks teammates they should both have been fired by now. Ex. in Finland after friday Latvala was 23s and Lappi 1 min behind with better start position.

Mikkelsen has good tarmac record in multiple other cars. But it seems that until Germany this year they (both Hyundai and Mikkelsen) were not really investing much effort into trying to fix the issues. First when Sordo and Neuville also started to struggle (much slower than last year), it looks like something is happening.
Hyundai will like loose the title on Finland + tarmac pace, and I say they deserve it as it's issues they have known off for long time.