Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
https://yle.fi/urheilu/3-10460210
Miika Wuorela writing a sort of bitter column (in Finnish) about how senseless it is for Toyota to hire Meeke and how expensive it will become for the team.
Once we see the results of the combination, we can speculate if Paddon, Evans, Breen, Tidemand, Hänninen or Huttunen would have done better.
Signing Meeke can be risky but any of the drivers you’ve mentioned is far from Meeke raw speed; we keep complaining about how disappointing the drivers level sometimes is (behind the top 3 or 4) but Meeke is one of the few able to fight for the win in any event, which is great for the series. Besides, Makinen is not Matton and if Meeke starts behaving wildly it won’t probably take long to show him the exit door.


Quote Originally Posted by Norm75 View Post
Well, Budar speaking about signing Lappi saying things like, we were looking to sign two strong drivers, and together they will form a formidable pair (I may be paraphrasing) it looks probably just a two car line up, so Ogier will have to rely on Lappi as his wing man. Can't see that helping his cause.
If Abu Dhabi stays, Citroen will likely have a 3rd car with a decent driver running most of the season (Al Qassimi has been doing only 4 events per year); if not, then it may be just a 2 car team, but a real strong one, with 2 of the current top 5 WRC drivers.