Quote Originally Posted by Allez Andruet View Post
The only thing not for my liking was the way Meeke tried to play the victim card - so to say - when it came to development of the C3 WRC. Okay, so he was the only test driver without anyone to share the feelings with, and there was no DS3 WRC available for comparison, but... once you've flagged these issues as show-stoppers (you get the assumption from the story that Meeke did just that) and they don't lead to any changes, you basically have two options: to walk away or to stick with your role. And - in my books - choosing the latter means accepting the decision of not changing anything and with that also comes the obligation of not playing the wise guy later on. I.e. if I was mr. Matton or mr. Budar, I'd be pissed off for breaking that "code".
But he offered his resignation around the time of rally Poland? It was rejected. He probably knew there would've been interest in him from other teams and at that stage Citroen couldn't afford to lose him, as no top driver would've touched the car in its current form.

Then a year later when they start to finally make changes to the car and start to get their house in order, they drop him. And not just drop him, they potentially ruined his career with the rubbish they spouted saying he was danger. Fair enough if they wanted a new driver line-up like Ogier/Lappi for 2019, just say something like "Meeke isn't in our plans going forward so we would like to evaluate other drivers for the rest of 2018, before deciding on our line-up for 2019 at a later date".