Quote Originally Posted by skarderud View Post
Everyone knows that he can challenge neuville for a WDC if the stuff work properly.
No, we don't. I never saw mikkelsen as more than an ostberg who happened to drive the best car for a few years.
Loeb, ogier, neuville, meeke, tanak, ... all got where they are due to their talent, mikkelsen got where he is because of his daddy's money.
He's not bad, perhaps in the right team and the right car he might be champion one day. but he will never be as good as ogier, and probably not even as good as neuville.
I really don't belive in neuville to be the right one to be the No.1 in the team, two years in the row he has litterally missed the open goal. One thing is if he hasn't bragged about in front, but when he says that he has 80% WDC in his pocket, and both times don't deliver, he litterally shit on his own legs.
Neuville fucked up in 2017, that should have been his championship. He was the fastest car/driver combination that year. Only his own mistakes kept him from taking the title.

But in 2018, i don't think there was that much he has done wrong. The car was lagging behind in lots of rally's.