Give him a break. As a rallyfan you should know this would happen. No one just didn´t want to express that publicly. Tidemand has had way too little competiton in a WRC17 car to be competitive.
I can only presume new WRCars are a lot more difficult to adapt to than old ones were. Didn’t he drive a Fiesta here a few years ago and do quite a respectable job?
Stat-fact, 53 500 unique spectators for Rally Estonia
https://sport.delfi.ee/artikkel/120392099/publikurekord-sundiski-delfi-rally-estoniast-sai-kohapeal-osa-53-500-inimest
For the context:...
There is a known cliché - you can not make a reliable driver fast, but you may make a fast driver reliable.
Oliver's past is quite clearly "fast but not reliable". We can see at the moment that...
The feedback from the commentators is similar as here. Ironically they have closed the comment section on the driver ratings article. ...
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