Quote Originally Posted by mknight View Post
Really? The only one who you could rank as having a worse season is Suninen and even that is probably not right given the difference in experience between him and Latvala.

- Results are horrible there is no doubt about it, after Portugal (and exactly half the season) he will also be last placed driver that drove all rallies.
- Mistakes are also there: Sweden 2x, Corsica at least one puncture was his fault by his own words, Chile crashing out, Portugal don't know yet alllive mentioned heavy landing though.
- Speed is also often not there: Monte slowest Yaris and 5th, Mexico slowest Yaris even though he had best road position, Corsica one of the slowest WRCs whole rally

Ok a driver can have a bad period, but for Latvala this is like his 6th bad period (1st half of last year, whole 2016 etc etc. )
That's the whole point you're missing: he's quick and somewhat consistent, but terribly unlucky. In Corsica, yes, he was really terrible, but from Argentina onwards he's been very quick. Chile was bad luck again, hitting a rock just right to break the driveshaft.

His only real mistake of the season so far was in Sweden, and maybe one of the cuts in Corsica, but he's really not been worse than Suninen, or Evans, or Lappi...

...or Mikkelsen.