It's like some people here seem to remember nothing that happened before 2018.
They seem to have forgotten how good ogier always has been, how he has always beaten everyone, even the maestro himself. They seem to have forgotten how dominantly fast the ogier-polo combination was, but how that disappeared when he stepped in the fiesta.
They seem to have forgotten how dominantly fast neuville was in early 2017, but how that completely dissapeared later.

And most of al, they seem to have forgotten that we have had a direct comparison between ogier and tanak. A comparison that showed that tanak is as fast as ogier, in the best optimistic case a tiny bit faster, dut definitely not that much faster as he is today in the yaris.

Quote Originally Posted by trykmann View Post
His speed is connected to the car, but the car doesn't drive itself. I believe people tend underestimate Tänaks raw speed, his form has just been rising in the past few seasons and might be at it's peak right now.

Meeke or Latvala have had some good stage times, but haven't shown consistent speed with the Yaris. Although they are also considered as drivers, who can win every rally.
The question is: do you believe tanak would be just as dominant in any other of the current wrc cars? Do you believe he would be just as dominant if ogier or neuville would also drive a toyota?

I have no doubt tanak has huge raw speed. He's is amongst the big 3, perhaps even the fastest of them all.
But i do have doubts about how changing team suddenly made him gain so much speed that he easily with one hand tied on his back beats the 6 times world champion and the 4 times runner up.

Quote Originally Posted by stefanvv View Post
While yaris is undoubtedly the fastest car, Tanak was really fast with the fiesta too. But of course there was Ogier factor back then too. How much it really affected Tanak's championship in m-sport? It'll be ironic if he returns next year with them.
He was fast indeed, but he was not "humiliating ogier fast" like he is in the yaris.