[WRC] News & Rumours 2019

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Still waiting for you to name a WRC manager with better one...

20 years without title while managing 4 drivers (5 if you count Suninen) during that period, counts as less than optimal record to me.

No-one said he's perfect. Just that based on his track record, he's clearly the best in the business. Feel free to give other names to that competition but so far we haven't seen any...

Burns was signed for Subaru in 2004. If he did drive I am not sure if Hirvonen would even drive full season with them but due to Burns not being able to drive, Hirvonen got to drive full season as n2.
That season Subaru was prbly the fastest car overall (on gravel it was without a doubt) with Solberg winning 94 stages.... Hirvonen won 2 and his best results were two 4th places. While notably C. McRae was sitting out without a contract.

Ofcourse Burns' tragic illness was the reason there was a seat available at Subaru in the first place, but at the end of the day it had quite little to do with Hirvonen or especially Jouhki's resume. The McRae reference was brilliant though.

Jouhki got famous for it in rally in a bad way... with Hirvonen.

Yep, with a guy who ended up collecting six championship medals. Hard to get worse than that.

Over and out.