Quote Originally Posted by mknight View Post
It's not like he had many options in 2016... his original team for 2017 was Hanninen who only drove one rally in 2015 and his best ever WRC result was 6th place and Lappi who was the clearly best young driver and was just about to win WRC2 over Suninen.

The options came first at the end of the year when VW left.
Ofcourse the options were limited and we never know what would have happened with Lappi if the VW trio was available earlier in 2016, but I don't think it makes any difference. Nevertheless, Mäkinen offered Lappi a deal for 2019 (if not longer) which Lappi and team Even turned down.