Quote Originally Posted by mknight View Post
There are two aspects here:

1. 6 places later starting order does not mean Breen will be faster over the rally. In Finland he started 4 places behind and was slower on a rally where he has one of his 2 podiums and Mikkelsen has never been on a podium. Though off course it was Breens second rally with Hyundai WRC and first championship one.

2. In case some rain comes (as it did the last 2 years) the whole starting position "planning" will be nonsense or even counter-productive. Spreading the starting positions seems like a better idea than to have 2/3 of all cars at the back.

=> It basically sounds like a big excuse and the real reason is more that he doesn't trust him for some reason.

Also I dunno if they did it in the (paid) article but the obvious first question to Adamo should be why did he say otherwise on the post even press conference in Catalunya.
Mikkelsen has always been fast in Australia, if he is 4th or 8th on the road it dosen't matter, he would be faster than Breen in the Hyundai at this rally anyway.
Only resonable explantation is Mikkelsen don't drive Hyundai next year, and Breen does.
Mikkelsen to Toyota or M-sport, depends on Evans, Breen will do the leftover events in the WRC, and do development, testing and racing the R5, both of them.

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