Quote Originally Posted by Co-driven View Post
I've also heard those rumours before, and be it coincidence or not, his performance just went down after the "incident"...
That was just one of the factors in his nightmare 2017 really. There was also the crash at Monte that killed a spectator (in a stupid place, but still not an easy thing to deal with and knocked his focus/confidence for a while), a few uncharacteristic mistakes and a car that had problems more often than not...

Then he was back to good form in 2018, but they dropped him anyway.