Andreas Mikkelsen

[the sniper]

Sideways equals slow in today's rallying.

If I had to name one name of being visibly guilty of that, it's Mikkelsen. Particularly in the i20. I don't know if that's his natural style or he's doing it to adapt to the car (though I imagine the former, having been watching some 2016 Polo '17 test videos lately), but on the last two Rally GBs I've seen him on (not so much in Finland), you could trust him to be more sideways and spectacular than even silliest bloke in a Mk2 Escort. Great entertainment, but couldn't be the quickest way round.

EDIT: Just to add, I've always thought that the '17 WRC regs should have been called 'WRC+', as there's such a difference between the pre and post 2017 cars. If nothing else, it'd have helped differentiate the two in 2017, and would probably be useful again in future if/when the 2017 cars are entered in national rallies. They're a substantially different class, so could do with something other than the cumbersome '2017' tag.