Quote Originally Posted by itix View Post
From what I remember he was gifted the first win due to something.

I disagree that he was faster than Latvala. Latvala had a multitude of wins in the vw. Mikkelsen was consistently the slowest of the vw and often the only vw that the other teams managed to beat.
You were wrong, either on purpose or you didn't remember, now you trying to go around it. Mikkelsen was indeed "gifted" first win by Ogier crashing. Similarly Mikkelsen "gifted" Ogier win in Sweden 2015 just 9 months before by going in the snowbank on last stage.

In 2016 he was clearly faster than Latvala.

Note that first full season in WRC was in VW in 2014 (and part of 2013) at that point Latvala was on his 7th and 8th WRC season, Ogier on 5th and 6th and two times world champion.