Quote Originally Posted by Mirek View Post
This is at least a decade old discussion which you can find even here on the forum if you follow previous Ypres editions. The thing is that there was a guy named Freddy Loix who won this event ten or eleven times. Nearly every year he won in IRC or ERC there was the very same talk: "Loix won by pure luck. Others were faster, they were just unlucky." Yet it was still the same Loix who was lucky and the same others who were unlucky. There is one thing you can learn from that: It is always possible to go faster but it counts only if you can come fastest in the finish of the event. Even Neuville and Breen failed several times in this very same way before they finally learned how to drive here.
Did I say anything about luck? Did I say they were unlucky? Read once again before starting to yell...

I said they are up there bcs of experience. Or rather the other way around. Top guys lack of experience.
I never even said local heroes couldn´t dominate. Because I never was thinking about that matter.