Silly Season 2022

**denkimi** · 5th October 2021, 20:41

A lot of fans here i see. Completely unbiassed of course.

Yet i'm still waiting for those results that will show me why i should consider him as a future champion.
Why would anyone choose him over mikkelsen, ostberg, Suninen, bulcacia or rossel right now?

Perhaps in a few years when he has shown he can reliably win rallies i will change my mind, but at the moment there is nothing that makes me think he will turn out to be a champion.

**mknight** · 5th October 2021, 21:21

He has 4 very good results: Liepaja 2020, Estonia 2020, Monza 2020...and WRC Arctic.
Basically all of them (maybe besides Monza) were in a situation where nobody expected anything from him and he could only surprise.

Again as I wrote some 10 months ago next step has to be to learn to deliver results when he is expected to deliver. Rovanpera learned it the hard way after 3 crashes at start of 2019.

Solberg can learn this in WRC or WRC2 or even ERC, but so far this year he doesn't seem to be learning. Which is why people react cause the progress is stopped or going backwards yet he is getting pushed more and more up everytime he crashes. (Btw. after Safari Adamo said that Solberg will only drive WRC2 for rest of the year...). Always same talk about learning and improving from this and next rally is exactly the same.

Something needs to change, doesn't seem codriver was enough.

**Tom K** · 5th October 2021, 22:49

Originally Posted by mknight

He has 4 very good results: Liepaja 2020, Estonia 2020, Monza 2020...and WRC Arctic.
Basically all of them (maybe besides Monza) were in a situation where nobody expected anything from him and he could only surprise.

It doesn't mean that I do not agree with you, but being fair for him, we should add also Liepaja 2019 (win) and Estonia 2019 (7th place but first among R5 cars)