Silly Season 2022

[Danny0405]

There is no correlation between driver's speed and their ability to develop a car. Some of the best test drivers never achieved anything on world level (Philippe Bugalski, Mark Higgins, Bryan Bouffier, Roman Kresta) while some top WRC drivers haven't understood their cars at all.

Agree (we can also evoked Matthew Wilson) but in the case of M-Sport for its Rally2 car, they need to dramatically improve the car but also to have a consistent driver to deliver results against good drivers such as Ostberg, Suninen, ...

So I think that with his experience even in RC2, it would be a very good pick to hire Mikkelsen with an offer 4/5 Rally1 rallyes (even if it means Greensmith and Fourmaux does 11 rallyes out of 13 each) + a 7-round program in Rally2.
And for Mikkelsen, it is not a bad offer as a third year without any Rally1 drives would almost have meant the end of his hopes of returning in the main category.
It costs a little money maybe but I don’t really howM-Sport can come back in the game in Rally2 without a move like this (or an equivalent driver but they cannot attract Suninen so it lets only Ostberg which is that simple) and this category is important for them.