Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
or because of Evans crashing in Monza, or Ogier's engine blowing in Turkey, or Ogier losing to Neuville by fractions in Sardegna...it's not so simple.
It is so simple. They ended up one and two in the championship, yet didn't win the title. So that was only due to the 3th driver failing to beat Hyundai's 3 driver(s).

It is of course impossible to know, but i believe that with someone like mikkelsen or lappi they would have most likely won the title.

So as i said, putting rovanpera in that car has cost them the title. They should have put him in a junior team with katsuta.
So that's not rovanpera's fault, that makinen's fault.

Quote Originally Posted by TypeR View Post
First season in WRC and finishing in Top5.. not really bad, to be honest.

If anyone(but no real reason) ro blame, then Evans lost both(maybe) titles in the ditch in Monza..
What did you expect from Kalle last year? Ending the season ahead Ogier, Tänak, Neuville..? funny
Kalle did well, better than i expected. But just like now with solberg, putting an unknown first timer in a factory that's supposed to win the title is just plain stupid.

But again, that was makinens fault. And, i suppose, one of the reasons he is not the manager anymore.