Quote Originally Posted by Danny0405 View Post
Personnally, I don’t think it’s a bad idea to give him one rally off (the discussion is not about firing him); it has already been applied for other drivers in a bad streak even if it was more experienced drivers (Duval, Meeke, Latvala) and generally, it worked (at least on the short-term).
When you say "it worked", define "worked"? All of those drivers can be described as having had massive potential, huge speed, great opportunities, and... careers littered with failure.

Not one of them made the most of the chances and cars they had access to. All of them were put under immense pressure for their perceived weaknesses, and shared habit of turning their cars into expensive paperweights. Even if being made to sit out a rally or two had the positive effect to 'fire them up' briefly, I'd argue that in the long run it did more damage than good. They all seemed to be trying too hard, too often - and tended to crack when the pressure started to build.

The only driver you could truly say responded well to a period of adversity and being made to take a step back is Ott Tanak. And he was PROPERLY benched, down into national rallies, before he started to get his act together... that was a Malcolm decision, maybe we shouldn't be surprised if the same thing happens to Fourmaux.