Quote Originally Posted by focus206 View Post
If your confidence is damaged to a degree that it hurts your speed and reliability as we saw last year... what is he going to do when fighting for a championship, maybe against a teammate? He needs to be mentally stronger.
In circuit racing a teammate can truly hinder you by driving dirty around you, pushing you off the track etc, but in rallying? Saying "the car doesn't fit me" is a good reason for bad results, saying "my teammate is mean to me" is not good enough.
Surely the mental game is part of what happens when you develop as a driver with time?

Or are you saying you already need to be completely 100% confident and not let *anything* affect you *at all* in your first proper year as a full works driver in a team that is acting haphazardly at best with a poor car? Because that is completely unrealistic, maybe unless you are Loeb or Ogier.