Quote Originally Posted by mknight View Post
But for Skoda motorsport the main goal is to sell cars, which they succeed with.
Sadly in 2016-2017 it seemed the success would lead to top tier entry, but that got called off. Now I am not quite sure whether the overall effect is positive for WRC, since it takes money from MSport or Hyundai. But C3 Rally2 success would do the same.
I won’t shed any tears for them, it should just drive them to make their own products better.

It seems now that Skoda give partial support to many drivers instead of full support to one (Mikkelsen) and I think that has to be a good thing for WRC. It’s just a shame there are limited options for those drivers to progress further at the moment.

BTW, it’s quite surprising Solberg is not in one of the two main Toksport teams, but I suppose the deals were already done with the others when he signed up.