Quote Originally Posted by mknight View Post
Provided he takes it to the finish (since I was just as optimistic after Friday in Monte only for another crash on Saturday), it is the first time I am impressed and there is real progress since Sweden two years ago.

Exactly what essentially everyone asked for:
Don't drive at 100%+ when not necessary. When dropping a few secs don't overreact with crazy driving on next.
Hopefully it is confirmed on more rallies than one.

In other WRC2 news Pajari has been hugely impressive.
Lindholm kinda as expected by me (imo he is not (yet) fast and reliable for top spots, last year he just got very lucky).

Suninen biggest disappointment for many reasons. Gryazin also quite mediocre.

New Skoda seems a real step up here, but again this is the kind of stages it was designed to be better on. Eagerly waiting for Croatia and Portugal to see other types of rallies.
Agree with you on everything else than Lindholm and Suninen. Lindholm didnt do any rallies prefore Sweden and he got sick for his season preparation test and Meeke had to cover for him. Suninen and Lindholms rallies were mostly already over on friday and now it was just cruising to the finish. Also Hyandai has new team for the Rally 2 and i think they dont have so much experience on this kind of surface compared to Redgrey. Its not fair to call Lindholm only lucky from last year because he had great pace all year after Sweden.

Also Huttunen impressed me a lot with the museum Skoda. Lets hope that he gets enough funding to drive the new Printsport Skoda rs