Quote Originally Posted by mknight View Post
In Finland Mikkelsen would likely control the result somewhere around 5th(depending on the dropouts).
With Suninen you can get a crash in first stage (2x in last season at MSport) or a crash later while leading (Sweden 2019).

Jokes aside I wonder what (serious) people really expect from Suninen. Imo dreams of fighting for win or a podium (without many retirements) are completely unrealistic. First start in Rally1 on these kinds of rallies a realistic goal is beating Loubet and Katsuta in Estonia and those + Neuville in Finland. Note that Suninen has pretty bad history in Estonia, including being slower than Greensmith.

Further on my point is that Mikkelsen can get some stunning times on specific rallies, specially in slippery conditions (Estonia and Acropolis PS last year, Monte and Monza basically every year he started). He also has rallies where he is completely off the pace (Rome 2021, Catalunya 2018). Suninen has that one stage on Sardinia a few years back.
So over more rallies I fail to see how another "mediocre" Fin adds to the excitement.
I know your partisan nature but I thought you could at least appreciate that another driver breeds more curiosity for those two rallies (acropolis? monza? monte?) than Mikkelsen finishing a likely stable fifth.


While we're bringing up WRC 2 results, Suninen in Finland 2021 and 2022, Estonia 2022?