Quote Originally Posted by Rallyest View Post
So apparently Tänak had a feeling something is wrong yesterday, but team decided not to change te engine before shakedown.
And also you can see he has 0 motivation for driving.


https://sport.postimees.ee/7818251/o...atset-vahetada
Home rally, friends and fans everywhere.... zero motivation. Ok, maybe he will retire at end of this year then.

Did they drive the car in stage mode yesterday so that he can hear/feel an issue?

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The Puma has had trouble with reliability ever since introduced
Yet there also seems to be a pattern where whatever car he drives it has issues.
2017 Fiesta, Yaris WRC, I20 WRC and Rally1 and now Puma. A bit too much to be a coincidence tbh.

- Is it his driving/handling of the car? There is some evidence to that from his Yaris time, where some issues seemed directly related to risky setups (ride height+springs/dampers in GB) or simply too much push (Sardinia jump).

- Or is it just that he gets so much extra publicity? Evans has had quite a few issues with Rally1 car last two years, yet it is nowhere as often in headlines.