Knurled wrote:SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: That dude was truly a magician.I hate to be "that guy" but I saw an interesting video of him driving Petter Solberg's championship winning Subaru at a media day, and it was almost embarassing to watch. He also did poorly when he returned to WRC in '06 or so for the two or three rallies he entered before he was dumped. His driving style was mostly one of driving fast and seeing if he could make it through the stage. That worked at the time when the cars weren't all that great anyway, but sometime after the WRCar was invented, the transition made to cars that need to be finessed to get the most out of them (on any surface), which takes a lot more driver skill than mere heroics.
He took a Skoda in 05 that no one else even managed to make competitive and was in 2nd place in Australia until the clutch died.
