2013 / Who’s not?
Who’s not?
NOT
It’s a pity but here the choice has been quite clear
also. The number one spot is for Evgeny Novikov. He
is very fast and he can be leading rallies, but he still
seems to be incapable of listening to his co-driver and
flies off the road too often. It’s a shame because he
has an enormous fanbase in an important market of
Russia but he does not seem to be able to convince us
he is the real talent we saw in him earlier.
35/64
In possibly his worst season ever Mikko Hirvonen is
rewarded with the runner-up position in the NOT category. Being one of the nicest guys around in the WRC
scene is clearly not enough to really convince us. His
fourth place doesn’t seem to be that bad, but he had
too many bad days during this year’s seasons. And if
you proclaim this to be YOUR season at the beginning it’s not good enough. We hope coming back to
M-Sport will change his winning moods again.
Our third price in this category goes to time keeper SIT.
In Wales they failed to be able to declare the winner for
a long time. OK they were unlucky because hackers,
making it impossible for them to trust their own results,
have attacked them. But nowadays it unfortunately is
imperative to protect your connections and to have
by passes if you do get attacked. But apart from the
Wales drama FIA already in the summer launched an
investigation. This was because they frequently failed
to provide the data they have been hired to provide.
It’s true they had very little time to prepare themselves,
but getting a job like this they should have known what
was coming. Perhaps in this field they have to share
their price with the FIA who at a very late date decided to replace the long time and therefore very experienced supplier Stage One Technology. Let’s hope SIT
gets their act together next year.