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Who’s not?
Kris Meeke
Citroën DS3 WRC
Citroën Abu Dhabi World Rally Team
It was with mixed feelings that
we heard the news of Kris Meeke
replacing Dani Sordo. First of
all we think Meeke deserves a
chance on the toplevel. His Mini
years did not bring him what he
expected. Not because of his results or speed but only because
of money. We all know the story.
But more or less the same applies
to Sordo. Still we can also understand Yves Matton. Something
had to be done. Hirvonen in his
second year was not delivering
and Sordo seemed to be struggling. Again Meeke proved to be
fast. He was runner up for some
time. But then disaster struck.
Everywhere you heard, “Oh yes
Meeke is off again”. Of course
this can happen to anyone but
with Meeke it seems to happen
somewhat more often. But at this
time we gave him the benefit of
the doubt. A day later however,
things did not improve.
After an enormous effort by the
mechanics, he is back again and
then, at a time when nothing can
be gained and everything can
be lost, he goes off again. If you
look at his face after the incident,
you can see he knows: I’m out of
the team now. It’s always hard to
judge someone on one or even
two mistakes, but this was very
bad timing and he can only be
very happy Matton said. “I have
to think about it.” We hope he
will get another chance in Wales,
preferably in a team including Hirvonen and Sordo, so that we can
actually see if Meeke can really
do it and beat his teammates, on
the finish line and not only on a
few stages.