Thierry Neuville

Like it would be at this point.

It's like when Thierry won two years ago, isn't it? It's like he comes so close so many times.

It just feels right that you should get at least a championship title.

And I think we're seeing that with Elvin.

We'll forget that bit.

Anyway, we digress.

Obviously, in the Hyundai team, we've talked about Thierry Neuville there.

In fact, Hyundai is yet to win in Chile.

He followed it up in Croatia.

Again, in Croatia, got a big assist with Thierry knocking it off the road.

But two in a row, we thought, right, maybe this is the beginning of the new version of Taka, the Taka 2.0, the Taka 3.0. He's made that step now.

He's got the monkey off his back, let's say.

Remember Citroen in 2006, when they were developing a new car for the 2007 regulations.

They supported the Kronos team, didn't they? Mark Van Dalen's team.

I could see a situation like that, where they say to, who knows, Thierry Neuville, Maybe even Hayden Patton.

Maybe more likely Hayden Patton.

Looking at my notes, I just feel like I am.

But Thierry Neuville is on the GT3 Revival grid.

2024 World Rally Championship, 22-time rally winner, a driver in his absolute prime, and he's driving a BMW Z4 for VDS Racing, specifically the chassis that won at Paul Ricard in the Blancpain Endurance Series in 2013.

That example is not a man doing a demonstration lap in a period costume, okay? That is a current world champion in a real racing car with a real result attached to it that's going for a win.

But this is the opposite side and the other answer.

Take the thing and let it keep doing the job that it was built for until it can't.

Thierry Neuville is going to put a 2013 BMW into a corner at Nürburgring this weekend and try to beat somebody in a Ferrari 458 that's older than that.

Nobody's judging those panel gaps.

... looks really good.

Well, I, you know, so I, uh, take Thierry Neuville, I think in the right circumstances, if the car is good, and, and that's very-

So you think he'll be in a Skoda next year? Is that what you're saying?

Well, n- well, I don't know.

But, you know, we're talking a lot about, about Adrien winning.

Thierry showed there's, I was gonna say life in the old dog yet, but he's not an old dog.

But there's plenty of life left in Thierry Neuville, and plenty of speed left in him, so let's not discount him.

What about the other high-end though, Mr. Paddon back in, back in-