BREAKING NEWS: Oliver Solberg splits with co-driver Aaron Johnston

Hi, friends!

There is a new mode in the World Rally Championship and it seems that the change of a co-driver is exit of every problem and that the more experienced and good driver can make you much quicker.

And I would say that this is true. More experienced and professional driver can make much quicker, that's correct for sure. But this mode became so often that at once, half of a World Rally Championship field has changed the co-driver and some of them even three co-drivers in one season.

I understand that this is a professionalism and that big money is involved in the motorsport but it's maybe a cruel thing to left a man beside you without a job just like this.

I guess that Oliver Solberg's dad reckoned that his son will make much more progress with the experienced co-driver and I would say that they will pick up Seb Marshall again because he did the great job with Solberg jr at WRC Arctic Rally Finland in February.

Petter Solberg was a WRC champion in 2003 and he probably knows what is the best for his son to progress even more. And the change of co-driver was the first logical choice to do because there is a good chance that he will be in a WRC car for bigger part of the next season or maybe he will share the car with someone else like Dani Sordo (if he stays with Hyundai).

I think that young Oliver Solberg is on the right path to be a regular starter in the World Rally Championship and there is a nice future in front of him.

He needs something called luck because without luck you are nowhere in this sport. For now he has plenty of luck and just has to make it works his way.

His next outing in a WRC car will be at tarmac of Catalunya, great stuff!

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