It's not about our feelings, it's more about his. Retirement comments came from him as he said he first need to check what is the situation in family (due to health issues) and then comes "which team" question.
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The final thing: "One more thing. It was Adamo personally who hired/convinced him to join. They seemed to match quite well, and we know how that developed - Adamo left. Another reason, why he joined, didn't realize or do not exists anymore."
No, I didn't have any Rally2 topic in my mind. Just human connection and match between Adamo and Tänak.
Bcs Ogiers situation was way different. Obviously many have missed a small bit of info that circulated here somewhere in the spring, for short while, about the "family" argument. My prediction is that Tanak will take a semi-active pause in 2023 and then, possibly, returns in 2024 if all is good with family matter; and situation would be way different in Team/Driver market.
What is the issue that Finns have with this Tänak?
Social media, forums and the press are full of posts that is rather derogatory.
Where does it come from?
On the other hand, even from this forum i can see how Estonians have a rather positive attitude towards Finnish competitors
Personally I don't have the impression that Finns in general are against Tänak. But I don't follow Finnish media and forums that much as well.
But some ideas:
* Tänak's personality is quite polarizing - you like him a lot or you don't like him a lot. If those "not likers" are loud, it may give the impression that all finns are against him. But if to dig in French or Belgium forums (random examples), could we make same conclusions? I guess so.
* Toyota is pretty much Finnish team, and Tänak left it.
* Tänak didn't mach well with Finnish multi-time world-champion Mäkinen (pretty much the same like last point)
* Manager Timo Jouhki have been critic for Märtin-Tänak quite a lot
* Tänak is one of the main competitors for Fins new start Rovanperä
And again - nation-wide abstraction is not maybe the best.