Posted Thursday, September 19, 2024 at 9:01pm
I don’t mind admitting it: I thought it may have been a case of ambition overtaking ability.
As accomplished a WRC2 driver as Josh McErlean is, aiming to challenge the Subaru Motorsports USA outfit in America was a brave target – simply because they rarely, if ever, get beaten.
I equally don’t mind admitting I was wrong. Very wrong. McErlean may not have got the result at Overmountain Rally Tennessee, but he certainly made the impression he and John Coyne had been after.
To prove that a well-driven Rally2 car can indeed challenge the Subaru juggernaut.
Since the American Rally Association clipped the wings of the Open 4WD regulations in a bid to pair them closer back in-line to the global Rally2 platform at the top of 2023, Subaru has only lost one rally – and that was because they both retired.