Co-driven by Paul Nagle, the pair kicked their season off in Monte Carlo the place he’d face stiff competitors from Freddy Loix (Peugeot), Juho Hänninen (Škoda) and a sure Sébastien Ogier (Peugeot). Meeke was a creditable fourth after the second leg.
He takes up the story: “We went into the primary stage of the ultimate morning and it had snowed closely in a single day, however then the temperatures climbed and it began to rain. So there was about two toes of snow on the highway, nevertheless it began to rain and it turned to simply full slush.
“I keep in mind after one kilometer of the stage, it went onto a straight, which was about 1.5km lengthy, however there’d been about three or 4 vehicles by earlier than me, they usually had type of splashed the slush out, so that you had excellent grip on two rails of Tarmac.
“I simply began plucking the gears, making an attempt to string the attention of a needle up the straight, and rapidly, it acquired up on high of the slush, and away it went. I used to be a passenger, it aquaplaned and the automotive was utterly destroyed, so it was… yeah. Not the very best begin.”
However three wins on the bounce in Brazil, the Azores and Ypres would quickly appropriate that. Of the three, Ypres was the assertion. You aren’t supposed to move to the notorious Belgian ditches and win in your first try, however Meeke did.
“I used to be fortunate to have Freddy Loix as my team-mate,” Meeke reveals. “Freddy clearly is, , a Belgian man, has finished Ypres and received it 1,000,000 instances or no matter.
