Munster has always been keen to point out the value of event experience – understandable, considering he arrived in the Rally1 class with just 22 starts to his name.
“That’s what I always claim,” he told DirtFish. “If you’ve got the experience, like you said, you’re faster – like Mãrtiņš [Sesks] in Latvia where he was fighting for a podium in his second entry in a Rally1.
“So I think the same, like, in Greece I have more knowledge, so yeah, I expect to be more competitive in Greece than in Sardinia or Portugal.”
The reference to Sesks is an intriguing one, because he too is of the belief that experience of rallies is what really counts.
“The knowledge of races is incredible,” Sesks told DirtFish – something he proved when Poland and Latvia were added to the WRC calendar last year.
“And if you look as well in Poland [this year in the ERC], like the stages I’ve done previously, and as well last year with Rally1, [were the ones where] this year we had the strongest performances. So that’s an easy answer to this.”
Sesks has never been to Greece in his life, let alone for the rally, so as he said on social media when sharing a DirtFish article last week: “Being on top at the races we have known for years does not mean we will be at the top at one we’ve never been [to].