Rally-eMag 018 May 2014 | Page 25

Rally Italia-Sardegna / Rally review Mikkelsen At Volkswagen we recognized a new, though familiar face: Ola Fløene. Not long before the Italian WRC round, news came out that Andreas Mikkelsen and Mikko Markkula parted company ‘in mutual understanding’ “We did great things together,” commented Mikkelsen. “But we are different people and our different personalities meant we were not able to develop a really close personal relationship.” It’s always difficult from the outside to judge what is happening in close personal relationships, bur being very close together like in a rallycar and that for long hours, demands a relationship that goes beyond a professional one and apparently that did not happen for