LUKE BARRY

Nobody enjoys a demotion, do they? Regardless of the circumstances, moving back down a rung of the ladder in your chosen career is rarely positive progress. This is certainly no truer than in motorsport. I can’t claim to personally know Romain Grosjean or Kevin Magnussen, but I’m fairly certain both would rather have kept their Haas F1 seats than seek an opportunity elsewhere.

Rallying would appear no different. When Mads Ostberg received outings with Citroen in 2018 after