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Simulator discomfort hurt Yvan Muller during 2014 WTCC season

Four-time World Touring Car champion Yvan Muller says his discomfort with Citroen's simulator played a part in his defeat by team-mate Jose Maria Lopez this year

Muller finished the 2014 WTCC season 126 points behind Lopez - who was in his first full campaign in the series - and having won only four races compared to his team-mate's 10.

The WTCC switched from Super 2000 to the new TC1 regulations this season.

Muller said that negated his experience advantage and he was further hampered by 'Pechito' Lopez and third Citroen driver Sebastien Loeb being able to better use the simulator to adapt to the car.

"My previous experience didn't help so much this year with the new car and because of the Citroen simulator which Seb and Jose have developed," Muller told AUTOSPORT.

"It was Pechito's first time at Macau but if you include the laps in the simulator he has done more laps than I have.

"For me [the simulator] is not realistic, but for them it is."

Muller believes changes to both the C-Elysee and his own approach will help him in 2015.

"This year I struggled a bit in the car, and I know I need to work on myself during the winter," he said.

"We have some evolutions to the car for next year, and there is something that I can't talk about too much but relating to the front axle that should help me."

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