"I am not a big fan of rotation though, I must be honest. I'd rather see twelve rock solid events and have one event as a stand-by and just leave it at that. That would be best from my point of view.

"From a manufacturers' point of view, putting my Subaru hat on, there is no point going to Cyprus. I don't sell too many cars in Jordan either. We should be going to India, China and America – the big, big markets of this world. From a competitors point of view I'd have the whole championship in New Zealand!

"Everybody has got there little argument to throw into the equation. I don't know whether it is going to work, but we have got to try it. We have tried 16 events and it hasn't worked and now we have got to try rotating events. Let's see how it goes," he summed-up.


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