Drivers: Martin Prokop/Jan Tomanek (Citroen)
Q:Martin, what a weekend you have had – electrical problems on day one, two minutes worth of time penalties, clutch problems today –but you have taken your second win of the season in JWRC, a great result!
Martin Prokop:This race was maybe the hardest of my life. In the beginning I decide I want to win and we were pushing to the maximum from the first stage. We had the electrical problem and a big penalty, then we get this [penalty] time back, but the next morning we hit the problem with the electrics again. But this time we were prepared for it – but we get the penalty again because I took a few minutes too many. The car worked very well and I have never pushed like this. I don't want to do it again, it was too dangerous. The only thing is that I know the stages very well, maybe this is why we didn't crash.
We had a problem with the cars ahead of me with Alessandro [Bettega] and Bernardo Sousa. It can happen. Yesterday, it was my biggest push of my life. I wanted to get the time back and get as close as possible to Michal. Again I came close to Bernardo and I get dust, and I hit the tree. We had big luck not to destroy the engine. We come back to the road and win by 10 seconds, but not by 30 seconds and we are happy to be alive. We push like hell because we want to win every rally. We need a lot of points to get past Michal. We want to win this year.
Q:This win doesn't put you into the lead of the Championship – but its an important win nonetheless…
MP:That's right. We have to make a good result at the end of the Championship in Spain. This was hard with the temperatures and many problems. I was quite nervous. Maybe that makes me ready to fight. We had trouble and we were ready to fight for first position and nothing else. Today we could have done second place very easily, Aaron was eight minutes behind, but we had one aim and that was to win.
Q:This result must be good for the team as well…
MP:Yes. The team did a very good job. Every service the team changed a lot of parts. In the middle of the day, we changed the gearbox and everything. The guys worked fast like hell. I have to thank them very much. Without them, we wouldn't be here.
