It is a tough rally though, very, very hot conditions. It is very abrasive on the tyres too. We are hoping Hancock - they went away after the last rally because we had a bit of a tyre issue on it, but they have gone away and have come up with some new tyres for us and hopefully they will work well and we will be in a good position. We were quick on this rally last year. But we had a gearbox problem. We are hoping now that we can go there and get a good strong result.
Crash.net:
How tough is it doing the BRC and the CRC?
DH:
The last few months have been quite tough because the three CRC rounds that we are in the middle of now, they do them as what they call ‘back-to-back’ events, where the teams don’t go back to base. They drive straight from one rally to the next and they do all their re-prep at the event and that is the way there championship works, which would be great and very, very easy. But when you then do some BRC events in between it, it makes it suddenly a bit more difficult. I have hardly been home at the moment. However once we get this rally out of the way things do start to quieten down a little bit. That will make it a little bit easier.
Also it is obviously not straight forward going from a Group N car one weekend to a high revving S2000 car the weekend after. But I think, overall, the fact you are having lots of time doing more rallies is perhaps a bigger advantage than maybe the small disadvantage of driving different types of cars.
Crash.net:
What have you made of the
FIA World Rally Championship this year?
DH:
It has been quite interesting. Sebastien Loeb is an unbelievable driver, but it is nice to see him being pushed a bit harder. It would be great to see more people challenging. The results are fairly predictable aren’t they? You can pretty much guess the top five before the events start.
