Crash.net:
Mark, you do a lot of testing for Pirelli I believe. Pirelli will become the control tyre in the WRC next season. Have you tested the compounds yet that will be used in 2008?
MH:
No I haven’t. This year has been very quiet on that front. I did a couple of tests in January and that has been about it because as we are competing in the PWRC it doesn’t allow us to test the tyres. We have just been concentrating on the rallies themselves and doing three championships has kept us going. It is all go-go-go at the moment.
Crash.net
I know it is still early days and we are only just in the autumn - but can you tell us anything about your plans for next year?
MH:
There is nothing planned. I am working on a few options at the moment like we always do - just trying to keep plenty of fingers in plenty of pies. But there is nothing confirmed or halfway near confirmed at the moment. We are slowly working on bits and bobs and we will see what happens. It would be nice to be out in a World Rally Car doing something again – and you never know doing the BRC too. We will just have to play it by ear and see what comes up.
Crash.net:
Final question, are you planning to attend the Rallyday at Castle Combe this year?
MH:
We were trying to do it - but unfortunately the car is not available for us and I may be doing the recce for Cork that weekend too. There is so much going on that weekend that I don’t think I will actually be able to make it. But if I was free I would try and pop down.
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