"It has been a while since Turkey and we are still waiting for the results over my team-mates, Per-Gunnar Andersson's exclusion from that event. From a personal point of view, I think after all the bad luck that people have had this year if the decision is upheld it will leave it more open for a fair fight on the Rally GB - and it would obviously all give us a chance of the championship again," he noted. "But that doesn't alter the way we approach the event anyway. We won it in 2004 - that was the last time it was held as a Junior WRC round and our aim will be the same as always on every round, to win."
As for the event itself, Guy is looking forward to making the most of his 'home advantage'. Indeed the Englishman always appreciates the support of the fans.
"It is always nice to have the home support," he continued. "The fans make themselves heard all the time - and it gives you an extra edge. It makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, not necessarily in the stages, although sometimes it does, but you are concentrating so hard when you are driving, but definitely outside of the stages - the support is fantastic.
"But as far as actual experience on the event goes, I think there are people in the Junior WRC, who have almost as much as experience of it as myself. My team-mate, P-G, he has done it three times and this will be his fourth and my fifth, so I have only got one more year of experience of Wales over him - and there are a few other people with good experience as well. But I think experience pays less and less and I think if you are a good driver you will always shine through. With the experience we have of the event - and what it takes to win, hopefully that will pay dividends and we will end up winning it."
Other significant entries:
118 crews are due to start the Rally GB, easily the biggest number of entries on any single event this season. Indeed this year's entry list is also the largest on the event for five years, bettering the amount that took part on Rally GB in 2001 by one, when 117 tackled the three-day event. The great turn-out can be attributed to the fact that it is not only a qualifying round for the WRC, but also the BRC, the Ford Fiesta series and the Mitsubishi Rally championships. As such the
FIA dropped the 90 entrants cap and gave the organisers' special permission to accept more drivers'.
