Petter Solberg:
It’s very good. First everybody has been working hard with the new car and not doing so much with this car; we have done some improvements and it’s good fun to be up there and Chris (Atkinson) has had some good results which is very important for us.
Q:
As the world awaits the new
Subaru Impreza you still have to compete with the older version. As testing on the current car has now stopped are you finding it frustrating not being able make major improvements?
PS:
Well we try to improve small details and still we also try to improve a little bit for this rally also. The big picture is of course a bit different and we are just focusing on the new car.
Q:
Is there anything you can tell us about the current stage of development with the new car?
PS:
Markko Martin is testing quite a lot; he is working very hard. It’s good to see him work hard again. We will see. We don’t know how exactly it is yet. The team is keeping pretty quiet and it looks interesting; I think many people wait for the new car.
Q:
The weather forecast for the weekend does not look good, what do you feel will be the main challenges out there this weekend?
PS:
I think first for all the drivers is to keep it on the road, because it was quite interesting on the shakedown on the first or second pass. It’s just keeping the temperature in the tyres; it is very difficult when it’s wet.
Q:
If it remains wet with a hard compound tyre will you have to adapt your driving style to compensate?
PS:
I think it’s the same for everybody; automatically you just have to take it more carefully.
