Subaru sporting director, Luis Moya meanwhile has insisted that Solberg and his team-mate,
Chris Atkinson can both get an 'acceptable result'.
"We’ve shown on other challenging rallies, such as Mexico and Argentina, that we can perform well," he stated. "We got two podiums in difficult conditions on both these events as we found a good balance between durability and performance. In Sardinia too we demonstrated we could run at the top end of the field and were unfortunate not to finish higher than we did. Our goal now [in Greece] is to have an acceptable finish for both Petter and Chris. Petter could well finish in the top three, depending on how the event pans out. In Sardinia Chris followed the strategy, but a mistake on the last day dropped him down the order. His aim for Greece is to have a rally without errors and finish in the top six."
Atkinson is especially determined to deliver following his off on the final stage in Sardinia, which dropped him from fifth to tenth in the final classification. To date this season the Aussie has scored just eight points and he has yet to finish in the top five.
"I’m quite positive about Greece," he said. "I was happy with the improvements we found in the test we did in Greece earlier this month. We found a good set-up that worked well in Sardinia and we will use more or less the same again in Greece. We showed in Italy that we had the speed to get a good finish and score some points, in Greece we’ve got to follow this through. I’m aiming for a top six."
Manufacturer 2.
OMV Peugeot Norway WRT:
[Manfred Stohl, car #7 and
Henning Solberg, car #8].
The OMV Peugeot WRT conducted a two-day pre-event test in the build-up to the Acropolis Rally recently, with Manfred Stohl in action on Saturday and Henning Solberg running on Monday.
