by Rob Wilkins
Petter Solberg's co-driver Phil Mills has confirmed that they will benefit from some modifications on the
Subaru Impreza WRC 2006 during the second half of the season, which begins next month, with back-to-back events in Germany and Finland.
Although Mills and Solberg haven't had the best of seasons to date, with two runner-up spots their best results thus far, Mills is confident that they can get back on the top step of the podium.
"We have had some rotten luck [this year], even in Greece we were lying in second and quite comfortably so, and we had a road accident. Australia and Japan last year, both of those events we were leading too and something stupid happened - a kangaroo jumped out in front and we get the biggest rock in the world in front of us in Japan. We have had some rotten luck and I think it is about time that rotten luck changed and it is about time someone else had that rotten luck," he told
Crash.net Radio.
"We are competitive. We are there or there-abouts on gravel, tarmac is a little harder, but on gravel we are there and we just need to pull it all together. We have some improvements coming now, especially for Turkey and Cyprus, some modifications for the car for that and we really are looking forward to it. We go to every event with the attitude to win it - otherwise I wouldn't be there unless we were capable of winning. So I am really looking forward to the next few events."
As for what has been the problem thus far, Mills said that it wasn't just one problem, but a 'combination of lots of small things': "It is difficult to pinpoint any one particular area," he continued. "I hate using
Formula One as a comparison because there are very little comparisons, but if you look at
Ferrari for instance, they dominated the thing for five years and then all of sudden last year they were tenth or whatever on the grid and couldn't do much about it. That gives you an idea of what can happen in motorsport.
