Crash.net:
There is some talk you might not the Rally Ireland, the penultimate round in the WRC, can you tell us anything more about that?
KM:
Obviously it is fantastic for the WRC to be coming to Ireland at the end of the year and myself I have been doing events this year in the Irish Tarmac Championship and it has obviously raised my profile within my home country. Everyone is keen to see me out on Rally Ireland. We are trying our best at the moment to make sure we are there and all I can say is that we are working very, very hard behind the scenes to put the right package in place and get out there. There is nothing I would like to do more than go out in front of my home supporters and compete at world level against the cream of the drivers' in the world. We will see. I am hopeful and fingers crossed we will be there.
Crash.net:
Would that be with a Subaru again?
KM:
I have to say at the moment it is looking like a
Subaru. We have been competing this year with a Subaru in the Irish Tarmac Championship and its looking likely it will carry through to a Subaru again, but nothing is finalised at the moment.
Crash.net:
Generally speaking what have you made of the WRC this season?
KM:
It has been another two-horse race. Mikko [Hirvonen] has picked up his pace and he won Rally Norway outright by himself. Mikko has impressed me a lot this year by being able to get that fraction closer to the top two.
But I think when it comes to the crunch, Sebastien [Loeb] and Marcus [Gronholm] are in a league of their own at the moment – they are just untouchable, as we saw in New Zealand.
