With only four points to his credit so far this year,
Henning Solberg will be gunning for a top-five spot in Jordan this coming weekend, the fifth round in the 2008
FIA World Rally Championship.
Henning season hasn't exactly really gone to plan so far and while he bucked the trend with a fifth place in Mexico, he was back in the doldrums in Argentina.
Indeed he retired from each leg, with rock impacts taking him out on legs one and three, while he was withdrawn from the afternoon stages on leg two to preserve his car for this week's trip to the Middle East, when he will again be nominated to score manufacturers' points for the
Stobart squad.
"We will try again here in Jordan, it was quite unlucky what happened in Argentina but that is in the past and we have to focus on this rally now," said the Norwegian.
"I don't know much about the rally only what I have seen on the internet from last year.
"My engineer has done many years in the Middle Eastern Championship so I think it will be an advantage to have someone onboard who knows a lot about the surface already. We will be fighting hard again and hopefully we can get a top-five result in this rally."
Matthew Wilson meanwhile will be in the 'third' Stobart Ford entry in Jordan and like Henning he is after points.
The Englishman will also want a good result to boost his confidence ahead of Rally d'Italia-Sardegna, the next round in the WRC, when he will be competing for manufacturers' points, with Henning set to 'guest' for the Munchi's squad again, like he did in Mexico.
"Jordan is shaping up to be quite a different event to what we have seen in recent times in the WRC," Matt continued.
"Both Scott [Martin – my co-driver] and I have been training quite hard for this event because looking at the forecast, temperatures could climb as high as 40 degrees which will mean over 50 in the cockpit of the rally car.
