"To succeed in the World Rally Championship is extremely tough, and Sardinia will play an important part in our development process."
Toni Gardemeister and Per-Gunnar Andersson meanwhile are also both pretty confident and the former continues to maintain that they can get more points with the SX4 WRC, assuming they have the required durability.
"The key to success for us will be achieving a good level of reliability," Toni confirmed. "If we can stay out of trouble, then I have absolutely no doubt that we can score points; even quite good points. That has to be the aim here."
P-G Andersson, who actually has more experience of this event than Gardemeister and who has competed on every Rally d'Italia since it joined the WRC in 2004, is also hopeful.
"I like this rally a lot," he added. "The main thing I think is to be very neat and precise, which I try to be all the time anyway. I'm feeling reasonably optimistic. We found out quite a few important things in Jordan which could hopefully make a difference for us in Sardinia. We'll certainly have a bit of an attack - that's why we're here after all!"
Junior WRC:
Round 3.
Sebastien Ogier has begun his
FIA Junior World Rally Championship campaign perfectly and with two wins from two the Frenchman leads the series by 9 points, with fellow
Citroen runner, Shaun Gallagher his closest challenger.
Ogier insists though, that he won't be pushing for win #3 this weekend and with all 17 Junior WRC runners nominating this event, it is sure to be especially competitive.
"This will be my first rally in Sardinia. I've got no real benchmark, and the few bits of information I have is just stuff I have read or been told about," he explained.
"But I'm heading into the event with a positive frame of mind. The stages will be quite slow and tough on the cars. It will be a question of looking after the car as well as the tyres in order to avoid punctures. At the start of the rally, our pace is sure to be quite careful.
