Federico Villagra meanwhile will drive the sister car and he will have regular co-driver Jorge Pérez Companc, who missed the last round for 'personal reasons', calling the pace-notes again. Furthermore, despite failing to score in Sardinia and Greece, 'Coyote' has been pleased with his form on those rounds.
"Apart from our broken suspension on day 2 in Greece, the last few events have went really well for us and it has been a great learning experience to have them all together with not much space in between," he continued.
"It makes it easier for me to learn and transfer the feeling with the car from one rally to the next. With this in mind I would say we are quite confident going to Turkey.
"We did the event in 2005 but this time the circumstances are much different and we won't be able to push too hard from the start. We need to build the speed up over the rally, not make any mistakes and hopefully collect more points for me and the team. It would be great to stay inside the drivers' championship top-10 after the first half of the year."
Suzuki WRT:
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Toni Gardemeister, car #11 and Per-Gunnar Andersson, car #12]
Suzuki: Turkey is an excellent opportunity.
Suzuki boss Nobuhiro Tajima has said that the aim this weekend in Turkey will be again to get both cars to the finish in the points and build on what was achieved in Greece.
Toni Gardemeister and Per-Gunnar Andersson gave the Paris-based squad its first two-car finish with the SX4 WRC on the Acropolis Rally two weeks ago and the target now is to consolidate that speed and reliability to go into the summer break on a positive note.
Turkey is very similar in nature to the Acropolis and as such the car will start off with the same base set-up. Some modifications have been made however, including adjustments to the suspension and dampers, as well as alterations to the cars cooling system to deal with the expected high temperatures more efficiently. In addition
Suzuki's engineers have recently upgraded the SX4 WRC's underbody protection.
