Mikko Hirvonen:
"The weather is so unpredictable here. One moment it's dry and sunny, the next it can be pouring with rain. The tyre rules mean we only have hard or soft compound rubber from which to choose - basically a dry tyre and a wet weather option - which makes the choice easier. However, it has become more important to know when it will start raining, rather than how hard it will rain as we only have the one wet weather option anyway. On the second day we have to choose tyres more than three hours before the final test in the loop so if rain is forecast, the team needs to predict when it will arrive so we can choose the correct rubber. Pirelli's tyres work well on the Focus RS WRC in light rain, but I've not experienced heavy rain yet so I wouldn't feel quite so comfortable in those conditions.
"I like competing on consecutive weekends because it's easy to slot into the driving style required for asphalt having just finished a rally on the same surface. This rally is much slower than Spain. It's more twisty, with corner after corner. Although some roads have been resurfaced in recent years to make them smoother, there are still many bumpy sections with broken asphalt which is abrasive for tyres. It's tough, but I enjoy Corsica because it's the classic asphalt rally in the championship and more traditional than the other sealed surface events."
Francois Duval:
"Corsica's roads are twisty, abrasive and aggressive on tyres. It's important for a driver to have the same attacking attitude as in Spain, but to balance that with some caution. To attack too hard in Corsica can lead to mistakes, because the roads are so narrow that if a driver makes an error there isn't much room to correct it before hitting something. I had a really good test there before we went to the rally in Spain. I covered about 300km in a day-and-a-half.
