Friday, 10th October 2008

Petter Solberg feeling satisfied and very positive after day 1 in France.

"We are in a close battle with Petter and Jari-Matti and considering we're in the same car as Petter and he's won this rally before, I can't complain," Atkinson added. "I think the set-up works ok and we had some good stages, but the last stage wasn't so good. We lost some time at the end of the stage where something changed. I was all over, using all the road.

"At one stage we were up to fourth, then with the problem at the end with not being able to carry the speed we dropped back to sixth. It's good to be able to fight though, and for sure it makes it more interesting during the day, but we want to be fighting for first..."

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