Monday, 13th October 2008

Two fifth place finishes in space of two weekends for Petter Solberg.

Atkinson meanwhile was also pretty pleased with his form: "We had a good start and we were fighting with Jari-Matti and Petter but then we had a puncture which lost us time," he continued.

"Once we had the puncture and I was down I just took it quite safe and easy. In the end I could have pushed for the last day and a half and I might have beaten Petter after his two punctures, but you can never know that and we might have got a puncture anyway so that's life.

"It's been a good weekend though as we were on Petter's pace before the puncture yesterday. I've driven a good rally and it's good to get some points. I think Petter and I are pretty close on tarmac at the moment. He's got an extra point or two out of these last two rallies but we've had a little bit of bad luck. I think we are both pushing quite hard."

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