Subaru sporting director, Luis Moya has revealed that upcoming WRC star
Daniel Sordo is definitely on their list as a potential driver for the team - and that he could be apart of their line-up sooner or later.
Speaking to the official WRC website,
www.wrc.com, Moya added that he has been impressed with Sordo this season, since he stepped up from the
FIA Junior
World Rally Championship after winning it in 2005.
Indeed Dani has been pretty sensational thus far, taking two podiums in the third Kronos ran Xsara on asphalt in Spain and France, as well as finishing fourth on the gravel in Mexico and fifth in Argentina. Despite having only competed in six events with a WRC car, he currently lies third in the drivers' championship, with 24 points.
"Dani Sordo is a driver every team would like to have," Moya noted. "He is in our list and it would not do us any harm to include him in the Subaru
World Rally Team sooner or later.
"He is not 22 yet and he is already driving a world rally car full time, he is the Junior world champion, he has not crashed in almost two seasons - he is hardly erratic and in only his sixth gravel event he finished fourth in Mexico, not to mention his podium at his first asphalt rally at the wheel of the Xsara.
"We follow many drivers closely but he is a special case - and he could bring to any team some valuable experience. Apart from that, I have a friendship with his family as a fellow Spaniard."
If Subaru do want to sign Sordo it is uncertain where this would leave current drivers,
Petter Solberg and Chris Atkinson, unless they opted to run a third car on all the events in 2007.
Citroen meanwhile are also thought to be keen to recruit the Spaniard and it is believed that he could link-up with
Sebastien Loeb next year, when the French manufacturer is officially due to return to the sport with the all-new C4.
