Henning targets Saturday return

After his earlier altercation with a pick up truck forced his retirement from today’s competition, Henning Solberg says he hopes to restart the rally on Saturday.

Henning Solberg said: “We went to pass a vehicle which had stopped by the side of the road and it pulled straight out right in front of us. I didn’t have any chance to do anything. My car was bent at the side and at the front. Sometimes things like this can happen, but it’s very bad. We should be able to SuperRally tomorrow, but there’s no chance of a good result now - I can’t take five minutes out of everybody on every stage tomorrow....”

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Mario Isola, Pirelli’s tyre manager, said: “Today has been a huge challenge but it seems the tyres are lasting well, so we’re quite happy. The forecast is for rain this afternoon - it will be interesting if it happens. The stages this afternoon are going to be dirtier and it’s likely there will be stones are rocks about too so punctures could be a problem.”

Petter Solberg’s co-driver Phil Mills said: “We’re understeering and oversteering like a pig and the car handles like a donkey with three legs. Yes the situation is the same for everybody but you have to ask what’s going on when we’re driving stages like this on gravel tyres. It’s ridiculous. You turn the wheel and nothing happens because the tyres are folding under the cars. Can you imagine Lewis Hamilton going out onto the circuit with knobbly tyres?”

Source:
http://www.wrc.com