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"I feel pretty good against Spain. We did not have a perfect start to the season, but the feeling has recently been getting better, so I hope that I can continue to improve," said Tanak, will be new to some of the tests. "The tarmac stages are really nice to drive - smooth roads, where you can pick up a lot of speed, the gravel sections are something else -.. They are much narrower with a mix of fast and slow sections"
The mixture of gravel and asphalt sections of the 25-year-old described as challenging. "We need to both surfaces to find the right setup for the car and it will not be as easy to get back into the rhythm, going from one surface to the other changes - but that's part of the challenge and I look forward to" he graduated.
Powell soon be a movie star?
Tänaks teammate will be when running around as usual not Salou Evgeny Novikov, as it competes under an agreement with the tire manufacturer DMACK for Autotek. Instead, take John Powell and co-driver Michael Fennell the second M-Sport Fiesta RS WRC. For both it is the first appearance in a WRC race, Powell also can hardly boast experience on tarmac. The length of the tests, for the man from Trinidad and Tobago is a challenge. Therefore, it is for him primarily about gaining as much experience as possible.
"This will be my first WRC event, so I think it is fair to say that I'm pretty nervous," admitted Powell. "We're not thinking too hard about what we should expect. We just hope that we make a couple of good experiences and arrive at the destination in one piece." Powell is the first member of his country, taking part in a WRC-run and is reminded why a legendary team that made many years ago for attention.
"I was this week at M-Sport, and we talked a lot about a certain Jamaican Bobmannschaft. Nobody would have thought that there would be a Bobmannschaft from Jamaica, and who would have thought that there would be one day a WRC pilots from Trinidad and Tobago would ", alluding to the legendary combo of the Caribbean island, which took part in the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988. "The Bobmannschaft has landed on the very last place, but they had a great time there and they made a pretty big impression on the sport Maybe we can do that same -.. And maybe one day make a film about us"
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