Acropolis: Subaru World Rally Team - After SS 13The Subaru team has shown that its Imprezas are able to fight at the top by keeping contact with the other leading men of the Acropolis Rally.
Chris Atkinson won two stages yesterday, Petter Solberg took one. Petter
was fastest on two more stages today at the halfway point.
Petter Solberg
"I'm really pleased to have won a couple of stages now; the car is improving all the time. The conditions are very tricky today and the first stage was especially bad. There were lots of bad rocks on the road and I was a little worried in the middle when I thought I had a puncture, but I carried on and it was okay. In the last kilometre I caught Chris and lost maybe five or six seconds in the dust but apart from that there have been no problems. The last few stages were fine, and the car was more fun to drive. From now on I'll be trying my best to catch Marcus and keep Sebastien behind me."
Chris Atkinson
"It's a bit frustrating that we had the puncture on SS10 because before that we were keeping the same speed as Loeb, and even though the feeling of the car wasn't ideal we were going at a really good pace. We dropped about 1m 50s when we lost the tyre but, on the positive side, we had a good indication of what we can do when the car is right. We took a few risks on the later stages and we're back up to fifth now. The plan is to maintain the position, keep trying hard, but not take so many risks. There's still a long way to go, so we'll see what happens."
Subaru World Rally Team
