The son of 2003 WRC champion Petter Solberg will as soon as extra pressure a 2C Competition Hyundai Motorsport i20 Coupe after impressing on his design to seventh all the absolute top contrivance by his debut urge with the group at February’s Arctic Rally Finland.
Riding alongside stand-in co-driver Sebastian Marshall, the pair position a string of like a flash stage instances.
This is able to presumably well per chance be the second time Solberg has began Rally Italia Sardegna, which is basically based entirely out of Olbia and takes position from June 3-6. Final October, on the wheel of a Skoda Fabia Rally2 evo, he carried out sixth in WRC3 after a puncture, and a costly error on the ‘Turgu’ stage, ended his victory hopes on the Italian island.
As fragment of his programme for the 2021 season, the 19-year-former will spearhead Hyundai Motorsport’s WRC2 assault and plan pick appearances in the 2C Competition-urge supermini.
“It is impossible to be serve in the Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC all over again,” mentioned Solberg.
“The Arctic [Rally Finland] appears like a actually prolonged time previously now and ever since I stepped out of the auto on the stay of that rally, I’ve been entirely desirous to salvage serve in it.
“I know Sardinia’s going to be a mighty tournament — I take into account this from closing year. The correct thing is that I truly indulge in some files of the tournament. OK, there are some unique roads which one of the famous guys would possibly presumably well need carried out, but I truly indulge in some concept of what’s coming. And, after Arctic, I truly indulge in a terribly appropriate concept of what the auto is like.
“This would possibly be a tiny bit of bit diverse on the gravel, but the loose-surface position-up is no longer so entirely diverse,” he added. “The aim for me is appropriate the identical discover it irresistible turned into in Finland — to plan as powerful journey as that you simply would possibly presumably well per chance think.
“Sardinia’s a groovy position. When I turned into there in October, I truly enjoyed the roads and we had been ready to position a soft appropriate hunch there in the R5 automobile we had been the utilization of closing year.
“I made a dinky, dinky mistake there closing year, which keep me the probability to attain first R5 automobile and eighth total — but I learned one other lesson on that stage.”
Solberg and his co-riding teammate Aaron Johnston return to action on subsequent week’s Rally Portugal the place they’ll start up their WRC2 assault precise. This is able to presumably well per chance be the first time that either has began the Matosinhos-basically based entirely counter.
