This German territory offers us a very tricky rally, indeed. Lets wait and see, how we get it going on Friday morning. I have got some nice memories from last year – a good general feeling and my first ever P1 time from the last special stage downtown Trier.

Obviously, I’m very much looking forward the start this rally again. We have been improving this year from our debut season in different rallies. That is the target once again: to finish the rally without loosing too much time with silly mistakes.

The closer the front you are able to go to the special stages, the better it is here. If you end up to start your turn much behind, the roads are getting dirtier and dirtier, so you loose a lot of time just because of that.

After some rallies on gravel, this is now the first tarmac challenge for these cars. It’s difficult to say beforehand, how good the car on tarmac, but according to the test and the shakedown on Thursday, it should be ok.

We had a test after Rally Finland. It could have been a little bit more. We have a lot of things to try, and obviously, you cannot do too much in one and half day. Now, we have to test more here, too.

Well, the second time is always easier to do than the first attempt. They have not been changing the route too much. The longest and roughest part is some ten k1’s shorter, but it’s still 35 kilometres. That is something a take with all shakes and vibrations to your whole body tied tightly down in cockpit.

Last year we had a nice, solid rally until the last day. Then we had some easy mistakes and lost positions. Still it was one of the best rally during the last season.

Now the aim is to improve and get timewise closer to the front runners – like we managed to do in Finland, too.

Let’s hope the weather stays good. It would be so much nicer to go on try road, while we haven’t had a single test on wet with this car. All in all, these roads will be very slippery, if there is water on.