Marcus Gronholm is looking forward to his WRC comeback at Rally Portugal following a successful pre-event test in his new Prodrive-prepared Subaru Impreza World Rally Car.
"I have the same feeling I had when I last drove competitively nearly 18 months ago," the Finn declared.
"The test was good, the car ran well and we made some improvements to the set up of the car," he explained. "All I have to do now is to remember how to make my pace notes!"
Gronholm on Thursday finished a 200-kilometre, two-day test in Spain near the Portuguese border in which he refined the set-up of his car, finalising the differential and suspension settings he will use for next week's Rally Portugal shakedown.
The car will now be transported to Faro, where Prodrive will rebuild and ready the car for the rally.
Prodrive will be running Gronholm alongside Mads Ostberg in the Adapta World Rally Team service area. Ostberg is also competing in a Prodrive Subaru Impreza WRC2008 at Rally Portugal. He shared today's second day of testing with Gronholm and has chosen a near identical set-up to the double World Rally Champion.
"We had a very good day of testing. I am really happy with the final set-up we achieved and I have good confidence in the car," reported Ostberg.
In addition to Ostberg, Prodrive will also be supporting 2006 Production World Rally Champion Nasser Al Attiyah, who is competing at Rally Portugal in the new Prodrive Impreza N2009 with the Barwa World Rally Team.
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It'll be interesting to see if Petter Solberg finishes ahead of Marcus Gronholm. After Petter's result in Cyprus, in a old Xsara, maybe they Subaru really was a dog of a car
I find this weird. Hollywood did all the work and then Gronholm gets a car. Is this a one off or what?
Curious to see how the Subaru's perform in Portugal. wonder if Gronholm wins Subaru will reverse their decision to withdraw from the WRC ?
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