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Harri concentrates on testing the new car
Rovanperä won’t compete in Corsica and Catalonia, back to points hunt in Wales
At the end of September, Harri Rovanperä and Risto Pietiläinen took a
victory in the European Championship rally of Costa Smeralda, in Italy. A
Peugeot WRC 206 of Grifone team was reserved for him also for the
asphalt events of Corsica and Catalonia, but the increased number of
tests run with the new Peugeot 307 keep Rovanperä busy enough, and
he decided not to attend the next two rounds of the Mediterranean rim.
Originally, the two events were not included in his program of the season.
- Costa Smeralda is possibly going to be the Italian round of the World
Championship next year, and we have got acquainted with it now. We
have competed in Corsica and in Catalonia several times, but never with
a competitive WRC car, so driving it through with a customer car once
again wouldn’t have given us anything new, really. A works team car or a
newer version of a customer car were simply not available with such a
short notice.
Harri concentrates on testing the new car
- The most important thing now is to get ready for the season 2004, so we
are of course accepting all the extra opportunities for testing in order to
get to know our next year’s tool as thoroughly as possible, Rovanperä
emphasized.
- We drove our tests (with 206 WRC) for the rally of Wales in Great Britain
at the beginning of October, and we’ll start in the season’s final round
with our minds set on scoring the maximum points in the Manufacturers’
Championship, Harri Rovanperä assured.
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