Petter Solberg
Petter Solberg
Petter Solbergis a Norwegian professional rally and rallycross driver...
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth18 November 1974
CityAskim, Norway
changes fast few major notice problems second section small tried
Nothing really to report. We're going as fast as we can and had no major problems. We tried a few small changes to the set-up on the second section but didn't notice any significant improvement.
maybe points scholars-and-scholarship taking
It was better this afternoon. I think maybe I'm taking it too carefully, but I really want points here.
far proper
They are too far away now to give it a proper fight.
deserve good japan last main points three top track trying win
It's important not just for me, but the whole team. A lot of us have had a lot of sleepless nights. Everybody's been flat-out to get back on track again. We deserve more than this after what started in Japan last year. We're all trying everything to get a very good result. The win is the main thing, but points and the top three is the goal.
good hard today tried
I tried very hard today and it doesn't look very good actually,
again couple enjoy felt fighting good lead main next objective ourselves position pushed road today
Today it felt good to be fighting for the lead again - that's what we're here for, ... We pushed where we could, but the main objective was to get through cleanly and get a better road position for tomorrow's Leg. We've done that now and I think we'll be able to enjoy ourselves over the next couple of days!
afford carry relax
That said, I can't afford to relax as Sebastien (Loeb) is doing very well... I'm just going to carry on going as we are and keep the speed.
If the positioning is not there, its very difficult.
bad cut cylinders dropped engine running second third three time
Not perfect, but not bad times. On the second and third stages, the engine was running very warm, so it dropped to three cylinders and cut off the anti-lag from time to time.
advantage morning specials start
I had an advantage this morning (Friday) in my start position, but the specials 5 and 6 were very hard.
energy job maybe
If I had been in the job 22 years doing the same thing, maybe I would need a change, to do something different, to put energy into something else.
brakes car feels fine good happy hard however improved lost maybe next quite seconds seemed seven stage towards
I'm quite happy actually. The car feels good and we have improved many things. We lost maybe seven seconds towards the end of the first stage as it was hard on the brakes and they seemed to go off. However they seemed fine by the next stage.
car closer confidence
The car is getting better and better and I'm much closer to the confidence I had yesterday,
beef deserved final finished mind reasons understand won
The final leaderboard showed that I won the event, but in my mind I finished second, ... Sebastien deserved the win, but I can understand the reasons why he did what he did. But now we all have to keep going - it's what Beef would have wanted.