Subaru unhappy with Rally Catalunya

Subaru sporting director, Luis Moya has admitted that they have a lot of hard work to do, if they are to improve their competitiveness on asphalt.

Subaru have had a tough start to the 2006 season and while there seemed to be ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ in Mexico, when Petter Solberg was battling for the win, that event was on gravel. Since the start of the Rally Catalunya on Friday, the Impreza’s have failed to match the pace of the lead Ford’s or the Kronos Racing ran Xsara’s and they finished the second leg seventh, eighth and twelfth, way down the leaderboard and over 3.5 minutes off the battle for the lead.

“We need to work very hard as a team together with Pirelli to improve our performance in these asphalt conditions. For tomorrow we will focus on finding a solution and improving on today’s position and work towards a strong result in Corsica [the next event, which is also on asphalt].”