Quesnel: “Mikko is really strong”

Olivier Quesnel, interviewed by wrc.com in the service park, readily acknowledged that Mikko Hirvonen (Ford Focus) had won the race. The director of Citroën Racing knows that the Finn can no longer be joined by Sébastien Loeb. " Mikko is really very strong, we can only recognize that he is better than us today, confesses Quesnel. Congratulations to him. From now on, we will try to finish with Seb in second place, and fourth for Dani (Sordo). It's like that. You can't win every time. »

Besides the fact that Mikko Hirvonen is extremely motivated to take control of the world championship, Olivier Quesnel recalls that it is very difficult to beat a Finn on snowy roads. “ We are in Sweden. In the last twenty years, only one non-Scandinavian driver has won here. It was Seb. He was a little lucky at the time. In any case, here we tried but we understood that Mikko is really very strong. »