Solberg on a Focus WRC 08?

While he has just given up participating in the Rally from Australia, Petter Solberg is already working on another project for the end of the season. The Norwegian, who is competing in this year's World Rally Championship at the wheel of a 2006 specification Citroën WRC 08. ' Nothing is finalized yet but we should be able to do something different in Spain and Great Britain?, he says.

For Spain, if nothing is yet defined, it seems that the Norwegian has made progress on the Ford file for the Rally of Great Britain. “ I'm looking at different possibilities for Great Britain and the Focus is one of the options I'm considering. “, he explains on Autosport. “ If it happens, I will do it with the ambition of trying to win the rally, of course, that?s the objective. »

Winner four times in Great Britain between 2002 and 2005, Petter Solberg has not tasted the joys of the highest step of the podium since the 2005 Rally of Great Britain. A great host at the start of the season during which he signed two third places and two fourth places, the 2003 world champion regularly complains of a lack of power to be able to compete with his opponents. At the wheel of a Ford Focus RS WRC 08, he would then have a car with increased performance to finally hope to achieve his goal. “ Who cares about the car? what I want is to impose myself again! He concludes.