Round seven of thirteen, Rally Italia Sardegna marks the halfway stage in this season’s WRC for Citroen. This challenging rally is packed with difficulties that Craig Breen – Scott Martin and Mads Østberg – Torstein Eriksen will be tackling in their C3 WRCs.
Pierre Budar, Citroen Racing Team Principal
“This event has a reputation for presenting the crews and their cars with a stern challenge every year. The aim will be to keep moving forward and get among the frontrunners. Craig has the potential to secure one of the minor places. He showed it again in Portugal by running third at one stage, just a few seconds off the lead. Meanwhile, Mads has already shown he is capable of fighting for a podium spot and he also has a lot of experience here, which will undoubtedly be useful to the team.”
Craig Breen
“This is one of the WRC rallies where I have the least experience. But fortunately, it hasn’t changed much since last year. And so I have most of the pace notes already. It’s not necessarily my favourite event, because it’s never easy to adopt a fluid driving style on these really narrow, technical stages. But I have a good road position in eighth in the running order because it’s one of the events where cleaning is most significant, so I’m going to try and make the most of it on the opening day.”
Mads Østberg
“It’s one of my favourite rallies. I’ve always been quick here. First of all, you need very good pace notes and then you need to find the right balance between pushing where you can and defending when there is a real risk of smashing the car. I learned a lot about the C3 WRC in Portugal and ended up by showing some pretty decent speed. The two days of pre-event testing held this week will help me to find the right pace, especially as I fully intend to take advantage of my good position in the running order.”
For this 7th episode of Little Big Racing by @Citroen, @Craig_Breen and @scottmartinat will have to overcome the clouds of dust and high temperatures to win at @Rally_d_Italia. See you on June 7-10, we’ll be live on Facebook for #C3WRCLive #WRC pic.twitter.com/L7ejk6iJY3
— Citroën Racing (@CitroenRacing) June 2, 2018
