“We have a list of things we want to test tomorrow,” Neuville confirmed. “There’s no midday service so we have to do the changes overnight to be able to test those tomorrow and give some more feedback.
“At the moment, it feels like we are coming back to what we drove with last year’s car. And it seems the only thing, the only direction which works.
“Obviously with that new car we wanted to find a balance, a good balance with the car which keeps the four wheels on the ground but obviously we are struggling with that, so we are coming back to what we have been driving with the old car.
“It’s not 100% the way we wanted to go with that car, but if we have to, we will.”
Fourmaux added: “I’m just feeling that we are a bit lacking days of testing with the evo car. And unfortunately we don’t really arrive prepared before the rallies. We get some technical issues before Central Europe, but then after that, you don’t have so many days left and you cannot test in Japan.
“So actually, then after, it’s difficult if you don’t get the best setup arriving to the rally, it’s really never easy to find [during] the rally. You cannot, like, do some miracles. So actually I think that’s the issue we’ve got. And that’s why I’ve just decided, now I have got a balance, I just drive. We’ll find the solution later on.”
That approach has worked so far at least.
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