Jost Capito i pressekonferanse

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FIA Supermag Rally Italia - Sardinia

FIA Pre-event Press Conference

28.04.2005

 

Present:

Joan Sureda - Skoda

Jost Capito - Ford

Gigi Galli - Mitsubishi

Francois Duval - Citroen

Marcus Gronholm - Peugeot

Petter Solberg - Subaru

 

Når toppboss for Ford Team RS sitter ved mikken er det for å snakke rallyjern, og da Focus WRC 2006 og Fiesta JWRC.

Kutter derfor all blabla.. fra de andre deltagerene 2 av dem er jo allerede ute, og klipper det viktige som betyr noe her

 

Q: Hello Jost. You are here with four cars, while back at base the team is working on the all-new Focus for 2006. How is progress with the new car and when do you expect to run it? Do you think it will have a debut before the end of the year?

JC: It’s getting well developed. We concentrate very much on design and CAD to get this very detailed, so we don’t have to re-design. We are very close to producing and manufacturing the first parts. We expect to run it in September or October. It’s too early to say when we will run this year. We want a proper development programme and we have to do this before we decide about a rally. In principle it’s good to have rallies before WRC. This allows us experience in competition, so fingers crossed we can do some rallies before next year.

 

Q: Sardinia is also a round of the Junior World Rally Championship, but there is no Super 1600 Fiesta here. When do you think we will see it out on a JWRC round again and what are thew latest developments with the car?

JC: At the end of last year the S1600 programme was handed to M-Sport. The car was developed further. The car was homologated on April 1 and did a rally in Turkey the week after. Now we have the full homologation and the teams who have the car from last year have the uprated parts. I hope we will see the car on JWRC soon, but at the same time we want to see it more in national championships – it’s well developed for those.

 

Q: Some people said that Ford’s driver line-up was a brave choice at the start of the year. Now that a quarter of the season has passed, what are your thoughts on the decision? Will Ford be looking for new drivers at the end of the season?

JC: We are still very happy with the decision. We had fantastic start, much better than we expected. We were leading both championships after the second round. On the last two rallies we had two crashed cars, but we are getting back to usual. If the two drivers develop the way we expect and the way we are seeing them develop, they will be our future. At the moment we are happy with progress, we have options next year, but if our current drivers take their chances then we have a great line-up for the new car.

 

 

 

 

Kunne gjerne ha stilt en Fiesta JWRC/Super 1600 i NM, men blir vel i overkant dyrt det.

www.forddesktops.com Fiesta JWRC bilder