“You might have been forgiven for anticipating an analogous efficiency to Portugal from us, however I’ve to say, I’m as impressed as I’ve ever been with the work the engineering crew and the drivers did between these two rallies.
“With no check, we had to make use of the instruments accessible to us to get the automotive’s set-up proper. These instruments have been simulations, information, instruments within the workshop, damper dynos, these form of issues. The blokes put collectively a program that mainly requested what can we do to be taught extra about this automotive, this tire and this driver; what’s the utmost you are able to do with out turning a wheel within the automotive? They usually did it. They got here up with 4 key objects that needed to be improved. And we delivered the components to create these 4 set-ups.
“They’re the objects throughout the set-up window: springs, dampers, weight distributions, these form of issues, that are typically tuned. What are the important thing objects they wanted to present efficiency, or extra drivability. What did they want? I believe Séb [Ogier] talked about it in one in every of his early interviews on this rally, the place he thanked the engineers for giving him a automotive with a a lot better stability.
“[In Portugal] We have been lacking the stability which allows the motive force to depend on the automotive doing what they need it to do, when they need it to do it – that’s truly obscure the way to enhance that, even with a check. It’s generally simple, once you’re operating a selected check street to make the stability higher for that street.
