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Clearly we should have checked the sporting and TV calendar before we booked our holiday - missing two rallies, one grand prix, and the starts of both Stephen Fry's and Simon Schama's TV series on America.
Still, I have today's action in Rally Catalunya to follow on the World Rally Radio. The boy Latvala is in charge of the music selection this weekend: some highly dubious 80s choices there. He's also been going round the service park interviewing fellow drivers - his interview with teammate Mikko Hirvonen was comedy gold. Smashing lads, both of them.

Predictably, Citroën have already building up quite a lead over the first 3 stages. Ford have improved a little after the midday service, though. The Citroën C4 WRC seems to be so much better on asphalt, whereas the Ford Focus and the C4 are fairly well matched on gravel. Andreas Mikkelsen, the young Norwegian who's being seen as the next big star of the WRC (by Marcus Grönholm among others), has had the chance to try out in a few cars before deciding where he'll go next season, and it was very interesting to hear what he had to say after testing the tarmac spec C4: basically it's so incredibly good that nothing else comes close. Mind you, Mikkelsen is doing very bloody well in his privately entered Ford Focus so far. Marcus knows what he's talking about, that's for sure.
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