Skoda Fabia S2000 rally car
Rally Argentina’s challenging gravel special stages are made famous by the unusually high number of river crossings that have to be negotiated, and Guy Wilks hopes to be walking on water when he attacks those watersplashes flat-out in his Škoda UK Motorsport Fabia S2000, in his quest for victory on Round 3 of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge (19-21 March).
Guy Wilks: “I’ve competed Rally Argentina once before, but in rallying terms, 2006 is a long time ago. Whilst I can remember the stages quite well, the conditions might have changed a lot. We’re going to go to a stage that’s not being used this year but was in 2006, to check our pace notes and see exactly what the situation is.
“In any case, the Škoda Fabia S2000 we’ll be driving this year is an awful lot quicker than the J-WRC car we competed in before, so the speeds will be significantly higher, the jumps higher and the watersplashes more hazardous, so in preparing for the event we have to take all of this into consideration.
“We want to try to win Rally Argentina. It’s never easy to win a rally, and that will be the case in Argentina because there will be a lot of high-quality opposition. All our main IRC rivals are there and the local star drivers will be fast, but it’s certainly our aim to win.”
We wish Guy all the very best of success for the upcoming rally stage in Argentina.
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