How did the Citroen C4 WRC drive come about?
The original plan had been to run an S2000 car in the PWRC again for ’09 but there was interest from teams who had seen how much progress we’d made with Evgeny in such a short amount of time and all the advice was to get him into a WRC car as soon as possible. So Evgeny tested both the C4 and Focus before Rally GB (unfortunately I was in Dubai with the Abu Dhabi guys and had to miss it) and both he and the Citroen team were impressed enough with each other to put this deal together. What’s the program? Which events will you be doing? We’re confirmed to run in the eight European rounds of the WRC in the official Citroen Junior Team, so that will see us drive a C4 in Norway, Cyprus, Portugal, Sardinia, Greece, Poland, Spain and GB. Our own E-art team have then also put together a programme of up to five rounds of the Czech Championship to help build some tarmac experience. It’s a fantastic calendar of events that should all add up to both plenty of kilometres in the seat, as well as a wi
