EVANS TURNS TO THE TOP FOR NEW ZEALAND ADVICE
Elfyn Evans will turn to his Toyota team boss Jari-Matti Latvala and outgoing World champion team-mate Sebastien Ogier for advice when he makes his Rally New Zealand debut today (Thursday).
Latvala contested the last Rally New Zealand to count for WRC points in 2012, the year Evans claimed the WRC Academy title, while Ogier made his only appearance on the Auckland-based event in 2010.
Evans said: “It’s never easy to prepare for a new event like this, particularly because we’re not able to test outside Europe, but within the team we do at least have some previous experience from New Zealand, not least from Jari-Matti and Seb. We’ve also been having a look through the archives for old videos of the stages just to get an idea of what we’re likely to face.”
Evans can also count on co-driver Scott Martin’s Rally New Zealand experience, which amounts to two starts.