Q. What about the damper situation? The whole world knew what the problem was with the car, but you weren't allowed to talk about it. That must have been tough?
Chris Atkinson: Everybody knew. Everybody who watched the car from the outside knew that something wasn't right, you could see that from the TV. Whether that was the main problem with the car, there's a fair chance.
When Petter and I do stage times within a second and we both knew how hard we were pushing, flat-out everywhere, to get those results and then, all of a sudden, we were a minute slower than everybody. I mean, f***ing hell, it's not like you've forgotten how to drive.
It was so slow, it wasn't even funny. You couldn't have tried to drive that slowly. And then you change certain components on the car and you'd be going again. It's a shame, we were developing new dampers for 2009 and I only got to test them once before the World Rally Team ended and, I think, that's as much driving as they got.
På tide noen bekrefter det vi alltid visste. Dog er jeg ikke sikker på at demperne alene var problemet.
