It struck me on the ride into work this morning that I now have another day each year I can receive gifts (father’s day)…..sweeet!

Seb is doing well. He’s eating normally most of the time, and he’s sleeping for 4 hours at a stretch at night, which means we’re getting at least 6 hours of sleep. No complaints there…there should be more pictures up in the next day or so…we’ve been staying at the in-laws, so I haven’t had a chance to get the images off the camera.

In other news….

Good news for Subaru. Petter Solberg has inked a three year contract with the team. Solberg is due to win a few rallies this year, and he will compete for the driver’s championship in the coming years. Interesting to note that Solberg would like Tommi Makinen to return for another year. Tommi has had bad luck with Subaru, retiring from many rallies he could have won, but his experience is invaluable to the team and to Petter. Remember last season when Petter won the Rally GB and gave a lot of credit to Makinen for his support of Petter on the final day.

The rule changes for next season (a team’s third points scoring driver in a rally must not have a rally win to his credit) should make for an interesting offseason. This rule obviously hurts Peugeot and Citroen, whose rosters are stacked with rally winners. I expect to see both Harri Rovanpera and Gilles Panizzi leave Peugeot for the opportunity for full season drives for other teams. Imagine if Gilles went to Skoda or Hyundia….suddenly they would be a contender. I wouldn’t be surprised if Subaru just promoted Toshiro Arai (as they did in 2001), as he’s had some strong results in a full factory car (4th in Greece in 2001).

Posted on 20 May 2003