The best we could have wished for after that moment [on day one] was to fight our way back up to third. Glenn [Patterson - my co-driver] and I are therefore delighted with our result which was made possible by our competitive, perfectly set-up, easy-to-drive car.

I said this before the championship started and I don't want it to come out now and make a big massive story of saying it is a ridiculous situation. I said it before the championship started that it makes mockery of it. Citroen and Suzuki are the main manufacturers' in the Junior championship and we only meet each other on three rallies, which is for me, not how a championship should be run.

I think that the end of the day a parent likes to sit down with their child and read with them,

With a young staff, that's what's going to happen. We could turn it around the next day or the next start but you don't know when that will be.

We're pretty evenly matched. On any given day it could go either way.

We really just do random acts of kindness. We pick up trash every day. We decorate a tree in the woods for every holiday.