DARLINGTON rally driver Guy Wilks completed a successful test in Sardinia ahead of the Brazilian Rally next week.
Wilks, who drives for Skoda UK Motorsport in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, completed two days of driving prior to leaving for the Rally Internacional de Curitiba.
Wilks, who covered 180km in his Fabia S2000, said: "The team did really well to find a 4km section of road in Europe that was very fast, flat and full of crests - just like we're going to face in Brazil."
"We were lucky that it stayed dry, although on Saturday it was just eight degrees centigrade with a 45kph wind and on Sunday it was 14 degrees centigrade.
It's going to be significantly hotter in Brazil next week, so at the rally shakedown we'll concentrate on fine-tuning the set-up for the higher temperatures."
Skoda UK Motorsport team manager Pierfrancesco Zanchi. "We worked on a lot of different solutions, including set-up and rear differential pre-load. Guy drove the car all day on Saturday and Sunday morning, and we were happy with what we achieved."
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