DING, DING! Seconds out for round three!

The Peugeot UK rally team is in Corsica for round three of the 2011 Intercontinental Rally Challenge.

It’s our third start in the Peugeot UK 207 S2000 and we’re seeded as car No3.

So let’s hope it’s third time lucky...because we are here to WIN!!!

We had a two-day test after Canarias and I’m feeling more and more confident with every mile.

We’ve made some set-up changes to suit my driving style at high-speed.

And let me tell you, this Peugeot is a proper pocket rocket!!

Oddly, this will be the first time I’ve competed on the Tour de Corse - which is famous for being the ‘rally of 10,000 corners’.

I’ve been lucky enough to compete all over the world, but never on this beautiful French island.

I did do the recce once though, back in 2001 with the late Rob Arthur.

We arrived here on Sunday and Phil (Pugh, my co-driver) and I got straight to work preparing for the recce - fitting an in-car camera and having a ride out to check out the nature of the roads.

It’s a lot more technical than round two in Canarias.

Very intense!!! Very challenging!!! With lots of surface changes - broken tarmac, new tarmac, bits of gravel, all on the same stage.

We started the recce at 5am on Monday - three passess of three stages to check the pacenotes - and we didn’t get back until late evening.

We doing some more stages today (Tuesday), then the pre-rally shakedown, then more recce!!!

Busy. Busy. Busy.

But like all things in life. Good preparation = good results = good times!!!

I promise you one thing. We’re going to be on it this weekend. We need IRC points and I’d love to add my name to winner’s list on such a famous rally.

So remember to tune in - six of the stages are being screened live on Eurosport!

Beep! Beep!

Guy