source: ten-tenths.com by Kate Shaw in Toronto on July 11th
Alexandre Tagliani loves to come racing in Toronto, and it's clear the Canadian
crowd is happy to see him. Whenever he steps out into view, fans converge
from every direction and he does his best to oblige them all although he's
sometimes in grave danger of being trampled. As you can imagine, Tags'
schedule is frantic when he's in Canada, and I was fortunate to bag ten minutes
with him that he stole from his lunch time today (Friday).
Since the weather has been a mixture of pelting rain and bright sunshine, often
minutes apart, I asked him how the car was
running under these mixed conditions. "It's nuts," he said
frankly. "When it's like this, wet doesn't really mean wet - the guys are
going crazy changing this, changing that, trying to get the best setup for
whatever it's doing next. I'd rather have it rain hard for three days and
then you can put on a full wet setup and you know where you're going."
However, he said that he had no preference as to what the race conditions are on
Sunday; wet or dry, he believes he has the car to handle them well.
Many of the rules have been changed or are changing as the 2003 season goes
forward, some of them topics of heated debate among the fans. Tags was
definite that two of these rule changes ought to be made immediately: pit
windows must go and standing starts must come in.
Antoine L'Estage and his codriver Alan Ockwell of the Yokohama Canada Rally Team won the 2014 edition of the Rallye Defi by winning every stage of the rally.