While the rest of the World Rally Championship takes a week out of competition this weekend, Thierry Neuville will enter the Tampereen Lattiamestarit Rally ahead of Rally Finland.
The Saturday July 25 event, based near Tampere around 100 miles from Jyväsyklä, will provide the Hyundai driver 30 miles of stages to further test ahead of next week’s WRC counter.
“We need more grip on first pass conditions,” Neuville, who finished at last weekend’s Rally Estonia, told DirtFish.
“I need more trust and to have more consistent balance as well on the first pass. Second pass is fine.”
Neuville struggled in the ruts during Rally Estonia, but that shouldn’t be a problem next week.
“On a first pass condition there are no ruts, and in Finland they are very rare as well,” he explained. “So yeah I mean the grip should be higher in general, but I feel like we need to do a good job this weekend to find something to improve the car.”