 The excitement continued yesterday with the rally show and also the ceremonial start here at Coats High Rally Australia. The chance for the fans and the rally enthusiasts to get up close and personal with the WRC stars, but also our East Coast Bullbars Australian Rally Championship teams. Great atmosphere there, of course at the ceremonial start as well being flagged away to officially open this year's event. The action gets underway this morning. Now the big question, would they be able to repair the Citroen of Eli Evans and Glenn Wesson after the STP and Armoured Power Stage crash in qualifying? The man himself is here, I can hear his car running. Let's see Eli Evans. The big question mate, it's fired up, how is the machine? I'm not sure yet, it's sitting here idling. I personally haven't driven it, but 3.30 last night, Ron the team manager took it for a drive and said it's driving straight. So that's what I can report so far, so that's a good start. 24 hours ago I wasn't confident that we'd be here, so credit to the team, all the boys. They've done a fantastic job. The team works a big thing and it's just proven here yet again that it's not only Glenn and myself in the car, it's the boys you got working on the car and it's not just what happened now, it's what's going to happen over the weekend. I suspect the car is going to have hopefully just niggly problems and we're going to have to be on it to get us through. My job now is where I was focusing on the rally yesterday morning, it's now focusing on getting to the first service, having a list of issues that may be arising and hopefully get them sorted, build our pace and hopefully by the end of the rally be a chance to win. Missing yesterday is no stress to us, as you can see Eli has already made a mistake on it so we're just going to start the rally fresh today, home and driven the car since Queensland, so first few stages definitely be just finding our feet again. Last year this time everything fell along with the car, so I'd be really happy if we just have a trouble before we run and I can have a push, that's where all I'm here for is to go as fast as I can. But there seems to be better momentum building with you and your team and Julie and everything else with this car and getting the speed and finding the sweet spot though? Yeah definitely, I've got in car from last year and I've got just that little bit of confidence that we were on going and that's with the times and we're not that far off the times, you just need to be pushing a bit harder on the bits on the course, quite sure about it. It's going to be a long weekend, it's been a long weekend preparation, the WRC has always had a big event from the day that it all starts on Monday so we're as prepared as we ever will be so now we just need to go and do it. Is this your first WRC in Australia though? It is, yeah which is a bit ironic because I was asked by a lot of people it's your home rally and well it's close to my home but it's the first time I've done it so it's actually a completely new event for me. Watching Molly tail head off, that means you're only a couple of minutes away from going yourself Adrian Comet just missed out on the power stage run yesterday, your first one you missed all year but you're still pretty happy with the way everything's leading up. Yeah it was a bit unfortunate yesterday, the weight panned out but look it's a long rally ahead and I'm like I'm really pumped actually I'm feeling really good about this weekend we've got a good set of notes and you know the combination between Aaron and I keeps getting better and better so this could be the rally Dino. Simon Evans and I know we'll be sitting there going I know we're really probably a real outside chance to win the championship but you know what Eli's already had issues, lots of points you're ready to bank a big weekend and try and bring yourself back into play aren't you? Yeah you know me too well do you? You said I've been trying to beat you before. Yeah look we're not out of the fight and it's only a couple of problems for the other guys and we're right back in it and you know look a podium is still a possibility champions should win it's a long shot but you know there's a long way to go.