 Hello and welcome to the 2015 East Coast Bullbars Australian Rally Championship. I'm Dean here. It's great to be with you this season. I'll be with you the whole five rounds of our exciting championship and you better keep up to date with all the news, the views and all the action on rally.com.au. This weekend of course is all about the Quit Forrest Rally. We're currently here in the glorious town and out on a fantastic day and plenty of action to come to you. This season is going to be full of excitement. Our outright category got champions coming back, Eli Evans and the brother Simon Evans, former champions here fighting out some young guns, Steve McKenzie, Molly Taylor takes over last year's championship winning car of Scott Petter to have a crack in our outright category. Four-wheel drives are back bigger than ever, former champ Justin Dowsback, Henry Knot, Mark Petter and a lot of locals here in Perth fighting out as that championship builds in stature. Our classics are back this year. Side by sides we'll start in Canberra our next round. But this weekend it all starts today, a bustling service park behind me lets go and get the news and the views of our drivers before they head out to our first gravel stage of the season. The rally starts here for me so gravel set up going in the car now from testing felt really good. I've only done 100 kilometres in the car total now so steep learning curve, I need to be realistic but I'm still going to try and win it. Is this, are you at all a little bit nervous? I mean this is, you're back to having to develop a car, you're really at one with the Honda when you ran there. This is a really new thing for you to be trying to develop a car on the run and you said limited time in the car, sort of a new part for you to play here. Yeah, look I'm excited about running the new car, the Citroen DS3, it's an awesome little package, developing it not really, it's a pretty proven car so we've just taken a few things from Citroen that information we've been given and I've just tweaked him slightly to suit myself but nervous about racing Simon, probably excited about the car nervous about Simon. I wouldn't want to be dad right now but look you know, Eli's a fantastic driver and I think you'll see him shine out there on the gravel and you know I think that's what makes me want to beat him as well so you know like when he's so good you know it's a real challenge and he's at the top of his game so yeah I'm looking forward to this. To be honest we just want to get through that first stage, it's a nice short little blast and 26km long and then you've got the 26km of Ferndale so that's the stage where it's going to make or break the rally, that one. It's really a baptism of fire as you're saying traditionally Ferndale on that sort of stage we see lots of attrition, cars have an issue so it's getting through, it's a pretty important part of just building your weekend and trying to gain the more points. Yeah absolutely, you know I'm taking an educated guess, I'm going with hard compounds on the front so I'm figuring we're going to get lots of wheel spin and we're going to be frying tyres so I'm going to just do the best I can with what we've got and we'll take a one corner at a time. Former champ mate great to have you back and I reckon you're going to have a great battle this weekend with plenty of different cars. Yeah I hope so, you know there's a couple of new guys that are fairly quick so it's not going to be all our way but we're going to try our best. What do you find that you like about the West Australian roads and also what do you find the thing you have to concentrate the most on that you struggle with maybe? Definitely the grip you know it's once the road sweep up it's alright but that first pass especially you know being car one, two or three on the road is particularly hard. Unfortunately the Maxi car didn't arrive in time, there was just some drawings with import paperwork out of Argentina but yeah not a bad backup is it to have JD lend me the Polo for the weekend so yeah I've done a few events in that last year as you know but yeah great little fun car so yeah we should have it blast on these roads. So tell me are we softly, softly break ourselves in or were we going for a straight off? No I don't like the softly softly bit that's no fun no look you know we just need to get in it get a good rhythm as soon as we can it's you know coming from doing the WRC's we got three days you know long 350k's this is effectively a short rally it's a sprint so we have to you know be pushing out of the box and I think that's the only way to get a good feeling.