Subaru eyeing Argentina victory

Former world champion Solberg only has one podium finish so far in 2006 and lies a distant fifth in the championship. However, his team believe that the pace he showed on gravel proves that he will be a contender.

Solberg was a threat in the Mexico round in March, which has a similar surface to this weekend's Argentinean event, and only lost touch of eventual winner Sebastien Loeb when his Impreza's power steering failed and he clipped a rock.

"We believe we'll be competitive against Sebastien and Marcus [Gronholm]," said sporting director Luis Moya. "We demonstrated in Mexico that we're right on the pace and are more than capable of fighting for the lead.

"It will probably be one of the toughest starts to any rally this year, but we're going to Argentina looking for the win for Petter and a high finish for Chris [Atkinson].

"The next three events will be key to the 2006 championship and we'll go to each of them with every intention of winning."

Solberg has vowed to push as hard as possible for victory.

He said: "There will not be any excuses in Argentina. There won't be any sitting back for anyone and I'm going to go for maximum attack from the start. There's no strategy for this event other than this - we