Subaru interested in Sordo

Sordo, the reigning junior world rally champion, has been a revelation in his first season driving a third Kronos Racing Citroen Xsara, finishing second in his home rally in Catalunya, only his fourth event in WRC machinery.

Sordo is still trying to arrange the necessary budget to complete the season with Kronos.

Moya, who is a family friend of countryman Sordo, has been impressed with his results this season.

"Dani Sordo is a driver every team would like to have," Moya told wrc.com. "He is on our list and it would not do us any harm to include him in the Subaru World Rally Team sooner or later.

"However, if some other team wants his services, they can go for him, of course. Sordo combines extraordinary features: he is 23, he is already driving a World Rally Car full-time, he is the junior world champion, he has not crashed in almost two seasons, he is hardly erratic and -in only his sixth gravel event- he finished fourth in Mexico, not to mention his podium at his first asphalt rally at the wheel of the Xsara."

Moya is still hopeful that their second driver, Australian Chris Atkinson, will repay the faith the team have put in him in the last few seasons with a strong result soon.

So far Atkinson has only scored one podium finish for the team, in last year's Rally Japan.

"We are waiting for a good overall result from Atkinson that might come soon," he added. "We do not need to push him because he is also sure he needs some success. Part of being a professional driver is to have the ability to cope with the pressure to perform."