Why it's great to be back on the Monte
The WRC enjoys a traditional start to the season in 2012, having kicked off with the Monte Carlo Rally. David Evans is reporting from that most famous of rallies and tells of the atmosphere on the event and predicts what's to come from the stages
There's nothing to shake you from the closed-season slumber like a typical Monte morning. I got that on the opening day. With plenty to do, it was a pre-dawn start in Valence and man was it cold. And dark.
Yes, the Monte had definitely arrived.
Seeing new names on old cars and familiar faces in strange suits isn't something we've done too much of recently in the World Rally Championship, but this time around it seems there's more change than ever. Let's look at them more closely.
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