Rallying: Makinen seeking repeat
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Your support makes all the difference.Tommi Makinen, whose Argentina rally victory proved the turning point of last season and set him on course for the world title, has his sights on a repeat triumph.
"After last year's result, I am looking forward to the event very much. I think it will be very good for our car," he said ahead of today's start of the seventh round of the championship.
It marks the half-way stage of the season, with a course through the high-altitude mountain regions of the Andes.
Makinen, who was forced to withdraw from the previous round in Corsica after a bizarre accident when he hit a cow, leads the standings by two points from Britain's Colin McRae. Carlos Sainz of Spain is joint third with the part-time Italian driver Piero Liatti.
For McRae, the Argentina event is a return to the scene of his most disappointing outing last season. He was fined after colliding with spectators in a service area. But after a stirring victory in Corsica two weeks ago, the Subaru driver is eager for the victory that would give him the world championship lead.
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