Subaru's Petter Solberg and Mikko Hirvonen re-started Sunday's third and final day of Rally Finland after their retirements earlier in the event.

Although ineligible to score Championship points, they used the opportunity to demonstrate the winning pace of the Impreza WRC2004, increase their experience of the specialist gravel stages and carry out some useful test work. Petter was fastest through three of the day's four stages while Mikko was quickest on one.

Petter Solberg"There's not really much more to say about this event. I've enjoyed my driving today. Physically, I feel so much better, it's just too bad it didn't happen a little earlier."

Mikko Hirvonen"It's a shame about the mistake on Friday although I'm really happy with the pace I've set since then. It's always fun to drive these stages, they're an excellent challenge and being in my home country makes them even more special. They're stupidly fast from time to time, but it's difficult to describe the excellent feeling you get when you're driving. Next up is Germany and that's going to be my first proper tarmac rally with this car. But, no worries, the preparations have gone well and I can't wait to get there."

David Lapworth, Team Principal"I think what we've proved over the last two days is that our optimism before the rally was well-founded. Petter paid a heavy price for his small mistake on Friday and I can't help but feel that, if he hadn't been ill, it would have been a completely different story. Similarly Mikko has shown the pace that we were hoping for, although his weekend was ruined too by one small mistake. It's always disappointing for the team not to achieve the result we were looking for, but at least we go to the following events full of confidence and even more motivated to win."

Round ten of the sixteen-round 2004 FIA World Rally Championship starts in two weeks time, when teams travel to Germany for the WRC Rally Deutschland.