UPDATED: RallySport Magazine December 2016

FIVE MINUTES WITH ....
5
minutes with ...
MOLLY TAYLOR
In her first year as a factory driver, Molly Taylor was hoping for a
top three finish in the ARC. She did better than that ....
First of all, congratulations on winning your first Australian title.
Has it all been a bit of a blur since the rally?
Thank you! Yes, to be honest none of it has sunken in yet.
It’s always been my dream, but I honestly didn’t expect it to
happen this year.
Your Subaru ran faultlessly all season, and you didn’t put a mark on
it - was your number one goal to be consistent all year?
This season was my first year as a factory driver and also
in an all-wheel-drive car, so my main focus was making sure I
did the very best job I was capable of.
After working for so long for an opportunity like this, it was
very important to me to grab this with both hands and put
everything into it.
I think running as the only Group N car in most events
actually forced us to concentrate on our own race and tick
every box we could as a team.
We knew we had a strong, reliable and well built car, so of
course we had to play to our strengths. The team, and what
we are all here to achieve, is so much bigger than me trying
to satisfy my ego on one stage, I am just one piece of a jigsaw
puzzle and it only works if we all fit together.
Presumably you were confident in yourself and your car heading into
Rally Australia, but did you ever let yourself look ahead and think what
could be on Sunday afternoon?
I didn’t want to entertain the idea of winning during Rally
Australia. Our plan was the same as every rally, to do what
we could to put ourselves in the best position possible, but
coming into the event I thought that if we could finish the
year in the top three it would have been a fantastic result for
our first season together.
I was so happy with the whole team’s performance during
the rally and how hard we all worked. Coming into the final
day I thought, whatever the result, we can be happy knowing
we have done the best job we could have.
Les Walkden (left) built a strong a
reliable car for Subaru.
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