"I've been quickest there in the past, so it wouldn't necessarily be a surprise to do that again, but the feeling in the car was nice." Meeke added.

"There are no points for shakedown, which is a bit of a bastard given that I've been quickest on three of them this year.

"But still, this rally is going to be won by the driver who has the complete package. That means being comfortable in the car and having a real flow with the notes, the new notes from the new stages; it's about being the driver who had the clean recce and can interpret what they've found on the recce best.

"It's not about the driver who was quickest down a short blast of a stage. I have confidence and now I have to use it."

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