The Petter Solberg World Rally Team has been one of this year’s success stories, in much the same vein as Brawn GP in Formula 1 or the RML-run Racing Silverline team in the BTCC – though perhaps to a more modest extent.

For next year’s World Rally Championship, Solberg plans to stick with the Citroen C4 he recently got his hands on, if support from Citroen is forthcoming. But first he needs to secure a title sponsor. He told autosport.com:

“We are talking to lots of people and I’m sure one of them will come through, but without that title sponsor, nothing is going to happen. What about the AUTOSPORT World Rally Team? That would work!”

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the WRC without at least one Solberg brother would be very dull indeed. They’re about the only drivers with anything approaching a personality.