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The Belgian is still recovering from flu which prevented him from taking part in the second of two test days on the snow in Finland to prepare for his weekend’s second round of the WRC season.
Neuville was able to conduct one day of testing, but melting conditions didn’t provide an accurate representation for Sweden.
The illness meant teammate Craig Breen was handed an extra test day, while Esapekka Lappi was offered plenty of mileage thanks to Hyundai’s decision to field its new signing in a round of the Finnish Rally Championship last weekend.
Neuville says he has no major concerns heading into Rally Sweden following the lack of test miles, but admits he will have to rely on the set-up direction and feedback found by Breen and Lappi in testing.
“I had to skip my second day and the first day we had melting conditions so we had a s*** day and we had no second test day,” Neuville told Motorsport.com.
“I will have to rely on my teammates a …