"Big points haul vital" says Nagle

2009 IRC Champion co-driver Paul Nagle says a big points haul is vital on the forthcoming Rally d'Italia-Sardegna is they want to retain the IRC title.

A crash in Monte Carlo, steering failure in Argentina & a puncture on the Rally Islas Canarias, which demoted Meeke to fourth, have delt a serious blow to the Irish pairing's Champioship aspirations.

“Sardinia will probably be the biggest field of the year so far. We’ll be doing a gravel test sometime in the next two weeks and we've simply got to get everything right ahead of Sardinia because we need a big, big result. It’s vital.” says Nagle

Meeke & Nagle are 17 points behind Skoda's Juho Hanninen & Peugeot are 31 points behind Skoda in their respective Championships.