Spend just five minutes with the Solberg family, and it’s almost impossible not to get caught up in their unadulterated and infectious passion for rallying. It’s very much a family affair for the Solbergs – Petter made the surname internationally renowned when he and Phil Mills took the famous blue-and-yellow factory Subaru to the world title in 2003. His wife Pernilla, daughter of Swedish rally great Per-Inge Walfridsson, was a rally driver of some repute competing on the world stage in 1990s, and their son Oliver is one of the World Rally Championship’s bright young talents.
There’s not much the Solbergs haven’t seen or experienced in rallying. And as the WRC enters