The first leg of Rally Germany was full of contrasting affairs to the Subaru team. The tricky track, the reliable mechanical auto parts, the changing weather condition, the remarkable speed, along with the elusive podium finish.

Friday's route took crews northeast of Trier in the Mosel vineyard region. Leg one contains six special stages, totaling to 128.6 competitive kilometers, Supersport reported. While many in the stages are unchanged from previous years, some sections are actually re-surfaced, making grip levels unpredictable. Despite the reliability in the Subaru radiator and all other rally parts, it turned out hard for that team to arrive at the most goal.

Subaru World Rally Team managing director Richard Taylor said: "It's been each day of mixed fortunes for the team. We're really happy with the pace of all three cars for the asphalt, but the positions we hold on the end from the day don't truly reflect the performance and potential we've shown. Both Chris and Petter would are actually comfortably inside five, nevertheless they both paid heavily for small mistakes. After he went off around the second stage, Chris did a fantastic job today, running very strongly with the front from the field, and the fastest time on the last stage was deserved and needed.

Petter's day started very well, though the steering damage caused by the rock on SS4 dropped him towards the budget in the top 10. Apart from a couple of spins plus a faulty handbrake, Xevi has had an excellent day. Overall we are able to be happy about the pace that we've shown. It's encouraging for your rest with the weekend," Taylor added.

"Our pace this morning was good and the car was handling well. It is very good on asphalt; an absolutely different car. Unfortunately, I got into a hairpin during SS5 thus hitting a rock using the inside wheel which damaged the steering. There was nothing we will caused by fix it until we returned to service and it absolutely was very difficult they are driving, so that meant we lost time inside the last two stages which are the longest of the day, explained Petter Solberg.

The car felt good today. I'm building my confidence backup; in the start in the day I didn't feel totally right, but towards the end, it's actually a great feeling in order to complete a final stage fastest. We've had the awesome pace today and thus being fastest doesn't come as being a astonish, it is simply a waste that I made a mistake, and I'm sorry to the whole team. I really think we're able to are actually fighting for the podium here. It's very encouraging for all of us and shows how quick we can be on asphalt, said Chris Atkinson."

Xevi Pons has this to say: "Today was overall a great day since there were instances when we really showed our pace. It was an arduous day as it had been my first competitive outing on asphalt with all the team, as well as the stages listed here are tricky."

Despite only you get one of the three cars to the finish for the Rallye Deutschland, Taylor had been happy about case, reported Yahoo! Eurosport.

We can easily go on towards the following three asphalt rallies certain that we are able to be very competitive there. It's a reflection coming from all the hard team-work that we have been doing in the last several months, and overall we are able to come away from this weekend with a positive feeling and appearance forward towards the rest of the season, Taylor summed-up.