Pressure off Breen in Spain test

Craig Breen. Photo: Roni Rekomaa/Getty Images

Craig Breen heads into this weekend's Rally de Espana buoyed by the last week's announcement of his promotion to a Citroen works drive for the next two years.

The Waterford racer heads to the holiday resort of Salou for his fifth outing behind the wheel of a Citroen DS3 WRC having already scored his first WRC podium finish in Finland this summer and finishing in fifth place in Corsica two weeks ago. This is a happy hunting ground for Breen. It is the rally where he scored his first points in the WRC and in 2012 he finished sixth overall driving a Super 2000 car to clinch the SWRC title.