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Friday 3 August
SS10 Palsankylä 2 13.92 km

1 Sébastien Loeb/Daniel Elena (Citroen DS3 WRC)
´The grip is OK, stage is rough, sometimes big ruts. I was a bit careful. A tricky stage.
Hopefully less ruts on the next one.´

2 Mikko Hirvonen/Jarmo Lehtinen (Citroen DS3 WRC)
´The fight is on. Quite happy. I will keep on pushing.´

3 Jari-Matti Latvala/Miikka Anttila (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)
´Loeb is driving amazingly. I am happy with the car - feels very difficult to get any closer to him. We need to get to the finish.´

4 Petter Solberg/Chris Patterson (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)
´I enjoyed it but lost a bit of time. I didn´t have problems, though.´

5 Ott Tänak/Kuldar Sikk (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)
´We don´t have a spare tyre anymore since we used it in the previous stage. So we can´t push now.´

8 Thierry Neuville/Nicolas Gilsoul (Citroen DS3 WRC)
´There´s a very hard noise - I can´t really hear the pacenotes.´ The left front of the car is making a noise.

10 Mads Östberg/Jonas Andersson (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)
´A really bad noise from the left rear tyre. I can´t use the handbrake; it´s not working. We have to check the cause of the noise.´

12 Armindo Araújo/Miguel Ramalho (Mini John Cooper Works WRC)
We changed some clicks on the dampers. We are also making some changes to pacenotes.´

14 Paulo Nobre/Edu Paula (Mini John Cooper Works WRC)
Nobre went out into a fish pond.

15 Martin Prokop/Zdenek Hruza (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)
´Much easier since I can see the lines. Very rough, sometimes stopping in the rough places.´

17 Jari Ketomaa/Mika Stenberg (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)
´It was perfect - went OK.´

18 Matti Rantanen/Mikko Lukka (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)
´I am quite happy, really careful on the smaller road as I don´t want to end up in the woods and break the car.´

19 Sebastian Lindholm/Timo Hantunen (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)
´I´m surprised the conditions are not so bad, no drama there.´

20 Sebastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia (Skoda Fabia S2000)
´We were a bit lucky but we must be careful. Otherwise we´ll destroy everything.´

21 Andreas Mikkelsen/Ola Floene (Skoda Fabia S2000)
Mikkelsen´s car is reported being stopped at a junction.

32 Craig Breen/Paul Nagle (Ford Fiesta S2000)
´Very rough places but it´s hard to know where those places are. I never thought I´d be in this position.´

33 Per-Gunnar Andersson/Emil Axelsson (Proton Satria Neo S2000)
´Lankamaa was better for us.´

34 Juha Salo/Marko Salminen (Proton Satria Neo S2000)
´I tried to drive nicely and carefully. I must drive to the finish and not destroy the car.´

43 Ken Block/Alex Gelsomino (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)
The left rear wheel is full of sand. ´Amazing, some of the most amazing roads I´ve ever driven. I was able to increase speed. The car is working well. Having a blast. I´m enjoying this, wish I was quicker. My goal is to keep it on the road.´

53 Riku Tahko/Markus Soininen (Mini John Cooper Works WRC)
´We were quite steady there, went in the middle of the road, didn´t want to risk having a puncture.

Julkaistu: 3.8.2012 18:40

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