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Saturday 4 August
SS14 Leustu 1 21.94 km
1 Sébastien Loeb/Daniel Elena (Citroen DS3 WRC)
´I was confident but I had a feeling of a rear left puncture.´
2 Mikko Hirvonen/Jarmo Lehtinen (Citroen DS3 WRC)
Hirvonen was excited by his performance. ´The first stage went so bad that I really had to try now. We flew so hard at the end that Loeb must also push. He is coming fast behind me.´
3 Jari-Matti Latvala/Miikka Anttila (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)
´This one went OK. You have to keep the pedal to the floor in Leustu all the time. There´s that one jump where a lot of crews have hurt their backs in the recent years.´
4 Petter Solberg/Chris Patterson (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)
´It was very tricky. I was careful in the big jump. We are trying.´
5 Ott Tänak/Kuldar Sikk (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)
´Some jumps are really long. I´m quite pleased with today´s driving.´
6 Evgeny Novikov/Denis Giraudet (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)
´Sometimes it´s good to drive first on the road because you can learn that way. We are checking our pacenotes and learning.´
7 Chris Atkinson/Stephane Prevot (Citroen DS3 WRC)
´It was very slippery. It´s hard to find the motivation and feel for the road. We hope to be quick in the afternoon.´
8 Thierry Neuville/Nicolas Gilsoul (Citroen DS3 WRC)
´We tried to find the reason for the noise but can´t quite figure out what it is.´ The noise is handicapping him.
10 Mads Östberg/Jonas Andersson (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)
´Quite OK. I had a big surprise: I had marked a small jump but it was a big one. I felt a bit weird after the jump.
12 Armindo Araújo/Miguel Ramalho (Mini John Cooper Works WRC)
´I have learnt a lot.´
14 Paulo Nobre/Edu Paula (Mini John Cooper Works WRC)
´Beautiful. I tried to accelerate, but it´s tricky. Fantastic, but not easy.´
15 Martin Prokop/Zdenek Hruza (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)
´We lost a bit of time because of Block. He had jumped too much but hopefully he´s OK.´
17 Jari Ketomaa/Mika Stenberg (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)
Their center diff broke yesterday, but they had had it fixed at the service. They are having problems with the diff again. ´Surkee was bad for us, but this went better. I softened the car a bit. A huge stage! Horrible jumps, but fabulous!´
18 Matti Rantanen/Mikko Lukka (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)
´A fine stage and great rallying. It was OK. We had a nice jump and landed softly. We are losing a lot in the slow sections.´
19 Sebastian Lindholm/Timo Hantunen (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)
Hantunen: ´We have kept to the middle of the road and enjoyed the good roads. Basti is a true professional, but the seven-year break affects, for sure.´
20 Sebastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia (Skoda Fabia S2000)
´Not bad, no pressure, taking pleasure and waiting for next year.´
21 Andreas Mikkelsen/Ola Floene (Skoda Fabia S2000)
´A clean run, clean stage, and not a big attack.´
32 Craig Breen/Paul Nagle (Ford Fiesta S2000)
´The setup is better. I need a lot of confidence.´
33 Per-Gunnar Andersson/Emil Axelsson (Proton Satria Neo S2000)
´I enjoyed it. The car is great and I have good confidence.´
34 Juha Salo/Marko Salminen (Proton Satria Neo S2000)
Salo had to change a puncture on the stage. ´We hit a stone. It was soon after the start so we had to change it.´
43 Ken Block/Alex Gelsomino (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)
Block has stopped at 2.7 kms. It appears he has had a long and rough jump and is out of the rally. The right front wheel is bent under the car.
49 Esapekka Lappi/Janne Ferm (Ford Fiesta S2000)
The window on the driver´s door has dropped down. ´We did not jump. That was a pretty awesome stage. I had a good night´s sleep and I felt great.
51 Jarkko Nikara/Petri Nikara (Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX)
´It went fine; it was a clean drive from us. We did not jump. We are taking it one stage at a time, and we have to dodge the stones. Our Evo 9 is working fine.´
53 Riku Tahko/Markus Soininen (Mini John Cooper Works WRC)
´It went OK but the time is bad. Not a perfect morning but it´s getting better. A WRC car requires a different driving style from what I thought - I have to squeeze quite hard.´
Julkaistu: 4.8.2012 10:53
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