76. PZM Rajd Polski - Rally Poland 2019
ERC #4 • ERC2 #4 • ERC3 #4 • ERC Ladies #4 • ERC1 Junior #4 • ERC3 Junior #4 • Poland #3 [coef 2] • Abarth Rally Cup #3 • Poland 2WD #3 [coef 2]
27. 6. – 30. 6. 2019, Mikołajki • Polski Związek Motorowy • gravel 201.42 km • total distance including road sections - 658.86 km • Other years
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SS15
I learned a lot. I'm really happy to be here, the conditions were tough, but I'm happy to finish.
"We had a puncture on the front. We learned a lot in this rally."
Very satisfied, lot of learning and good progress in the ERC3. I was working on the setup for the good feeling, sometimes it was good, sometimes bad. the car was working good, I'm happy.
I went absolutely flatout. I really wanted to beat Pedro, but now I just want to get home and take some relax. It is difficult rally when you don't know how to drive here. It was a great experience.
"We had a problem with RPM sensor so the engine was cutting. It was a difficult weekend."
"Great weekend in terms of development. We had a puncture and some issues, but we were enjoying it, it was a good step."
"It was gerat weekend. Difficult with ups and downs. Crazy rally, but we are happy to be here."
"We had good feeling, but on the last stage we had a puncture. But for us good result, it was first start in the ERC."
I'm really happy to be here. It was really rough stage.
We are on the finish, unfortunately we didn't keep our position today, but we are improving. It's rally.
Good, it's my first finish in the ERC.
"This result is very important for me. Difficult today to stay in the line, special thanks to all my team."
"Second place is OK for the championship. I would have better feeling with a new car. Or maybe with more prosecco."
"Great great result. We had a perfect weekend, we showed our speed, my codriver and the team were excellent. Really strong car. Let me send a kiss for my little children and wife and whole family who support us."
"Yes, superhappy, we had accident yesterday, but today was OK. Difficult rally, but I enjoyed it a lot."
I think we didn't start well, but the finish went well. For rallies like Poland it's needed to get experience to improve the paceonets nad so on.
"Everything happened this weekend. Really nice, really interesting. In rallies like Liepaja or Poland we would need more experience. But we had a lot of fun."
I'm feeling excellent, it was tough rally, really challenging.
I didn't give it everything, it was difficult to keep pushing all the time. In last couple of stages it was about survival. But it's important result for the championship. I'm happy we improved our speed yesterday.
I drove carefully to not to make any mistake and we made it. Yesterday it was quite tough day, I don't remember when I pushed so hard, but we are happy and we are here.
Very nice weekend, nice experience. I'm very happy.
I'm happy, very happy, because we are on the finish and on the fifth place. On the start of the stage I broke my glases, but we did it.
I'm happy to be here on the finish. My first gravel rally with an R5 car, I'm happy.
Finally we did it, it's fantastic. We were fighting up to the end. Thanks to the team for the car.
It's OK, now last stage we had rear antirollbar broken, but we are here.
"We are happy with the result. I would like to thank my co-driver and the whole team for their effort. We have good points from Poland and I look forward to Rome."
"I think we are faster than the last time on the gravel. During the rally we were competetive. I know I can improve a lot but I need more kilometers. I hope to do more ERC rounds, probably the Barum rally."
We don't know what Filip Mareš will do. We really took no risk in this stage. We have to be happy, we did good job, big thanks for the team. If we get the podium, we will be superhappy.
"Really hard, hard to keep the concentration. But one of my dreams came true, thanks to Toni Gardemeister for the car and Jarek Baran for driving with me."
We had a red flag on the stage, but the main thing is the boys are OK. We are really happy with the race. We don't know the result, we will get a notional time.
"We absolutely enjoyed the whole rally, we learned a lot about these stages. In the last stage we pushed quite hard. We are here and very happy."
SS14
"Now all works fine, we enjoy it."
Good run for us. We were struggling with the junctions and hairpins, maybe handbrake, I don't know.
I'm not pushing, I'm completely on safe mode now. We had a puncture on the previous stage so we just want to keep the car in one piece and reach the finish.
"That was a good run. In the second run it was much easier. Now we are concetrating on the powerstage."
"There are two hairpins, I was talking about them already after the recce. And we got stuck in one of them now."
"I like this stage, one of my favourite. Really tricky, but we did it good."
"Technical problem, we have no front diff. Only rear wheel drive."
"I made it through without problems, it was OK."
"I tried to save the car and tyres, now we were more lucky. The feeling is OK, we enjoy the rally."
SS13
"I tried, we had a good start of the stage. I tried to push, but it was difficult."
"Quite hard, so big ruts and some stones. We just did it little bit carefully."
"We have a water alarm on the dashboard."
"Lot of ruts, difficult stage. But OK, we feel more comfortable than in the previous loop."
"I try to be precise, just doing the job. This time I liked it."
It's OK for us, we drive safely without mistakes.
"It was almost impossible to do it without the puncture, really tough stage."
"We have new tyres, we are happy to continue in the rally. We are not in the top fight like yesterday, but I will try until the finish line."
"I just keep driving not making any mistakes. Just to bring it home. We will try to defend our position."
"The road is quite rough. We were affraid of puncture, but we had a good run."
"We had a clean run. Of course Griebel is pushing from behind. Fantastic stage."
"It was really destroyed, but we had good and clean run."
"The road went very damaged so I tried to save the car during the stage."
SS12
"The car is perfect, it looked ugly yesterday, but the Fabia is really strong and the team can make magics in few minutes. It looks like completely new."
It was very slippery in concrete braking, so we went wide and had pretty heavy crash. We are happy to be here. But we lost a time-card, it's a problem.
"This stage was so difficult. I tried to push but I had couple of moments."
"This time we have some fight with other guys and I enjoy every stage. Quite OK time."
"Little bit tricky, very hard stage. Lot of mistakes. We are happy we are there."
It was really nervous, I didn't enjoy it.
"Last two stages were OK, some sections are really good."
"I think it was good stage for us, but in the middle I lost the rhythm little bit. But we have fun."
My mind is little bit distracted with handling of the car. We don't push.
It's going OK, really difficult stage.
We had a puncture unfortunately. It's a part of the game. We didn't push, but we had to change it.
It's really difficult, mixed surfaces, mixed conditions, it's hard to find the rhythm.
"This was the most demanding stage of the rally. I overshot one junction and we had to turn around."
"Massive off on concretes. It was so slippery and we went wide. We lost at least 20 seconds. But we have so fun, we are really pushing."
"The middle of the stage it was terrible driving from me. But so far no problems."
SS11
"Very hard, very rough. We are on the road, no mistakes."
I don't like the feeling in the front, it's too soft.
"I think I did good work."
I don't know, I didn't hit anything.
I tried to push but I think I'm slow this morning.
"We went to the trees. But we are here. Very hard stage."
"Little bit nervous, but OK."
"I had a short strong impact, the puncture came immediately. There was something in the line."
No big push, nothing special. It's OK.
I was too wide in one corner shortly before the end. But it's going better and better.
"Quite hard stage, narrow with lot of bumps. With my experience it was good run. I could be faster but I think I was clever here."
"All good, perfect, very difficult stage. There are two very sandy hairpins in the forest, but quite a lot of spectators, we enjoyed it."
"I was surprised, the previous stage was quite soft, here the surface was more compact."
"It was really nice. Tricky one, but I liked it. Lot of things happened, second run will be better."
I did everything possible, big push all the way. This stage is the most tricky, it's narrow, with lot of stones.
It's all OK. We just need to finish in this position.
Difficult to other ones, it's really narrow. We had to reverse. It's very soft.
Good, but one kilometer after start there is a big left corner, I couldn't turn into it, had to reverse and went off.
SS10
It's all OK. We just need to finish in this position.
"I just want to keep my position, the feeling is quite OK."
It's going to big ruts, we will see in the second car. The car feels softer.
"Everything OK, one braking I was too late, but it was very nice."
"I feel the car better now. I now need to forget the brakes little bit and use more throttle. I try to keep pushing and improving."
"The team is fantastic, the did magics in the service. They changed some parts and the car is great. The beginning of the stage was quite destroyed."
"Really good. The beginning on the superstage was slippery, but OK. Some small mistakes, but it was good."
"All good. I think I always loose some time in the beginning in the arena. Hopefully we are better in the next one."
"OK, little too safe in the tarmac section. Today maximum attack."
Big battle again. I think clean stage for us, I didn't push hard, maybe 90%.
"I think not so good, in the first part I tried to save the tyres. I think the time is not good."
"It seems to be OK with the steering. Boys did amazing job yesterday so we can be here. Good stage, difficult one to start the day, but nice road."
"Quite slippy in the arena, so little bit slow."
"I was pretty careful on tarmac, last year I had a big crash on this section."
"I was way too careful on the tarmac section. I felt much better today, I just lost some time on the tarmac."
"Very hard stage and very fast. I can do it better, but we go to the next stage and I hope it will be better."
The plan is to do it carefuly and safe to the end. We weren't pushing here, just enjoying it.
It's OK. Quite slippy, but enjoyed that. We go for the second position, Lukyanuk is too far.
"I was too careful on braking. The time is not so bad, good warmup for today. We want to keep our position today."
That was good. Quite slippy, but for me first run of the day is always not very good. But it's not very big problem, quite OK.
"Really difficult stage, there is a lot of changes. Very fast tarmac section, then you go to forest. Good warmup."
"Really slippery, the surface is softer compared to yesterday. But all OK."
I think we are going our tempo, but we are close to Arai. We don't want to make any mistake. There are more rocks than yesterday.
"Very good, sweeping the road is not that bad, to be honest. We had a good stage with some nice jumps."
"I think today will be about finishing the rally and not damaging the car. We have special set of tyres, we have two new and two old ones, three of them are hard and one soft."
"We tried to prepare for today with the not cleaned road, but it was OK. Fortunately in front of us there went two or three zero cars with good line. Of course it was slippery but it was good."
SS9
"Fine day, happy to be here. I learn a lot of this rally."
"My day was learning, learning and learning. Important was stay on the road and reach the finish."
"Morning was little bit difficult, some mistakes after first stage. But on the afternoon we set some good times. I think the stages tomorrow will be rough and brutal for the cars."
"I really enjoyed it. I made progress during the whole day. It is my first gravel rally. I hope for another progress tomorrow."
"Second loop was quite okay for us. We had one moment and after that we were too carwefull. And we had temperature warning twice, so we had to slow down."
We had moment in the last stage, SS 8. Big bump, we were on two wheels and there was like wall from the bush. We hit the radiator, but okay. I learn quite a lot today. I'll try to find a good rhythm tomorrow.
"Actually it gets better and better for us. I enjoyed it. On penultimate stage we set very good time. On third stage we had big moment, after jump we were too sideways between the trees. But we are here. We will try to improve tomorrrow."
"Today morning was bad for me, but afternoon was okay. For me is important to see the finish."
I was close to hit the wall, my mistake. But big fun. Horrible day for us. I'm looking for tomorrow.
"The car stopped for few seconds. Hopefully we will back tomorrow. We had some car issues all afternoon."
"Really good afternoon, no mistakes. Still at the medium speed."
I noticed I hit the stone at SS 8. But really don't know how it happened.
"We had big moment in the forrest stage today, we are happy to be here."
"Tomorrow will be very hard day. They were putting water here on the road, I slid two times."
"Afternoon loop was pretty good. In the morning we had some problems after I hit the bank."
"We had an electric issue, the master switch. We are very happy for our pace today."
"Really difficult day, but important we finished it on this position. I hope it will be better tomorrow."
I'm happy for the place but not for my driving on the stages.
"Every run over this stage was bit better."
"In Polish championship it is really okay, but we are pushing also for ERC. We have good position for tomorrow. Keep fingers for good result."
"Really hard today, so we are happy to be in finish today. We go to watch onboards for tomorrow."
"This afternoon was better. First time on this fast stages. We improved times, but we are not at the place we wanted to be. We have to work."
"Probably best day on gravel for me. We can be satisfied with the day."
"It was lot of drama, broken brake line, damper, clutch. But I enjoyed the surface, so so far very good."
"Really bad day. If we can takes some points tomorrow, it can help."
Great day, because we had no problems and big mistakes. Now I'm thinking about tomorrow, how to be competitive. We should be calm and focused on our driving.
I didn't enjoy it today.
"Day was really good. The improvement is really good, that is we aiming for."
"Our tyres absolutellly chunked on the last stage. Our position is not so good, unfortunatelly."
I'm really happy with the day. Second loop was better, better grip, better pacenotes. I just was too wide in one corner now, lost maybe one second.
"Every stage something improving. "
"It was better than in the morning, but still we lost lot of time. Looking forward for the tarmac."
"Not so happy with the car. We had problems with the steering and electronic, we lost power. "
"It was a long day. We had bit problems, but generally it was okay. We hoped for the second loop, but everybody speeded up. We far away from podium, but long day tomorrow."
"Second loop was much better fo us."
SS8
"We have really big problem, intercom died, powersteering also."
"Quite hard stage, but luckily first one today without mistake."
"Good for us, we tried to push. But I stalled engine once, lost maybe three four seconds."
"I little bit overshoot one junction."
"Better and better."
"Very big step to us. We finished every stage without damage."
"Everything allright. I think we have good position for tomorrow."
"I never drove so fast on this kind of surface. But I enjoyed it. We have to do some changes on setup for tomorrow."
"We went off, bonnet open, we are here."
"So much fun, perfect stage."
"We are trying to learn something new. Alex is on different level. But our position is not bad for us. One stage to go today."
"We lost only three five second because Chris. We have problem with clutch."
We try to fix it, but it won't work after few km. We were late into TC.
"I was trying to push, but I was too wide at some places. I try to be as fast as possible."
It's more a game about start position. I don't like that kind of system.
It's okay, but no pushing, just driving.
"We went off the road 1,5 km after start. Then I pushed hard because thinking about start position for tomorrrow."
"I expected it more rough. Interesting. I had one moment."
"Still not perfect, but it was okay."
"Really fine setup. Best stage of day. I was trying to push, but I think I kill the tyres on tarmac. Clean run, no mistakes."
"Powersteering. We had a good run, but then ..."
"Maybe I just hit something in cut which everybody does. But I feel nothing in the steering,"
"For me much better, more grip. Maybe one or two mistakes."
SS7
"I made mistake over the jump, lost few seconds."
It's fine. Look at the front left wheel. (damage)
We push more and we'll see what Alonso will do.
"We are looking for better feeling."
"We made some mistake, we had turn around on tarmac section."
"I had lot of fun. But I had a big mosquito in the car during the stage, in one moment I had it on my glasses."
Think still not the best setup. But it's better. Still I feel no confidence in the fast corners.
"We have some problem with ballance of the car. Car is jumping."
I'm always happy, everytime we reach the finish end of stage. There were deep ruts on the road.
Second run through was much harder, deeper ruts. I'm trying to do my best.
"Amazing stage, but actually we changed the damper in service and car behave different. I have to bit carefull, car goes too straight."
"I think time is good. Better to be medium fast then slow. We are not completelly satisfied with suspension."
It's okay, bit better now. Change on dampers.
We had big off. I missed the pacenotes completelly. On the meadow, we lost ten fiteen seconds maybe. I'm happy we are here.
"We got no powersteering now. Maybe 4 km in stage. Not a good day for us."
We changed lot of settings. Maybe we are too low now, but it's better than before. We have to build the speed now.
"We had a nice stage, but we hit couple of rock and had one dangerous situation. Hope tyres are okay."
"The puncture did something with rear. I have to be carefull."
I hit rock by the front left wheel maybe 1 km before finish. Otherwise it's much better than in the morning.
"Very nice stage, but very difficult too. Better grip on the road now. Not much I can do now. We did small changes on setup, it was necessary."
"We had steering problem. Oil was leaking. But we managed to fix it."
"The grip was lot better, but we had few of big jumps."
Very good run. Grip is better. Albert didn't start into stage.
SS6
defekt
"Nice, good. Many places destroyed after first run."
Very jumpy. I don't have enough speed, but don't know why. I've been stucked in one corner, lost ten fifteen seconds maybe.
It's okay, better than first run But looks like we broke right rear wheel, some stone.
We try to push more. Let's see.
"Trying to catch better feeling. Step by step. Small changes on the setup."
"Everything is good. I look forward to the next stage."
"Time is better, but stage conditions worst. Lot of ruts, but this is rally."
"Good, better feeling. We are happy. Now we are heading to hardest stage, hope it will be not a big loss for us."
"Everything is okay, just driving. "
Not pushing so hard, but it's definitelly much better now.
"Much better in this loop. Our speed was quite okay, we changed pacenotes."
"We got puncture three or four km towards to the end. Massive rock on the road."
We made lot of changes on setup and the pacenotes. Now it's better.
"We had good line, road was clean. Lot of fun."
"I think I have a puncture."
"It was okay. We changed gearbox in service."
"Pretty good run. Road is better now, not so big ruts."
"Deeper ruts than I expected. But grip was changing."
"Much better, more grip. Good fun."
"Cool stage. Our car is bit higher compare to previous loop."
SS5
"Quite okay. Sindre is going well, it looks like hard to beat him."
"Actually we slightly leading, so good for us. Nice stages, small strange problem with the car, we losing power in left corners."
"I have to make new setup for the driver and have good lunch."
"Everything is okay. Big fight with Dariusz this morning."
"Something is with the car, sometimes we lost power."
"Funny to compete with R5 on this stage. We were 3 seconds faster now than yesterday."
"Not hundred per cent happy with this morning. But we made some improvement."
"First section was interesting. We should be happy to be here. We make no mistakes on this stage like compare to yesterday."
"Good morning for us. This stage is not my favourite one."
Left rear damper is empty, oil dissapeared. I'm happy we lost not much time.
"Stage was nice, I fight for all Poland. I like battle like here, two cars on the track."
I'm not really happy. Driving is okay, but something is wrong with the car. The grip level.
"Little bit wide here, but it was very much slippery."
"This stage was more succesfull for us. We have to learn."
"Too sideways in first lap. I was really dissapointed this morning, setup, me, alltogether."
"Very tough morning for us. We had problem with pacenotes and engine, had to stop for minute at SS. Hope afteronoon will be better for us."
I was bit carefull, because it was wet. But I didn't made any mistake.
Everything is the fine. Let's see what we can do on the afternoon.
Morning was not so good, I don't know what to change. Now I do what I can do.
It was big tricky because I din't expect any water here and it was bit slippy.
"We scored exactly the same time like yersterday. This year is this stage better, because tarmac only."
I lost had problem with power. I don't know what happened.
"We had dangerous situation, because Albert went into my line."
SS4
"Really good stage, I like it. Really crazy."
"Very steep learning curve. I just keep improving."
It's my first gravel rally. Time is not good, but I'm learning. I want to finish the rally.
"Not a good run, but we are here. It was quite hard, I made some mistakes."
"Good, we are improving all the time."
"What the stage! Amazing. We had lot of dust inside car, but we managed it."
This stage is very fast, amazing. I've enjoyed it.
Times are not good. We will see next section. I know where we losing time, but I'm scared there.
I'm really struggling on the brakes. I'm very frustrated.
Brakes faded a little bit. Still I'm not happy with my rhythm.
"Something was wrong with front left, but seems just overheating of tires."
"I made one stupid mistake, we lost the time. Jumped into the corn field."
I think we have some problem with overheating. I'm trying but my time is not good.
Not so good run, I'm little bit struggling with front of the car. I overshoot one junction.
"We are trying, but Sindre is fast."
"Very difficult. We missed the junction and had to reverse."
"Beautiful stage, you need to keep the rhythm. We had some problem with fuel pressure, looks like fuel pump."
"There was a tree in the special stage :-) No damage."
"Big mistake, I lost maybe ten seconds."
I'm bit tired. Too long stage, but okay.
"It was slippery after start but after 7 km we found grip. "
"Out brakes were not perfect yet. "
"Everything is okay. Ruta hit the tree."
Everything is okay. We are going our own pace, but we could be faster. It's just start of the rally.
"We need to change setup. Now we missed one junction, have to turn and go back."
"We hit something at the very beginning of the stage. So we struggled all the way."
"We went into ditch, but we managed to get back on the road."
"It was great, very demanding stage. If we have pace like Jari Huttunen, it is good for us. We are happy but still lot of work front of us."
"Something wrong with the car. Left front damper looks like empty."
"Good, we knew this is quite good stage. We had good rhythm. This is important stage."
I'm not happy. We have to improve something if we want to push.
"Nice. Sometimes optimistic pacenotes. But time is not too bad. Development goes the right way."
"Quite okay. Unfortunatelly we have to mix tyres because the puncture earlier on."
"Something wrong with damper. I had no confidence, issue with dust."
"We had engine problem, high water temperature."
"Quite tough because lot of little stones."
It's absolutelly challeging. Lot of dust, I went flat out but don't know where I am.
"Stages are really nice. I have to be faster."
"We just trying to minimize our losses. We have low grip, car is too soft. But nice stage."
"Quite slippery, we not building up our confidence. Lot of good gravel and slippery. I feel pain in my back, maybe after of one jumps."
"Really good, really good stage. Bit carefully as car in front of us made not good line."
"Long stage but so fast. Lot of rolling stones on the top of the road. Looking forward for second run."
SS3
I don't trust my pacenotes. Also too much braking.
"We need to improve."
On the previous stage I had no confidence of my pacenotes. I took it bit carefully now and it's better.
"We overshoot junction on SS2 and had to reverse."
So far it's going quite well.
"We are really cautious in narrow sections. But we have to finish this rally. We are happy, car is really good."
So far it's quite okay for us. Nice turns and jumps on this stage. No mistakes.
I'm not too much happy with my time. Some mistakes.
"Dust in the car is not problem. I need more speed."
"This one is nice, I like it. Very good."
"I enjoyed it. Rally is very long and we are just on start."
"I need to have good feeling."
It's bit better than before. We push more. Everything is okay.
"We were too slow. We are braking too much where it is not necessary."
"Difficult stage, hard to push to the limit. My time is not good. I think next stage we will do better."
Very good. Of course, I'm for first time here. But we are improving.
"It was good, but we did some mistakes on tarmac. Really fast and really slippy stage."
"Really really fast and quite narrow."
"We are satisfied. I could do this stage better on some places. But really good fun. We are learning, I think we can be even stronger during this weekend."
"I was thinking I was too carefull. So still place to improve. Pacenotes are fantastic, car works well."
"Quite hard stage for us. On the tarmac section we met dog. We are heading to hard stage now."
So slippy. I don't know why, but I'm still sideways.
"Okay, steady run. More clean on the road now."
There was a little dog on the stage, we had to brake as don't want to kill him. I was little bit carefull in some corners.
"We have hectic morning. We had dog in the middle of the road."
"We should be faster."
"Really challenging. Road is much much narrow."
"Much more difficult than previous one. Lot of loose gravel. I had some problems in left corners. Maybe we have something with wheel, but we hit nothing."
I'm feeeling better and better with every corner. But everything is new for me. Step by step.
"We are very carefull because slippy and narrow road."
Little moment in the forrest. It's so fast, difficult to anticipate, very high speed.
SS2
"Little bit difficult on the first stage."
"Just the first stage. Slippy."
It's fun. Balance of the car is good.
"I was bit off in one corner."
"We will go with this pace in the first loop and we will see."
"Time is not so good. We have to push and be faster."
"Supernice stage. Very nice to drive. We had moment in one corner."
"Very fast stage. We had lot of fun. Good warm-up."
"I think the car is little bit soft. We are learning."
"Nice stage, I enjoy the drive."
It start fast, quite narrow. Some corners already really destroyed. It's Poland.
"I took it quite carefuly. Beginning of the stage was flowing, good training for rest of the day."
"Really good. So enjoyable to drive, so big speed."
"Quite slippy, not very fast line. But I reach finish of the first stage."
puncture
"Not so good. Too much sideways."
On the last jump I was flying away. We have good feeling from the car. Don't rush.
"I hit rock in the grass. I had to drive on pucture last 1.5 km."
"We went off at the end of stage, had to reverse. Tricky. We lost ten fifteen seconds."
"We made one overshoot and had to reverse. Two mistakes in this stage."
"We had a good run. Road was in good state."
"Some places still so slippy. Our time is not so bad. Car is working perfectly."
Some cuts in the grass. I'm not satisfied with this run.
It's really difficult. Hard to understand the correct line and braking points.
"Very slippery. Big fun."
"Not a most comfortable feeling. Quite a good run, grip was not perfect."
SS1
"It was good. Not perfect, but way better than in the morning. Lot of spectators, I enjoyed it."
"Good fun, looking forward to real stages tomorrow."
It was OK, the grip is quite good in places. We could be faster but it doesn't matter.
"Good stage, but I did one big mistake in there."
I'm not very happy, the mud went on the windscreen and the wipers didn't washt it.
It's very slippery in some places. The rally starts tomorrow.
"I had a moment in the first lap, I went really wide."
"OK, everything is OK, maybe I took it too carefully in some places. I look forward tomorrow for the real stages."
It was a clean run. It's a tricky stage because it looks like gravel but there is a concrete under it.
"It was much easier than the last time. Now there was more grip but still in some places it was muddy and slippery."
"Quite good stage, but couple of mistakes. The time is not perfect, but all OK."
"Quite good stage, but couple of mistakes. The time is not perfect, but all OK."
"It was OK. I was little bit cautios, but OK."
"Quite OK."
I'm happy to be in the rally now. It was a careful drive.
"This was mainly for spectators. For me, quite OK."
Lot of mud, I couldn't see anything. But good battle.
"We were really surprised with wet conditions, it was really slippery and we went quite wide in some corners."
Really slippery, I dind't expect it. Lot of slides, we are looking forward for tomorrow.
Very nice, the grip was good. In some places we didn't push too hard.
"We got stuck in one corner, we lost maybe one or two seconds. Good setup of the car, OK."
Great stage, it's really enjoyable. But the real rally starts tomorrow, we are ready. Everything is OK.
"It was clean run, we decided to go steady."
"Funny stage, very slippery, but funny. The time is OK."
"I liked it, I pushed for maximum here."
Fine, but bit slippy, it's wet.
Close battle, I didn't think the time would be so good. I'm really happy.
This morning was bit scary, actually I don't know what happened, but I'm happy we could start the rally.
"We tried to save our tyres and be smart."
It's difficult to find the feeling, but good.
"We tried to save the tyres, looking forward for tomorrow."
I really don't like the time, I wanted to be faster. I look forward for tomorrow.
Really fun to drive, it's more difficult than I expected, really really slippery in some places. I tried to save the tyres for tomorrow.
"Good fun, much better than previous year. I enjoyed it."
"The mix of gravel and tarmac is not very good for tyres so we took it carefully."
"Bad stage for me, but tomorrow there will come proper stages."
"This stage is good, I have a good feeling for tomorrow."
"I think it was OK, but some mistakes. One or two seconds, it could be faster, but tomorrow is another day."
"Stage was really good, the car is perfect."
"It was fun, good start for me."
"I made some mistakes and lost some time."
"It was good, all going well. Nice, enjoyed it, good fun."