Rally Fafe Montelongo 2020
2. 10. – 4. 10. 2020, Fafe • Demoporto - Clube de Desportos Motorizados do Porto • asphalt 181.44 km • total distance including road sections - 535.48 km • Other years
Nº29 disqualified only from ERC3 Junior (Stewards Decision Nº5-Fuel not complying with ERC3 Junior rules)
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SS18
"Very difficult weekend. Pitty what's happened to us yesterday. But we learn alot and happy to be at finish line."
"Good championship points, but we lost the lead. Very hard rally, good experience for us. Three rallies now, hope we will race. Super experience and super car. Thanks to the team."
"Changing conditions made this rally. I've been really enjoyed it. I'm happy."
"Long weekend. Okay, we are in finish, important points for the championship. Big thanks to my team for great job."
"I think I will sit to the other side again. It was new experience, very difficult. But I'm happy."
"I'm happy. This stage was difficult like whole weekend. I learn alot and want to thanks to everybody."
"Lot of new experience. Very changeable conditions. It was hard, but we happy to be in finish."
"It was tough but very enjoyable weekend. I learn alot. It was challenging."
"We worked very hard a we win the second race. We are very happy."
"I'm thinking about the championship. Conditions were bad, but I have new experience. Thanks to whole team for perfect car and all who helped us."
"It was very hard rally, most difficult for me. But I learn alot."
"Car has failed, no power. We tried our best, we suffered alot. But we are happy."
"Actually I'm very happy with my driving. It's been very interesting weekend with different conditions. After Friday we are happy to be here, big thanks to my team for incredible job. Fantastic and challenging weekend."
"We are happy to finish rally and without scratches on the car. It was difficult weekend. I think we did well today. We something learn here."
"Puncture on previous one, don't know where. I want to thanks to whole team for perfect car."
"Today was better then yesterday. I want to be more in front, but that's it. Thanks to whole team."
"Difficult weekend. But we had nice speed yesterday."
"On previous my mistake, I made spin. It was not right moment to happened, but it focus us motivated. We did good job on the last one despite hard rain. I can be proud of myself, big thanks to team for car and Pirell for tyres, also to sponsors. Let's go to have some fun now."
"Thanks to all my team. "
"We are very proud of this weekend. We did our best. I pushed hard on the last one."
"Really demanding rally. We learn alot. We take no risk to secure this win."
"Thanks to team for very good car and setup. Sometimes we made mistake bit tyre choice, but we are happy to be here and scoring the points."
"Generally I'm very happy. We are in finish. Biggest step in my rally driving, I don't remember such progress. I'm happy to have chance to be here."
"I'm very happy with the weekend. Tough fight today. I'm not happy with my driving today, yesterday it was better. But we improved, lot of new experience."
"Generally we are happy."
"We are happy."
"Crazy stage now. We had big spin in the middle of the stage. Lot of dirt. We are happy to be here and we finish the rally."
SS17
"had a spin"
SS16
"The first part is dry but last part is very slippery and lot of mud."
"We try to enjoy. Like Playstation."
"Good, I can't complain. Bit muddy in places."
"Everything is okay, nice stage."
"Good. But our rally finished after the puncture we had. Now just reach the finish."
"Thanks to my team for great job in service."
"I expected more water, but it is quite dry."
"We don't push hard now. Just to keep our position."
"This stage was good, little bit wet. I was bit cautious close to the end."
"We decided for intermediate tyres."
"Luck is gone. Another puncture."
"Very tricky. We took no risk, want go to the finish."
"Just keep it on the road and take it to the end."
"I think it's okay. We took beginning carefully."
"Just trying some new stuff. Trying different tyres."
"Good. We have not much to win, so we took it relatively easy."
"Now it was difficult. Stage was full of water. Hard to predict weather."
"We did last second tyre change and it was the right choice."
"Lot of fun. We wet, but very fast. Now we have the right tyres. Few moments, but we kept car on the road."
"Not bad."
"Slippery, happy with the tyre choice. All good."
"Very difficult stage. Lot of water."
"Not lot of grip, but not so bad. I tried to do my best and drove first time without mistake on this stage."
"Not so good. We were definitely not expecting the rain, have not good tyre choice."
"Nothing special. Five or six minutes before start we have changed tyres."
"That was good. It was possible to go faster, but I want to be safe and reach the finish. Second stage will be probably most important in the loop."
"Sometimes it was very slippy, especially on braking. I try to push, also Erik is pushing from behind."
"I really don't know if it was good or not. Conditions not easy."
"(broken rear window) I don't know what happened. Lot of water on the road. "
SS15
"This stage was very slippery, but we were careful. Just to learn and finish this rally."
"Perfect conditions to learn this car. This car is fantastic, very enjoyable."
"This one was really good, I really enjoyed it."
"Really nice stage."
"(broken windscreen) We've had problem with car after first stage and forget lock the bonnet after we were working on it. Problem with brakes."
"This was not so good. I had some electric problem with the car, it stopped three times."
"Really tricky. Difficult and slippery."
"On the previous one the car front of us was blocking the road. This one was okay."
"Some moments good, some bad. Not best tyre choice, but we are still running."
"Still the same. Very low grip. On previous one I've got puncture and had to change it."
"Another good stage I think. We changed tyres just ten minutes before start and it was good decision."
"Good tyre choice for all three stages."
"This stage not helped to the confidence. Very slippy and I struggled a lot. Car was understeering."
"Engine is not working. Let's see what happens next. We have no power."
"This was good for learning. I probably took it slow, but we have to learn."
"Tyre crossing is new for me. Stage was damp, but lot mud and no place to make mistake. But very good learn for me."
"Really wet and slippy, no grip at all. Most difficult stage of the rally."
"We had no info about the rain. But at least we are here."
"We are closer to our rivals. We try to do our best."
"I tried to manage it. Struggled little bit with balance. I have to be careful."
"I enjoyed my driving. But actually my tyre choice was not correct here."
"Very difficult driving for me. But it is okay."
"For this one we had bit better tyre choice. I pushed as maximum as I can."
"It was really humid and wet, but consistent. Still very tricky, we don't want take any risk."
"It was extremely slippery. I didn't took much risk."
"We are happy to be on the finish line. Stage was 80 per cent wet and slippy. But we had good tyres. Hard to be on the limit here."
"I damaged rim and tire on the previous one."
"It was completely wet now. Here is tarmac like in Czech Republic, like ice. Not good setup for this stage."
"Wet tyres. We had to take care at every places."
SS14
"We put intermediate on before stage and it was perfect choice."
"Quite nice I think. Very tricky and good challenge. Stage beginning is dry and then in the middle full wet."
"Difficult condition. We will be pushing for next stage and next loop. We care just about our times."
"It started full rain in the middle. I don't wanted to take a risk. But I pushed on the rest."
"You never know which tyres have to put. We have hard tyres and it started to drizzling. I went cautious."
"We had good stage. But it was tricky when started the rain on slick tyres."
"Unfortunately not rain. And we have rain tyres."
"No rain here. I 've made few changes on the car in service, some compromise setup."
"Good stage. Careful drive, still some slippery place so I control it."
"I think I was really fast on this stage."
"Maybe rain will come on the next one. For this one were our tyres too soft."
"We are on slicks and this was right choice. We try to keep the pace but don't want to make any mistake."
"We used brakes too much. Everything was okay. I like this stage and enjoy this rally."
"Last 5 km to the finish are very tricky. I was cautious. "
"This one I was too careful on last part and had little bit problems with brakes. Bit overheating and I had not good feeling."
"We had full dry and it was good. I like this stage, very technical. You can win or lose everything here."
"Full wet on the back and this stage was full dry. Enjoyable but definitely not fast."
"This is crazy. In one corner I went off a bit. I have lost few seconds. Very slippy, last five km crazy. Bit of mud."
SS13
"No problem. We have slicks on front. We will change it on intermedia for next one."
"It was pretty good stage. We trying new setup and following step by step."
"We tried our best. We did some small mistakes but hopefully lost not that much time."
"Feeling is better, but difficult in the rain. I don't know what about next stage."
"Lot of rain. Quite slippy, I have to be careful on the slicks."
"It started to rain. This is megastage, but I have to be careful."
"Already little bit of rain at the end. We are on the slicks."
"We are on the same tyre strategy like Bonato. For this one was quite wet, but our meteo said for next two will be full wet. Let's see."
"I have better feeling with car now. It's fantastic."
"Fun to drive. Actually car is too soft for grip. But grip is good, you can trust it."
"The stage is good. Tyre choice good also. (medium hard compound)"
"We had big moment on this one again, but we are here."
"Nice to have finally fully dry stage. Sometimes I was not hundred per cent. Would be nice to get ERC1 podium, but still five stages to go."
"I enjoyed this run. We changed our tyres, slicks, it was working."
"Maybe not perfect stage, but we are trying our best. Now the most demanding stage."
"My feeling was good. We are on four slick, I can push."
"I think it was good now. But hopefully will be not rain, we don't have tyres for that."
"Hepefully it will be wet on the next one. We have changed fuel pump in service."
"We are faster now. It's completely dry, little of mud on two three places."
SS12
"We go slowly, try to take points to the championship. We have front left suspension damage. Not pushing."
"Good day. Just we had puncture on previous one. I'm learning so much."
"We had lot of problems on the second one, disaster."
"On second one we had puncture. We'll try to keep moving until the end."
"Honestly I don't complain, we made good tyre choice. We were like safe, two wet tyres in back. We have to enjoy."
"Quite difficult stage, lot of turns. We have full wet tyres so not easy on dry."
"I'm really happy and driving fine, but with rain tyres it's very slippery."
"It was good but tricky stage. Our tyres didn't worked here."
"Stage is quite dry, very nice. But car setup is wet, so we struggled a little bit in fast part."
"Very changeable conditions and grip. We are trying our best."
"We are learning alot. We made right tyre choice."
"Everything is okay."
"Some corners still damp and you have to be careful, but I'm happy with my tyre choice. Good loop, car is working well."
"Very difficult on these tyres. Road is bit dirty."
"Some places greasy, but generally it's dry. Very nice stage."
"He went off in righ-hand corner. For us it was okay. At least good training."
"Lot of sliding on wet tyres. Not so bad but could be better."
"We had wrong tyres, we lost front tyres after few km. I think De Mevius crashed, but nothing serious."
"We damaged the diff yesterday, the new one is not set properly. Not easy to find balance. Bit tricky, I don't want to make any mistake."
"Stage is okay. Tyre choice and setup not pleasant."
"Good tyres choice on this one. Almost dry stage. Little bit of mud, but we stayed on the road."
"Really made, they made more cuts than I expected. We crossed tyres before stage, no big risk."
"Some places bit wet. We made some mistake in pacenotes, I have to change something and hope for next loop it will be better."
"We try our best, but not easy loop for us. I have not enough confidence with my pacenotes. We'll watch onboards and try to improve."
"Very difficult. We had big slide. Wet tyres are too soft for this stage."
"Today I'm quite happy. But here I totally destroyed front tyres after few km. Let's see about the weather changes."
"We just trying to drive through and get back to the service."
"90 per cent of stage completely dry. It's crazy, all the time we've been sliding."
SS11
"The tyre choice is not correct. I think we are losing time."
"Very changeable grip, very big challenge."
"We just try the new things today. Try new setup and learning more and more. Yesterday it was turbo problem. This stage was very greasy, slippy and twisty. Hard to predict tyres, but I think we have proper tyre choice."
"We have maybe some differential problems, can't use handbrake properly. Mega stage, amazing. Donhill is really cool."
"Quite interesting. I have more confidence. This stage was good fun."
"This one is quite difficult, you need confidence and rhythm. We were struggling alot."
"Stage was okay. Last part was just fantastic, we had lot of fun inside the car. Pleasure to be here."
"Quite tricky. Some really stupid people standing in stupid places. Dangerous."
"Better than yesterday. Better feeling with the car. I'm happy with the beginning of the day."
"Difficult one. We took it carefully, managing the gap. Some places dirty and bit dangerous."
"The feeling now is good, but time is like Bonato's."
"Very slippery conditions. I was not confident with the car. Just to safely reach the finish line. We will see on the next one."
"For me is this the trickiest one of the rally, very changing conditions."
"The conditions like last year in Hungary. I like this stage. Maybe I'm too much overheating tyres or it's so slippery. But I like it."
"Last five km slippy and narrow. I'm not happy with my driving and predictions. Very demanding stage."
"Quite difficult. First part you can push, but second only downhill and very slippery. Very tricky."
"It's not so dirty yet, but it will be I guess. My tyre choice was not so good but not so bad."
"The stage is quite greasy. We have fuel pressure problems."
"This stage is really tricky, slippery. Last few km not good, fast, really narrow, you have to be careful."
SS10
"Clean run, no big risk. We have to be smart. It's very tricky and our notes don't really match up today's conditions."
"We had big moment flying over one fast crest."
"Quite okay, no dramas or big moments."
"Good tyres. We enjoyed. No big moments. We want to do maximum a leave with positive mind."
"Just like test today. We try new things nad tyres. No dramas on the stage."
"(Mixed tyre choice) We are experimenting with new things. Balance is not fantastic for sure, careful drive. Just look what's happens."
"Very slippy. Wet tyres were not perfect choice. But I'm happy."
"We had big moment, big slide, but we kept it on the road."
"It was good. Bit greasy now. Not bad tyre choice for first stage, we'll see how it will works on next one."
"Nothing special happened. Our tyres choice is right."
"Everything is okay. Maybe not perfect stage, but it's just start of the morning."
"Tricky one. Sometimes it's very slippy. Now I have to push. Some rain on the stage also."
"Quite slow start. But new day, new challenge. Weather will be tricky like yesterday. We need to improve and improve."
"Not so bad. At start it was greasy, now bit more grip."
"Stage is really good. Completely clean, no mud. This is good for us. Today's stages are different from yesterday."
SS9
"I'm lost in this day. But I hope tomorrow will be better for me and I'll organise things in my head."
"I'm happy to be here. I wanted for more, but we had car problems."
"It was difficult day. I have learn alot. Very tricky stages."
"It was challenging day, especially last loop because tyres. But good day."
"It was very difficult in rain, we tried to find the pace. Let's see tomorrow, keep pushing."
"It's not definitely perfect driving, but I'm happy. Important we are here and looking forward for tomorrow."
"Everything fine, we managed it without car damage."
"It was difficult day. We have to improve tomorrow."
"We are very happy. We managed all the day, good tyre choice. Fantastic day."
"Lot of new experience when it's wet. But generally good."
"We had problem on previous stage on oil. We broke the wheel and damage front tyre. We had to go slow now as we don't have spare."
"Good day. Quite slippy, lot of mud. No traction, gamble all the day."
"Not really good day for us, we didn't know if will be dry or wet. I hope it will be better rally for us tomorrow."
"I'm happy to reach the end. I've been bit struggling with setup and pacenotes today."
"Very difficult but good day. We are happy and we'll see tomorrow."
"Challenging day for us. But good learning, we are happy again."
"This day was quite okay. Last stage I thought we had bad tyre choice, but not now. Thanks to whole team."
"Too much rain on this special stage. But the day was okay for us, just difficult with weather."
"Again quite tricky. But the same conditions for everyone. We had not a good day."
"Difficult day for everybody. I think no one had proper tyre choice today. "
"Last loop we took on the rain tyres, I was quite happy with them. We had bit issues with setup today, couple of mistakes also. Lot of learn today."
technical issue
"This loop was really good. Wet, dry and wet stage. Really difficult, but I really enjoyed it."
"I touched the wall on previous one and damaged arm. Small mistake, but I can't push on this one."
"Something is blocking exhaust. Now we run out of the oil."
"Too much low car. But we survived and rally is too long. We will see tomorrow."
"Generally it was good day, but very tricky conditions. We are here and this is most positive."
"Looks like we build some gap. No moments, no dramas. We finish the day in positive way. Thanks to the team and Pirelli. Weather makes crazy experience, but positive."
SS8
"(Rear left wheel lost. ) I don't know what happened, oil on the road, last few kms into stage."
"I think for this stage for 70 per cent should be better choice intermedia tyres than wet."
"It was okay. Some dry parts were perfect on cross tyres."
"Difficult to say which tyre choice is the best."
"Wrong tyre choice again. I hit something by rear right."
"It was completely different now. I was confident and wish I would like start like this."
"I had quite big moment in last left corner, there is oil. It was really horrible. But the stage overall was quite good."
"Another big adventure. Again weather conditions. New experience."
"Engine problem. Exhaust is blocked or something."
"Not so good. "
"Solberg is driving slowly. We lost some seconds as he was in the line."
"Conditions are almost dry. We are struggling with tyre choice. I will make conclusion to do everything all on my own."
SS7
"I think I lost my feeling for car and the road. All the time we are on the wrong tyres."
"Gearbox is still the same. I think I can't fix it."
"It was okay. Bit slippery, but good."
"Difficult for tyre choice. We had lot of information about rain, but there was not rain in the stage."
"We try to do our best. But it's difficult to find grip. Next stage could be better."
"Not bad. But I need more trust in this kind of surface."
"More tricky than before. We try to manage it to the end."
"Not easy. We try to keep our position."
"Now it's bit slippery for me. We were too careful now."
"I was expected it will be little bit slippy."
"Wet and I made some changes on car, but it was step back."
"It was good. Really wet, but not too much. Better than this morning."
"Conditions very tricky, but for us it was okay. I expected more rain and fog."
"The stage is very difficult. But our time is good."
"It was okay. But it's a long day."
"Feeling is good. We changed tyres at the end of service break, fortunately full wet was the right choice."
"We had good tyre choice for now. But wait and see."
"I thought we are in Portugal but this is like in the GB. Most difficult stage now."
"Full wet was correct tyre choice. Grip was quite good. We decided to change tyres just before we left the service."
"First one we have proper tyres. Hopefully the times will better now."
"We really enjoyed it. Especially finish, it was foggy and I like it. "
"We went from service on slicks, but stage was completely in rain. And the last part completely fog."
"That was really heavy rain. I didn't see anything at some places. I can't push on slicks in these conditions."
"It's frustrating. Big rain started few minutes before our start."
"Okay, we'll try our best."
"I had a spin, halfway through the stage. I lost maybe ten seconds."
"It was slippery on some places. Some places there was grip and some not, slicks were on the limit."
"With slick tyres it was quite comfortable."
SS6
"This time was tyre choice almost good. I'm happy with my driving."
"Good one. Lot of mud in the middle of the stage, but good."
"Everything is okay. We have had all day good tyre choice."
"I'm not sure we are fast enough but we enjoy it."
"We had puncture on the last stage. But felt good. I'm enjoying. "
"Nice stage. Dirty at the end. We need some changes on the car."
"Not bad. It was more less completely dry. In third loop will be lot of mud, we will see what's happens."
"It was okay. Confidence is coming and step by step we are faster and faster."
"We are pushing very hard."
"Stages were too dry for our tyres."
"Stage was okay for us. Tyre choice and setup was absolutely good here."
"Better with the tyres choice. We have enjoyed it."
"(LR tyre puncture) There was one big stone in the cut. Things not running good when you have bad luck."
"Difficult. Better on this stage, but the previous was nightmare. For me is the tyres crossing new thing."
"I have slick on the front and wet on the back. Front was okay but back was sliding too much. Not so easy, but I have really enjoyed this stage."
"It was sometimes wide, big slides. But I pushed and hoped for good time."
"Really good stage for us. But then we were too late on brakes in 160 km/h on wet and we need to reverse back to the road."
"I try to push. But in previous one I lost lot of time. We will try to fight for position."
"I was hoping for rainy conditions. But it was fully dry. It's a bit challenge to make a right tyre decision."
"It is crucial here to know proper weather forecast."
"It's full dry and I have wet tyres. Not a perfect loop, I went on wrong tyres choice. I pushed at limit all the time, I missed maybe two corners."
"I got very sad new in service about my friend, he lost his battle. Condolences to his family."
SS5
"We are bit struggling with pacenotes. Not easy and conditions are tricky. We need more confidence."
"Really complicated. First part is really wet but rest more dry with lot of mud."
"This stage is very very complicated."
"It was okay, I had more confidence. We went on wet tyres, for start it was okay, but then it was dry."
"It was extremely slippery. We went off few hundred meters after stage start."
"No easy at all. Very slippery, lot of damp parts. We were sliding alot."
"Weather was changing all the time. Bit difficult."
"After wet start it was little bit better, but cuts are too deep and it's too slippery."
"It was raining and drying then, but there was lot of dirt. I would prefer wet tyres. I had very little confidence even the car setup is good."
"We put wet tires. At beginning it was good, but after 5 km it started to be dry and now the tyres are absolutely overheated."
"Now I crossed tires. Sometimes it was working, but I lost grip sometimes."
"We decided cross wets and slicks, but it was crazy. It was dry and full wet still changing."
"Too much water in the stage. Not good."
"Really tricky, we had lot of water. We made small mistake and hit something by rear right wheel."
"All okay, all good."
"It is still too dry. I was hoping for more wet so not good."
"It's raining like hell in the stage!"
SS4
"It just bit rain on some places. Much better than in the morning, we changed something on setup."
"Little bit better, but we still have problem with engine cut-off and I have use the clutch."
"Another tricky stage but I like it alot."
"This one was really better than in the morning. We changed something in the pacenotes, it was much better."
"Little bit of rain. Car is working, we are doing better. We want to push bit more on next one."
"Actually nothing big, we just improving and we bit more happy."
"Everything is okay."
"At beginning it was really muddy, so I tried to be calm. But then it was better then during first run."
"Much better, it's almost dry. Much faster for sure."
"We put slicks and these are okay. We try to push bit harder."
"It seems good, but I need the confidence."
"Bit slippy in places, more gravel in the pacenotes."
"Now we know where is the dirt so we can cut."
"Good fun. We had a good rhythm. Step by step."
"Everything is good. One corner we went off for few meters."
"I think we set very good time. Stage was dry, funny."
"Okay, I hope everything will work. We have more confidence."
"We had big moment 1 km after start in dirty long left, we went off and hit some piece of concrete."
"It was okay because better conditions than this morning. We can push more and took more pleasure. Everything is okay."
"Quite okay, but I had some strange feeling from back of the car. Maybe setup issue, soft."
"All is good, all tyres still on the car. "
"Much better. Grip is good now. We changed something on the setup, better balance."
"Much better than previous run. Bit slippery, but I have enjoyed it. "
"I think it was okay. Tyres much better, but lot of gravel on the road."
"Now the stage was fully dry and we had good tyres. I hope the weather will stay good."
"Bit tricky, more gravel coming out of cuts. We'll see. We made the car a bit harder in the service."
"Obviously lot more drier. I tried to push so much as can. The gaps are too small."
"This stage our tyre choice was not good, but I hope it will work better on next two. That is the plan."
"Bit scary at the beginning, slippy places. But then it was dry and I pushed. Not bad."
SS3
"We'll go with other tyres in next loop. We were very lucky on this stage, we had spin and stopped few centimeters front of tree."
"Bad stage. I have some problems with gearbox, I have use the clutch. We try to fix this problem and we'll see."
"It was very difficult, tricky conditions. We were not too much confident."
"This stage was okay, just bit slippery at the end. We are checking pacenotes for the second loop."
"Car is not working, but we are doing our best. We'll see what's happens."
"We have problems with transmissions."
"Quite dirty in fast places, quite tricky. My target is improve my driving."
"Difficult stages, quite muddy. Not easy, I'm only learning and trying to manage it."
"Some places lot of dirt and very slippery there. It try to pushed harder and harder with every stage."
"It's okay. I have comfortable feeling, we like this conditions."
"Really good fun. Very inconsistent conditions."
"Tricky is not the correct word! Some tough moments, but hope we will improve for next loop."
"Not bad, but not too funny. Lot of mud. Last one was good for us with slick tyres."
"I don't take any risk. We try to push little bit more in the second loop."
"My starting position is not the best."
"Really slippy places at the end. I was not fully confident."
"This stage was very very tricky. But our setup and tyre choice was absolutely okay."
"Conditions are very tricky, difficult to drive fast."
"We changed for two slick and two wet tires before stage. But I will go for full slicks for next loop. "
"Car was really tricky to drive. I think Emil is okay."
"It was okay, we getting to used. But I was expecting more from these tyres. Lindholm crashed after four corners in stage."
"We need to slow down near to Emil Lindholm, I'm sorry for him. I'm overheating brakes too much, close to end of stage I haven't them. This is not good."
"It was tricky. Little bit scary for us because we had to wait at the start and had cold tyres. I really struggled with tyrec hoice in this loop."
"We had to slow down at Lindholm. Then we start again with the pace. Big cuts and lot of slippy places. This loop was short but big adventure."
"Quite difficult. We had to slow at Lindholm, his car is in the middle of the road. Maybe we have not proper tires."
"Loop was okay. Second stage was not good, car was too soft. For this one was okay. But lot of mud at the end here."
"Times are not too bad, but I still have to be careful in many places. Car is noisy from the end, maybe the exhaust."
"Very tricky conditions. So far so good. We keep our pace, don't risk too much, but still push."
SS2
"Better than first one. Brakes were good, tire choice okay."
"We are doing our best, but the car is not working. We have no engine power."
"Maybe I was too careful in last part."
"Second part is very narrow and twisty, lot of wet."
"I had spin, went off and had to restart the car. Car is okay."
"Last part of the stage is very slippy."
"Last three km full wet and mud. But we had lot of fun now."
"Very tricky at the end, but we enjoyed alot. "
"The feeling is not good. Tires are not best."
"Lot of changing grip. At the end was crazy. But we are happy."
"Quite changeable. Some places absolutely dry and some absolutely wet."
"Very slippery some parts. The road is not clean. We try to do our best but not easy."
"It was more dry I expected. I was moving alot on my tyres."
"(FR tire puncture) On the quick part uphill was big cut and I think it was too much."
"It's difficult. We have slicks, hard to warm them. It's like a gamble. I'm not happy. We have to be patient."
"I'm feeling good, but bit struggling with pacenotes. But hope I'm improving."
"I think we have wrong tire choice. Car was sliding everywhere, I had to slow down. Beginning was wet but then it was dry."
"Everything is okay. Crazy conditions. I'm really doing my best. But this is just start of rally, step by step."
"End was maybe not the best for these tires, but good."
"The second corner of the stage ... shit. We hit the guardrail , steering wheel is bit out of position."
"This one was really tricky, lot of mud towards to the end. Big cuts by the other guys. We took no risk, have to care about tyres."
"We struggled with the tires."
"Car is feeling good. It's getting better and better. Now it was more slippery. We just keep on trying."
"It's tricky. Some places really wet. Tarmac is changing alot."
SS1
"Some parts are slippery, but I expected it more slippery. Maybe we can change something in setup."
"Car front of me was middle of the road and I had to stop."
"Stage is okay, very slippery. Pushing on the next one."
"We had problem with brakes. Also door open."
"Good wakeup. We start to improving step by step. So let's see."
"It was like car test, everything is good."
"I try to learn something. Short but difficult stage."
"Everything is good. Good tire choice."
"What a car! But it was very slippery. "
"I tried to be careful but it it was better than I expected."
"I had not proper rhythm."
"Good, just bit slippy. Not getting the rhythm, but great stage."
"Some people lot cutting. I had some big moments."
"Some places are wet, difficult. We could did better."
"Quite okay."
"Slippy, but we will push on second stage."
"I overshoot one turn."
"Good warm-up. We expected more dry, some places too much sliding."
"Very very slippery. Some parts no grip."
"Quite slippy and difficult. I was cautious."
"Too cautious, but better then go off. Compromise with tires."
"This was tricky. Extremely fast and difficult."
"Pretty slippery. I probably overheat brakes."
"Really difficult, car was sliding alot. More wet than I expected. "
"We expected little bit dry conditions. It was fitfy-fifty. But okay."
"(On slick tires) I think I'm little bit slower, I had not full confidence. But tire choice okay."
Quite okay, calm run. Grip is changing alot.
Short stage. Not perfect, I struggled bit with understeering.
Mechanics did fantastic work. They worked all the night without break. We just will keep pushing.
Not best tire choice. Maybe not best pace, but for beginning okay.
"Nice one. Little bit more wet than I expected. But good start of the day."