Azores Airlines Rallye 2017

[Iraquiano]

Rodrigues lost 4min on 1st split, according to a friend, had a puncture and stopped to replace. He was performing very well on his first rally on a R5 and was 2nd on the regional and a second away from 3rd on the national field.

Meanwhile:

Kasperczyk Tomasz
"I think this was the most difficult and hardest stage in the world! Many tricky places, but it went OK for us."
Habaj Łukasz
"We hit a wall and it was quite hard. But the steering and power of the car are OK."
Lukyanuk Alexey
"It's tough event. In the beginning of this stage there was a jump where I touched a wall. Scary moment, we lost rear window."
Moura Ricardo
"We did this loop with destroyed spare tyre, the times were bad."
Sirmacis Ralfs
"We had third puncture today so we stopped and changed it. We need to go to service and prepare the car for tomorrow."
Suárez José Antonio
"I entered one corner too fast and we crashed. I hope team will repair it for tomorrow."
Gryazin Nikolay
"Maybe three times we hit the bank. We have to check the suspension."

I'm expecting to see some videos tonight...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Ingram increases lead to 4.7s overnight.

[dimviii]

[Mirek]

Karel Kupec crashed from third place in U27

[Iraquiano]

Ingram increases lead to 4.7s overnight.

Huttunen is showing real pace for a newcomer! I wasn't expecting much competition to Ingram now that everybody's moving to U28 category. Nice surprise!

On U28, Gryazin is on the lead 2,8s ahead of Griebel, even despite the many problems, we are still seeing serious competition ahead.

On overall we have a portuguese fight for second place and with Luky being Luky, it's not guaranteed that we will not see something on the first place as well. He told the portuguese radio that he wanted to go slow on this stage, but as soon as he sees the spectators waving at him he just knows how to drive fast

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Even a crash wont stop the Kajto smile.

[Hartusvuori]

By the way great battle between Ingram and Huttunen. Is it first such event for the Finn?

Incredible battle! Hopefully go down to the wire tomorrow.

It is Huttunen's first ERC event. Prior to this he did Adam Cup in Germany, he did R2 championship in Finland 2015 and smaller event prior to that. He has done around 40 events, starting in 2013. He has done karting for many years before that.

Huttunen is now Opel factory driver. Late last year Marcus Grönholm took Huttunen in his new management team and they are building his career pass 2017 season. Huttunen is a natural talent and very quickly learning and adapting new things. His weaker sides are small budget (no millionaire dad) and too serious character. But the boy can drive, my favourite of the new Finnish guys going for international career.

But the answer to your question is: yes!

Edit: 2015 Huttunen did Rally Finland in DS3 R3 as he won Star of the Future CV. Now his complete cv is written here ��

[stefanvv]

Lukyanuk Alexey
"It's tough event. In the beginning of this stage there was a jump where I touched a wall. Scary moment, we lost rear window."

Lukyanuk to have "scary moment" is something new

[RS]

Some nice footage from today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YLEdNVJhrg

[dimviii]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1fZkZs4Wd0