Back from Algarve and from a very intense rally.
First day started with Ourique stage in the night. Completely dark with a bit of rain but quite dry surface (where we were standing). Plenty of drivers had problems with lights, some had ramps completely broken, some had ramps with only one or 2 lights working... Quite tricky and narrow place, Tannak from all looked to be more comfortable in the night wich I found interesting. Didn't even see Loeb, Latvala looked unsteady in that place and Solberg very fast.
Second day we watched at Tavira in extremely wet conditions, all looked quite steady minus the Ford's ofcourse, and Sordo. Dani was out of this world, the new car seems to be better but almost everywhere I saw Dani this weekend he had a moment. Almost went off in front of me, however that didn't stop him from continuing pushing way behind the limit sometimes.
Second loop didn't need to be cancelled, atleast the first and second stages, much better conditions than in the morning. From what I understood one chef marshall the organizers were afraid the slippery conditions would caught out more drivers and the rally would not have cars to run the next day.
Third day was in Vascão in what was perhaps the best place I have ever seen. Jump, followed by downhill section, then extremely wide slow corner, almost flatout 5 gear and then narrow hairpin. Sordo passed by without codriver window. In this Place Nasser looked nice in the damp, second loop was almost dry. Today we stayed by the service park.
Hirvonnen proved in this rally that he his one of the smartest drivers, nice rythm without taking crazy mistakes. Novikov with smart aproach aswell.
Looking forward to Argentina.
EDIT: Special thanks to BluuFord from preventing a terrible cold on all of us, you were right ;) .
