Nice battle, happy to see the Skoda is not overdominating!
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It's interesting. I was a bit expecting Pech to win SS3 which is extremely difficult stage, very narrow with a lot of crests but I didn't expect him to win very fast SS4 at all.
any reason why especially cerny is so slow? lost over 1 minute on 4 (short) stages??
Maybe Cerny is not so slow, maybe Pech+Kopecky are so fast :D
Hard to say. Maybe he chose wrong tyres. The stages were dry (at least I think they were but I'm not sure) but rain was expected at any moment.
There was a mistake now. They let Valoušek into the stage just one minute after Laivola instead of two like in previous stage and as a result Valoušek lost some time with overtaking him.
Edit: Kopecký lost 22 seconds in SS6!
Kopecky with mistake at ss 6? lost 22,8 sec.
Left rear puncture was reported. No confirmation though.
Interesting also is that Valoušek drives with stock fuel.
Edit: Kopecký takes 11 seconds back on last stage of today!
The rain came during last night. The top crews were hit mainly in the last stage. Today it's raining. Pech now won first stage of today which is traditionally very muddy narrow forest road. Now the legendary crazy Malonty.
PS Also notice that Pech is on Pirelli tyres while Kopecký on Michelin.