It's a little hard to type when keep your fingers crossed :)
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Looks like the """miracle""" that Ogier needed to win the rally might as well happen... but well, early to say
Ucci comments after ss7
(48 - Andreucci Paolo / Andreussi Anna): I have seen Lappi stopped on the left. This stage was not great as I had a power-steering problem early on, but in the last 3kms I had no problems. For the moment the car is OK.
Nasser after ss8
(42 - Al-Attiyah Nasser / Baumel Matthieu): We changed what we needed for the afternoon and the tyres are working. It is a difficult rally. We will try to get through all the stages.
Okay Paddon really is having the pace this weekend.
Its up to Paddon now - Ogier now to 2nd...
Been a great day for him anyway , hope he keeps the lead.
JML has blown his chance I think.
Crazy day.
I got stucked on SS5 because silly organizers didn't stop cars arriving from a very narrow street in the middle of nowhere. The result was that people could no go ahead or back and they just let their cars in the middle of the road so that my car and all the cars of media guys and other spectators that arrived before was literally stucked.
We manage to go out by calling ALL the people that stopped the road.
Then, going from SS5 to SS7 I just met casually Mikkelsen on the road. He was stopped because he had gearshift problem in normal street (at least it is what people said). I took a picture but didn't bother him too much, just said hello :)
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/?ui...&sz=w1576-h665
Lappi
"I hit some rocks, broke the steering arm and then went across the road and hit some more. We fixed it. It was not so bad. My mistake though. All that's missing is a front drive-shaft - that's somewhere on the stage. We have only rear-wheel drive now."
(42 - Al-Attiyah Nasser / Baumel Matthieu): It was not easy but we tried and we kept improving all afternoon. It is still a long rally and a difficult one. We will try not to make mistakes. Here I was not pushing but before I was. We are at the limit with the tyres now.
Camilli stopped
Ucci took 15 sec from Nasser.
Kopecky 1:40 Penalty ?!