Did you followed stage times or you are only watching standings after SS 16?
Printable View
It's nice to see quite a proper Sunday with 80 km of stages.
I mean, if we take away his off road excursion of 40s he's still 20 seconds off the lead which is a lot in a tarmac rally.
Gryazin isn't blazingly fast normally and Østberg has respectable pace in RC1 machinery. So I'd expect him to be at least level with Østberg (and Østberg being Mr consistent has likely been safeing after Gryazins mishaps).
When Ogier was forced to run in S2000 machinery he was running away with every single rally and even mixing it in with RC1 machinery at the time.
Mikkelsen usually runs away compared to other RC2 as well (and why he doesn't here is a mystery to me).
We know Sunninen on good days can have rally winning pace in not very up to date Msport cars so I'm surprised he isn't quicker. That's my take, but hey. I'm not going to argue. I have been wrong before
Pierre-Louis Loubet
@PL_Loubet
Our first mistake of the weekend, no matter how small, forces us to retire for today
Disappointed face
The car has nothing but we couldn't get out of the ditch. We will analyze with the team what could have happened because at the moment I do not understand ... #WRC