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So Neuville and Evans end the day essentially where they started.

Ogier ended pretty close, and he will be higher up the order tomorrow than today. Although I'm not at all sure what road position...

Gryazin got an even bigger gain in WRC2 than Ogier in WRC1 on that final stage.

Holy cow. That is sensational from Ogier. And look at Ogier sweating.

Yep, I forgot about him. Well, that was foolish...

So will that set the running order for tomorrow?

Edit: Possibly a stage win for Fourmaux, with Neuville/Evans/Tanak all going for it. That's quite impressive.

Edit: Katsuta quick too. It's like this stage is cleaning...

Hot damn. Equal times at the end of the day. I think Neuville leads on stage wins.

They say Evans goes first tomorrow, but I want to hear that confirmed...

Evans into the lead and Tanak going fast. It's all happening.

Pajari is doing his bit to reduce the commercialization of rallying, by knocking the advertising hoardings over.

Lopez had a small spin/off, recovered, lost maybe 30 secs.

Damn, he got away with it again. [/Evans fan]

Ogier shaking his ass there...

Gryazin is looking pretty badass. Looking at his onboards, he is the WRC2 I find easiest to mistake for WRC1.

I didn't pay much attention to WRC2 before this year. I had the impression that he was...

I agree, but I wonder did he have much choice? If this is what was on offer...

Yeah, he really doesn't look comfortable in the hybrids. I thought after Monte they should enter him in several local rallies in a WRC1 to get seat time, but I don't think they did much of that.

In SS1

Eh, that grass needed trimming anyway.

I would think they'd want to give Sordo the best possible road position for Portugal/Sardinia which are big cleaning rallies. He's won Sardina a couple of times thanks to starting late on the road,...

Hmm. Lots of mess on the road in WRC2. Rossel was good, and Greensmith looked good for a guy who thought he had a puncture, but Gryazin went like a rocket.

Lots of tyre choices in play, which...

Well, nice co-commentator this morning.

Well, stage 1 at least appears to have strong reverse-cleaning. I wonder if the whole rally will be like this. If so, Neuville is looking very hard to beat.

And here we go!

That certainly helps, but it doesn't help on Friday afternoon if your preferred driver broke a prop shaft on stage 3. ;)

Once upon a time, when rally was primarily consumed via news reports and...

Rain on Saturday, they said during shakedown this morning.

Is that what the sheep are for, to fill the potholes?

I shouldn't joke -- here in the UK, a friend of mine recently had the suspension on his car (BMW Ix) broken by a pothole. Six thousand quid to...