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Everyone who thought after the 1st stage that the rally was done, you can rethink it now. And there is rain forecasted for tomorrow.

Interesting fact from Ingrassia - Lefebre is the gravel crew for Ogier, because Ogier wanted more precise and not-that-much-on-the-safe-side notes.

When road conditions are equal, it's quite interesting. 23.63km stage and everyone is quite close.

Really nice times from Fourmaux and Katsuta.

Just everyone will be probably smashed by...

So, close to 2h of driving and the difference between Neuville and Evans is... 0.0sec.

Eem, Katsuta 1.3 fastest (Ogier still to come) at the 1st split, 1.7 at the 2nd split.

Old bones need some warm-up and tomorrow he will start his fight-back for the win.

*Tänak has got the car to not lose too much now.

He did not have "too huge" time loss at this stage but lost one extra tool (soft tire) for the next stages, so potentially it produces further time loss.

edit: Neuville said, that it will not...

Neuville rear-left off the rim at the stage end. When comparing splits, lost ~9sec to Evans.

edit: I got confused by camera-position, it was front right.

Neuville rear-left off the tim at the stage end. When comparing splits, lost ~9sec to Evans.

Fourmaux is doing well. If we take the assumption, that M-Sport's Ford is not on the level with Hyundai and Toyota, then very well.

That is also true, but not that much compared to his closest rivals for the rally win. With returned starting order, the difference between the 6th and 8th car is not as much as between the 1st and...

So far, Neuville has achieved a really valuable "road-position trophy" for his good start of the season.

We should look separately at overall experience (which is of course valuable), and experience during last year. He is not talented like Loeb or Ogier.

Maybe we should just not have too big expectations of Mikkelsen? He jumps into the car over a long time, he lacks testing days, there is no reason for heroics, there is bad road position etc. We can...

and the video of it: https://twitter.com/HMSGOfficial/status/1781224463239106847

How many "bljat" Grazin said? :) If commentators could only know what they are talking about...

SS3 conditions: https://twitter.com/OfficialWRC/status/1781235583928414635

The context - Rossel went to the grass after the jump, really lucky that there wasn't anything solid there, it could be game over.

At least nice coverage so far - Ingrassia as co-commentator, "studio" moving around, "pop-up Porter" collecting road-section insights.

and a nice amount of splits to follow.

1 Tanak 2 Neuville 3 Ogier 4 Evans 5 Fourmaux 6 Katsuta 7 Mikkelsen 8 Munster meh

I would say the 2nd line is as wrong as the 1st one :) What is your story, if Neuville gets the title this year? :)

Fourmaux / M-Sport podiums probably are really good for the team and also for the championship.

M-Sport gets completely different attention compared to last season. No title-expectation pressure,...

Yeah, we can be philosophical here and say that Neuville is not a champ (so far) because he takes too many risks and Evans is not a champ (so far) because he does not take enough risks.

It can be just a difference in willingness to take a risk.