74th PZM Rally Poland

[Raini]

Tanak fans tonight

There is a lonely fan of Kubica as well ...

[dimviii]

[KKS]

press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uion1iwpB8&t=0s

Boring Neuville meet boring Tanak and Lappi... I never heard so boring press/conf . Looks like only Craig have some antidot pills, maybe cuz he island man, and that boring illness not effect on him

[stefanvv]

Looks like only Craig have some antidot pills, maybe cuz he island man

The next John Desbrough's headline - "The Man from the Island".

[stefanvv]

So some speculations...If we look at the past years results, we see that Ogier, Neuville, Latvala and Mikkelsen have been in top 6 each year (Latvala has been fifth every year). Tänak and Paddon have also shown good results in the last two years and Tänak won WRC2 in 2014. Tänak the obvious favourite for a win, even before Sardinia. Ogier is first on the road but shouldn't matter that much in this rally, he'll be fast here. Evans a bit of a question mark, will there be a DMack advantage? Neuville will be fast, as will be Paddon, but Neuville will finish more probably without any incidents. Not probaly the best rally for Sordo.Latvala has been consistently slower than his teammates in the past. Lappi has downspoken his pace in the media, but he might surprise us. Hänninen probably won't be as impressive as in Sardinia.Mikkelsen has been fast here, but it's hard to say if he has made the car fit his style during the testing or not. All in all it's hard to expect anything from the whole Citroen team. Even Lefebvre made a stage win last year, but also crashed. Østberg wasn't up on the pace last year, not expecting much from him. And Suninen's main objective is probably Rally Finland so he's just using Poland to adapt to the car and find the setup, so I hope he just stays on the road and gets race mileage.WRC2 will be again too easy for Tidemand?

Whoever wins this rally, will win the championship.

[Zeakiwi]

Was there a spare Citroen R5 that Meeke might have driven? Drivers need regular rallies to stay in the game, especially with the 2017 cars?
Did Meeke do the recce?

[racerx1979]

He was doing recce at Poland and apparently working closely with the team.

[dimviii]

Ott Tänak‏*@OttTanak
Into service, into the rain, and time for the technicians to do their thing #WRC #RallyPoland

Thierry Neuville‏
Good morning! Just arrived for the morning service and it's raining here . 9 stages to run to today! #Hyundai #i20CoupeWRC #RallyPoland

[EstWRC]

It started to rain in the beginning of ss2

[dimviii]

Colin Clark‏*@voiceofrally
Good morning rally friends from the end of today's opening stage. Yucky is the word to describe the weather. Wet, windy and cold!