Leg: 1
Flash No: 6
Special Stage: SS5 Resolfen 2
Distance: 25.08Km
Weather: Dull and overcast with hard rain
Road Conditions: Slippy and rutted

1: Sebastien Loeb/Daniel Elena
“It is so wet and slippery is requires lots of concentration.”

4: Mikko Hirvonen/Jarmo Lehtinen
“So slippery in there and I drove too slowly.”

2: Dani Sordo/Marc Marti
“It is so wet it is unbelievable.”

9: Jari-Matti Latvala/Miika Anttila
“The stage is better than this morning as the rain has washed a lot of the mud and stones away. The rain is absolutely incredible, though but the car is performing well and we are happy.”

7: Petter Solberg/Philip Mills
“I have never seen rain like this before – it is absolutely incredible. The last 10kms we had to drive with a misted windscreen which makes it even harder to see properly. Absolutely incredible.”

5: Manfred Stohl/Ilka Minor
“My heated windscreen has broken which meant that I had a badly misted screen on that stage. Really tricky to drive competitively like that.”

8: Chris Atkinson/Stephane Prevot
“That was totally incredible in there, really really slippy!”

16: Matthew Wilson/Michael Orr
“There is too much moisture in the car which is giving us some problems with the condensation on the windows. I blame myself for the poor time in this stage, though, as I just wasn’t pushing hard enough.”

11: Luis Perez Companc/Jose Maria Volta
“It is so wet in there that we are aquaplaning in the corners!”

10: Henning Solberg/Cato Menkerund
“Our screen has misted up so much that I could not see anything through it at all.”

45: Mirco Baldacci/Giovani Agnese
“Really hard in there, really slippy.”

47: Andreas Aigner/Klaus Wicha
“There has been so much fog and rain today it has been a real test for us.”

34: Mark Higgins/Scott Martin
“We had a puncture on the right rear wheel plus a misted windscreen which together must have lost us about 30 seconds. Fortunately the tyre mousse took care of the puncture and I’m glad it did as I didn’t fancy getting out and changing the wheel in that rain!”

41: Leszek Kuzaj/Craig Parry
“We had a puncture in the stage about 6kms from the end.”

46: Armindo Araujo/Miguel Ramalho
“Nothing is easy about this rally!”

60: Gwyndaf Evans/Huw Lewis
“I just can’t go flat out in this weather. It’s total Hell out there.”

59: Guy Wilks/Phil Pugh
“It’s a lot more rutted the second time around but the car is OK and we are setting some strong times I think.”

69: Wyn Humphreys/Ally Mackay
“The car is strong but the driver needs more courage!”

106: Matt Beebe/Gareth Roberts
“It is just awful in there!”

101: James Wozencroft/Christopher Ridge
“We stopped in stage because we saw a car with hazards on but the crew were OK so we carried on.”

113: Martin Laverty/Andrew Roughead
“The rocks have bashed the steering so much that it is now out of alignment.”

105: Hugh Evans/Iestyn Williams
“We have lost our turbo in there. All I am concerned about now is the British Rally Championship.”