4: Jari-Matti Latvala/Miika Anttila
“We had a problem 1.5km into the stage on a downhill section. It was under braking and we hit sheet ice. I couldn’t do anything and we hit the barrier on my side of the car. Luckily we bounced back into the road so we didn’t lose too much time. It’s difficult to find the balance between attacking and staying on the road.”

1: Sebastien Loeb/Daniel Elena
“I made some set-up changes to the roll bar and suspension and they seem to have worked. But it’s still icy and treacherous. I’m pleased with the time.”

12: Per-Gunnar Andersson/Jonas Andersson
“It’s going well. There is no grip in some places and lots of grip in others. These stages are just too quick for this car to really shine.”

18: Mads Ostberg/Ole Kristian Unnerud
“I went off on some ice near the end of the stage and damaged the front end of the car and the co-driver’s side.”

5: Petter Solberg/Philip Mills
“It’s very slippy and I was so sideways in there. I can’t get the car to pull properly. I will just keep pushing and hope the guys ahead hit trouble.”

2: Dani Sordo/Marc Marti
“That was a great run. The car is handling well – we made some adjustments in service and they seem to have worked.”

14: Henning Solberg/Cato Menkarud
“It was so hard to get any grip it was so slippy. I didn’t change the car at service, my approach is just to drive flat out.”

3: Mikko Hirvonen/Jarmo Lehtinen
“I tried to go at a good speed and catch the guys ahead but they are driving so fast I’m not making much of an impression. I’ll keep attacking in the usual Finnish fashion. The car is good, so I have a lot of confidence.”

8: Matthew Wilson/Scott Martin
“It’s still not much fun. It’s so slippy and I’m having some huge slides on ice. I’m just using the rally to learn about the car in these conditions.”

11: Toni Gardemeister/Tomi Tuominen
“This stage is always difficult, especially under the trees where it is so slippy.”

20: Barry Clark/Paul Nagle
“It’s not too bad – just steady away. I don’t think about being top Scot – there aren’t many of us. I won’t tell you my goal, but top ten is a target, maybe I can go even better.”

16: Conrad Rautenbach/David Senior
“It’s getting worse – the temperature is going down and it’s getting slippier. I’m glad I’m not running later. There’s lots of tricky bits. There is some rear offside damage.”

19: Khalid Al Qassimi/Michael Orr
“It’s freezing again and it’s really slippery. The car is all over the place. It’s my first experience of any conditions like this.”

46: Valentino Rossi/Carlo Cassina
“I don’t like that stage at all – I’m glad it’s over. I got stuck behind car 23 and held up.”

23: Steve Perez/Paul Spooner
Went off in stage and rejoined in front of Rossi. “I just got stuck. I couldn’t get reverse and sat there for about two minutes.”

22: Gareth Jones/Clive Jenkins
Front end damage evident. “I had three offs in there, they cost quite a bit of time. It is very icy under the trees.”

21: Eamonn Boland/Damien Morrissey
“It’s getting worse in there as the temperature is dropping. I’ve done a lot of slipping and sliding. I’m just happy to be through.”

60: Guy Wilks/Phil Pugh
“No problems in there – I’m just trying to stick to the middle of the road and keep it as flowing as possible. We can talk about the title tomorrow.”

41: Andreas Aigner/Klaus Wicha
“No problems. It’s starting to freeze up though.”

44: Patrik Flodin/Goran Bergsten
“It’s getting harder as it gets colder. There’s lots of sliding. I am being too cautious in places and I need to start trusting the car.”

55: Patrik Sandell/Emil Axelsson
“I can see where the ice is reforming – it’s getting so slippy.”

146: Jari Ketomaa/Miika Teiskonen
“The car’s clean but it’s not going very well. I haven’t got a good balance and I don’t know why. Also, the engine is not running cleanly after taking in so much water in the watersplash yesterday.”

50: Armindo Araujo/Miguel Ramalho
“I’ve made a few small changes to the car this afternoon, and they seem to be positive. But it’s still slippy and icy.”

37: Spyros Pavlides/Steve Lancaster
“We have an alignment problem. It was a mistake in service, so now I’m just trying to survive until we reach Swansea again.”

67: Hermann Gassner Junior/Katherina Wuestenhagen
“It’s okay – everything is working well. I’m being careful in the fast stuff. It’s not about ice so much as hard gravel.”

70: Marco Tempestini/Dorin Pulpea
“That was more pleasant than I expected, even though it was slippier than this morning.”

62: Mattias Therman/Janne Perala
“That was a lot better this time through. I felt pressure to go carefully – I just want to finish.”

69: Daniel Unger/Sebastian Itu
“I tried to go fast but didn’t.”

72: Ryan Champion/Anders Howard
“There’s not much adhesion in there. Our problem is that the car keeps misfiring or cutting out. It’s either running cleanly or hesitating, which makes life a bit unpredictable.”

68: Hugh Evans/Iestyn Williams
“That stage was pretty similar to last time. I just want to finish. There won’t be any heroics.”

76: Jason Pritchard/George Gwynn
“I won the C2-R2 Cup yesterday, so I’m just enjoying the rally now. The intercom is fixed now, which helps. However, I don’t feel I ever got into the rhythm of that stage.”

94: Thomas Cave/Gemma Price
“That was one of the best stages we’ve had – it was nice, smooth and tidy and with no spins this time. We raised the ride height in service and that seems to be working. We had one moment on a downhill section over a bridge, but we just got away with it.”

87: Tony Jardine/David Smith
“We were catching the guy ahead of us and came up to a hairpin 2km from the finish. I yanked on the handbrake and it just stuck. We sat in the mud until I got it off again. My co-driver and I shook hands after that one as we were back in tune – we lost each other a bit on the stage before.”

83: Luca Griotti/Corrado Bonato
“I hit some debris in the road with the front underside of the car, but I don’t think there’s an oil leak.”

98: Darren Jones/Paul Burley
“We’ve just bent another wheel rim. It’s the front offside one and it’s banging on the wheel rim. It wasn’t as icy as I feared, although there were a few patches of fog.”

82: Frederick Sauvan/Thibault Gorczca
“That was a better run than this morning. The conditions were ok.”

32: Mirco Baldacci/Giovani Agnese
Withdrew with transmission problem and is driving back to service to SupeRally.

79: Andrew Hockridge/Rich Mills
“I had a little more traction that time. We had an off in Crychan this morning that cost us five minutes and did some damage, so I’m trying to be cautious now.”

75: Peter Stephenson/Kim Baker
“In this dusky light it’s very hard to know whether to use the lights or not. I wasn’t helped by a few spectators wandering around, either.”

85: Nathan O'Connor/Jessica Rogan
“It’s really bad in there now. It’s so icy in places. We changed tyres for this loop and I hope that will help the times. Oh, I’ve just seen the time – it hasn’t helped at all!”

89: Gordon Nichol/Emma Morrison
“I’m wearing these yellow glasses as I do think they help in the half light. Also, I’ve never concentrated so much on pacenotes because of the quality of light so any help in seeing is great. We lost our light pod. We hit a rock early on and then the pod worked loose, eventually coming off.”

91: David Matthews/Ian Harraway
“I did virtually the whole stage in third gear. I lost the clutch near the start. It doesn’t get much worse than that.” The car is now stuck on the finish line and won’t push start. Driver reports he will have to retire.

97: David Harrison/Glyn Thomas
“That was a very enjoyable stage. Slippy, but I liked the challenge. We changed the brakes earlier and that seems to have helped.”

203 Alan Paramore/James Dempsey
“It was as tricky as hell in there. People should try taking a two tonne vehicle over ice at 60mph! I broke the windscreen on a low branch, too. I just hope the other guys come through okay, because it’s really tough.”

206 Duncan Lilwall/Craig Teasdale
“I really enjoyed that. I tried to remember where all the ice patches were from last time, but soon found that was a waste of time as new ones have appeared! It’s light enough to see in places, but under the trees it’s just pitch black.”

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54: Mark Higgins/Roy Kennedy
“There was ice on a right-hand corner and in order to stay on the road I had to accelerate out of the bend. Then I arrived at a left over a crest, but there was ice on the approach which meant I couldn’t slow down. The car went sideways and slid off the road. That broke the steering arm. I’d like to start again tomorrow and try to keep the car on the road.”

59: David Higgins/Ieuan Thomas
Describing his retirement this morning...
“I was braking for a bend that is normally a flat left-hander and as soon as I touched the brakes it felt like the car accelerated. We went straight off the road and 50 metres downhill. The car ended up pretty much vertical. That was that.”

57: Egon Kaur/Simo Koskinen
He retired today with transmission problems that left him with rear-wheel drive only.