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STAGE FLASH 14
STAGE FLASH 14
Les Kolczak
6 December 2008, 4:52 pm
Day: 2 Flash: 14 Special Stage: SS14 Crychan 2 Distance:14.96 Km Weather: Clear Road Conditions: Slippy and icy in places
4: Jari-Matti Latvala/Miika Anttila
“I don’t want to be in front tomorrow morning. Best place to be is behind somebody else but if I am first out there I just have to do my very very best.”

1: Sebastien Loeb/Daniel Elena
“We are too far behind at the moment. I had a good drive but I was too cautious on the ice and lost a little time.”

12: Per-Gunnar Andersson/Jonas Andersson
“It is quite good grip in places but suddenly icy corners. I wasn’t able to match the performance I put in yesterday but the car is fantastic and has been very reliable today.”

5: Petter Solberg/Philip Mills
“It was very icy in many places and the car is a little bit better with the dampers now but it’s very slippy in there.”

2: Dani Sordo/Marc Marti
“Not bad time there. I am very happy now but the rally is not over yet. I need to concentrate on getting points for the Championship.”

7: Francois Duval/Denis Giraudet
“Low sun and difficult stage conditions makes this fun! We are driving steady and I have come out here to keep the car in the points.”

14: Henning Solberg/Cato Menkarud
“Better pace today, much better with the car. I am trying to reach the top five so I am pushing hard to get there.”

3: Mikko Hirvonen/Jarmo Lehtinen
“Not much I can do for the manufacturer’s title but I am having a good time so let’s enjoy tomorrow. I fitted the light pods on in case I rolled again and needed to see my way out of the stage!”

11: Toni Gardemeister/Tomi Tuominen
“We were OK, no problems. The car is running OK. Obviously it is slippy out there but we were driving well.”

20: Barry Clark/Paul Nagle
“It has been a great day for us – we started really well but since then we have been drawn back slightly but nevertheless our pace is good and we’ll just have to see what tomorrow brings.”

16: Conrad Rautenbach/David Senior
“It hasn’t been much easier this afternoon to be honest. I am not getting into it and enjoying it all that much.”

8: Matthew Wilson/Scott Martin
“Still really tricky in there with some grip. I still have to push because I have some chance of a point.”

19: Khalid Al Qassimi/Michael Orr
“We had a big 5th gear spin on the final corner and were lucky to get away with it. It was like a frozen lake.”

22: Gareth Jones/Clive Jenkins
“We lost about five minutes with a bit of an off in the previous stage and are battling to just keep things going without too much damage to the car.”

18: Mads Ostberg/Ole Kristian Unnerud
Reported stopped at junction four in stage

23: Steve Perez/Paul Spooner
“The stage is cutting up badly now. We went off and Valentino caught us which slowed us down a bit as we finally caught up. It is a real challenge out there at the moment but it’s what it’s all about.”

46: Valentino Rossi/Carlo Cassina
“It is so slippy and a lot of ice. We went too fast into a corner and overshot it which smashed the front of the car and cracked the windscreen but it is OK.”

44: Patrik Flodin/Goran Bergsten
“Really enjoying the car – the package feels really good and I’m looking for Subaru’s first Production World Cup win.”

55: Patrik Sandell/Emil Axelsson
“The ice under the trees is more polished now but the car set up is brilliant and that was a great stage.”

50: Armindo Araujo/Miguel Ramalho
“We were on three cylinders on that last stage so have been losing a lot of time.”

47: Jaromir Tarabus/Daniel Trunket
“We have a vibration from the front wheel but I don’t know what is happening.”

37: Spyros Pavlides/Steve Lancaster
“Very adventurous, no major issues””

61: Gwyndaf Evans/Gareth Roberts
“Not any better to be honest.”

67: Hermann Gassner Junior/Katherina Wuestenhagen
“So many mistakes, but we are still here – but don’t like it so much.”

69: Daniel Unger/Sebastian Itu
“No grip, too much slip. Very careful!”

70: Marco Tempestini/Dorin Pulpea
“That was OK but very rough in the second part of the stage.”

72: Ryan Champion/Anders Howard
“Despite a recurring misfire, we still passed car 62 (Mattias Therman/Janne Perala). It is definitely slippier with the sun gone.”

68: Hugh Evans/Iestyn Williams
“I had two spins in there and dropped some time, but it was not the car’s fault though. I am looking forward to the Super Special in Cardiff tonight but hope not to make a meal of it as al my sponsors are there!”

94: Thomas Cave/Gemma Price
“I was more cautious in there but am really looking forward to the Stadium.”

81: Emre Yurdakul/Can Erkal
“All OK, no problems.”

87: Tony Jardine/David Smith
“Really, really, really... treacherous. Darker and colder now but we amended the notes from this morning’s run and have performed better.”

83: Luca Griotti/Corrado Bonato
“More slippier than before, but we got through OK.”

98: Darren Jones/Paul Burley
“That was no better than the first run to be honest, and there were some big moments in the first section where it is still frozen. I didn’t realise how icy it was in there.”

 

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