Date: 10.09.2021
Day: 2
Flash N°: 6
Special stage: 4 (Aghii Theodori 2)
Distance: 17.54 km
Weather: 25°C
Road conditions: Dry, rough gravel

 1         SEBASTIEN OGIER/JULIEN INGRASSIA

“Extremely rough. I didn’t push in this one”.

33        ELFYN EVANS/SCOTT MARTIN

“We have a problem. We are losing a lot of time”. They are stuck in 4th gear.

 11       THIERRY NEUVILLE/MARTIJN WYDAEGHE

“It’s a big mess. All day we have a lot of technical issues and now the power steering issue. It’s a day to forget. Now we have lost 4 minutes and a lot of time, but we are not going to give up”.

 69      KALLE ROVANPERÄ/JONNE HALTTUNEN

“It’s OK. There was a lot of cleaning, I tried to keep the lines, but it was not easy. Clean run”.

 8        OTT TÄNAK/MARTIN JÄRVEOJA

“It was a good challenge. We changed the set-up, as it was more rough now”.

 44      GUS GREENSMITH/CHRIS PATTERSON

“There is some damage in the front. Maybe a puncture. I don’t know”.

 6        DANI SORDO/CANDIDO CARRERA

“Really difficult and bad conditions. I couldn’t push more. It’s a weird feeling in such a rough stage to punish the car”.

 16      ADRIEN FOURMAUX/RENAUD JAMOUL

“Really tough and hard. Some places are OK, but the 75% of the stage was really rough. But that’s part of this rally”.

 7        PIERRE-LOUIS LOUBET/FLORIAN HAUT-LABOURDETTE

“We had a puncture”.

 COMMENTS

Kalle Rovanpera sets again the fastest time and slightly extends his lead over Ott Tanak by 3,8 sec. Sebastien Ogier is third and has a small gap over Dani Sordo. More drama for Thierry Neuville, who forced to leave the tyre fitting zone with 24 minutes delay due to a power steering problem. The Belgian also lost a lot of time in SS 4. Elfyn Evans still has problem with his gearbox.

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