Date: 6/9/2024 Flash N°: 9b

Service: B (Lamia)

#20 Sami PAJARI / Enni MÄLKÖNEN

“The morning was not the best for us with the puncture. It’s a long, tricky rally and everything can happen. For the moment things look good for us. The car is very strong and so far we have no problems. We will try our best.”

#21 Yohan ROSSEL / Florian BARRAL

“For sure the day was very positive for me, my co-driver and the team. We were setting times at the front, we were leading. But at the end of the last stage we had a puncture. But the Rally is so long. We will keep fighting.”

#22 Lauri JOONA / Ville MANNISENMÄKI

Retired SS5 - Mechanical problem

#23 Nikolay GRYAZIN / Konstantin ALEKSANDROV

“We had one puncture and we lost a lot of time. We didn’t have a great pace, just safe mode. Tomorrow we will do the same thing and try to avoid any mistakes.”

#25 Georg LINNAMÄE / James MORGAN

Retired SS2 - Went off the road

#26 Joshua MCERLEAN / James FULTON

“First time in Acropolis and we try to be clean. Big day tomorrow, with no service, and that makes it very demanding.”

#27 Gus GREENSMITH / Jonas ANDERSSON

Retired SS6 - Hit a cow

#28 Robert VIRVES / Aleks LESK

“We managed not to get any problems and everything went fine. Tomorrow we will try to drive as fast as possible, without breaking the car.”

#29 Kajetan KAJETANOWICZ / Maciej SZCZEPANIAK

“My starter is done and we had that problem from the previous service. But this is Acropolis. A demanding Rally.”

#30 Fabrizio ZALDIVAR / Marcelo DER OHANNESIAN

“It was quite tough, we got a puncture, but we were clever enough not to run in problems, and now we are in fourth position. In the last stage we lost quite a lot of time, we could be fighting for the third position, but still there are two more days to fight.”

#34 Pierre-Louis LOUBET / Loris PASCAUD

Retired SS1 - Went off the road

#35 Armin KREMER / Ella KREMER

“It was a hard day for us, but we are leading in the Masters Cup, so we are happy. The Acropolis Rally is really tough and hard and the high temperature in the car is not so easy to deal with. Tomorrow if we can find a good pace we can keep the leading”.

#36 Georgios VASILAKIS / Thomas KRAWSZIK

“The second loop was better. Ano Pavliani was nice, but Dafni was very demanding. I enjoyed Tarzan very much. Tomorrow we will change the setup of the car.”

#38 Lambros ATHANASOULAS / Nikolaos ZAKCHAIOS

Retired SS1 - Went off the road

#39 Georgios KECHAGIAS / Nikolaos PETROPOULOS

“Today it was not as difficult as we expected. Tomorrow's stages are rougher and it’s going to be a big challenge without service between stages.”

#40 Panagiotis ROUSTEMIS / Christos BAKLORIS

“It’s one of the roughest Acropolis of the last years. We are first between the Greek crews with a gap over a minute. It’s very sad that Lambros retired, because we could have had a great fight. Now we will try to secure this result.”

#41 Vasileios VELANIS / Ilias PANAGIOTOUNIS

Retired SS5 - Broken steering

#43 Georgios-Alexandros AMOUTZAS / Georgios ILIOPOULOS

Retired SS1 - Lost time card

#48 Nikolaos PAVLIDIS / Allan HARRYMAN

“We had a puncture and we lost a lot of time. We tried to go faster but we had a lot of tire wear. But we are here, we manage to finish this difficult day. Our main goal is to finish.”

For high-resolution photos, click here.