Flash Day 2-SS7 |
Date: October 3, 2009 Time: 9:14
Stage: El Priorat-La Ribera d'Ebre 1 (38.27 km)
Weather conditions: Sunny. 12.5ş C ambient temperature and 17ş tarmac temperature
Road conditions: Dry and clean
Additional data: Sébastien Loeb earned his third consecutive scratch, to be added to the two he managed yesterday, and is now tied with Dani Sordo in the classification. Mikko Hirvonen (Ford) was third, 5.3 seconds adrift of Loeb, and Sébastien Ogier (Citroën) was fourth, planting his car before Petter Solberg (Citroën) for the first time in this round. Evgeny Novikov (Citroën) came off the track.
Drivers' quotes
2 - Daniel Sordo/Marc Martí (Citroën C4 WRC)
"We were not very fast, but the pace improved throughout the stage. In the end, our time was quite good"
1 - Sébastien Loeb/Daniel Elena (Citroën C4 WRC)
"This is a highly technical, long and twisted stage. The pace changes a lot, and I'm not sure if that has affected the tyres"
3 - Mikko Hirvonen/Jarmo Lehtinen (Ford Focus RS WRC)
"We got it right with the set-ups we changed in yesterday's service. The car is performing better and I hope I'll step up my pace in the next stages"
11 - Petter Solberg/Phil Mills (Citroën C4 WRC)
"I started with too much wheelspin. I rectified my handling and I felt increasingly comfortable as I progressed through the stage"
12 - Sébastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia (Citroën C4 WRC)
"I finished really tired. This stage is tough and long"
4 - Jari-Matti Latvala/Mikka Anttila (Ford Focus RS WRC)
"Overall, it was good. However, I didn't feel comfortable at the outset. Then I started to feel better and the rest of the stage was better"
5 - Matthew Wilson/Scott Martin (Ford Focus RS WRC)
"It was hard to keep concentrated and to maintain the pace in such a long SS"
8 - Conrad Rautenbach/Daniel Barrit (Citroën C4 WRC)
"The car did not feel well."
38 - Martin Prokop/Jan Tománek (Citroën C2 S1600)
"This stage was really good. The car feels good"
31 - Aaron Burkart/Michael Kölbach (Suzuki Swift S1600)
"I had plenty of brake problems. This stage was awful"
59 - Jordi Martí/Gabriel Sánchez (Renault Clio R3)
"I'm growing confident in the car"
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