STAGE FLASH

DATE: 08 June | FLASH N°: 13
DAY: 3
STAGE: SS13 SAN GIACOMO - PLEBI 1 | STAGE LENGTH: 25,19
WEATHER: Sunny
ROAD CONDITIONS: Dry

Car #55 J.Mcerlean - E. Treacy (Ford Puma Rally1): [Looking surprised about the time?] "Yeah. Honestly there are so many tight corners going uphill and you are waiting all the time to get traction. It is a nice surprise because I tried to drive clean. This is a super tricky stage. It would be very cool to be on board with Ogier coming in there"

Car #13 G.Munster - L. Louka (Ford Puma Rally1): "Not much to look at today, just carrying through. Trying things out. In the dust I could not see 30m in front so big time lost"

Car #16 A. Fourmaux - A.Coria (Hyundai i20 N Rally1): "On the last part of the stage we had a lot of hanging dust and we did not see anything, it is very narrow and I did not take any risks. I have to say thanks to the team, all the mechanics, because they fixed the car yesterday and did an amazing job. Thanks to them"

Car #1 T. Neuville - M.Wydaeghe (Hyundai i20 N Rally1): "Terrible. I had a good stage, but it is cleaning so much in there. I expect the fastest to go 20-25s faster. Not much I can do. I do not know about the dust but I know Taka is on a 4 minutes [gap] so he might have an advantage towards the end of the stage. This is the only thing we can play for this weekend, so we have to try"

Car #9 J.Serderidis - F.Miclotte (Ford Puma Rally1): "Demanding, terribly demanding. The beginning is so technical, it is an early wake up. Then the end it is nice. We enjoyed it"

Car #18 T. Katsuta - A. Johnston (Toyota GR Yaris Rally1): "The dust is bad. I could not see in a few places. I do not know but I had to be careful because it is very narrow. You cannot trust everything in the corner and it is very difficult. I do not know if it is the same for everybody or not but for me it was really really bad"

Car #5 S.Pajari - M.Salminen (Toyota GR Yaris Rally1): "We spun and I hit something. I need to check what happened. I do not know, let's see"

Car #33 E. Evans - S. Martin (Toyota GR Yaris Rally1): "[Sami had a problem, were you stuck in the dust?]Yeah. Really quite bad. I lost quite a bit"

Car #69 K.Rovampera - J. Halttunen (Toyota GR Yaris Rally1): "Quite horrible to be honest. So tricky. I do not know what the other guys are doing. You can drive 1 minute faster on this stage, I was so bad. But luckily at least I was faster than them" 

Car #8 O. Tänak - M. Järveoja (Hyundai i20 N Rally1): "The stage went OK. Every morning it is like I am driving the car for the first time in my life. It is a bit demanding. Let's see, I will try to improve. The dust was not so nice"

Car #17 S. Ogier - V. Landais (Toyota GR Yaris Rally1): "Good, clean stage for us. Demanding one, very technical, very narrow. I fought a lot with the hairpins in some places but I am happy with that"