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Good morning and welcome to day 3
SS9 Esparron / Oze 1 - 18.79 km
Neuville fastest and takes second overall
Overall after SS9
Neuville Thierry - Wydaeghe Martijn
I am well awake this morning. It was OK, I had a decent run through."
Evans Elfyn - Martin Scott
"Very difficult to judge, so places very slippy, some place with frost [in the notes] that seemed to have full grip."
Ogier Sébastien - Landais Vincent
"It's a lot of time lost. My information was quite too safe"
OVERALL TOP 20 AFTER SS9
OVERALL TOP WRC2
SS10 Les Nonières / Chichilianne 1 - 20.04 km
Mikkelsen Andreas - Eriksen T.
"It's an awesome stage, really beautiful. Its proper Tarmac, but I've still got a lot to learn in this car."
Katsuta Takamoto - Johnston Aaron
"No moments, we are safely through. The start is dry, but the downhill sections are quite greasy."
Munster Grégoire - Louka Louis
"This one was less good, the beginning is very dry, I did not commit enough. Every time I do a corner, I think 'I can go 5 km/h faster'."
Neuville Thierry - Wydaeghe Martijn
"It's getting quite dirty, at the end the grip was much higher than I expected. I could have gone much quicker."
Ogier Sébastien - Landais Vincent
"Its a shame the first stage was terrible..."
Evans Elfyn - Martin Scott
"Little issues in there, but OK..."
OVERALL AFTER SS10 - RALLY1
OVERALL TOP 10 WRC2 - AFTER SS10
SS11 Pellafol / Agnières-en-Dévoluy 1 - 21.37 km
"Tricky stage, it's getting more and more dirty. Overall I had a clean run"
Neuville Thierry - Wydaeghe Martijn
"No risk, but sometimes I can't really understand the notes, and I hesitate, so I lose a bit of time. Its a new stage, so thats part of the issue"
Ogier Sébastien - Landais Vincent
"It would be better if we didn't give so much time away this morning"
Evans Elfyn - Martin Scott
"It's getting a dirtier and dirtier all the time, so thats difficult. At the end of the last stage I had no hybrid, again"
SS12 Esparron / Oze 2 - 18.79 km
Munster off
Katsuta Takamoto - Johnston Aaron
"I'm trying to drive with good feeling. Its dirty conditions, its not so easy to trust the route note information"
Mikkelsen Andreas - Eriksen T.
"Much better than this morning. When I saw Munster I slowed a little, but then I found my rhythm again."
Fourmaux Adrien - Coria Alexandre
"It's really a shame for Gregoire, he was doing a great job today. The corner was full of gravel."
Tänak Ott - Järveoja Martin
"Its quite tough, lots of dirt"
Ogier Sébastien - Landais Vincent
"Good start. But there is two more. We had to go for some risk on the tires"
Evans Elfyn - Martin Scott
"I dunno what's going on, I'm surprised it's that bad. It didn't feel great, but thats chronic."
OVERALL AFTER SS12 - RALLY1
OVERALL TOP 10 AFTER SS12 - WRC2
SS13 Les Nonières / Chichilianne 2 - 20.04 km
Katsuta Takamoto - Johnston Aaron 11:49.4
"It's not so nice conditions, at the beginning it's dry, but on the way down it's a totally different stage. Very greasy. The guys behind are fighting, so thats going to be interesting"
Mikkelsen Andreas - Eriksen T. 11:49.5
"It was tricky down the hill, we took it very safe. I'm enjoying the driving"
Fourmaux Adrien - Coria Alexandre 11:51.1
"You have 5km where its really muddy, I think someone could run faster than us"
Tänak Ott - Järveoja Martin 11:45.2
"In the clean it's enjoyable, second part is mixed. Its challenging, but its fine"
Neuville Thierry - Wydaeghe M. 11:35.4
"It felt really good"
OVERALL AFTER SS13 - RALLY1
Ogier Sébastien - Landais V.
"It's nice. We need to keep pushing, its a very nice fight"
OVERALL TOP 10 AFTER SS13 - WRC2
SS14 Pellafol / Agnières-en-Dévoluy 2 - 21.37 km
Crews heading into the final stage of today
Katsuta Takamoto - Johnston Aaron 12:59.7
"Surprisingly very slippy in places. This morning where it was dry, its now wet. But gravel crew was correct, they did a good job"
Mikkelsen Andreas - Eriksen T. 13:01.1
"I didn't have the hybrid on the last split, I just missed it [with the regen]. But its a big step up from yesterday"
Fourmaux Adrien - Coria Alexandre 13:07.6
"I'm really happy about the last three days, we've done a really good job. We are happy to be 5th"
Neuville Thierry - Wydaeghe M.
"We did a good stage. It was...perfection"
Ogier Sébastien - Landais V.
"For sure I try, it's nothing different [with the points system]. But I did a good stage, we need to try harder tomorrow"
"It's a shame, struggled in these dirty conditions. Tomorrow is the start of a new day with the points"
OVERALL AFTER SS14 - RALLY1
NEUVILLE REGAINS THE LEAD
OVERALL AFTER SS14 - WRC2
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