2025
Date: 26/6/2026
Day: 2
Flash N°: 8
Special stage: Stiri 2
Distance: 24.18 km
Weather: Sunny, 32°C
Road conditions: Rough gravel with a lot of stones
#33 Elfyn EVANS - Scott MARTIN
“It’s very rough. Try to be steady and clean. Difficult to judge.”
#18 Takamoto KATSUTA - Aaron JOHNSTON
“It’s very difficult. I took it easy. Trying to manage the tyres. The next stage is very important to have the tyres in good condition.”
#99 Oliver SOLBERG - Elliott EDMONDSON
“I don’t have tyres left. I just follow my strategy. If it works, it works.”
#5 Sami PAJARI - Marko SALMINEN
“Very clean. I feel super slow at the stage. There are not many tyres to sacrifice.”
#1 Sébastien OGIER - Vincent LANDAIS
“It's a very abrasive stage. I tried to save the tyres.”
#16 Adrien FOURMAUX - Alexandre CORIA
“I try to manage it as much as I can.”
#11 Thierry NEUVILLE - Martijn WYDAEGHE
“It was OK. The only thing you can do is manage the tyres. In some places I just try to avoid the rocks. In the last section we push a little bit more.”
#95 Jon ARMSTRONG - Shane BYRNE
“We had a front right puncture and we lost power of the engine.” They had two punctures.
#6 Daniel SORDO - Cándido CARRERA
“Very rough. I took care of the tyres all the time. You can’t calculate how fast to drive.”
#55 Joshua MCERLEAN - Eoin TREACY
“It’s so hard to manage the tyres. It’s going to be a big struggle also to the last stage.”
#22 Mārtiņš SESKS - Renārs FRANCIS
“It was very tough. Nothing is easy here.”
COMMENTS
Thierry Neuville manages to win the stage, but Sebastien Ogier is still second, just 10,1 seconds behind him. Jon Armstrong was very unlucky. He had a puncture and after that he lost power of his engine. That promotes Adrien Fourmaux 3rd, ahead of Joshua McErlean.
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