10. Rally Estonia 2020
4. 9. – 6. 9. 2020, Tartu • Estonian Autosport Events MTÜ • gravel 233.40 km • total distance including road sections - 869.40 km • Other years
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SS17
"It's great of course we have some previous knowhow, if you race home you feel the support from the people around so, it's amazing - great feeling, first #WRC Rally Estonia, the win is mine so i'm happy for sure."
"Incredible! We took it quite easy in there, didn't want to take it that easy maybe! Incredible weekend, have to thank everybody that gave me the chance to be here!"
"Very rough in there, hard to be fully aggressive but it's a good point for the championship."
"He's flying! It wasn't a bad stage, he's done a great job. Very rough and easy to give seconds away, fair play."
"For sure it was really nice weekend, it was perfect driving from me, I didn't do any mistakes, just not our weekend. Big thanks to the team, it was great."
"I tried but it was quite rutted and I need to bring the car home. Difficult weekend."
"First of all, I think the organizer has put an amazing peformance to make the rally happen, it's been amazing. Our rally has been challenging."
"We knew it wasn't gonna be an easy weekend with limited preparations. It's been getting better, everyone at @MSportLtd have done everything to improve this weekend."
"We have a technical issues just before the stage, we weren't able to drive fast for the Powerstage."
technical issue
"Fantastic! It was a tough stage, my left front was very bad in the end there. Very tough with different conditions every time. Good fun and I enjoyed!"
"It's really nice to be back and to be honest it's been a very good weekend, first of all to be back in competition feels really nice. We have set some very good pace and thanks to Citröen."
"Really happy with this weekend, it's my 5th rally on gravel with an R5 and to fight with strong guys, i'm very happy for it. Thank you to the team because it was a really tough rally."
puncture
SS16
puncture
"Same as yesterday, a bunch of surprises and it's not that good. (Powerstage?) It's tough against Toyotas but would be nice to have some points."
"(Powerstage?) For sure, PowerStage is always a stage where you need to give your best!"
"It was okay, no drama. Trying to stay on the middle of the road now, the gap to Seb has grown quite a bit now and we're focusing on the Power Stage."
"It was 6th gear long flat left and the car just jumped out of the ruts and I spun.. that's it."
"All okay, no issues. (Powerstage?) Flat out!"
"Just to get through. Sometimes it's going well and the pace is fine, all of a sudden you hit a rut and the car doesn't react.. I need to work on something with the car in the future. It's tricky."
spin
SS15
"It seems to be working quite well, trying to play it safe. Obviously so nice stages and we're enjoying, taking some caution with our lead."
"A clean run - we will keep the rhythm."
"It seems to be working quite well, trying to play it safe. Obviously so nice stages and we're enjoying, taking some caution with our lead."
"We made a lot of changes but now it's better, definitely. Conditions are so different second loop. One the second loop you can make a difference actually."
"(Front splitter loose)It can affect something. We have to see, go and fix something if we need."
"Big gap to catch in a short space of time. We'll try to keep the rhythm and be there at least."
"To be fair there's no huge difference. I really hope there is something but more or less very similar."
"Rutted, really rutted. (Car?) Excellent. It was working well."
"Turned in the last corner, the rut just turned me around. Trying to find a nice rhythm and the next thing you're in a rut.. not good."
spin
SS14
"No problems, my pace this morning is quite difficult to find. I'm here to learn so it's good. We have to continue it's the most important thing."
"Some stages we are trying to push. Last stage was difficult with the grip, we somehow survived."
"Was quite fun, still very challenging. It was quite okay, I tried to enjoy as much as possible."
"It's getting more enjoyable, conditions getting more consistent. So far going to plan."
"No problems, obviously just getting into the rhythm for the powerstage. We need to focus on getting to the end now."
"Yeah, finally. We've been fighting a bit with the setup all weekend."
"For sure i'm not on the limit, now it's quite easy with the driving. Feeling is good so i'm doing my own drive. Over the next ones we're gonna save the tyres."
"Obviously we want to climb the leaderboard if we can. Focusing stage by stage. Wasn't perfect in there but not too bad."
"Quite bad but it was so, so slippery that I had no confidence to be honest."
"Conditions were quite nice, the road is damp and grip level is stable. Few muddy places and that's it."
"In places I struggled to find grip, sometimes a bit early on the brake. But it was okay."
SS13
"We are having some issues which we will try to fix before the next stage."
"All good, so far very clean. Conditions today are quite demanding with the grip changes - all clean so far."
"Tricky in places, I tried to put the rhythm a bit higher than it was to avoid any mistakes. Even in grip like this the car is working fantastic."
"I don't save anything, I try to do my best. Feeling is not great and I hope we can improve that."
"The time looks quite okay, it was quite tricky stage, not a clean run from me. Trying a new setup today. It feels quite good so i'm happy."
"I wasn't happy with my stage, tricky and narrow. Quite careful in too many places. Glad to see they (Taka and Dan) are out of the car and OK."
"It's just impossible to really push, very slippery out there. The road is very narrow in places, it feels very tricky."
"It was slippy but for sure there is no cleaning, it can get even more muddy or slippy - no cleaning.
"By far the worst of the weekend for me, the pacenotes were so far for me, the lines on the road are very strange. Just horrible."
SS12
"It's not so bad to be honest, I just gave myself a bit of time to get into it. Not dropping too much time to Seb."
"It can be changing quite a lot for the second loop, not so easy to say yet."
"No mistakes but not a good stage obviously."
"It was a bit of a surprise, a lot more slippy than I expected. As the stage went on I got into it."
"Was really careful, I think too much. A lot of sliding. We will manage to fix the car to be better."
"I reckon it's the same. Few slides, I really tried to be on it. Few jumps where we could go fast, can't do much better now."
"(vs. Suninen?)For sure we can look at the times but i'm not concentrating on that, I'd like to get more speed today."
"Little bit change of conditions, rain makes it slippery. Next one is even more tricky, I will try to stay on the road and learn more."
SS11
"I was feeling good and I had altered a jump to be faster than this morning. We were carrying so much speed that we landed basically at the next corner and had a spin. It was definitely the most exciting moment of the last six months."
"I'm very happy, it's been little bit difficult in the morning. We have improved all the way and i'm really happy with the new C3 setting we have. Enjoying being back in the WRC."
"I've been pushing a couple of stages to make a gap. This afternoon the middle sections were really rough. You gotta get through to win. Demanding and tricky day. Feel like i've done a whole rally."
"So far it's been amazing. We had a small issue before the last one. Just really happy with how the day has been. I have to say the car has been a pleasure to drive from the first stage."
"We are not so lucky this afternoon. We discovered that one tyre was delaminated before the start of this one so this one was tricky."
"(Timeloss?)Not expected obviously. To be honest it was better now but not perfect. Quite a bit of vibration in the car, not sure if a tyre is starting to delaminate again."
"I tried to push here because I liked this stage on the first loop. I was careful in places."
"Few mistakes but not massive ones. Happy to be here and finish the day. Quite big day and quite fun. This stage could be more fun but we have a slow puncture. Car is working good."
"Better conditions on this stage, not so rough. I have some challenges on the ruts, don't feel confident with the car there. When it's smooth, it's okay."
"It was okay. Today has been quite challenging, we are missing pace and don't really know where it's coming from. Right now, need to work with the driving."
"It was amazing to do my first day. We enjoy."
SS10
"I am just trying to be smart. I tried to keep some speed but it seems we are really slow. I can not really push any harder, we would just go out from the ruts and then we would be finished."
"We were leading quite a lot before the puncture, i'm glad we were able to regain the lead. We want to enjoy and be competitive aswell. We are enjoying."
"We need to finish, so it's really important to get through. This one was rough so we were careful."
"(Pressure?)Pressures are for tyres! So much fun driving the car. It's the first time I've had a car working so well in the ruts. Struggled in the beginning, wasn't in the rhythm."
"(Hyundais?) They've been fast so far. I already lost a tyre on the first stage so.. not the best afternoon."
"(Tyres?)I mean it's inside where it's mostly wearing, very very rough. We had a better run in there than we did the first time at least."
"It was a really really rough stage so it's not so enjoyable, hitting the ruts all the time and you can take the tyre off the rim. I tried to push in some places and some places I was careful"
"It was a really really rough stage so it's not so enjoyable, hitting the ruts all the time and you can take the tyre off the rim. I tried to push in some places and some places I was careful"
"Quite okay. The stage is really rutted so there's risk of punctures. We're trying to bring the car home."
"That was by far the worst so far. Get to the middle section there's ruts everywhere. There's some very narrow lines from the 2WD cars otherwise it was a good stage."
SS9
"It's so great fun. We're getting closer and closer, struggling on the very fast sections. I have to say I should be happy because the guys are driving really really fast. So good fun to drive a rally car!"
"It's like a new rally again. It's really quick, we need to go on like this. We enjoy it."
"I tried to take a bit of caution, we are losing time when we have to go slow the first time. I expect to lose a bit of time here."
"This stage seems to suit the car, I had a clean stage. This event seems tricky for the tyres so we have to take care about that."
"It's just incredible! The car does everything that I expected.. something was flying around in my car.. like an antigravity stage, incredible."
"It's quite different rally than we expected, much more rutted. Good start, I have a damaged tyre so I have to be careful now."
"Quite okay, just had a bit of a strange feeling on the left rear, probably cost a few tenths. All okay."
"I don't know if it's cleaning for us. Guys in front are creating a line good for us. Technical and tricky stage."
"This morning was quite okay, in the beginning I was too hard myself and after that I tried to improve. Afternoon is better than morning. Still room for improvement."
"I don't know, feels stupid to push more, I will not stay on the road. Can't really do much better."
"Big ruts, risk of puncture is quite high, so.. also have to manage the tyres."
"It was a bit better, a lot of cleaning in this one but I hope it was better."
"There's quite a lot of deep ruts, specially at the edge of the road. Really hard to get the car to turn. Next stage is gonna be a lot worse.."
SS8
"Long time since no driving. We enjoy it and improving. Still a long rally to go, we try to score some nice points."
"Second pass every time is faster so. Trying to improve, some parts it's difficult to drive faster with the ruts. Some stages enjoyable, some stages are trying to survive.."
broken suspension
double puncture
puncture
"Everything is OK. We are working with our car and trying various settings."
double puncture
„The first loop went very well, we are in top three right now and it gives us plenty of energy ahead of the second loop”
"Yeah, but it's rough and many surprises. When some places surprise you then it's difficult. We're trying to be clean."
"It's very rough.. my car is too low to be honest. If we go higher then we lose the downforce. We could have a compromise but it's not good for this stage."
"For sure it's very rough, we were a bit careful in this one not to damage the tyres."
"It's quite rough conditions, for sure we did the stage flat out in the first loop, now it wasn't so easy."
"Working quite okay, road conditions are quite rough, some deep ruts. But okay."
"The ruts are okay when they are on slow parts, at 180 they control your car. We are trying our best."
SS7
"On a very fast left-hander, we got kicked off the line, I tried to recover it and unfortunately there was something on the outside which damaged the wheel. We managed to get to the end of the stage but we knew this would be the end."
"It just let go on the straight - completelt delaminated. We didn't touch anything."
"It was still quite rough but this time no worries."
"At least I tried. It was quite tricky conditions, lines were changing a lot. Some places you go off the road even on the line.. not an easy run."
"(Ogier walks around the car - Puncture?) It's not a puncture but it's off the rim.."
lost wheel
"Conditions are not too bad, there are some really rough sections. In the small sections, where it's rough, it's scary to push. I will try to drive fast."
puncture
"Conditions have changed a bit, we changed a lot of the setup. I like this car, we made some mistakes, we'll try to improve for the next one."
"So and so. The grip is high generally, it's a bit easier. I'm sure everyone is improving the same way."
"Better feeling on the car, driving wasn't really good. Big ruts on high speed places, I was hesitating a bit."
"Some interesting lines to begin with. As it goes on the base gets harder and the tyres getting overheated."
SS6
"I turned and stalled the car so I lost a lot of time. The rest of the stage was much better."
"The feeling is getting better with every stage and I am understanding what this car can do. I need to find the right balance now."
"All good - a clean stage. Happy to go back to service."
Broken suspension
puncture
"I would prefer to be a bit quicker on the last couple. Not the same rhythm as in the morning, not a bad start to the rally at all."
"There's a whole rally to go. Tricky morning, we're looking at Teemu and Esapekka and it's an improvement."
"Yeah, it's pretty slippery all the time. Once I braked too late, luckily space to recover."
"Not 100% satisfied to be honest, missing a bit of confidence, specially in the fast. But okay, we tried our best and we have to continue like this. We have to be realistic about Ott."
SS5
"Good stage for me, clean run. Staying away from rocks as I have no more spares"
"Pretty good, pretty happy. This one I tried without mistakes, looks not too bad!"
"Quite rough in there in some places. Not sure of the benefit of the road. Not so bad anyway, not as committed as previous stages."
"It's been a long break so there is room to improve my driving - let's focus on that first."
"Pretty good - I am happy. I tried not to make any mistakes and it doesn't look too bad."
"I have no ideas.. tried to change something for this stage, it's going the wrong direction, can't find any more.."
"It's 0.7! What do you mean what happened?"
"It was feeling a bit different, not so big difference, not too bad. On the fast sections you can feel the less grip. Not so easy, I do the best I can."
"I had a good stage but some small mistakes. In the end.. not too bad."
SS4
"It's getting better - it feels better but the time isn't there. A lot I need to improve on in places."
"Overall, it was all okay."
damaging his radiator, retired for a day
"Stage was good. Quite big jumps, the compressions hurt but still trying to breathe. Not easy. Shame on the first stage we did a mistake, on the second pass we will work on our mistakes."
"I was landing on a jump and straight away I had a puncture.. I don't know why it happened."
"It was better, struggling a lot with the grip. We are a bit too hard with the car, we will manage and fix it in the service."
puncture
"Dropped a second or two, someone pulled a huge rock. Touched it, hesitated for two-three k's. It's nice."
"On the limit! Many times.. I really tried but that the speed we can do, I can't go any faster. Probably slippy for everyone, also for me.."
"Let's say, I find a bit of rhythm. Last stage I did some mistakes, quite a big challenge to challenge the top drivers."
"It was quite strange on the last stage, I don't know where I got the puncture, it took off the aero parts and it was my first time driving without the parts. It was a bit difficult, more careful than I had to be."
"Some more mechanical grip, the first stage was tricky but after this it has been better."
"It's a bit more slower stage, bit more technical. Felt more comfortable than the very fast, still not 100%, missing a bit of traction. Would like to have better balance, surprised by the time."
"Difficult, grip is really low. I do everything I can, it's not so easy."
SS3
broken driveshaft
Broken radiator hose, retired for the day
Puncture and no powersteering
had to retire for the day after the car stopped on stage after a heavy landing following a jump
"It was one of the new stages that haven't been driven before. My pacenotes were so slow and I need to make a lot of changes in service, but it is what it is."
puncture
"Tricky stage. I’m trying to improve all the time. It's not easy"
“I have no idea where it came from, we definitely didn’t hit anything. It stayed on the rim, but it cost a lot. The time of the first one was good - happy with that.”
rear-right puncture
"Had to commit to the notes. A couple of changes I need to make the notes a bit faster. Apart from Ott we're not doing so bad, we have to be realistic."
SS2
Puncture / defekt
"It was okay - I was too careful but we will try to improve."
"Difficult to be on the limit - the grip is okay but not mega."
spin
"Some sections are good and then some are not good, just need to improve and basically find a rhythm. Lot to improve on."
"It's some car! It's just incredible. What you can do with this car on this road, you can't imagine it in your wildest dreams."
SS1
"It's a really fast rally and the stages are good, but tricky in places - you've got to change your flow and it is easy to get caught out."
"It's nice to be here for the first time. I did a really bad stage but it's okay."
"I'm quite confident, we have some issue with the car, we have to improve it for tomorrow. I think we will really enjoy tomorrow."
"You really have to be on the pace from the first stage, can't do any mistakes. It will be really interesting, really looking forward."
"It will be a big challenge I think. It's important to find the rhythm from the beginning, it won't be easy."
"Really fun stage. Quite slippery, was not expecting like this. Not pushing, trying to avoid any mistakes. Tomorrow is the main race, we need to finish this stage. Tomorrow we will work for the results."
"It feels okay, I'm glad to finally be starting the rally again. The nerves are quite big, been a long time feeling this important. To be honest I enjoy that, it's nice to be a bit shaky again."
"I had a little issue, hit a wrong switch at the start and I think it actually helped the car a bit. We're back here again, it's really incredible to be back in the car I missed it so much."
"It didn't feel that good to be honest! But yeah, this is not really what the stages will be tomorrow. We had a good shakedown and opening stage - looking foward!"
"I'm very excited to start the #WRC again, stages are very high speed and lots of jumps. I try to enjoy and push as much as possible."
"It's special - it's a chance for us to start in a good way. It will be a tricky two days and the competition will be tight, so we need to make the best of it."
"(Challenges?) I would say the artificial jumps, also we have to be really committed for the car. We have to have huge confidence to push in the fast places."
"The feeling is nice, always these small stages are tricky and I have small experience with this car. Clean run with no mistakes."
"It's going to be tough to be honest, but it's nice to be back rallying again. I'm looking forward."
"Let's hope it's a good one for us, we're obviously looking forward to getting going again. Can't wait for tomorrow."
"It's exciting for us and it's good to be back and fighting. The car feels good, so let's go for it."