44. Barum Czech Rally Zlín 2014
29. 8. – 31. 8. 2014, Zlín • asphalt 237.33 km • Other years
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SS15
I don't know, anyway I am happy with the second and I am happy with the third... That's okay.
"We have engine trouble in the last stage and in this one. I think we are on the podium."
"We are really happy."
"We try to push a lot. The first round was hard but after that our times were good."
"Really good for the team. We have now plenty of stage data to develop the tyre forward. We are moving in the right direction."
SS14
"we stop racing immediate"... "the car is quite heavily damaged at rear...but the cockpit is OK...hit a tree"
"10 kilometres, he (Consani) was really slow... I do not understand why he did not see me..."
"The car burn on the stage. I stop and start. Lots of fumes, so I stop and restart."
He's [Odlozilik] off...I think he's finished...problems with brake...car is crashed a little bit...they are OK
"I have problem with brake."
SS13
"Now happy, everything okay, no problem."
"Basically it is okay, okay we lost 2nd place but that is okay. I am surprised about the speed, this guy Kostka is very quick."
I am trying, I save 4 new tyres for this loop. I am pushing but I don't know if Sepp (Wiegand) will be quicker.
"I have a problem with the car. The car is all the time braking, I do not know what happened. I do not know if engine..."
"Everything is good, no problem, we try to be fast. Everybody is fast today."
"It is fixed now (the misfire), it is okay at the moment, they changed everything. We have another new set of black and rounds (tyres), it feels a bit different."
"We are trying to see how the car goes with different settings. That is my goal now. I raise the car 2 centimetres as it was always hitting on the ground."
SS12
"For us not bad, but we have lost our rear left driveshaft."
"We got a puncture just after the rough section, so we had to stop and change it."
"Quite tricky, we did not do this stage last year, so I have to be a bit more cautious."
"Still I am running safely, just to bring it home. I am waiting for the weather forecast and I will try to bring it home on the podium."
"It is okay for me I have to look for the Championship, I do not want to be stupid and push, 2nd or 3rd it is the same for me."
"That road is amazing, it is like FInland on tarmac. Fantastic very slippery, black tarmac, like black ice. It was good laugh for us."
"Very very hard and I did big mistake, I went off the road."
"We had a spin in the middle of the stage, I lost maybe 10 second."
"We are trying to push."
"My car is impossible to drive..."
SS11
"It is a hard stage in the rally, In the forest it was really slippery and we had a big moment. What a challenge, really hard, really hard."
"After yesterday, I do not have te right motivation and here we had some mistakes in the pace notes, there was some mud. We have to go to the finish. To be the best you have to be hard on yourself."
"Car is perfect now. I sleep not so much but is okay. Vitaliy (Pushkaar) is out, so now we must finish this rally and get the points."
"I try to push in the first stage and had an off."
"The time is not so bad. I have to go, I have a bad sounds with the gearbox."
"Disaster morning... Now it is very difficult to get back the confidence." - Having problems with his pace notes.
"We are happy enough. The grip level is not good and changing a few of the notes. It is still demanding as it 2 years ago. I think the second pass is going to be really tricky."
"I want to get use to these roads, we have to get experience. Like we saw yesterday, these corners really surprise me!"
"Really difficult stage, you have to be really careful and really dangerous, not so easy to drive."
"I am taking care on the first loop...we will see on the second"
"No problem but is difficult. I know this stage but today the condition and the mud on the road change the configuration on the stage."
"Perfect, very happy."
"We were a little bit careful and safe. In the forest it is muddy and slippery. We are here and we will see what another stage is."
"We did not get any rythmn. Many blind junctions that are difficult to see. Not perfect at the moment but okay."
"Very difficult this stage, my car is very difficult to drive in these bumpy conditions. I lost a lot of time, we had some moments. It was a terrible stage."
SS10
"It is working perfectly, no problems at all. Big thanks to the team, they repaired the car and let me start. It was my mistake (stopping yesterday) for sure, but I was surprised I lost the rim."
"Happy enough, nice rythmn, just seeing how close we can get to the locals."
"The vibration is okay, no problem. This is good as it is very fast. To start to wake-up when you come on this stage is not easy."
"Everything okay, but we go not fast but good."
"I was a bit too careful on the first stage. We did not risk too much, maybe we have to be a bit faster. The car is okay."
"I am happy with the car. I am happy because road is dry and I have only 4 hard slicks. We have only one spare and this spare is hard too!" - 'And I'm happy...' / "Jsem s autem spokojený. Jsem rád, protože trať je suchá a mám pouze 4 tvrdé sliky. Máme jen jednu náhradní a ta náhradní je také tvrdá. I'm happy..."
"Looks like everything is fine, we check it in this stage and everything is good."
"This stage is very fast and we have no problem."
"Not too dirty because I am the first car. I do not have the knowledge of the stage. Another day for me to learn as it is very difficult the first time you come here."
"It was okay, but missed one junction a bit. Still have the same problem with the engine, it is still misfiring a bit. The brakes are okay, but still lacking on some power."
SS9
"Not so happy with the set-up on the stage. It is more slippery than I expect. Very bumpy. It is difficult to read the road. It is a little bit muddy and sometimes not just a little bit!"
Reported off in the stage but has managed to continue through the stage.
"It was very very difficult for me, I had every stage big moment. I have problem with car, problem with electronic"
We have puncture but the car is okay, no problem. I don't know why but the place on the stage is very dangerous. I think it is a big stone after a big jump, in the right side in the grass.
Another puncture - "I made a puncture, 5 kilometre after the start." - Front right.
"Now I am really careful because of the puncture (on previous stage). But okay we can do faster, but this is good for us, now we are happy, apart from the puncture."
Comes in with a bit of a tree sticking out the door..
"We lost the power steering in the kilometre 3. I just take care and bring it to the finish."
Now we are happy, in the morning wasn't so good, but we did some changes and now we are happy. It is difficult to say what we can do tomorrow, it could be raining.
Puncture, front left - "I am quite surprised about the puncture and it was maybe 4 kilometres before the finish, I don't know where it was." / Defekt levé přední pneu. "Jsem defektem překvapen, stalo se to asi 4 km před cílem, nevím, kde jsme k němu přišel."
"Not good day for us, after mistake, it is two stages efore finihsh. All day was lot of small mistakes. I am okay now, we enjoy it. Tomorrow will be long, we will push and we will see what we can do."
SS8
"The car it goes oversteering, it was okay." - Had a big moment in 5th gear in the final part of the stage, but survived...
"We had one very nasty jump through there. Seems okay, but we need to check it."
"Not bad but when I see the time I am not happy as I push a lot. I still have this big vibration problem and this destroy my car."
"Now is more gravel on the road, it is not easy. Happy with that time."
"Everything okay, but I not now pushing."
"It was okay. I understand it better than before. We are trying to push and we will see."
SS7
"Maybe one kilometre after the start of Majak I was late on the brake point. I missed the brake point after the crest. Forty metres later there was a sharp left bend and we were out of the road. Thanks a lot spectators because they pushed and we lost 1m40s."
Problem with gearbox.
SS6
"Something is broken, driveshaft, something, I do not know... I really hate this race."
"We are having some good fun. It is fast in there and really tricky as well. We could do with a little bit more rebound damping on the rear, but I can cope with it."
"Quite better, it is nice."
"Was okay, we went off the road on the 3rd stage of the day. We realise on the bumpy part we have to be very careful as I do not have confidence with the car."
High rpm's no torque, I think a sensor is failing, but I think we will be okay.
"These kind of stages we like, so okay. Just a small problem with the set-up on the previous stage."
"Now I feel more confident with the car and this is important. It was a nice stage, now we have a little bit better set-up and different gearbox. Now we have shorter gearbox and it is better, but it is not enough, we can change something more. The stages are really difficult, they are really bumpy in some parts and the road is really narrow, no room for mistake."
"I concentrate on myself, I have to work on myside and me focus. I am only watching to me and keep the pace for the championship. Its difficult and proper rally and you have sometimes to be clever and sensible not to push in the beginning"
"Everything okay, but very fast still."
Retired before the stage: "Exhaust manifold is broken between 3rd and 4th valve. We finish last stage but no way we can go to service, to much risk of fire in the car. Big risk if we continue."
SS5
Broken gearbox.
Broken wheel and puncture.
"Stage very difficult, very muddy and the car is very hard."
"We lost something, some sensor or something, also some screws came loose on the first one. It is just when you are pushing, up hill it is difficult, downhill it is not so bad."
"This stage was quite tricky. We just keep in the rhythm and we will see in the next stages."
"It is a crazy stage, very very bumpy. Too much bumpy for me. Difficult to adapt the driving when I see the big jump and I do not know why the jump pull the car. The car has always the vibration."
That was difficult stage too. So amazing... It is so narrow, so fast, so bumpy, I do not know what we can do more with the set-up, it is not perfect. I haven't done this before so I don't know where to pay attention.
"He (Barrable) was standing in front of the stage, I think he went off a bit on the previous stage. I have big respect of this stage, I do not push at all I am just driving."
Radiator broken before the stage.
"This stage for us was very good, but Roman go very fast. The car is fine."
Retired before the stage.
"Bad pace notes from the recce, not good, not good."
SS4
"We went off road and lost a lot of time. There are a lot of things in that stage, it is a very tricky stage. I need to change the set-up of the car for this stage, it was very very bumpy. If you know the stage you know where is the worst places. Was tough for everybody. I will try to keep the same speed."
Unbelieveable stage... Really bumpy and fast corner. In the forest, narrow, downhill, it's amazing but I like it. In some parts, it is difficult to read the road. He (Lappi) was in fast right on long corner, I think he had left rear damage. He is trying to repair but it is difficult, it was really fast corner.
"Really nice, we had a massive moment over a crest in 5th gear, we just ran two wheels along the ditch... We are happy enough to be here."
Off the road, crew is ok.
Engine problem.
"Good stage, it was wery good."
"I got some alarms on (on the dash board) so I got to go."
Absolutely terrible, we hit one chicane... He (Lappi) made a mistake, maybe 5 kilometre after start, he was okay."
SS3
"I like this stage but very tricky."
"Start to be very good for us, I am happy at this moment."
"Was fun in the beginning of the stage, was okay. We have to try tyres and it is not so easy at the moment."
"I enjoy this stage, it is a nice stage. We have to do something with the set-up with the car, but we are still learning. At this moment I do not know (what to change), but we will see."
"Quite easy, but a little bit different in one corner... I had small moment there."
Broken driveshaft
"In the forest I was too careful, difficult to know how fast you can go. I enjoy my driving, it is a good speed and we improve step by step."
"Quite okay, could be better."
"This is like a proper stage. It is like a dust, in some places you have dry mud."
SS2
Odjel o 14 minut později ze servisu kvůli opravě posilovače řízení.
He has lost the splitter from the front of the car, the lower part of the bumper in the Peugeot. "I think we managed to set-up the car quite well. I am not happy in every part of the stage. In some places we need to improve abit. I have not been off."
"Problem with gearbox..."
"Start okay this morning. Still slippy some places, but it is still early for some results.
"It was quite clean, still Kopecky is drawing a bit of mud, but it will be worse for the others."
SS1
"Very nice stage. Tyres were getting really soft and quite a bit sliding, but okay stage."
"It is a very tricky stage. I had a little bit of a problem with the hand brake, it was not pulling properly. We will try to do the best job we can."
"I have to say that I like when there is a lot of people." "Musím přiznat, že jsem rád, když je hodně diváků."
"Amazing, around 20,000 people, camera flashes all the time. A great opening stage, I really enjoyed it."
"Only one problem with the chicane, we lost one or two second there."
"That was not our cup of tea that stage!"
It is rammed with spectators. We just had a steady run, we are just happy to be here. I don't know what the time is but we are not miles away. The real rally starts tomorrow.
"We lost power steering"
"It was quite easy, was full of people, quite a good show. Just prepare for tomorrow."
"Good stage, no mistake. Important to start the rally like this."