Wasn´t really looking forward to this one so much because of my performance in the last one, before which I was kind of putting an eye on the half time championship, but Magnus scored the maximum so it was pretty much sealed.
Made a short shakedown about an hour before my session started which made me a bit more positive about the outcome.
SS1 - quite a nice stage, beached the car in the first corners though and lost about 10s.
SS2 - scary sounding name
was just trying to be cautious to finish without any bigger mistakes as i spun here quite often during the shakedown.
SS3 - nice stage, I was just hoping I wouldn´t get lost as I have done here in the past. Got confused only once and spun once other then that a solid run.
SS4 - really nice stage this Rally School, nice run this time and a good time.
SS5 - great stage, a lot of fun, also great looking scenery, 13 more of those please
SS6 - similar to SS2, not very confident here slid wide quite early and hit spectators so 45s lost, later a spin and bad driving so overall about a minute lost.
SS7 - still a nice stage (one more time would get boring though), went a bit over the limit in a few corners so i almost lost the car, not a great run, 2s slower.
SS8 - again this scary name, had a spin and some scary moments, just 10s faster then the wet time, just not good enough.
SS9 - another very nice stage, very fast, but I decided to stay cautious so could have gone a lot faster
SS10 - THE HORROR for some reason I had completely lost concentration, several times got confused by directions had to reverse a long bit once for going towards the finish to early, in the end even got a CFH because i went on 2 wheels on one of the gravel fields and slid into spectators.
SS11 - didn´t have any hope for a power stage win, didn´t go to bad though.
This rally clearly had 2 different qualities of stages, Pibram,
Osli-Stryckovy and
Stryckovy-Zadini are really well made and a pleasure to drive, the others apart from the Rally School I didn´t enjoy so much.
A bit sad also to run the 2nd half of the rally without any competition in my session, it´s difficult to judge how you are doing without any other times.
Quite happy overall with how the 1st half of the season went, no major mistakes on track (finished 65 of the 67 stages) only messed up in the 2nd round starting with the wrong car. Looking forward to the rest of the year.
Congrats to Magnus for the Winter Championship in our class and to all the other Winners.