After all I decided to join the rally, didnt had a test run on the Swiss stage because I thought that I wont have any interest to do this until then anyways. But after all I enjoyed it, I was in first possition after first 2 stages, even though Sion and Fernando was there. I was more than suprised to see that. I think I was in front of Fernando even after SS4 but then I started to make mistakes, SS5 was extremely slippery, I didnt do any huge mistakes, I was just going too wide all the time and lost more than 20s to Fernando which put him in the lead. I started Sikakama II very well, I liked it, I felt quick, safe and after all - i enjoyed the ride but.. 1.2km before finish line I had a huge off-road.. I knew if Im going to stop there - I wont get out without calling for help so I tried to keep going and aiming for track.. unfortunately a tree stopped me, Lucky that I didnt retire there, had to call for help and there was gone my hopes for first place. Got really pissed and made few more other mistakes till the finish line (Got even more pissed after I saw that I`ve been about only 1s behind Fernando after split 2). SS7 went OK, I know I was driving too slow, just wanted to keep the possibility to catch Sion. Before last stage I was only 3.61s behind Sion but then I realized.. I havent done that stage ever.. I have no idea about it.. Well, I understood that my only hope to pass Sion was to go slowly but to finish the stage without any mistakes. So I started it, first 2 splits were really frightening.. Had huge oversteer and all those jumps & stuff.. + the pacentoes were just awful.. But it went OK.. until 1.2km before the finish (magic number for me today).. Had my first spin which made me crash and I also gut stuck.. After that I realized that there is no chance for me to come in front of Sion so I just didnt care really. Had another 3 spins which all ended up into crashing somewhere and I always got stuck.. so 4 spins in 1.2km .. its like one spin every 300 meters, thats some skills.. When I finished the stage I was so pissed... arrgh.. but when I looked at the split times..
... After 2nd split I was less than 2s behind Fernando which I believe had done that stage at least once
And also in front of Sion which was priority number 1.. And I had to screw it all up at 3rd split.. Of course I screwed up at Sikakama already but... Well, another rally to forget, I think I might be around 6th in the rally.
After all, it was really fun to drive this car. It is sh*t but it is also fun.. in some ways.. Thanks to all you guys who made this happen. See you at Hokkaido!