Car 1, Ogier/Ingrassia
“I’m happy with my day no matter what happened.”
Car 2, Tanak/Molder
“I did my best. It was quite complicated. But we did our best today, the car has been performing well. We’re looking forward to tomorrow.”
Car 3, Evans/Barritt
“It was a good way to end the day The second run was a bit more aggressive than the first on the Braga stage.”
Car 4, Paddon/Marshall
“Everything is coming together, we’re making big steps. Today isn’t the result we wanted, but the team have put a lot of work in so we have to stay positive. It’s all starting to click the way it should do. W\e can still work on it and be a lot quicker. A lot of things have been changed – we’re finally making headway.”
Car 5, Neuville/Gilsoul
“We were handicapped by the dust of Jari. We lost about 20s in that last stage. We have to continue pushing. But for the road position tomorrow it would be nice to be as far back as possible.”
Car 6, Sordo/Marti
“It’s better to finish like this. It was an important day today for road position. It’s been tough for everybody. This is a nice position, but we’ve been fighting with everybody.”
Car 8, Breen/Martin
“It’s a bit difficult on the stage with the broken damper. But it’s a good end to the day. I’m still happy. A lot of people have put in a lot of work on this car over the last couple of weeks. It’s a really good moment right now, but we can still push the car further. I lost some of the fun in Argentina, but it’s back now.”
Car 9, Lefebvre/Moreau
“The afternoon was so much better. I had some damage after this morning, but we got it fixed. It was a very difficult day. Tomorrow I can do my best.”
Car 10, Latvala/Anttila
“We were leading the rally, so this isn’t nice. But at least we know the Toyota is fast and we can fight for the victories. So we know the guys have done good work on the car.”
Car 11, Hanninen/Lindstrom
“The morning was difficult. I was struggling with the pace. The afternoon was better, maybe we were optimistic with the soft tyres. But we’re here, and tomorrow is a new day.”
Car 12, Lappi/Ferm
“This morning was surprisingly good. The stages were better than I expected. We were focusing on surviving until the end of the day. I tried to learn as much as possible, but I wanted to push as well. I was really happy with the pace in the morning. But I wasn’t confident on the more rutted second pass, so I lost seconds.”
Car 14, Ostberg/Floene
“I have no idea where that pace came from. I enjoyed that. It’s nice to be smiling again. It’s been frustrating so I have to smile now. I’m only human so it’s hard to hide the frustration.”
Car 15, Al Qassimi/Patterson
“We has problems in the dust, the engine had no power completely. I don’t know what happened. The day was for learning, just to get the groove with my driving and learn the new car.”
Car 21, Prokop/Tománek
“The morning was very nice, but the afternoon was a complete change as we expected. After a puncture I was scared to push the car. For tomorrow, it was quite muddy on the recce, so we’ll see how it is tomorrow. It has some flowing corners.”
Car 31, Mikkelsen/Synnevaag
“We pushed like crazy in there. It’s spinning a lot in here, but it was pretty much perfect. We’re here to try to win the rally, not go fast in three stages then wreck the car. Our lead was quite big quite early, that was nice.”
Car 32, Tidemund/Andersson
“It’s been an okay day. It’s a long day tomorrow, we have to keep concentrating. We’ll need to be a bit smart.”
Car 33, Camili/Veillas
“It’s been a bad afternoon. We broke power steering and the anti-roll bar in the rear. We had a puncture. Not good.”
Car 34, Suninen/Markkula
“It’s good to have a fight between the drivers. It’s been hard on the rough sections. I think we’re happy after the first day. The competition is quite close.”