2023 Central European Rally day 1
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00:00 [Music]
00:07 It's good to finally start the rally.
00:09 It has been a long week so far, but it's good to be here in Prague.
00:12 A lot of fans already, so the atmosphere is good.
00:15 Two quite tricky stages to the beginning, but let's hope we finish them all.
00:21 Well, it's a nice place to start the rally.
00:23 That's for sure. A beautiful place, nice weather, a lot of fans.
00:26 All the ingredients are here, so I'm looking forward to starting the rally.
00:30 Of course, it's going to be a tricky weekend ahead, I guess, with the weather that's forecast.
00:36 We know the stages have a lot of cutting and a lot of surface changes,
00:40 so we're in for probably quite a difficult weekend.
00:43 But of course, today, it's all about enjoying the start and getting focused on the first two stages of the rally.
00:55 It was quite a good day.
00:58 Definitely a long day to drive only a few short stages,
01:01 but anyway, we got the rally finally started and the feeling is quite OK.
01:06 The first day was quite a tricky one, let's say, for us.
01:10 A bit of cleaning, I guess, in the first stage, so the time wasn't great there.
01:14 Then we had an overshoot, missed my braking in quite a fast place.
01:17 Other than that, the feeling in the car was quite OK,
01:20 but I guess we're going to face a few different conditions tomorrow anyway.
01:23 The first stage was OK, but the second one in the dark,
01:26 I didn't really feel the rhythm and I was definitely on the wrong rhythm.
01:30 So I need to work on that tomorrow morning,
01:32 hopefully to find, like I say, a very quick, better feeling with the car.
01:37 The conditions are going to be challenging, so that will be very important to be fast in these conditions.
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