Having not driven in Finland for the past two years, Ogier expected to lose a bit of ground this morning:
“I tried to work on the video but I expected to suffer a bit on the first one that they’ve done last year, it’s a very fast stage and you need to be really committed and the grip was low so you need the note need to be really perfect to be on the limit and if you have not validated it on the speed rhythm, yeah it was a decent run for me but I expected to lose time in that one.
“Then Paijala, I mean, I haven’t done it the last two years, but I’ve done it many times in my career, but grip was low. And again, I didn’t feel so great in this low grip condition. So I just was a bit on the cautious side, probably too cautious, but at least I’m here. And yeah, the one I enjoyed the most was still Ouninpohja.”
