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The Autosport Podcast
"rovanpera" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Crazy. You're just sitting there watching this in all really like I don't know how they do it. But yeah, so katsu to just round wide rolled a couple of times to be fair and very lucky because he landed on his on his wheels and I'll be honest with you there was there wasn't a great deal of damage from the outside. It looked like he'd really escaped one there and yeah, it didn't worry him at all. The team repaired it and he was back underway that evening for the first stage. So yeah, but he drove, he drove really well, very smartly for our actually. After doing something like that, you could be, you know, your confidence could be quite dented, but he was, he was very clever and yeah, in fact, he was quite funny. He's a very likeable character and this was his 5th attempt at rally Estonia in the first hurry to actually reach the finish, so he was pretty happy to get there because it's not been one of his happy hunting grounds. And let's just finish off talking about M sport a challenging rally for the Ford cars. Adrian formo emerging as the only driver in the points coming home. 7th, like he's finding his feet, a little bit, again, this season, but otherwise it was a difficult difficult weekend for M sport. Just sum up. What happened there for our listeners? Yeah, of course, you know, again, another difficult one for them. They obviously came in with some very high hopes, certainly attached to Craig breen, because he's finished this event second in the previous two seasons. So this is one of the ones he really goes well at. And he was right in a mix from the start, one of the first stage was in contention early on Friday morning, but he just made an error, misjudged the braking, going into a left hander, ran wide into the grass, which seemed innocuous at the time, but little did he know that in the grass was buried quite a significant concrete post which he hit. That broke the steering and that was game over. He did return on Saturday and got through to Sunday, but that was any hopes of any points gone out the window and that less sort of the pressure on the rest of the M sport guys. Pierre Louis lube was going very well. Until the chaos of the Rhine ensued on Friday night stage where three people got caught out on the same corner but he was the worst. He sort of went over this jump here which he said was like driving on ice went straight to bank rolled on his side. Luckily the fans came to push him back onto his wheels, but he lost two minutes there and that was sort of put the end to that and then he actually retired on Sunday with a sort of clumsy arrow where he just hit a rock with the front wheel and that damages the suspension and that was retirement and for Gus greensmith. He knocked a tire off the rim, which cost him time after landing from a jump awkwardly. And yeah, again, it sort of just sort of seemed to fall away from them. Former was just he needed around like this. Oh, did he ever make that earlier this year? But he was just solid, solid throughout barely made a mistake, and this was what he needed, didn't push like he could have pushed a really threw off the road here because it was easy to do that as we saw. But yeah, very, very smart drive from it. And I think he really will benefit from that because yeah, he needed the result. So yeah, I was just saying we should probably just one sort of just as Kappa a couple of wild things that happen because of rally does tend to throw up some bizarre situations, but yeah, so Oliver Solberg had probably the save of the season. Where he was, he was brilliant at the Saturday afternoon. Very, very close to getting a stage for any former pipped in by .1 seconds, which is so hard for him because he's yet to win a stage. It would have been great for him to get one on the board. But yeah, flicked over this jump sideways and was just heading direct for a tree. It looked like it was going to be a one way ticket to shunt down. And each somehow, I don't know how he did this, but he wrestled this back. I got it on the road. We actually posted the clip on social media and if you get a chance to look at it, please do, because it really is quite fun phenomenal how he did that. I don't know how he did it, but yeah, that was impressive and co driver. Was perhaps the quickest of thinking of people on Friday night when the heating pipe of all things inside the cockpit of Titanic's car. Just disconnected and misted up his screen. So I can see where he was going. He fired off the road, but the quick thinking of Martin, the managed to prop the pipe up with his foot, his left foot, while still calling the notes, yeah, incredible incredible. I don't know, I've never seen it like that before. But the quick thinking and the now to be able to do that as well as cool the notes that a hundred K's an hour, I'll take my hat off to him. Which is a wonderful segue into rally Finland, where we head next where you head next, because that could be you, propping something up with your foot while calling the note. As we get ever close, you're getting nervous yet about your debut in the car. Absolutely. And certainly when takamoto rolled on the shakedown, I was a little bit concerned, shall we say? Yes. You know, of course it would be fine, but yeah. Yeah, and I don't think I'll be doing any of those antics, I think I'll be barely able to call the notes, let alone. They'll be able to think about propping up a pipe with my foot, yeah, no, it's going to be a bit interesting. We'll see how it goes. So I've got to have to do a fair bit of practice over the next few days. What are you doing to practice?
The Autosport Podcast
"rovanpera" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Got a they've moved to a test based in Finland on gravel this year, which is new. So they've got access to the facilities to develop this car, because in the past they've only had a tarmac facility at their base in Germany. So they are obviously trying to make steps, but it's a difficult one. And I guess words were interested in there because that's the first time publicly anything has been said about this. And he shot it down pretty hard. And for someone who would be hugely frustrated with the scenario that's going on, it would be easy for him to say yeah. I'm moving on. I'm going somewhere else. So this is all coming down. So I think that was encouraging a statement from oit there and that's just hope that they can turn us around because we do need Hyundai back up there. Absolutely. We did see a small ten second time penalty for him over the weekend. What was that for? Yeah, so that's, again, it's just classic classic kind I season really, isn't it? The first time that they had no reliability issues, they get penalized for not running in electric mode in an electric only zone, which is just such a silly when you think about it is such a silly thing to get penalized for because it's just, you know, you know you've got to do it. It's in the road book. Just put it in electric mode. People make mistakes, don't they? No one's perfect. But was perhaps interesting with this one is that earlier this year, those situations have been going on, but for the most part, they've been given drivers have been given reprimands rather than time penalties. So I asked why this was a time penalty. And it was put to me that this was because it was genuinely the fault of the driver and co driver in this situation. Whereas in previous times, like, they'd forgotten when they were driving off start ramps and stuff like that, which was sort of seen as a sort of like, well, you know, we'll turn a blind eye to it. But when you're in a rally, this was actually on the Thursday night, then it was sort of seen as, well, you should know better. You didn't have a problem with the system. You should have just put it in electric mode. So I can kind of understand it. But yeah, so that was how that happened. And in the second Hyundai, Thierry naville, and we watched some of the onboards like you say, just not attacking the road in the way that Cali is attacking it. Is there a confidence there or not? What do you think? Yeah, he's just not able to. It's not because he's not trying. He just doesn't have the ability to have the confidence that the car will stick and you have to remember that these guys are doing quite frankly mad things in the cars. You are relying, you know, your life is in the hands of the co driver and that your car will stick in these coordinates. And yeah, that is one of the fundamental problems with the high end is that in the real fast stuff and this is the first time we got to see it because this is really the first fast gravel rally that we've seen. It's got it has got very little grip and stability in the rear. So the car will just step out and all three drivers were fighting this the entire weekend. So yeah, as a result, Honda are now going to look at this because they've admitted that there is a fundamental problem with this car. So they have plenty of what they call jokers, which is what basically what you can do is you can play like a sort of development token, I suppose, is how you describe it like they used to have in Formula One. Each team gets a certain amount of these that they can play during the year where they can change something that is homologated on the car. So this is what they'll do now. They'll go in, have a look. But again, this is not something that could be changed overnight. This will take some time to work out. So they've got plenty of these jokers and development tokens up their sleeve because I haven't actually used any on the chassis yet. So they've got plenty to use, but again, it's just time and working out how they fix this. So yeah, so the reason for Thierry's lack of pace is that you simply just didn't have the confidence. He's also isn't a fan of this rally. He's not really known for his fast gravel rally pace. He's very much on the you get the best out of Thierry on tarmac and in those more trickier gravel events. So it wasn't going to be his favorite to begin with, but yes, certainly the car sort of compounded his woes. Two more questions for you. We'll talk about the next two Toyota's of kitsu and lappy, they came home 5th and 6th respectively and then we'll finish off talking about M sport just to finish off the podcast today. A good result for kasuto in 5th, but started the weekend when shakedown at least looked like he ran a little wide and some soft gravel, managed to roll it in the bushes. What happened there? Yeah, of course, when you think about, as I said, thinking about that now, it feels like a lifetime ago that morning after a busy weekend. When was that? Was that this rally? Yeah, yeah, it was. Yeah. Basically, yeah, just got caught out on the wet there like shakedown was held underwear and you have to remember that the weather was particularly tough for these guys on the weekend because it was just this classic case of it would just be sudden cloudburst and that it would be bright sunshine and it would just keep doing this for out the rally. So it made I couldn't imagine how tough that would have been for the drivers and co drivers because like how do you but you just don't know what sort of weather you're going to get what sort of grip you're going to have like you just going into things blind most of the time. It's just crazy. You're just sitting there watching this in all really like I don't know how they do it. But yeah, so katsu to just round wide rolled a couple of times to be
The Autosport Podcast
"rovanpera" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Sort of tale of two halves in a way, happy to be at least on the podium again, but disappointed to not be a bit more competitive. It was tricky out there in certain sections of the weekend. He's got a scary points advantage now in terms of the championship title. What is your thought? Yeah, it's a pretty, it was already a pretty long reach. And it just got longer, you know? Of course, like I mentioned already, it doesn't change the approach we're still there to go to everybody and do the best for ourselves. And of course, the team as well. So it doesn't, it doesn't change so much. So there we go. You know, he found some positives in coming home second. He's closed the gap he's third in the championship now behind neuville, elfin Evans on 79 points to 92 and Robin pair a 175 points in the championship. But from your experience because you've been going, you know, you've been traveling around the world this year and you're there in the service parks and you're talking to everyone. What is this domination doing to his competitors? Are they getting their heads down almost or is there still some optimism there? What's your opinion on how he's beating down his opposition? I think when elfin is offering him praise for the way he's driving sort of says it all really because you just have to I think as a competitor you just have to take your hat off when you see quality like that. There's no there's no other way to deal with it I think you have to just sort of put this in that sort of mental mindset of we are seeing something quite extraordinary here. So I think but you're right, this could completely destroy anyone's confidence. But yeah, I think everyone sort of just kind of, I guess like I think elfin said there like it's just made a long shot even longer for him in the title race, which is just I guess the only way you could look at it. I mean, they're in operation. I think the other thing to bear in mind is that the Toyota is the best car at the moment. So if we're sort of looking towards his other rivals from outside of Toyota, the tan accident novels of this world are high and they know that they're in a way fighting with one hand beyond their backs because their car is not on the same level as the Toyota they've got their own battles going on as we've documented numerous times. Development call on the car there's been no development on it really the behind the 8 ball. So the high end died to win a rally, that is a really extraordinary achievement at the moment because of where that car is. So what tanak did in Sardinia should be remembered as quite an extraordinary achievement really to win that round. But yeah, I guess would have sport as well. Their car is strong, but they're lacking experience in their driver lineup. So when obviously when Loeb is not there, they're relying heavily on Craig and when Craig breen is sort of struggling a little bit, he's got pace, but he's only been able to deliver a couple of podiums so far and the other drivers are relatively young. So yeah, I can see how they would be looking at that and thinking not quite sure how you beat carry at the moment. Having a look at, as we head further down, we'll hear from it now, like I say, previous winning, the most successful. Driver of rally Estonia in the past and hear what he had to say afterwards and let's actually, let's say we're a clip of him talking about his future because it was put to him about some of the things that are going around the service park, particularly amongst some members of the media, but hearing things about a certain commitment to the sport from his team, Hyundai, this is what he had to say about that. There is a great support from Korea and for sure everybody wanted a lot, but it just needs some very, let's say, straightforward changes in general structure, but we are working on it and these are definitely looks a bit difficult, but in the long term it's important for the sport as well that we come back. So yeah, pretty comprehensive denial there and what have you heard and what's your take? Because we think that Hyundai are here for the long term. What's your reading of them being in the sport? You can fully understand why speculation like this is carrying around and often there's no smoke without fire and with these things. So yeah, there's no doubt about it. If you're a big car manufacturer and you're not going so well in a sport and there's a sort of global cost crisis going on and it's difficult to sell cars and build new cars at the moment. You can understand why any manufacturer might consider walking away from a motor sport activity because at the end of the day, this is a sort of luxury item. Yes, it is a marketing tool, but it is a sort of luxury item. So just to put that into context, you can understand why such rumors would go around and certainly after Monte Carlo after that sort of horror show that they had there. You could there were sort of some rumors even kicking around after that. When you look at the situation that they've been dealt, you know, obviously a team, they're a long time team to principal Andrea damo lift in the winter, so it's certainly some upheaval in the camp and we've obviously reported that there's been some complications internally with the team structure with the sort of lack of leadership at the moment and parts supply crisis. So, you know, they've had to deal with a lot and to be fair, it's been a tough ask for them. You have some sympathy for them because they've been dealt a pretty raw hand here. So the interesting thing for me, I think, is that just a couple of weeks ago, they announced the three year extension, the WRC Hyundai team and actually the three year extension we shell their top sponsors. So if you were going to pull out of a sport, why would you do that? I'm not totally sure. I mean, obviously these things can be undone, but that seems like a sort of bizarre move if you weren't committed to the sport. So obviously we don't want them to see them go, because it'd be huge. Detrimental to WRC. We need higher and are there. But we also need them there as a competitive force. So look, let's not forget, they won two manufacturers titles on the bounce. They know how to build a car and deliver a strong weapon for tanak and tiring of it. So it's just been a circumstances, I think, that's left them in the situation. They can turn this around, but this is not going to be a job that you can turn around overnight. It's going to take on the rally. There are fundamental problems with the development of this car. And that can only have happened because of the rushed process that they had to do to get it ready for Monte Carlo. So they're trying their best to get this right.
The Autosport Podcast
"rovanpera" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"He knew that and he could have just backed off because it was pretty slippery, but because he knew he was going to get worse. He decided to push. And that is where he got the 22.6 second swing. Over elfen, to give him the platform to win this rally. So it's just the smartness of being able to think like that. While those conditions are going on at the age of 21, which is just leaving everyone staggered because of this rate, like if he carries on like this, he could be a 9 time world champion by Tommy's 30. And you just, when you say that out loud, it just seems absolutely bonkers, doesn't it? Yeah, well, this is a thing like Sebastian oge when he's first title aged 29. The Cali is probably going to do this at 21. So we are living in a very, very special moment here in WRC. You're seeing something. Quite remarkable. And I don't think it will be repeated again. When you watch those live shots as well over the weekend and they cut away to the teams, you see the team bosses, and everyone's sitting around, you know, watching it. Even these probably hardcore rally mechanics and people that have been around the sport for a long time. You can even tell on their faces, right? They're just watching it. A little bit open mouthed and a little bit just like that is huge respect for what he's doing. Okay, so it's his team, they cut away, and obviously they're going to be overjoyed. But he was the youngest WRC winner this time last year. It actually was this time last year. It was the 18th of July last year. The event was exactly the same time last year. He was 20 years old and 289 days to be the youngest winner of a world rally championship event had then gone to win acropolis after that, and then this year is dominant. Now, that phrase champion elect is sometimes used to describe someone who's got it in the bag and they just sort of counting down until it's definitely going to happen. But you have to say is the season goes on. We can increasingly call him. Champion elect or is it, you know, is it too soon? Because in racing it's not too soon. People have a big shunt. They break a leg or whatever, so things can change, but oh, of course, of course. If that doesn't happen. Things can change, but you have to say he's got one hand on the title now, and it's July. That's the phenomenon phenomenal thing about this. He's got one hand on the title in July. He's got an 83 point lead. He could, he could, I think yary Matty even said in the press conference, he can throw it off the road three times and still have the lead. Which is a luxury, a super luxury to have. But he's not going to want to do that. And that's the beauty of calorie run Perry is that he just doesn't want to stop like ETC so ruthless. He's just, he doesn't need to win these stages. He doesn't need to win 14 stages doesn't need to get the power stage points, but you just you just want to. He just wants to go out there and just show what he can do. Of course, there's going to be there is going to come over and obviously we don't touch where we don't want it to be a drama, but surely at some point there's going to be a job. Like this can not carry on for a whole season. Surely there will be at some point where he comes, he comes undone because you have to remember, he isn't actually retired from a rally since last year, which was Finland actually last year. So he's gone on a run. He's had a 12 month period where he's won 7 rallies from 13. And I believe he's worst finish is 9th in that period, and he's only been off the podium full time. So it's a remarkable record, whichever way you look at it. And it just goes to show that it is a very definition of that classic case of our once I've got that first win in the monkey off their back. The floodgates were open. Well, this is the very definition of that. You are seeing that. Now and yeah, it's just, as I said, people just don't know what to say anymore about him. It's very hard to sort of do him justice. Let's talk a little bit about the effect that it's having on his competitors as well, who are all strong, mentally strong, competitors, elf and Evans, were second in the second Toyota. Let's have a listen to him now talking afterwards, you know, obviously not happy about coming home second because all racers want to finish first and that's what he begins by talking about here. I'd like you to be ever fully happy, you know, when you finish second sort of tale of two halves in a way, happy to be at least on the podium again, but disappointed to not be a bit more competitive. It was tricky out there in certain sections of the
The Autosport Podcast
"rovanpera" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Rally is our man Tom Howard. Wow, that was once again a weekend that absolutely delivered for some amazing racing. Yeah, an incredible rally. Again, it's just fun in the words to describe calorie rover Perry is now actually hard. I'm running out of adjectives. I'm running out of superlatives. It's just, it's just unbelievable. Like people are just genuinely stunned at what he's able to do and it's the key to this is the wet weather. This is where he's making the most impact. When it gets difficult and extreme, he's on a different or as Yara Matty Latvia the toe to boss said he's on another planet and he's absolutely correct because there is no one could touch him. Nobody can absolutely touch it. If you need anything to sort of justify or the skill that calorie romper is I would produce. Just go and watch the highlights from the power stage because that for me is probably that will be one of the drives of the season because I didn't need to push. Had a massive lead already, but there's 5 bonus points up for grabs. It was absolutely ridiculously wet to the point where SFI galapa actually described it as the craziest stage he's ever driven. That's how bad the conditions were. And he had the very similar conditions thereof in evidence and say, oh, you know, they were together in the road order. So elfin went slightly before him. So they started conditions weren't that different. But Kelly won the stage by 22.5 seconds over Evans, which is just unheard of. And it's just, I just don't know what to say anymore. He's just defying belief of what he's able to do in that car at the minute. And so that the car is reliable, but so, as the consistency of the driver as well, nothing seems. And he has had big offs. And coming through the series as well in WRC two, he had a big offer a few years ago where he landed on top of a spectator's car. And so it's not like he is impervious to making him mistake. But this season, his consistency just seems to keep delivering and delivering. Yeah, he's just, I think we spoke about it before. I think this was maybe Portugal where we just said he's just in this sort of flow zone where everything he is doing is just coming up gold. You know, it's just I think the best things to look at and you have to remember that each driver is a different driving styles, but if you compare the onboards of him with elfin Evans, it looks like Kelly's on a Sunday drive, like he's just so calm, so collected and yet performing miracles and doing things that you just can't believe he's doing, whereas elfin is just on the ragged edge, trying to get as much out of this car to try and keep up with Cali. Yeah, as I said, no one really can explain it. He's just he's on a different level. He's just at this point where he's so confident in the car. He's able to push where people just simply can't. And people can't say, well, it's just the machinery is better because he's beating his teammate because it was a one two photo again this weekend and with elf and Evans coming home in second tanak home hero tanak in the first of the Hyundai's in third, followed home by the closest championship rival, what does he know? I made a note of it over the weekend, 80 odd points, 83 points. Three points. Neuville is 83 points behind rather than in the fight for the championship. But like four minutes back in the second Hyundai. So it's not as if you can say, well, he's in superior machinery. And the Toyota is superior machinery in many conditions. He's just so good. And you know, it seems like now let's flip things around a little bit because on the last podcast, the second half we heard from the drivers and team managers, let's flip it round and hear from him right now because he's got that, if I can sort of use a bit of a cultural stereotype, that finish that finish thing going on, where he is brutally fast on the road. And yet when the Finns talk about their racing afterwards, it just sounds like they're so like they reclined, they're laid back. And he is so laid back when you hear him talk. Let's have a little listen here to Callie Robin pere talking after another win. Big 5 from the beginning with the guys opening the road and he had an elephant was all the time they are giving pressure also. So it was a nice vegan. Brokerage driving and United States is yeah, I think I haven't seen rains like this anywhere else before. It seemed that every time we had a break or road checks and there was some sunshine and stuff and then when we were on the start line it's always raining or something and yeah, quite extreme conditions a few times. An impressive final stage from you today. I saw that there was some rain before heavy rain for the guys then a bit less and less all the time for the last cars to come through. So yeah, I knew that there might be a chance for us to have a good position to start at the stage and India then I just push for it and the time was good. Okay, that's some of the press conference audio that they very kindly supplied to the auto sport podcast for us to use on the podcast today some Tom. So what do you make of some of the things that he talked about there after his win? You're right, he's typically understated. He must realize that what he's doing is phenomenal, but he's just so calm with it all. It's interesting in a way. It's kind of from a journal perspective. It's kind of, I suppose, a little bit annoying that he doesn't get more excited about what he's doing. But you have to buy it. You have to buy the fact that he's just so cool, calm collected. But I guess the point we need to make here is that the area where he is having a vantage is in these wet and slippery conditions. So three times elfin and Cali have gone up against each other for a rally win and the three times The Rain has come down in Portugal, Kenya, and now here he's just had something else that he can offer an elfin has no answer in reply. But he don't. But Evan started the weekend really well. He dominated early part of Friday. They absolutely. So just to recap that obviously elfin started Friday, he won 5 stages on the bounce and a lead of 19.9 seconds over Cali. Now, some of that was down to that was dry to begin with that the rally. So there was a bit of cleaning for Cali to do being first on the road, and you have to remember elfin was, I believe, 6th on the road. So he had a much better conditions. But yes, you're right. I often was in the zone and was looking very much like the elf and that we saw in Finland last year when he absolutely monster that event and won it. So there was genuine hope here that elf is elephant is going to do this. There's a very strong chance, but again, The Rain came down on that last stage on Friday and this is where Callie is so ruthless and clever is that he was because he was first on the road. It just worked slightly better in his favor in terms of the conditions were bad, but they got worse for the rest of the field. And he knew that and he could have just backed off because it was pretty slippery, but because he knew he was going to get worse. He decided to push. And that is where he got the 22.6
Gravel Notes with David Evans
"rovanpera" Discussed on Gravel Notes with David Evans
"Had the patron but that was more in the private team too much politics look too much credit but it was also to back garden. Let's talk about crop last weekend. Obviously the rally was dominated by kelly rovanpera water performance from him. Can you just talk us through. How good that drive was for sure. I know his father very well. I talked to her very often. And we talk about the rallies and stuff like that but for sure with callers performance there and i think he did a really good job most of them all the details and and looked at the local films from early days and and inventory didn't look like he had respect for the rally at all you know and the end of the day very well because he's rallying you should respect big over anxious or or the car about the color has a very good team by any means so many finnish people in that royal that they've been a lot of knowledge and look experience and and they have also the drivers that they are working very closely with them or jr evanson and all this so all the information is taking control and the driving in the team. You know you have to. You have to work together to give experience and and and the end of the days you know you always will do the best as won't for the for yourself up the for the other drivers and the team you know. They have to take care of the young guys in into help. You need be needing robbers in the future. Like like all of their and have a very impressive performance course he had these times also very bad for many rallies in after shelter belts. And you should never give up on anybody in and just because you have an incredible speed than the car control. He won in to store near in such devastating fashion. But i think many people expected to do well there. They didn't expect him to do as well. Maybe in acropolis but he on saturday. He demolish the failed. He was three point seven lead. They extended to forty seconds over four stages. It was an incredible run and these young guys learning very quickly and we see that young is very seldom really well in that type of wage. You know it's it's from twenty six normally. that is starting false about. I think it's a look of help from this onboard and and also which team you are in to take care of you you know and this is the same the renault. It's good fan and take really good care. Women and iso is still going to take time. You know it's not the same same development before everybody's than then. They needed the incredible incredible performance. Day should be very proud in them. Choice for the souls. Perry probably he was oversee very emotional. His father harry. Estonia can't imagine what you've been like in greece tough rally this great rallying is so much into emotion send you values are very different sport to formula lewan..
Gravel Notes with David Evans
"rovanpera" Discussed on Gravel Notes with David Evans
"Joined by two thousand. Three world rally champion at a sailboat. To view last weekend's acropolis rally a winner of the acropolis in two thousand four with the factory. Subaru team petronas. Everything there is to know about the famous rally of the gods which return to the wrc calendar for the first time since two thousand thirteen. So book was on hand to watch. Toyota's kelly rovanpera dominate the event. Leave hanoi's is tonic and championship leader us trailing in these wyche for rovanpera. The victory was his second arriving. Just eight weeks after become in the. Wrc's youngest ever winner after starring rally estonia for the championship podium in greece for oj appears to move the frenchman. A step closer to an eight. Th world title so turn out analyze the acropolis rally. We thought we should get a world champions. Take on the new flying finn rovan parer and he's masterclass performance in greece. Welcome to gravel notes petr. How very good thank you That was You know the history of an overdose is very hard. They conditions that heats the tires and the car. You know you can't get any worse than almost you know. Obviously there the weather change to very petralli part of it so it's not so much that any of us are used to at all but it was like is in places when esau sold the film so by name as great to get greece back again and by the government is involved like there are and the and the history of rallying there and for the people. Because i've also the state start on the first date in in town and we'll stay with the with the government people able fantastic atmosphere for that point of view. It's it's it's fantastic to have it back just before we dove into that that rally firstly. I just wanted to talk about today. Posted on social media that duchy sadly today the fourteen years ago we lost colin mcrae. And you post on social media. Throw very very nice. Pasta just wanted to sort of firstly touch on that. Obviously he was a team of yours. Arrival it's important to remember. People aren't cullen in isn't i. Think calling richard you know. They're i call nicole this porch and the thing is is some people you should never forget the people that have been teammates or or work with and or or in general i think good members from them and the and the fantastic drivers will champions. You'll never forget these people. Of course it's tough all the time for the for all the families and the kids push for you know about the while i for sure. Great memories from both of them. So it's and it's great to let people see that the we still always remember them. I just ask guests before we start the pocus. Actually just one question is your favorite ever rally and your favorite ever rally awe at the very tough. It's all depends on the on the decade. Been driving for a long time. But i love the ford focus to hear me really well with the subaru to austin to four it was fantastic ours all of them. I must also say that..