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00:00:00Very good evening to you. Welcome to Eurosports coverage of the 1998 FIA World Rally Championship.

00:00:07The traditional start to the season, the Monte Carlo Rally.

00:00:10The first this year of 14 events stretching all the way to the bitter cold end of November in Britain with the Network Q Rally of Great Britain.

00:00:20Newcomers to the calendar this year, full World Championship status for China and a whole host of new changes.

00:00:27Different cars, new liveries, new team lineups, drivers swapping seats in a frenzy of activity that would make a Formula off-season look quiet.

00:00:37And perhaps more attention on the World Rally Championship than ever before.

00:00:42Six manufacturers registered for points joining last year's teams, Mitsubishi, champions of course, Toyota, Ford, Subaru, SEAT,

00:00:50are Skoda starting their first WRC car on this event.

00:00:55And Peugeot will arrive with the formidable looking 206 on the Tour de Course, the Rally of France in May.

00:01:02Well, that's the way they're spread around the five continents, of course, centered in Europe.

00:01:07But Africa, South America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand taking in Australasia.

00:01:12Round one, perhaps the most famous rally of them all, it's the Monty.

00:01:18Well, Eurosport extending our coverage again with the updates of the action every night.

00:01:24And, of course, the cars started the competitive stages today, Monday, but Sunday was a day for the cars to be out and about as well, leaving from Monaco.

00:01:33And all attention on the reigning world champion team and driver, Tommy McKinnon, with everybody else ranged against him,

00:01:42including Colin McRae and the brand new Ford Focus in its sparkling new livery.

00:01:49This newcomer to the championship looking impressive already.

00:01:53Carlos Sainz, of course, staying with Toyota where he's been so successful.

00:01:57Let's look at the Mitsubishi line-up, the version 6 evolution of the Lancer stroke Charisma GT.

00:02:04Tommy McKinnon and Risto Manis-Macki.

00:02:06And Freddie Loix, the Belgian who sparkled last year for Toyota with Sven-Smith, joining the team.

00:02:11But what about McKinnon's feelings?

00:02:16Of course, you feel always a little bit nervous before the rally, but it's not so bad.

00:02:21I'm happy at the moment. We did good recce and we have done excellent preparation.

00:02:28I'm ready for rallying.

00:02:30Well, a new look in color for the Mitsubishi.

00:02:35And despite the odd little hiccup, McKinnon and Mitsubishi's Evo 6 Lancer have been formidable indeed in testing.

00:02:42He is the man they're all chasing. Unchanged line-up at Toyota.

00:02:46Carlos Sainz, Luis Moya, Diri Oriol, Denis Giroudet, staying aboard for the second consecutive season.

00:02:52Last year's Monte Carlo winner, Sainz stays at his spiritual home.

00:02:57Hola, indeed. El Matador, of course, any mention of his name now immediately brings to mind the harrowing end of the 1998 season on the Rally of Great Britain.

00:03:08But what does he think about that?

00:03:11Pass is the pass and you cannot stay thinking in the pass for long.

00:03:15Either if you win or if you have a mechanical problem or if you lose or whatever.

00:03:20You have to think ahead if you are doing another season like we are doing and that's it.

00:03:27Well, a six-week off-season. But what about conditions here?

00:03:30The most important thing is not the condition is to have the correct tyre and to have the correct information and do not make mistakes with the tyre.

00:03:39So, well, Monte is always nice if it is a little bit of these mixed conditions where it always makes the rally more interesting and more difficult.

00:03:49So, it's okay if it is something now.

00:03:52Mmm, prophetic words as they would turn out, but Carlos Sainz shaking down the Toyota and looking a strong challenger.

00:03:59New line-up at Subaru. The Impreza WRC changes colour, or rather stays colour, but loses most of its decals.

00:04:07Richard Burns takes the number one seat alongside Robert Reid, replacing Colin McRae as the number one driver at the Subaru Cam.

00:04:16This is a return to his spiritual home for Burns, who has had several successful years at Mitsubishi, but Subaru and ProDrive, it's where he grew up.

00:04:25First of all, happy birthday.

00:04:26Thanks a lot.

00:04:27What did the team get you?

00:04:29A big chocolate cake, but I'm not allowed to eat it before the rally, unfortunately.

00:04:32Some of the team are saying they've given you a blue car to drive.

00:04:35Well, I guess so, yeah, but I was hoping to get that anyway, whether birthday or not, but everything's going pretty well, I have to say. It's been a good day so far.

00:04:44Was it a good recce for you?

00:04:45Yeah, no problem. There's been quite a lot of snow, and I think there's going to be a bit more tonight, so it could be quite changeable during the rally.

00:04:51Well, of course, Burns will have to unlearn his Mitsubishi driving habits and relearn his Subaru driving habits, but that's certainly a challenge he is relishing.

00:05:00So is Juhar Kankinen moving over from Ford.

00:05:03It's completely different compared to normal Tarmac rallies, for example, and everybody is here normally with new teams and new things, you know, and first rally of the season, it's always interesting.

00:05:16Ford's third man, Bruno Thierry, like Kankinen, moving to the works ProDrive outfit from Ford, and he too will have to learn the car.

00:05:25Well, what about Ford? Colin McRae and Nicky Grist, the big money signings in the attractive new Focus.

00:05:31Simon-Jean Joseph, runner-up in the French Tarmac Rally Championship, and Thomas Radstrom, both co-driven rather deftly.

00:05:38That's by Fred Gallagher, the veteran.

00:05:41Well, of course, Colin McRae and Nicky Grist, and the Ford Focus with its attractive livery, the centre of activities.

00:05:48But Anorak's note, although it is sponsored by Martini and Rossi, so successful with Lancia's and Cesare Fiorio through the 80s, you won't see the words Martini on the car here on the Monte because French rulings, and of course all the stages are in France, ban alcohol and driving connotations.

00:06:07So it's a very pretty colour, the word Martini racing will appear later on.

00:06:12Colin McRae, like many of the drivers of course, at home now here in Monaco, the start of the rally, and scootering off probably just to put the kettle on, I wish.

00:06:22Moving on then, the Seat Cordoba WRC debuted at the end of last year.

00:06:26Piero Liati, winner of this event in 1996 with new co-driver Carlo Cassina.

00:06:32Fabricio Pons has decided that she doesn't want to be a part of the action this year, so he's learning a new car and a new co-driver alongside Rovenpera.

00:06:41I think at the moment he says we've got a car that's very near the front running pace.

00:06:47I'm very impatient to find what kind of competitive stage times that the Seat WRC can set.

00:06:54Of course the 96th winner of this event, learning a new car, but Harry Rovenpera, well used to it.

00:07:03What about the Skoda team?

00:07:04Well, Armin Schwartz and Manfred Heimer, along with Czech driver Emil Trejner and his fellow countryman Milos Hulke.

00:07:11Pavel Sibera and Peter Gross, those four of course long-term mainstays of the Skoda outfit.

00:07:18But, well, what can you say? At least from here things can only get better from Skoda.

00:07:23Because Armin Schwartz, the German star, didn't even make it as far as the start ramp in his car.

00:07:28It's died on the way to the start.

00:07:30Well, he said it's a bit of a disaster. Unfortunately, we knew we were going to have an electronic problem with the car.

00:07:39And unfortunately, not only a lack of revs, but a clutch problem.

00:07:44And then on the uphill run to Casino Square, of course part of the Monte Carlo Grand Prix course,

00:07:50Armin Schwartz ran out of power and the car just simply stopped.

00:07:58Well, disappointing indeed for Skoda, their car looking pretty impressive

00:08:02and a welcome addition to the World Rally Championship ranks.

00:08:09Well, bad luck, he says, in bad luck it was indeed.

00:08:12Both cars were expected to pull out after the start.

00:08:15Pavel Sibera indeed retired at La Scoperta,

00:08:19so both cars out before the competitive stages began.

00:08:24Well, Skoda expected it to be a long uphill battle.

00:08:29Development was started very late on the cars.

00:08:32There's Armin and some more humble machinery making it on the way to the start.

00:08:37But Skoda will return, don't you worry about that.

00:08:40When we return after the break, we'll take a look at the first leg of competitive stages.

00:08:45But this was Sunday's driving from Monaco to the overnight halted gap.

00:08:50Join us after the break and we'll tell you about the dramas that even that caused.

00:08:58Meanwhile, as the start line announcer so correctly says,

00:09:01the reigning world champions, driver, co-driver and manufacturer,

00:09:06waved away by His Serene Highness Prince Albert of Monaco

00:09:10for the start of the 1998 World Rally Championship here on Eurosport.

00:09:15Join us in a moment.

00:09:16Leg two of the 1998 Rally Monte Carlo.

00:09:21The first competitive stages.

00:09:23And boy, did they start off with a real firecracker.

00:09:26Leaving gap the first stage, 48.28 kilometers, the longest of the event.

00:09:32Well, it's a very dramatic start.

00:09:35As you can see, snow laying in the French Alps.

00:09:38And the stage was to produce incident and drama all round.

00:09:43Even before the start, some dramas for some of the drivers.

00:09:48This is Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya comparing notes on compounds and tyre pressures

00:09:54with Tommy Mackinnon and Risto Manusamaki just ahead of them.

00:09:58Let's hear what Luis Moya has to say about the first stage.

00:10:03Luis, what reports have you had of the snow?

00:10:05Where does the snow start on the stage?

00:10:07About seven kilometers in, but that was when the gravel crew went.

00:10:11Maybe now with the rain has melted.

00:10:13Well, mixed conditions and mixed fortunes as well for a number of drivers.

00:10:22This would be an impressive first stage for the 1998 World Rally Championship.

00:10:28But unfortunately for some, it was to be a very depressing first stage.

00:10:32As you can see, rain at the start and higher up in the mountains starting to melt the snow.

00:10:37Well, Tommy Mackinnon, quickest through the first stage by 35 seconds.

00:10:43A thundering advantage and a really great way to lay down a marker on the first stage of a new season.

00:10:54Despite his impressive speed, Mackinnon was not free from dramas on this stage.

00:11:00And for the strangest of reasons, some very weird little stories cropping up in this first competitive day of the Monte Carlo Rally.

00:11:11Let's hear now how it all went from Tommy Mackinnon.

00:11:15Some little problems.

00:11:17We had some, yesterday evening we had a little accident when we, from the time control to the last service point.

00:11:24Because it was so much, so many people in everywhere and that they just slowly move away in front, from the front of car.

00:11:31And I hit the, hit the, I couldn't see.

00:11:35I just went slowly forward, forward and all the people move away.

00:11:39And suddenly car just stopped like that.

00:11:42I, I was wondering what, what the hell was that?

00:11:45I hit the gate.

00:11:46I hit the gate.

00:11:47And this right, right front corner.

00:11:51Quite badly.

00:11:52And we damaged a brake cooler.

00:11:54And they changed it and now there is some problem with the brake cooling system.

00:11:58And we lose quite a lot of brakes on the, on the first stage.

00:12:01That was the main problem.

00:12:02Whereabouts in the stage did you feel that the brakes had gone?

00:12:05No, on the tarmac.

00:12:06On the last, last 20 kilometers.

00:12:09Not too much time lost compared with the others?

00:12:11No, okay.

00:12:12Of course I, I lose something for that.

00:12:15But I was already over one minute ahead of, of others in mid-bone.

00:12:20It's an impressive first stage for Tommy McKinnon, but disasters for Carlos Sainz.

00:12:26And off on the very first corner, wrinkled the front of the Toyota.

00:12:31And as you can see from this amateur video, it, the bonnet of the car was so far up in Carlos's way,

00:12:37that he completely lost visibility, lost control of the car, slams off the road, into this telegraph pole, and out of the event.

00:12:46Yeah, but like, but RAC has made me very strong, so this is not important.

00:12:52I mean, the three times we won this rally, we lost it in RAC.

00:12:55So that means that probably we will win the championship this year.

00:12:59Very upbeat, Luis Moya, Carlos Sainz out of the event on the first stage.

00:13:04And problems too for Didier Oriel.

00:13:06Damage to the front left of his car.

00:13:08Mechanics working hard to replace that, and to try and keep the second and only remaining Toyota in the event.

00:13:16He went off and is suffering from flu, not a good start to his event either.

00:13:25Of course, he says, plenty of snow and black ice everywhere as well, he said.

00:13:31And sometimes you just hit sheets of ice on the road.

00:13:35There's obviously no way of telling and it becomes very slippery.

00:13:38But he said, you still have to drive as hard as you can.

00:13:42He said, a lot of people have been off and have had problems on the ice, so everybody's making mistakes.

00:13:48Well, Didier Oriel, in fact, went off shortly after Richard Burns, who had been catching him on the stage.

00:13:55What exactly happened, it was a 15-metre before, a very small bridge and the car went a little bit sideways before we went on the bridge.

00:14:07And so we hit the bridge and it was over.

00:14:09In fact, hitting the bridge, ripped the front off the car and spun him round.

00:14:13Freddy Loix was out, so it was down to one Toyota and one Mitsubishi.

00:14:16What about the Subaru crew?

00:14:18Richard Burns, in his first drive for Subaru, had made up the two-minute start time on Didier Oriel on that first stage.

00:14:25Oriel had him in the mirrors and was planning to find a place to let him by, when suddenly Burns disappeared.

00:14:31The lanky redhead had gone off the road and lost nearly five minutes.

00:14:35What about the man whose place he's taken, Colin McRae?

00:14:38He had dramas in stage one as well.

00:14:40The car stopped and he lost nearly three minutes with a plug problem, but it also caught fire.

00:14:47Let's hear from him now.

00:14:48Well, for us, we had a problem with the engine.

00:14:52It blew all the plug leads out, so the car just stopped.

00:14:55And then we had a fire in the back as well.

00:14:58So we lost a good three minutes.

00:15:02It would have been a very good time.

00:15:04We would have been very close to Tommy, which would have been a great start.

00:15:07But we can't help these problems.

00:15:10Well, further problems later in the day.

00:15:13Incidentally, the fire was just the paint on the floor burning off.

00:15:16The exhaust temperatures had melted on the inside of the car.

00:15:19It wasn't anything major.

00:15:20Problems later on in the day.

00:15:22Broken windscreen when he hit a spectator's hand.

00:15:25This is Simon-Jean Joseph, runner-up by 0.8 seconds in the French Rally Championship.

00:15:30The 29-year-old from Martinique, the second works escort.

00:15:33Stage one was the longest he'd ever driven the car.

00:15:35There you saw the damage to Colin's car.

00:15:37There you see the incident.

00:15:39Let's hear from the man.

00:15:41Problem with the windscreen, what exactly happened there?

00:15:43It was a spectator that was hanging out over a hairpin.

00:15:47So they just need to keep further back.

00:15:49It's the same as normal in Monte Carlo.

00:15:51Did you just catch a foot?

00:15:53No, it was somebody's hand, I think. I don't know.

00:15:57Well, whatever it was, you saw the damage to the windscreen.

00:16:00And undoubtedly somebody nursing very sore body components.

00:16:04But Colin McRae continues.

00:16:06What about the Formula 2 cars doing a great job?

00:16:08Tony Gardemeister, a victim of Nissan's plug-pulling on its rally efforts just a month ago

00:16:14out in the Seat Ibiza.

00:16:16Eight fastest on stage one.

00:16:17And Philippe Bogalski, the man who beat Simon-Jean Joseph to the French Rally title,

00:16:21for Citroen in the Citroen Saxo kit car.

00:16:2412th overall on stage one.

00:16:26They must be blindingly fast downhill, is all I can say.

00:16:29Leader after three then, Tommy Makanen in the Mitsubishi.

00:16:33Fastest on stage one, despite that brake problems.

00:16:35Point six slower than the others on stage two.

00:16:38And fourth fastest on stage three.

00:16:4133 seconds behind the fastest man who was Gilles Panizzi.

00:16:45Stage three was Slush-A-Go-Go and all the top seeds served only to clear the road a little.

00:16:51This is Gilles Panizzi.

00:16:53This is the man who is challenging for the overall lead.

00:16:59In an all-stars Subaru, effectively works machinery run by a satellite Mitsubishi team.

00:17:07Second quickest on stage one.

00:17:09Sixth on stage two.

00:17:10Fastest on stage three.

00:17:12Gilles Panizzi setting the crowds alight here.

00:17:15So I've got a great feeling with this car.

00:17:20I really like it.

00:17:21Very surprised to see how well we're doing, I have to say.

00:17:25But obviously, very satisfied with that.

00:17:28Said, I'm not going to look at the rankings too much.

00:17:31He said, I'm just going to continue driving the way we are.

00:17:33Hope it works well.

00:17:34Well, it has done so far.

00:17:36Let's look now at Certe Cordoba.

00:17:38Third after stage three.

00:17:40Piero Liati.

00:17:41Great result.

00:17:42Let's hear from him now.

00:17:45He said, the car's giving me a great feeling.

00:17:51I'm not 100% yet though in confidence with the car.

00:17:55I said, it's very different from the cars I've driven over the last few years.

00:17:58But as soon as I really get more of a feel for the car, he said, I'm sure the results will come.

00:18:04Well, this is Bruno Thierry, the Subaru Impreza driver lying fourth after three stages.

00:18:10A minute and 28 behind the others.

00:18:13Behind the leader rather.

00:18:14And just seven seconds away from third place, Piero Liati.

00:18:18Juhar Kankinen in the number six Subaru Impreza.

00:18:21Second of the works cars.

00:18:23Fifth after three stages.

00:18:25Fourth on stage one.

00:18:26Third on stage two.

00:18:28Eleventh on stage three.

00:18:29There's the classification then.

00:18:31Midway through the first competitive day.

00:18:33François Delacour, another former winner of this event in sixth position in a Ford Escort.

00:18:38Like Gilles Panizzi, his drive paid for by his employers, Bergeau,

00:18:42to keep him in rally fitness until the 2.06 is ready in May.

00:18:47So, Makinen leading by 45 seconds from Panizzi halfway through the first day.

00:18:53Join us for the outcome after the break.

00:18:56Well, welcome back to Eurosports coverage of the first competitive stages of the 1998 Monte Carlo Rally.

00:19:08Eighth at the end of the day.

00:19:09Didier Auriol, the 1990 winner in Lancia.

00:19:1292 winner in a Lancia.

00:19:13The 93 winner in a Toyota.

00:19:15Toyota back with Toyota once more.

00:19:18And on stage four.

00:19:20Second quickest as he was on stage five.

00:19:22Both times to Colin McRae in the Escort.

00:19:24But right on the limit of his tyres, he says.

00:19:27François Delacour finishes the day seventh.

00:19:29The 1994 winner in an Escort Cosworth 4x4.

00:19:32Now in an Escort Cosworth WRC and chasing hard.

00:19:36Colin McRae, first day in real action in the Ford Focus WRC.

00:19:42Seventh on the day.

00:19:44One minute and fifty-four behind the leaders.

00:19:46Fastest on stages four and five.

00:19:48And Malcolm Wilson looked like he'd won the event then.

00:19:51Yeah, I must admit, I'm quite relieved actually.

00:19:55I mean, okay, it's been a pretty fraught three or four weeks.

00:19:57And especially the build-up to the rally and actually getting started.

00:20:00But now that the rally's underway, the first couple of stages didn't go too well for us.

00:20:05We had a couple of problems.

00:20:08But all I can say is there's a lot of happy people in our car and all the vehicles, I think, in M Sport after the third stage.

00:20:15I think Colin's performance there and obviously the performance of the car we're absolutely delighted with.

00:20:20To be less than a second behind Tommy and just under two seconds behind Didier.

00:20:25And those are the first three cars on the road which just gives you a good indication that the road conditions are consistent.

00:20:30Well, what about Bruno Thierry? Fifth overall despite a small problem on stage four here.

00:20:38And that was by far the least injurious of the offs that I've seen on the footage from Monte Carlo today.

00:20:45Well, he finishes the day in fifth place.

00:20:48In fourth place though, and this is a stunning drive from Pierre Iliati.

00:20:52Let's hope he can continue this in Seat's Cordoba WRC.

00:20:56He is one minute and 20 seconds off the lead.

00:20:59Third, fourth, sixth, ninth and eighth were his stage times.

00:21:03The 96 winner in top form.

00:21:05Juhar Kankinen.

00:21:06He's never won this event.

00:21:08He knows all about the jinx of Monaco.

00:21:10But he's third at the moment in his first drive for Subaru.

00:21:13Well, what can he manage?

00:21:15Tommy Makinen changing a damaged brake disc between stages four and five.

00:21:21What happened here is on stage four the disc separated completely from the hub.

00:21:26There it is.

00:21:27Free and useless doing absolutely nothing.

00:21:29So he had effectively very little in terms of braking and massive grab at that.

00:21:34Look at that.

00:21:35Brake testing the car now to get a feel for the pedal before the start of stage five.

00:21:39He's thrown away the disc.

00:21:41He's clamped the line to the disc caliper.

00:21:44And now he has three breaks.

00:21:47Tomorrow you're going to be first on the stage on the stages.

00:21:50So is that going to be a disadvantage or what weather reports have you heard?

00:21:54No, I don't think so.

00:21:56I don't.

00:21:57I haven't heard actually anything about weather.

00:22:00Well, I hope it's staying dry most to try drying up.

00:22:05I prefer it's more enjoyable.

00:22:10Well, that's when Tommy Makinen thought he was the event leader.

00:22:13But in fact, Gilles Panizzi finishes the day as event leader

00:22:17because he was given a 30-second penalty on Sunday

00:22:21for having his car pushed out of a Parc Fermet.

00:22:24Now, under the 98 regulations that would have been illegal and he was penalized for it.

00:22:29But somebody realized that in fact in 1999 it's not illegal.

00:22:33So Gilles Panizzi in the all-star Subaru Impreza leads Rally Monte Carlo

00:22:39after the first day of competitive stages.

00:22:42Two more days of rallying to go.

00:22:44Five seconds between Gilles Panizzi's Subaru and Tommy Makinen's Mitsubishi.

00:22:49Panizzi the first into the mountains tomorrow.

00:22:52Makinen, Kankinen, Liati, Thierry and the rest following.

00:22:56Well, after a lifetime with the Escort, the Ford Focus in sixth position looking good.

00:23:04Seat's Cordoba really in there upsetting the apple cart.

00:23:08But a privateer car leading.

00:23:10Well, here's what happens on leg three.

00:23:13They leave Gap head back down through to Monaco.

00:23:16And most of the drivers will go home to bed then, of course.

00:23:19Well, we'll leave you with pictures of the first competitive stages of the 1998 World Rally Championship.

00:23:32A season that produces, we hope, or promises at least, and has already started to produce incident and spectacle in equal measure.

00:23:40From myself, Martin Haven, and from Toby Moody down there, wielding the microphone among the superstars,

00:23:46it's goodbye until tomorrow.

00:23:48Bye for now.

00:23:49We'll see you later.

00:23:50We'll see you later.

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00:24:18Rally Championship with

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00:24:26Michelin. The more we progress, the further you go.

00:24:35Good evening. Welcome to Eurosports coverage of the 1998 World Rally Championship season.

00:24:42The first event, of course, of 14 this year.

00:24:45Rally Monte Carlo.

00:24:46These are the majestic French Alps backing on to the principality that gives perhaps the most famous rally in the world its name.

00:24:53Day two of the competitive stages.

00:24:55Well, they overnighted in Gap and the long and tortuous route back to Monaco,

00:25:00taking in tonight's famous runs over the Col de Torini, that stage of stages.

00:25:06Well, here's how they finished after two legs, one competitive run.

00:25:10Gilles Panizzi, the sensational overnight leader in the All-Stars Subaru Impreza from the reigning world champion driver and team combo,

00:25:19Juhar Kankunen and Lancer Evolution 6.

00:25:21Juhar Kankunen in third, his first drive for Subaru and the sensational Seat Cordoba in fourth place.

00:25:27But let's have a look at Gilles Panizzi.

00:25:30He was really the astonishing overnight leader and started off with the fastest time on the first stage of day two.

00:25:39That's Tuesday's stages, stage six.

00:25:42Despite the black ice, some impressive performances indeed in this X-Works car.

00:25:48The Shell, incidentally, did the Safari Rally with the ProDrive team last year.

00:25:53It's now in 98 San Remo, which is the latest tarmac spec.

00:25:56But of course, since he's the best place to the Subarus, wouldn't be surprised at all to see some genuine works parts coming his way.

00:26:04Well, now, this is interesting.

00:26:06Heads to head, 40 seconds worth of stage.

00:26:08Tommy Makinen versus Gilles Panizzi.

00:26:11Of course, it's not a real head to head, but this is the same point on the stage.

00:26:15Compare and contrast the two drivers.

00:26:26Makinen on slightly narrower tyres here and really struggling for grip.

00:26:31You can see how much Panizzi is pulling out ahead of him.

00:26:34That was reversed on the second stage, but Panizzi looking very good indeed at this stage.

00:26:39Let's hear his early morning feelings.

00:26:44A lot of ice, he said, and black ice makes it very difficult to see, obviously,

00:26:50and very tricky as well because you go from full grip to absolutely no grip at all.

00:26:55He said, sometimes you're sliding around a little bit on a wet road,

00:26:58but then you hit the sheet ice and absolutely, completely out of control.

00:27:02He said, to be honest, I've got no idea at all how to deal with this.

00:27:05I've never had experience of it before.

00:27:07So all I'm doing is listening to my brother Hervé's pace notes

00:27:10and dealing with the black ice situations as they arrive.

00:27:15Well, Tommy Makinen fought back at the start of the day to retake the lead.

00:27:25He was third fastest on stage six, fastest on stage seven.

00:27:30Let's hear from the world champion.

00:27:31Tommy, second quickest on that stage, but Panizzi is going amazingly fast.

00:27:34Did you have the right tyre choice?

00:27:35No, not at all.

00:27:37It was quite narrow kind of snow tyre and it was completely wrong.

00:27:45Panizzi took the correct tyre.

00:27:46He has a wider one and a wider one with the spikes

00:27:51and it was much more time, I think, what our information was.

00:27:56Well, the story of day one was really stage one

00:27:59and all the retirements that it brought to the event.

00:28:02The story of day two has been tyre choice

00:28:04and getting it right has been so difficult.

00:28:07Drivers don't make this choice blinds.

00:28:09They do have stage crews going through, ice noting,

00:28:13but still with a wide variety of tyre,

00:28:18widths, combinations of compounds, different cuts in the compound

00:28:21and then, of course, studs to throw in or not,

00:28:24as the conditions may demand.

00:28:25It's very tricky indeed.

00:28:27Well, this is Bruno Thierry.

00:28:28His first drive is the third of the works Subaru Rally team drivers.

00:28:32Fifth overall after day one.

00:28:34Lost a minute and 56 to Panizzi on the first stage.

00:28:37Everybody lost time to Panizzi on stage one.

00:28:39Just too cautious on the ice, said Thierry.

00:28:42Well, better that than to end the event

00:28:44over the edge of a drop somewhere.

00:28:46He lost two places, though, dropping to seventh

00:28:48with three special stages still to run on the second day.

00:28:52So he's finding his way gradually in the car.

00:28:56So to Juhar Kankunen.

00:28:58Juhar Kankunen, bad tyre choice on stage one.

00:29:01Dropped 57 seconds.

00:29:03And again, going for a too conservative a choice, perhaps,

00:29:05on what turned out to be a real racer's stage.

00:29:09And on the second stage of the day,

00:29:10bringing up to fourth place,

00:29:12but still 24 seconds off the pace.

00:29:14A car, really, that's all new to him.

00:29:16Pierre Iliati, another of the sensations of day one

00:29:19in the Seat Cordova.

00:29:21Ninth fastest, despite smashing a wheel,

00:29:24running into a cliff on the first stage of the day.

00:29:27Second quickest on the second stage of the day.

00:29:30The understeer problems that so plagued the Seat last year

00:29:35in its first runs out really seem to have been sorted.

00:29:38And Pierre Iliati doing a great job.

00:29:40Let's hear from him, talking about his broken wheel rim.

00:29:43He said, had this problem two kilometers into the first special stage.

00:29:48Stone in the snow, shattered the wheel.

00:29:51He said, but the moose works superbly.

00:29:53This is the ATS moose in the Michelin tires.

00:29:55It expands as soon as there's a drop in air pressure.

00:29:58And basically, performance barely drops off at all.

00:30:00Colin McRae, Ford No. 7.

00:30:03Well, McRae, second quickest,

00:30:05despite, like Iliati, a shattered wheel rim on the first stage of the day.

00:30:10Only dropped 34 seconds.

00:30:11Eighth quickest on stage 7, dropping 36 seconds.

00:30:15So starting to slide away, perhaps, from Panizzi and Makinin's pace.

00:30:19I didn't really know.

00:30:20There was a small stone we ran over at the start,

00:30:22so I think that's what it was.

00:30:24But it wasn't, we didn't lose any time with it.

00:30:27The moose worked OK and everything, no problems with the Michelin's?

00:30:29Yeah, absolutely perfect.

00:30:31I mean, I didn't even know it had a puncture.

00:30:32Well, here's a man who knows all about these stages.

00:30:36Former winner of the event in an Escort Cosworth 4x4.

00:30:39This time in an Escort Cosworth WRC.

00:30:41Last year's works cars, of course, these were.

00:30:43This is Francois Delacour, former French champion.

00:30:46And a man who knows a thing or two about producing sensational times on that event.

00:30:50Well, he was sixth and fifth overall, now moved up to six in the points standings.

00:30:56I beg your pardon, in the overall standings there behind McRae.

00:30:59Liargi still holding on to fourth.

00:31:01Juhar Kankinen trying to close on the leaders.

00:31:04But the battle is between Panizzi and Makinin,

00:31:06still with three stages of the day left to run.

00:31:14Join us for more action in just a moment.

00:31:20Back with action from the second competitive leg of the 1999 Monte Carlo Rally.

00:31:25The opening round of the World Rally Championship.

00:31:27On to stage eight, snow patches, damp road.

00:31:30And up in the high, cold trebuchet,

00:31:33one of the most difficult on the event,

00:31:35patches of snow littering the stages.

00:31:38Michel Panizzi, the overnight leader,

00:31:39only 11th quickest through the stage,

00:31:41lost a minute and one second to Tommy Makinin.

00:31:44Choice of suspension settings, Panizzi reckoned too hard.

00:31:47Intermediate tyres were right,

00:31:49but he lost his engine in a hairpin

00:31:50and lost time trying to find room to handbrake turn it.

00:31:54Tommy Makinin taking the lead then on stage eight of the Monte.

00:31:5756 seconds the advantage.

00:32:00Makinin second on the stage only,

00:32:023.3 seconds behind the fastest man.

00:32:04Intermediates were the right choice,

00:32:06but he said, as you can see from the pictures here,

00:32:09it is difficult on the ice.

00:32:11But Tommy Makinin, most importantly,

00:32:13leading the event.

00:32:14Tommy, on that last stage, Panizzi made a mistake.

00:32:21Do you feel as if the pressure is off just for a moment?

00:32:24Still everything can happen.

00:32:25It's a difficult stage since last year.

00:32:28There is for sure some difficult condition.

00:32:32It's not so easy.

00:32:34Is there a lot of snow at the top?

00:32:35Have you had the reports through?

00:32:36I haven't got any information yet.

00:32:40Another Finn who was flying stage eight

00:32:43was Juhar Kankinen.

00:32:45His first stage winning time

00:32:48for his brand new Subaru team.

00:32:50Everything going fine, said Kankus.

00:32:52I'm starting to get into the interesting bit

00:32:54of the user's manual of the car, he reckons.

00:32:59Well, he certainly seems to have got to grips with the Subaru,

00:33:02at least for stage eight.

00:33:03It feels good.

00:33:06Still, of course, learning a little bit things,

00:33:08but quite happy.

00:33:10How much does it take to change

00:33:12from Michelin tires over to Pirelli tires?

00:33:15Does it take much difference in your choices

00:33:18or are the tires actually much the same?

00:33:21They are much the same.

00:33:22I mean, the choices are much the same,

00:33:23but just to take the right choice

00:33:25because you have no idea really

00:33:27that which one works on which conditions and things.

00:33:30But Pirelli has good information for that,

00:33:33so it's not that big problem.

00:33:36Well, Richard Burns, day one,

00:33:37a tough one for him on his return to Subaru.

00:33:41Twice off in stage one,

00:33:42he was 10th overall at the end of the day.

00:33:44Day two, still finding time to find his feet.

00:33:48We seem to be making not sort of big mistakes on the tires,

00:33:54but we're not getting it exactly right, you know,

00:33:57and that makes differences, you know,

00:34:00at the end of the stage.

00:34:00If you're only sort of half a second a kilometre

00:34:02or a second a kilometre out,

00:34:04then you're 20, 30, 40 seconds slower

00:34:06at the end of the stage,

00:34:07and that's been making the difference.

00:34:09Are you finding a difference

00:34:10swapping from Michelin's over to Pirelli's?

00:34:12Not really, yeah, of course there's a difference,

00:34:16but not really a difficulty.

00:34:18It's just if we were choosing Michelin's

00:34:21doesn't mean to say we'd be getting the right one.

00:34:24Well, he did make the right choice on stage eight, he said.

00:34:27He was fifth quickest there,

00:34:29but still in 10th position

00:34:31and some six minutes behind the leaders.

00:34:34Well, tires, as I said,

00:34:35really the critical factor in the second day.

00:34:39Everybody has been talking about them

00:34:41as always they do.

00:34:43Here is Gilles Panizzi

00:34:44coming into the All-Stars Subaru camp for service,

00:34:48and let's just follow the conversations between him.

00:34:51There's brother Hervé,

00:34:52different milkman it seems,

00:34:54Michel Mouton, Gilles' manager,

00:34:56and the guys at Michelin.

00:35:00Well, Hervé was on the phone

00:35:02to find out conditions,

00:35:03the latest conditions from the Ice Note crew.

00:35:06Now, Hervé wants to take a rain tyre.

00:35:07Now, Gilles thinks that rain tyre

00:35:09will be just too much for what they've heard.

00:35:12Gilles says to Hervé,

00:35:13OK, listen, in dry conditions,

00:35:15we'll live with this,

00:35:16but it'll be gone in 10 minutes.

00:35:21Don't forget, these two are brothers,

00:35:23they're teammates, driver and co-driver.

00:35:26Michel Mouton, their manager,

00:35:27also has plenty of experience here.

00:35:29And so does Aimé Chattard,

00:35:32the boss of Michelin,

00:35:33there he is with a clipboard.

00:35:39Feel the pressure here in this conversation car news.

00:35:42Gilles just lost the lead of the rally

00:35:43for the first time

00:35:45since the middle of the first

00:35:47competitive group of stages.

00:35:49Now the pressure is on to fight back.

00:35:51This is a critical tyre choice.

00:35:54Well, just as critical down the road

00:35:56in the rally art Mitsubishi camp

00:35:58is Tommy McKinnon's tyre choice,

00:36:00but tyres are on.

00:36:02Tommy looking very relaxed.

00:36:04There's Andrew Cowan on the right

00:36:05looking full of smiles as well.

00:36:08Oh dear, what's happening here?

00:36:09Chez Panizzi.

00:36:10Well, now chatting with Aimé Chattard.

00:36:19Gilles, not sure of the choice.

00:36:20Aimé Chattard is the man

00:36:23with all the information here,

00:36:24all the experience.

00:36:26And they're saying,

00:36:27well, we're going for the mixed tyres.

00:36:28Don't know if it's the right choice.

00:36:29It's so difficult,

00:36:30especially, of course,

00:36:31for guys like these pair

00:36:32who have so little experience of this.

00:36:38Gilles has taken the final choice.

00:36:39As you say, the problem is

00:36:40that we're a private team.

00:36:42We don't have a big tyre choice

00:36:43and we take what we find in the truck.

00:36:45Incidentally, those big tread blocks

00:36:48with a tiny little feather cuts in.

00:36:49The Michelin TA proved to be

00:36:51absolutely the right choice

00:36:53on that stage.

00:36:54McKinnon looking very relaxed.

00:36:56There's Risto Manessamaki,

00:36:57his co-driver,

00:36:58equally there ready to get on.

00:37:00Next, Gregoire de Mervius,

00:37:01lamp pod there on the front of the car.

00:37:04Tough choice, Gilles.

00:37:05Yeah, but he said,

00:37:06well, we've made a choice now,

00:37:07so we'll have to see.

00:37:08There you go, fatalism.

00:37:10You've got to make a choice of something.

00:37:12He's made his choice.

00:37:14But probably more nervy

00:37:17in the service area,

00:37:18making that tyre choice

00:37:19than he would have been

00:37:19sitting on the start line

00:37:20wondering whether or not

00:37:22it was going to work.

00:37:25McKinnon off out of the service.

00:37:26And again, he's gone for big blocks

00:37:30on the treads,

00:37:31just like Gilles Panizzi.

00:37:34Well, here's the Formula 2 leader,

00:37:36Tony Gardemeister,

00:37:37in a privately run

00:37:38Seatibisa kit car,

00:37:39one of last year's works cars

00:37:41run by the Italian Astra Concern.

00:37:4215th overall

00:37:44after stage 8.

00:37:46This is Marc Duez,

00:37:47the Belgian race and rally ace

00:37:49in a Mitsubishi Charisma GT.

00:37:5113th overall,

00:37:52but leads Uruguayan

00:37:53former Group N World Champion

00:37:55Gustavo Trellis

00:37:56in a Mitsubishi Lancer.

00:37:58Duez really piling on the pressure

00:38:00and he has better than

00:38:01an 11-minute advantage

00:38:02going into the final day.

00:38:04After 8 of the 10 stages,

00:38:06or 8 of the stages so far,

00:38:083 of the 5 from today,

00:38:10McKinnon leading Panizzi

00:38:11by the better part of a minute,

00:38:13Kankinnon in 3rd,

00:38:14and then Liarty,

00:38:15McRae and Delacour

00:38:17making up the rest of the points

00:38:18scoring positions.

00:38:25Well, that's after 8 stages.

00:38:272 left in the 2nd competitive leg

00:38:30of the Rally Monte Carlo,

00:38:31and they are over the famous

00:38:33Col de Torrini.

00:38:36Well, this, of course,

00:38:37through the night.

00:38:38Have a look here

00:38:39at some of the action.

00:38:41And when we get into the darkness,

00:38:42just watch Colin McRae

00:38:43and note on the back of the car,

00:38:45it is a Hertz renter, apparently,

00:38:47so it doesn't matter

00:38:47what he does with it.

00:39:03Back with more in just a moment.

00:39:05Back with more in just a moment.

00:39:07Back with more in just a moment.

00:39:32Stages 9 and 10 of the 1999

00:39:41Monte Carlo Rally

00:39:42over the Col de Torrini.

00:39:43Stage 9,

00:39:44a wet road and snow

00:39:45thrown into the road

00:39:46by the spectators.

00:39:48And stage 10,

00:39:49just more of the same.

00:39:50And here they are

00:39:54across the famous

00:39:55Col de Torrini.

00:39:56The spectators will be

00:39:57staying up on the mountain

00:39:58all night long

00:39:58to watch them come around

00:39:59these two stages again.

00:40:01Twice tomorrow,

00:40:02those are the final stages

00:40:03of the event.

00:40:04As you can see,

00:40:05a little bit of snow

00:40:05right here at the top.

00:40:06And all these guys

00:40:10on racers,

00:40:11it's bare tarmac

00:40:12all the way up

00:40:13and all the way down.

00:40:14Four kilometers

00:40:14at the top of the stage

00:40:15is packed snow

00:40:17and turning to sheet ice

00:40:18for the final run through.

00:40:19Don't you worry

00:40:20too much about that either.

00:40:21Don't forget

00:40:22they are on racing tires.

00:40:36Well, there's Colin McRae

00:40:51entering stage left

00:40:52in slightly over-driven style

00:40:56and clanging the barriers.

00:40:59No damage there done.

00:41:00Here's it from the reverse angle.

00:41:02But as I said,

00:41:03it's a Hertz renter car

00:41:04apparently,

00:41:04so it really doesn't matter.

00:41:05He can just drop it off

00:41:06at the airport

00:41:06no matter what it looks like.

00:41:23Impressive stuff indeed.

00:41:25Juhar Kankinen

00:41:25looking very controlled here.

00:41:27Really under power

00:41:28nice and early.

00:41:30That's the famous

00:41:30piff-paff section.

00:41:34Not too much snow

00:41:35in evidence here,

00:41:35but everybody complaining

00:41:37that there was a lot of snow

00:41:38kicked onto the stages

00:41:39by the spectators.

00:41:41Among whom incidentally

00:41:42was Finland's

00:41:42Keke Rosberg

00:41:43cheering on fellow Finns

00:41:45Kankinen

00:41:45and Makinen

00:41:46but absolutely not

00:41:47and I must stress this

00:41:48throwing any snow

00:41:49in the way

00:41:50of any French drivers at all.

00:41:52What a shame the same

00:41:53couldn't be said

00:41:53for the French crowd

00:41:54and foreign drivers cars.

00:42:04Tommy, you seem to get

00:42:05some advantage

00:42:06on those last two stages

00:42:07up the Col de Turini.

00:42:08You feeling a lot happier now?

00:42:10You've got a bit more

00:42:11of a buffer over Gilles.

00:42:12Yeah, of course

00:42:13it's much easier.

00:42:14It was

00:42:15my plan to try

00:42:17to do as well

00:42:18as possible

00:42:18and try to make

00:42:20some more time

00:42:21try to make it easier

00:42:22for tomorrow

00:42:22and it works.

00:42:25Benizzi went for a tyre

00:42:26with some little cuts in it.

00:42:28Do you think

00:42:29that you had the correct tyre

00:42:30choice without the cuts in it?

00:42:31Yeah, I think it was

00:42:34it was better

00:42:34I think

00:42:35it doesn't change so much

00:42:39first turn

00:42:40I think with the little cut

00:42:43I think the tyre

00:42:44was much better

00:42:45than our tyre

00:42:46for the first one.

00:42:48You're a lot more confident

00:42:49for tomorrow

00:42:49maybe get the win?

00:42:51Yes, I feel very confident

00:42:53at the moment

00:42:53it's no questions

00:42:55the car works well

00:42:57and we are coming

00:42:58to last service

00:42:58which is a long one

00:43:00and they can change everything

00:43:01all the parts

00:43:02and they can make

00:43:03a car like brand new again

00:43:05and well

00:43:06no worries.

00:43:07Do you plan to change

00:43:08some major parts?

00:43:09Which parts might you change?

00:43:10I don't know

00:43:11what they have planned

00:43:13engineers maybe

00:43:15they'll change

00:43:16all transmission

00:43:17and all the suspension parts

00:43:19and things like that

00:43:21things like that.

00:43:23Well

00:43:23chance for a ground up rebuild

00:43:26overall classification

00:43:27after leg three

00:43:28then Tommy Macken

00:43:28and the overnight leader

00:43:29Gil Panizzi

00:43:30in second place

00:43:31Juhar Kankunen

00:43:32looking strong in third

00:43:34Colin McRae fourth

00:43:35he's now set three

00:43:36fastest stage times

00:43:37same as Mackenen

00:43:38fifth is Francois Delacour

00:43:40sixth is Bruno Thierry

00:43:41Pierio Liati

00:43:43having to do the final stage

00:43:44on just a handbrake

00:43:45has dropped down

00:43:46into the lower orders

00:43:48of the top ten

00:43:49a disappointment for him

00:43:51and the Seat team

00:43:52and the Seat team

00:43:52with

00:43:56Ford

00:44:00Michelin

00:44:03the more we progress

00:44:04the further you go

00:44:05good evening

00:44:12good evening

00:44:12welcome to the final evening

00:44:13of Eurosports coverage

00:44:15of round one of 14

00:44:16of the 1999

00:44:17World Rally Championship

00:44:18I'm Martin Haven

00:44:19this is the most famous rally

00:44:21in the world

00:44:22the Monte Carlo

00:44:23well he mentioned the Monte Carlo rally

00:44:37and of course

00:44:37it's the snow and the mountains

00:44:39that take everybody's imagination

00:44:40hasn't been too much snow

00:44:42but there's been plenty of mountain

00:44:43climbing and descending here

00:44:45these are images

00:44:46from yesterday evening

00:44:47the first runs

00:44:48over the famous

00:44:49infamous

00:44:50Col de Torrini

00:44:51and this was the man

00:44:52who was fastest

00:44:53at the end of the second day

00:44:55Tommy Makanen

00:44:56the reigning world champion

00:44:57staying with

00:44:58world championship team

00:44:59Mitsubishi

00:44:59number one

00:45:01Gilles Panizzi

00:45:02he was the pretender

00:45:03the Monday night

00:45:05leader of this event

00:45:06the 1998

00:45:07Formula 2 category winner

00:45:09Gilles Panizzi

00:45:10had really stunned

00:45:11the opposition

00:45:11in the first day

00:45:12in what is

00:45:13an ex-work shell

00:45:14but a privately run

00:45:15Subaru

00:45:16the local bricklayer

00:45:17with sponsorship

00:45:18from a local building firm

00:45:20really setting the world alight

00:45:22and just glad to be there

00:45:24against the likes of Makanen

00:45:25and fellow Finn

00:45:26Juhar Kankinen

00:45:27Kankinen

00:45:27has never won this event

00:45:29he knows about the heartbreak

00:45:30of this event

00:45:31came third here last year

00:45:33in a Ford

00:45:34and starting the final day

00:45:35third place again

00:45:37this time though

00:45:38for new team Subaru

00:45:39well after leg three

00:45:42the second of the competitive

00:45:43stages

00:45:45Tommy Makanen

00:45:45was the leader

00:45:47by a minute and 45

00:45:48from Gilles Panizzi

00:45:50Juhar Kankinen

00:45:51another fair margin behind

00:45:54and perhaps unable

00:45:55to challenge Panizzi

00:45:56but an interesting battle

00:45:58going on behind him

00:45:59Colin McRae

00:46:00coming under increasing threat

00:46:01for fourth position

00:46:02in the brand new Ford Focus

00:46:04four stages

00:46:05last night's stage

00:46:07nine and ten

00:46:08repeated twice each

00:46:10so twice over

00:46:11the famous

00:46:12Col de Torrini

00:46:13and Colin McRae

00:46:14was quickest on that

00:46:15on Tuesday evening

00:46:17well was he going to do it again

00:46:19perhaps

00:46:19if the bagpipers

00:46:20could help him on his way

00:46:22maybe so

00:46:22but maybe

00:46:23Tommy Makanen

00:46:24would have something

00:46:25to say about that

00:46:26we play for Panizzi now

00:46:29turncoat

00:46:31traitor

00:46:32I can't believe he said that

00:46:34well Gilles Panizzi

00:46:36really catching the imagination

00:46:37of everybody here

00:46:39this sensational drive

00:46:41in the all-star Subaru team

00:46:42never had a top three position

00:46:44yet in world rallying

00:46:46their best was fourth

00:46:46with Gregoire de Mervius

00:46:47on the rally of Great Britain

00:46:49and chasing third position here

00:46:51Juhar Kankinen of course

00:46:52and here is a man

00:46:56who knows all about

00:46:57spectacular

00:46:57Monty performances

00:46:58one-time winner

00:46:59Francois Delacour

00:47:01the TTE logo

00:47:02gives away

00:47:02the man chasing him

00:47:04that's Frenchman

00:47:04Didier Auriol

00:47:05the only Toyota

00:47:06of the works team

00:47:08at least to survive

00:47:08stage one

00:47:09but it was

00:47:10a fairytale start

00:47:12a disastrous ending

00:47:13I'm afraid

00:47:13for Gilles Panizzi

00:47:14he crashed out

00:47:14on the first stage

00:47:15of the day

00:47:16on a fast right-hander

00:47:17hit a patch of black ice

00:47:18and

00:47:19he hit a wall sideways

00:47:21the vehicle skidded around

00:47:22a hundred meters

00:47:23on its roof

00:47:23before

00:47:24righting itself again

00:47:25but the damage

00:47:26was done to the car

00:47:27no injuries for the crew

00:47:29but they were out

00:47:30of the events

00:47:31next event for Panizzi

00:47:33will be

00:47:34the rally of Portugal

00:47:36in a Subaru

00:47:36but meanwhile

00:47:37the Frenchman

00:47:38was out

00:47:39but not down

00:47:40very very difficult rally

00:47:43says Gilles

00:47:43this is only a second

00:47:44world rally

00:47:45Zero Car said

00:47:46that the bends

00:47:47were very difficult

00:47:48but the only one

00:47:48that wasn't noted

00:47:49was Icy

00:47:50and it caught us out

00:47:51he said

00:47:52but I'll only remember

00:47:52the good things

00:47:53from this rally

00:47:54we were happy

00:47:54with the car

00:47:55very early on

00:47:56we proved

00:47:56we could drive

00:47:57very quickly

00:47:57on the slippery conditions

00:47:58and we got on

00:47:59very well

00:48:00with a four-wheel drive

00:48:01world rally car

00:48:02set up

00:48:03as I said

00:48:03only his second ever

00:48:04WRC four-wheel drive

00:48:07event

00:48:07he won the Monty

00:48:09in Formula 2

00:48:10last year

00:48:10but a victory

00:48:11overall

00:48:12not to be

00:48:13so it's

00:48:14Tommy McIner

00:48:15the man

00:48:15who leads the event

00:48:16you were confident

00:48:18last night

00:48:19but we've seen

00:48:20already Panizzi

00:48:20going off the road

00:48:21that must have

00:48:22got your nerves

00:48:22jangling

00:48:23just a little

00:48:23well it's

00:48:25it's

00:48:27it's very difficult

00:48:28condition

00:48:29it's just

00:48:30of course

00:48:31of course

00:48:33in this kind

00:48:33of situation

00:48:34you have a bit

00:48:34nervous

00:48:35just to try

00:48:36to concentrate

00:48:37as hard

00:48:38as possible

00:48:38you're nearly there

00:48:40yeah

00:48:41not so much

00:48:42of course

00:48:44the name of

00:48:45Carlos Sainz

00:48:45will be familiar

00:48:46to all rally

00:48:47watchers

00:48:48particularly

00:48:48for that last

00:48:49stage disaster

00:48:50for him

00:48:51on the network

00:48:51Q rally

00:48:52of Great Britain

00:48:53and of course

00:48:53Makenen

00:48:54the man who

00:48:54benefited then

00:48:55having thought

00:48:56he was out

00:48:56of the event

00:48:57and the championship

00:48:58he knows

00:48:58it's not over

00:48:59till it's over

00:48:59he was 6th

00:49:00fastest

00:49:00on stage 11

00:49:023rd fastest

00:49:03on stage 12

00:49:04the car's okay

00:49:05he says

00:49:05but I'm going

00:49:06to take it easy

00:49:06on the next

00:49:07two stages

00:49:07there was snow

00:49:08and ice around

00:49:09as you can

00:49:10quite clearly see

00:49:11they started early

00:49:11on the final morning

00:49:13so it wasn't until

00:49:14the 3rd and 4th

00:49:15stage of the day

00:49:16that the temperatures

00:49:17would have come up

00:49:17above freezing

00:49:18Juhar Kankenen

00:49:19second overall

00:49:20after Panizzi's

00:49:21retirement

00:49:21let's ride with him

00:49:23note incidentally

00:49:24on the left hand

00:49:25side of the picture

00:49:25in a moment

00:49:26Gilles Panizzi's car

00:49:27off the road

00:49:28and out of the event

00:49:29there's the

00:49:32co-driver

00:49:33Hervé

00:49:33there is Gilles

00:49:34himself

00:49:34and there is

00:49:35the Subaru

00:49:36and that's

00:49:36where Kankenen

00:49:37knows

00:49:37he's now

00:49:38second

00:49:38100

00:49:39medium

00:49:39right

00:49:40tightens

00:49:40to K

00:49:41right

00:49:42and long

00:49:42medium

00:49:43left

00:49:43100

00:49:47flat

00:49:49right

00:49:49200

00:49:50Juhar

00:49:52second time

00:49:53over

00:49:53the Col de Chirini

00:49:54on the last

00:49:54day of the

00:49:55Montilla

00:49:55must be pretty

00:49:56good

00:49:57yeah

00:49:58yeah

00:49:58it was a little bit

00:49:59more icy

00:49:59than yesterday

00:50:00evening

00:50:00but

00:50:01always

00:50:03not so easy

00:50:04always a bit

00:50:05difficult

00:50:05well what about

00:50:07Colin McRae

00:50:08the Ford Focus

00:50:09one of the other

00:50:10contenders for third

00:50:11place overall

00:50:12stage 11

00:50:13he was 12th

00:50:14he lost over a minute

00:50:15and a half

00:50:16because of transmission

00:50:16problems

00:50:17dropping to fourth

00:50:18overall

00:50:19he would have been

00:50:19third after

00:50:20Panizzi's retirement

00:50:21but for that

00:50:22the two

00:50:23two rear drive shafts

00:50:24popped out

00:50:24so we had

00:50:25sort of

00:50:27three quarters

00:50:27of the stage

00:50:28with front wheel drive only

00:50:29well this is his

00:50:31fifth

00:50:32run at the Monty

00:50:33his best result

00:50:34until now

00:50:35has been third

00:50:35Francois Delacour

00:50:36former winner

00:50:37in an Escort

00:50:38third overall

00:50:39now also

00:50:39in an Escort

00:50:40this time

00:50:40not a Cosworth

00:50:414x4

00:50:42but a WRC

00:50:43the last of the line

00:50:44chased hard though

00:50:45by McRae

00:50:46by Bruno Thierry

00:50:47and by Didier Auriol

00:50:48all within

00:50:5011 and a half

00:50:51seconds of each other

00:50:52with three stages

00:50:53to go

00:50:53this is 12th run

00:50:54on the Monty

00:50:55Delacour

00:50:55and he's had

00:50:57a good history here

00:50:58very difficult

00:51:02position though

00:51:04and I don't think

00:51:05it's settled yet

00:51:06says Francois

00:51:06we're really having

00:51:07trouble to battle

00:51:08at the same kind

00:51:09of level

00:51:09of competitiveness

00:51:10because of the car

00:51:11Didier Auriol

00:51:12Bruno Thierry

00:51:12they're going

00:51:13very quickly

00:51:14indeed

00:51:14he said

00:51:15I'm sure

00:51:15they have a chance

00:51:16to pass me

00:51:16the car's good

00:51:17it's no problems

00:51:19with it

00:51:19but it is just

00:51:20a different

00:51:20generation

00:51:21Colin McRae

00:51:24fastest

00:51:24on the final

00:51:26stage

00:51:26stage 12

00:51:27that's the

00:51:28fourth fastest

00:51:28stage time

00:51:29he's set

00:51:29more than

00:51:30anybody else

00:51:30on the event

00:51:31despite having

00:51:33those two

00:51:34drive shafts out

00:51:35and having

00:51:35two wheel drive

00:51:36for the previous

00:51:37stage

00:51:37he's fighting

00:51:38hard

00:51:38Bruno Thierry

00:51:39second fastest

00:51:40on stage 11

00:51:41eighth fastest

00:51:42despite this

00:51:42puncture

00:51:43on stage 12

00:51:44moves up

00:51:45to fourth

00:51:46overall

00:51:46as McRae

00:51:47passed

00:51:48Delacour

00:51:48here's Thierry

00:51:49changing the

00:51:50wheel

00:51:50we had

00:51:52a slow

00:51:54puncture

00:51:54after

00:51:55six seven

00:51:56k's

00:51:56all the

00:51:57left hand

00:51:57corner

00:51:58the car

00:51:59didn't

00:51:59turn

00:51:59and

00:52:00I lost

00:52:02quite a lot

00:52:02of time

00:52:03because

00:52:03three kilometers

00:52:04over the end

00:52:04I lost

00:52:05the tires

00:52:07and

00:52:08I don't know

00:52:09it was

00:52:09maybe I hit

00:52:10a stone

00:52:10or something

00:52:11it's difficult

00:52:11but it's bad luck

00:52:13because we had

00:52:14a good tire

00:52:15trying

00:52:15what about

00:52:16the other

00:52:17Frenchman

00:52:17in the race

00:52:17Didier Aureole

00:52:19fastest overall

00:52:20on stage 11

00:52:21a great choice

00:52:22of barely studded

00:52:23tires

00:52:24and racing slicks

00:52:25this incidentally

00:52:26is stage 11

00:52:28he's got a tiny

00:52:29row of studs

00:52:30on the inside

00:52:30can't believe

00:52:32the speed here

00:52:32on packed

00:52:33snow and ice

00:52:34ninth

00:52:35on stage 12

00:52:36into sixth

00:52:36those are all

00:52:37closing on

00:52:38Delacour

00:52:39and Thierry

00:52:39two stages to go

00:52:40the three men

00:52:41just nine

00:52:42seconds apart

00:52:44fantastic stuff

00:52:45Delacour

00:52:49of course

00:52:49Aureole

00:52:50of course

00:52:51three times

00:52:51a winner

00:52:51with Lancia

00:52:53and Toyota

00:52:53he's saying

00:52:54very hard

00:52:55we're doing

00:52:55the stages

00:52:56twice this morning

00:52:57and then twice

00:52:57again

00:52:58the tire choice

00:52:59was very good

00:53:00though

00:53:00I see

00:53:00comparing the

00:53:01times with

00:53:01Francois

00:53:02and Bruno

00:53:02we're close

00:53:03to our target

00:53:04which is to

00:53:05pass them both

00:53:05well the target

00:53:07also of course

00:53:07he says

00:53:08is to be at

00:53:08the finish

00:53:09so we'll have

00:53:09to make sure

00:53:10we get through

00:53:11the Turini

00:53:11again the second

00:53:12time

00:53:12well the former

00:53:19winner knows

00:53:20what it takes

00:53:20Tommy Makanen

00:53:21has never got

00:53:22this far

00:53:23so far

00:53:23will he win it

00:53:25with two stages

00:53:26left to go

00:53:27leading comfortably

00:53:28from Juhar Kankinen

00:53:29but McRae

00:53:29Thierry

00:53:30Delacorte

00:53:30and Oriol

00:53:31squabbling

00:53:32over third

00:53:33place

00:53:33and not much

00:53:34to choose

00:53:34between them

00:53:35welcome back

00:53:42this is the

00:53:431999

00:53:43Monte Carlo

00:53:45rally

00:53:45Eurosport

00:53:46continuing

00:53:46our nightly

00:53:47updates

00:53:47the final day

00:53:48and just two

00:53:48stages left

00:53:49to go

00:53:50everything

00:53:50nicely

00:53:50balanced

00:53:51the roads

00:53:52wet

00:53:52but basically

00:53:54ice free

00:53:54for these

00:53:55final two

00:53:55stages

00:53:56Harry Rovenpera

00:53:57setting an

00:53:58astonishing

00:53:59fastest time

00:54:00on 13

00:54:01the penultimate

00:54:02stage of the

00:54:03event

00:54:03the first ever

00:54:04stage win

00:54:05for SEAT

00:54:05with the

00:54:05world rally

00:54:06car

00:54:06and for

00:54:07Rovenpera

00:54:08in this

00:54:08category

00:54:08and the

00:54:09especially

00:54:10pleasant result

00:54:12since they did

00:54:13it over

00:54:13perhaps the

00:54:14most famous

00:54:14stage in the

00:54:15world

00:54:15the

00:54:16Calder Torini

00:54:16the

00:54:17Calderberg

00:54:17WRC

00:54:18had its

00:54:19first

00:54:19appearance

00:54:19in Finland

00:54:20and scored

00:54:21its best

00:54:21result

00:54:22on the

00:54:22rally

00:54:22of Great

00:54:23Britain

00:54:23in sixth

00:54:24position

00:54:24it's very

00:54:25nice

00:54:25and we

00:54:26we

00:54:27pushing

00:54:27very hard

00:54:28in second

00:54:28last

00:54:28stages

00:54:29series

00:54:29maybe

00:54:30Tommy

00:54:30and other

00:54:31drivers

00:54:31not calling

00:54:32the

00:54:32maximum

00:54:34speed up

00:54:34but

00:54:35we

00:54:37take

00:54:37the

00:54:38different

00:54:38tyres

00:54:39and

00:54:39we

00:54:41try very

00:54:42hard

00:54:42and

00:54:42now

00:54:42coming

00:54:43first

00:54:43best

00:54:43time

00:54:44and

00:54:44I

00:54:45hope

00:54:45it's

00:54:45I

00:54:46hope

00:54:46I

00:54:46win

00:54:47always

00:54:47in

00:54:47a

00:54:47class

00:54:47well

00:54:49just

00:54:50to

00:54:50underline

00:54:50that

00:54:50it

00:54:51wasn't

00:54:51a

00:54:51mistake

00:54:51third

00:54:52fastest

00:54:52on

00:54:52that

00:54:53stage

00:54:53by

00:54:53just

00:54:53two

00:54:54seconds

00:54:54was

00:54:54Harry

00:54:55Rovenpera

00:54:56as

00:54:56teammate

00:54:57Piero

00:54:57Liati

00:54:58Liati

00:54:587th

00:54:59overall

00:54:59at

00:55:00this

00:55:00stage

00:55:00he

00:55:00had

00:55:00been

00:55:00in

00:55:01the

00:55:01top

00:55:01three

00:55:01on

00:55:02day

00:55:02one

00:55:02a

00:55:02sensational

00:55:03run

00:55:03until

00:55:04a

00:55:04broken

00:55:04wheel

00:55:05and

00:55:05lack

00:55:05of

00:55:05brakes

00:55:06on

00:55:06two

00:55:06stages

00:55:07where

00:55:07he

00:55:07just

00:55:07used

00:55:07a

00:55:07handbrake

00:55:08slowed

00:55:08him

00:55:09down

00:55:09but

00:55:09a

00:55:09great

00:55:10result

00:55:10for

00:55:10Seat

00:55:11and

00:55:11Jamie

00:55:11Pooch

00:55:12the

00:55:12sport

00:55:12director

00:55:13of

00:55:13the

00:55:13team

00:55:14absolutely

00:55:14delighted

00:55:15look at

00:55:15the

00:55:15Cheshire

00:55:16cat

00:55:16grin

00:55:16he'd have

00:55:16said

00:55:16it's

00:55:17a

00:55:17major

00:55:17surprise

00:55:18or

00:55:18it

00:55:18would

00:55:18have

00:55:19been

00:55:19if

00:55:19we'd

00:55:19won

00:55:19but

00:55:20the

00:55:20car

00:55:20has

00:55:20proved

00:55:21it's

00:55:21quick

00:55:21and

00:55:21we're

00:55:21delighted

00:55:22to

00:55:22have

00:55:22come

00:55:22so

00:55:23far

00:55:23so

00:55:23quickly

00:55:24really

00:55:25looking

00:55:25good

00:55:25for

00:55:26the

00:55:26team

00:55:26Tommy

00:55:27Mackinnon

00:55:27then

00:55:27stage

00:55:2813

00:55:28only

00:55:28ninth

00:55:29quickest

00:55:29taking

00:55:30it

00:55:30nice

00:55:30and

00:55:30easy

00:55:31no

00:55:31problems

00:55:31with

00:55:32the

00:55:32car

00:55:32and

00:55:32still

00:55:33in

00:55:33the

00:55:33lead

00:55:33intermediate

00:55:34tires

00:55:35he took

00:55:35he said

00:55:35it's

00:55:36very

00:55:36slippery

00:55:36Juhar

00:55:37Kankinnon

00:55:38six

00:55:38quickest

00:55:39just

00:55:39eight

00:55:39seconds

00:55:40behind

00:55:40the

00:55:41Seat

00:55:41but

00:55:42he's

00:55:42taking

00:55:42it

00:55:42easy

00:55:42as

00:55:43well

00:55:43second

00:55:43overall

00:55:44a

00:55:44minute

00:55:44and

00:55:4441

00:55:45behind

00:55:45Mackinnon

00:55:45but

00:55:46two

00:55:46minutes

00:55:46ahead

00:55:46of

00:55:47the

00:55:47battle

00:55:47for

00:55:47third

00:55:47led

00:55:48by

00:55:48this

00:55:48man

00:55:49Colin

00:55:49Mcrae

00:55:50don't

00:55:50forget

00:55:50the

00:55:51Ford

00:55:51still

00:55:51rallying

00:55:52under

00:55:52appeal

00:55:53it

00:55:53was

00:55:54declared

00:55:54illegal

00:55:55at the

00:55:55start

00:55:55by

00:55:55the

00:55:56scrutineers

00:55:56because

00:55:57of

00:55:57the

00:55:57placing

00:55:58of

00:55:58the

00:55:58water

00:55:58pump

00:55:58that'll

00:55:59be

00:55:59settled

00:55:59on

00:55:59February

00:56:00the

00:56:00fourth

00:56:00before

00:56:01the

00:56:01next

00:56:01event

00:56:02but

00:56:02meanwhile

00:56:02Mcrae

00:56:03and

00:56:03Nicky

00:56:03Grist

00:56:03heading

00:56:04for

00:56:04third

00:56:05on

00:56:05the

00:56:05car's

00:56:06debut

00:56:06on

00:56:06the

00:56:06Monty

00:56:07that's

00:56:07a

00:56:07fine

00:56:08fine

00:56:09performance

00:56:0970

00:56:14two

00:56:15left

00:56:15opens

00:56:1670

00:56:19he

00:56:21certainly

00:56:21is

00:56:21with

00:56:21it

00:56:21I

00:56:22mean

00:56:22he

00:56:22did

00:56:22a

00:56:22fantastic

00:56:22job

00:56:23this

00:56:23morning

00:56:23when

00:56:23he

00:56:23had

00:56:24a

00:56:24rear

00:56:24drive

00:56:25shaft

00:56:25problem

00:56:25and

00:56:26not only

00:56:28is

00:56:28he

00:56:28the

00:56:28fastest

00:56:28driver

00:56:29in

00:56:29the

00:56:29world

00:56:29he

00:56:29is

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WRC 1999 - Rally Monte Carlo - Highlights

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