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00:00There have been too many people left at home watching it on the TV because the warm weather drew absolutely staggering crowds for this side-by-side super special.
00:093.2 kilometers the first stage was, just 20 kilometers outside Porto in the heart of the Portuguese wine-growing region.
00:17And 25 degrees centigrade the temperature, massive attendance here.
00:22Tommy Makanen versus Didier Oriel, the first of the heads-to-heads.
00:25And it's the Toyota of Didier Oriel, despite making what he considered to be a small mistake running wide on one of the turns, that sets the fastest time.
00:38Next up, Colin McRae versus Carlos Sainz.
00:41So they're running in championship order, championship leader versus the man who's second, Carlos Sainz and Colin McRae.
00:49Third equal in the championship, head-to-head against each other.
00:52Well, for Ford, McRae set down the early markers, winning the stage against Sainz and, in fact, setting a faster time than anyone else.
01:02Marcus Grunholm was second, Carlos Sainz third, Didier Oriel fourth, Tommy Makanen fifth and Juhar Kankinen were sixth.
01:09But dramas for Toyota in the form of the number 23 car.
01:26This is Saudi driver Abdullah Bakashab and his British co-driver Michael Park, a slow roll of the Toyota, which, unfortunately, the engine kept running on a little longer than they would have liked when it was upside down and pretty much destroyed itself.
01:41As you can see, the two crew members have not got enough muscle power to right the car.
01:46All those photographers there could have helped, but that would have excluded them anyway, so they rally over effectively before it starts.
01:54And I'm afraid no amount of rocking and muscle power by two men is ever going to turn a car back onto its wheels without the help of a big slope.
02:03Well, the event's over for them.
02:09You can see the oil in the exhaust burning away as the engine continues to run.
02:18It had pumped oil down the exhaust and the hot metal eventually setting fire to it.
02:23A very second-hand car.
02:24It's a shame because that's the car that Sainz used to win in New Zealand in 98.
02:33So the super-special out of the way then.
02:36Let's go to the first full day of rallying, as you can see, based around Porto.
02:41Day two, they'll head back down south.
02:43And the first two days containing very much the bulk of the stage mileage.
02:50Well, here we are Tuesday morning.
02:52I beg your pardon.
02:52Monday morning.
02:53Everybody ready to go.
02:55Final adjustments and concentrations being made.
02:57Tommy McKinnon first on the road.
03:00Colin McRae, the overnight leader for Ford, from the Mitsubishi's second driver, Marcus Grunholm.
03:07If that's what he means by playing himself in slowly, heaven help the rest of them when he finally gets up to speed.
03:12Sainz and Oriel were third and fourth on the timesheets.
03:15McKinnon was fifth ahead of Kankinnon, the best of the Subarus.
03:19Armin Schwartz, incidentally, seventh quickest through the super-special in the Skoda.
03:23So it certainly doesn't lack too much in terms of speed, at least in the early days.
03:28We'll be back in just a moment with more action.
03:30Don't go away.
03:37...leg of the Rally of Portugal.
03:39This is the man who leads the World Rally Championship, Tommy McKinnon.
03:42Two great events to open the season.
03:44Wins in Monte Carlo and Sweden, followed by a disqualification from second place on the Safari.
03:50But unfortunately, the beginning of the Portuguese rally was not going well for the Finn.
03:58Taking to the road first, he had the worst of the dusty conditions, or the slippery conditions, should we say, on the road surface.
04:04Clearing away the loose debris for the others to get slightly better traction.
04:08But he had more pressing problems on his mind.
04:12The differentials not working to his satisfaction.
04:16Mechanics doing their best to adjust, but they couldn't change it.
04:21We have also a little problem with the transmission.
04:25It doesn't work.
04:27Very well.
04:28They just try to find out the problem now, if they can.
04:31I hope they can find the problem.
04:33Is it a problem engaging gears, or what do you think it is?
04:37No, it's just diffs.
04:38Diffs doesn't work.
04:40Doesn't give locking enough.
04:42There's some...
04:43Must be some...
04:44Hopefully, it's just some electric problem.
04:48Well, the high-tech differentials that these cars use run by electronic brains,
04:53just like the engine and gearbox management systems.
04:56Tommy McKinnon complaining there it wasn't ramping up enough.
04:59Not locking up enough.
05:00And that means he's spinning away power on the inside, unweighted wheels.
05:05Well, Colin McRae won the Super Special on Sunday,
05:08delighting Ford on the back of that victory last time out in the Safari.
05:14And blitzed through stages two and three as well,
05:17fastest on both the sections around Ponte de Lima.
05:20We are a bit surprised.
05:38We knew the cars would be competitive,
05:40but we weren't sure whether it would be good enough to go for a victory.
05:44But obviously, after the first two stadiums, there's every possibility we can.
05:49A lot of the others are saying that they went too soft on tyres.
05:51Do you feel as if you made the right choice?
05:54Well, I think most of the other Michelin runners were on the same tyre as us,
05:57so that puts that stadium out of the window.
06:00Either that, of course, or Colin and the Ford are much easier on their tyres.
06:04Well, not worried about the Michelin problems on Pirelli's are the Subaru team.
06:08Richard Burns making a good start here.
06:11He's had a bit of a tentative start to the season and now trying to rectify that.
06:16Blasting through stage two in second position behind McRae.
06:22Well, Didier Oriel in the Toyota, third after the first two special stages,
06:27lying behind the Scott and the Brit.
06:29McRae still holding his lead.
06:32It's Richard Burns in second place overall.
06:35So Ford, Subaru, and then the Frenchman's Toyota, the top three.
06:39Three different manufacturers.
06:53And after the Toyota, in fourth place, a fourth different manufacturer.
06:57Here it is, the Mitsubishi, and again it's the number two machine,
07:00Marcus Grunholm playing himself in slowly.
07:02Well, no, not particularly.
07:04Fourth fastest on both stages and holding down fourth position.
07:0839.3 seconds behind the leader, 0.1 seconds behind Oriel.
07:14But what about the local heroes?
07:16The Iberian Peninsula has been, well, kind in times to Carlos Sainz.
07:23Toyota never a winner here.
07:25Carlos Sainz, though, you can see lots of Spanish flags in the crowd, egging him on.
07:29Sainz holding fifth place after the first three stages, just a second behind Grunholm.
07:39It seems like it's going well, and of course the new focus is going very well in his first gravel rally.
07:47Are you going to make any changes to the car here?
07:49No, I mean, when you look at our performance, it's only him, because the rest, we are more or less very equal like the rest of the season, no?
08:00So at the moment it seems like they have made big steps forward.
08:06Well, you have to agree with him, McRae, 13.2 seconds quicker than anyone else on the third stage of the day.
08:14But trouble for Armin Schwartz in the Skoda on stage two.
08:19He stalled it a couple of times.
08:21Clearly something slightly awry in the engine's brain.
08:25Czech machine once more on its way.
08:27And the German driver pushing as hard as he can, determined to make as much of an impression as possible, despite these electrical problems.
08:4135-year-old and 38-year-old Czech Emil Treiner in the car's first stage appearances.
08:50Well, moving on to section three.
08:53This is stages four, five and six, some of the most famous stages in rallying, including this spectacular jump at Fife.
09:23Well, Sainz was fastest on stage four.
09:31McRae fastest on five and six from Burns and Sainz, respectively, on those two.
09:38So Colin McRae doing everything in his power to hold on to his lead.
09:42And just look at the angles of attack that the Scotsman gets with the Ford Focus,
09:46getting superb grip and really using all the evident power of the Ford's engine.
09:53Into right and one left.
09:57And hairpin right.
10:02Into hairpin left.
10:04Into one right, don't cut.
10:08And two left, don't cut.
10:12Into two right plus opens.
10:14And two left plus don't cut.
10:1630.
10:17Extending your lead, smiling inside.
10:27Yeah, no, very happy.
10:29It's going a lot better than we expected.
10:31Well, fastest or equal fastest on five of the six stages.
10:37Can't really argue too much with that.
10:39Chasing hard, though, Carlos Sainz with that one stage win.
10:43And he's been there or thereabouts all the way through.
10:45He won stage four, just losing 0.6 seconds on the leader on the final.
10:55He's moved up from fifth place after stage three to second place after stage six.
11:02The question is now, can Sainz do anything about McRae in the Ford?
11:06These two arch rivals in or out of the same team.
11:10Richard Burns, quickest in two and equal quickest in three as well.
11:18He lost second place overall, though, in stage four.
11:22And equalled Colin McRae's time in stage five.
11:26Certainly going far better than the other pair of Subarus.
11:29Juhar Kanken and six.
11:30Bruno Thierry testing the new gearbox in 10th place.
11:33Burns third after stage six, ahead of Didier Aurel and Marcus Grunholm.
11:37Here in the Mitsubishi, still outpacing his team leader.
11:42Don't forget, he'd only done 15 kilometers of testing before the start of the event on Sunday.
11:47And this is a pretty impressive performance.
11:50Peuge must be very glad to have this finn aboard.
11:53It's quite okay.
11:54Now I hit a little bit, some stone out of the corner when it came.
11:59So I lost a piece of the rim and it was a vibration.
12:04So I thought we had a puncture.
12:06But we did the last seven case.
12:08Okay, a little bit slower.
12:09So we lost a little bit.
12:12Not too much.
12:13He was still six quickest through.
12:15But what about Seat and their WRC machine?
12:18Getting better and better all the time.
12:22The Cordobas are certainly as reliable just about as the team would hope.
12:28But not quite on front running pace.
12:30That was Harry Rovenperer.
12:31Here's another finn.
12:32This is the world champion, Tommy Makanen.
12:35And his nightmares continue.
12:36Seventh after the third stage.
12:38He lost two more places in the runaround.
12:40Faith to drop down to ninth.
12:42A minute and 46 seconds behind Colin McRae.
12:45The engineers know where the problem is in the differential.
12:48The only problem is in the limited 20-minute service.
12:51They just don't have time to change it.
12:56We have to try to go next three stages and just change it in the evening.
13:03Well, that's the story.
13:05In Formula 2, Alistair McRae leading the tree.
13:09McRae's in charge of both categories then.
13:12Overall, it's Colin.
13:13Formula 2, it's Alistair.
13:15Just need a third McRae to win Group N, really, don't we?
13:19The Hyundai Formula 2 car sounding superb.
13:22And young Alistair throwing it around with gay abandon.
13:27Kenneth Ericsson, second in class.
13:29Very disappointed to withdraw from his home event, the Swedish, when he was leading the category.
13:34And he takes over the lead.
13:38Colin McRae then leading overall by 41.1 seconds from Carlos Sainz.
13:43Richard Burns in third for Subaru.
13:45Two Toyotas in the top four, courtesy of Didier Oriel.
13:48Then Marcus Grunholm in the best of the Mitsubishis and Yuha Kang.
13:52Roller number 18 having rolled down a ravine.
13:54Driver and co-driver walked away from this one.
13:56But 34 retirements during the day, including three in four, in fact, on the first stage.
14:02Taking out the all-star Subarus, Christoph Holowitz went off, was hit by his teammate Tosho Arai.
14:07Michael Guest in the Winfield Subaru then ran into both of them.
14:11And they were hit by a Formula 2 car before any of them could get out of the ditch.
14:15A tough old day.
14:16Tough day, too, for Skoda.
14:18They managed to get almost all the way back to service.
14:21But both cars retired at the end of stage eight with clutch failure.
14:26So the Octavia with new car teething problems.
14:30Sidelining Emil Treiner, we saw there, and Armin Schwartz.
14:33Tommy Makinen, ninth in the overall classification.
14:35Lost six seconds in the final three stages.
14:38So trying to keep the damage at bay.
14:42Now that the team know exactly what the problem is,
14:45they can change it after the final special before they go into the overnight service park.
14:50So Tommy Makinen should be restored to fully functioning order for day two of the event, Tuesday.
14:57Sixth overall, Juhar Kankunen, never in with a clear shout at an overall fastest time on the stages throughout the day.
15:14Not really the best of days for Subaru, not the best of days for Kankunen.
15:18And not a good day either for Bruno Thierry at the bottom of the top ten, testing the fly-by-wire transmission once more.
15:25Ahead of Kankunen then, it's Finland a go-go because Markus Grunholm ties down fifth.
15:32His avowed intention in day one was to learn how the car went.
15:35I think he fairly much got to grips with that.
15:38It'll be interesting to see what he can do on day two.
15:41He's had some pretty impressive performances on his other forays into the World Rally Championship for Toyota in 98.
15:47See what he can do for a different Japanese manufacturer in 99.
15:51Well, Didier Oriel, just one spot ahead of him in fourth place, and looking for another podium finish to keep his strong championship challenge alive.
16:01It's been a long time since Didier Oriel was a champion of the world, and I'm sure he would like to do it again.
16:09He took the fastest time on stage seven.
16:13That was the stage after Carlos Sainz had his big problem of the day.
16:16He broke the left rear suspension on stage six, having hit something.
16:20He was in second place until stage eight in a big battle with Richard Burns.
16:25Burns gained the upper hand by 0.9 seconds by setting fastest time through stage eight.
16:33And that means that it's a British 1-2 at the end of the day.
16:38Burns in second place on the leaderboard, courtesy of that penultimate stage win.
16:43And Colin McRae going through in the lead in the Ford Focus, right off the back of that victory.
16:52Setting the fastest time on the final stage of the day, stage nine, to reinforce his lead here.
16:57Yeah, it's great. Delighted. It's been a good day, and the car's worked really well.
17:08Third on the road today. You're going to be first on the road tomorrow.
17:11Not going to be a problem?
17:12Yeah, it's going to be a small problem, but it shouldn't be bad.
17:16We've got quite a good gap, so I don't think it'll be a major problem.
17:20But you never know.
17:22Quite a good gap indeed.
17:2449.2 seconds.
17:26Carlos Sainz just a smidgen behind Richard Burns in third plate.
17:30The focus on the first of the normal, if you like, gravel rallies of the championship after the three real specialist events,
17:40the Monty, Sweden and Kenya, really showing its mettle.
17:43And Carlos Sainz feeling the pressure.
17:45The Toyota driver, of course, enjoying renewed success with his favourite old team.
17:51Didier Oriel, here talking to Autosports' Keith Oswin, doing a very good job indeed.
17:55Oriel's been very consistent this year and is showing real flashes of the brilliance that has made him a multiple world champion.
18:03But for Tommy McKinnon, the man who is the reigning world champion, it couldn't really have gone much worse.
18:08He had a problem all the way through the day with his differential, something that was only cleared up during the course of the second day.
18:16We'll see. We'll see.
18:18A very long way coming up.
18:20I'm sure we are too far, absolutely too far behind that.
18:24I try to do what I can.
18:28A man that never says die, but here's the way they finished leg one then.
18:31McRae with 49.2 seconds over Richard Burns.
18:34Carlos Sainz in third, Didier Oriel fourth.
18:37Markus Grudenholm in fifth position and Juhar Kankinen in sixth.
18:40Well, on to day two then.
18:59And once more, the good weather bringing out throngs of spectators.
19:05The temperature's slightly low.
19:06As you can see, the wind's pretty high, but that will help with the dust clearance on these very dusty but very spectacular hillside stages.
19:15Colin McRae then, having finished the end of the day one on top of the leaderboard, opening the road for everybody and sweeping away the loose coverings on the surface.
19:23That's definitely deemed to be a disadvantage here in Portugal.
19:26And McRae knew that that was going to be the case, but it didn't seem to be slowing him a great deal.
19:32The start clock was 25 seconds, 25, 28 seconds quicker than, or too fast than rally time.
19:51We checked into the arrival control.
19:53That clock was fine.
19:54Then at the start line, the guy signaled us to go when on my watch I had 30 seconds.
19:59So, after a lot of confusion, managed to get the marshals to actually change my time card because the time was incorrect.
20:07And then, basically, by the time they'd done that, they just dropped the time card on my lap and said go.
20:13And we've had to start with approximately five seconds into the minute.
20:19So, confusion with the timing.
20:23Slightly hampering Colin McRae's challenge, but the world champion here.
20:26We're riding in car with Tommy McKinnon and Risto Manesson-Macki, trying hard to make up for lost time.
20:3215, huomio, pitkä koo, oikee, miinus.
20:38Pitkä helppo, vasen, nelia, huomio, pirun pitkä koo, vasen, tiukka kirraa, vähän, kolome.
20:46So, McKinnon, second quickest on stages 10, 11, the first two of the day, but only 6.7 seconds game back on Colin McRae.
20:56Ninth after the first leg, seventh after the first couple of stages, but McRae keeping his lead comfortably after the first two.
21:03Yeah, I mean, I think the pressure's on now because it's realistic that we can win the rally.
21:08If you looked at the, I did some calculations last night based on sort of the experience,
21:14and we felt that Tommy McKinnon could probably, if he had a fantastic run, judging by the position on the road that he is,
21:19that he could probably have pulled about a minute and eight seconds back from Colin.
21:22But at the moment, after the first two stages, he's nowhere near what we've calculated.
21:29In fact, the man who was really getting the pedal to the metal with best form was Didier Oriel,
21:34the Frenchman the fastest of the day, or has most fastest stage times of the day,
21:40taking stage 10 ahead of Colin McRae and Tommy McKinnon.
21:45Oh dear, it's all going pear-shaped.
21:52Well, we're third on the road, says Didier, and as a result, the surface was a lot cleaner for us.
22:01That's why we're setting such good times.
22:04Second stage had a lot of sand on it, but we did a good time anyway.
22:06We've taken a few seconds back from Sainz and McRae, but the day, he says, is just beginning.
22:11Well, what about Carlos Sainz, Didier Oriel taking second place from the Spaniard,
22:23and the Toyota pair settling into what would turn out to be a day-long slugging match over that second position.
22:31Neither of them, it seems, could really gain much an advantage over Colin McRae,
22:35but they certainly had a great battle going on between the two of them.
22:38Richard Byrne's second overnight, fastest on stage 11, the second of the day, but just by a tiny margin,
22:52and that meant that in the end, he lost time and ground to both Didier Oriel and Carlos Sainz.
22:59The Subaru driver, though, having the best of luck of the ProDrive run team.
23:03Fast left, minus long, goal 40, braking, medium left plus long 30, key right, long 60,
23:14medium right plus 60.
23:20Basically, we got the wrong tyres for the combination of the stages, and the first one, we lost 10 seconds.
23:29We had a tyre which was working well on the second stage, where there's a lot of sound,
23:34but it was too hard in the first stage, and it just couldn't cope. We didn't have enough grip there.
23:37Well, despite his tyre problems, Richard Byrne's still holding the banner aloft for Subaru,
23:43as more experienced multiple world champion teammate Juhar Kankunen plainly struggled.
23:48He wasn't very well up the leaderboard at the end of day one,
23:51and he didn't progress too much quicker during day two.
23:55Problems also for Bruno Thierry. He's using the fly-by-wire gearbox, don't forget,
24:07and this stall in stage 10 certainly didn't help him.
24:11I should think he was probably concentrating too much to really pay much attention to the catcalls from the spectators.
24:17But worse was to come, I'm afraid,
24:19because at this stage we were starting, or just about to start, losing drivers.
24:25This near stall for Piero Liatti in the SEAT, WRC the least of his problems.
24:45That'll be the Italian for UPS then.
24:46Liatti and co-driver Carlo Cassina rolling the SEAT on stage 10 right at the feet of
24:52Vincente Aguilera, the president of SEAT Sport,
24:56and Jamie Pooch, the director of SEAT Sport,
24:58who had gone on to the stage to spectate.
25:03Unfortunately, the car was too badly damaged to continue.
25:08It limped out of the stage, but as you can see,
25:11significant damage, not just to the bodywork,
25:14but also disappointingly to the cooling system.
25:16And they were out.
25:24Rolling.
25:26Finish?
25:27Yes, absolutely, yeah.
25:28Problem with the radiator, the water radiator.
25:34Well, Liatti and his co-drivers celebrating their first anniversary of working together,
25:38but not in the style in which they had hoped.
25:40And things were to happen badly for Harry Rovenpera as well,
25:44hitting a rock and ripping the left front suspension off the car.
25:46He was also out before the end of the day.
25:49The car has progressed a lot since its debut in Finland.
25:52Any particular differences that you felt in the car on this rally so far?
25:57Yes, we're testing seven, okay, three days in gravel and we're changing a lot of suspension and differential.
26:06And we need working a little bit more on that also, and after that.
26:11So after 11 stages, two in the second morning,
26:16of Portugal, and we're halfway through day two.
26:19Colin McRae, the overnight leader, still in charge of the event,
26:21no longer setting fastest stage times,
26:24but not losing much to the chasing Toyotas of Didier Oriel,
26:28fastest on stage 12,
26:30and Carlos Sainz second fastest.
26:41As you can see, fabulously exciting stages on the Portuguese rally,
26:45like the monster jump at the end of the faith stage,
26:48at the end of day one,
26:50and this absolutely beautiful piece of rally road.
26:53The camera in the helicopter giving such a sensational view.
26:57I'm sure the drivers never have a time to appreciate it,
27:00but the spectators certainly do.
27:05Colin McRae, no better than fourth,
27:08on stage 12, 13, or 14,
27:10but after dominating on the first day,
27:13he has got a comfortable cushion.
27:15In the three stages, he only lost 0.8 seconds
27:18to Didier Oriel, the second-placed man.
27:21The battle for second really hotting up, though.
27:23Oriel with Carlos Sainz,
27:25and the man who was second overnight, Richard Burns,
27:28snapping at his heels.
27:30Sainz closing strongly,
27:32and Richard Burns doing his very best
27:34to hold on to the inter-Nissan Toyota battle.
27:36Well, Oriel claiming his third-stage victory on stage 12,
27:45the first out of the second group of services.
27:48But McRae still leading by 43 seconds from Oriel,
27:51but only 53 from Sainz.
27:54So it's the Spaniard who's been making most inroads.
27:56The spectators getting a good view from the roadside.
28:14As ever, our onboard cameras giving us a great view
28:17from inside the Toyota Corolla.
28:20Carlos Sainz,
28:50and Didier are both eating into Colin's lead a little bit,
28:53but at the moment,
28:55I would hate to make the calculation
28:57that shows that we've managed to catch him.
29:00It's going to be hard next day and a half.
29:03It's going to be interesting.
29:05Our guys are both pushing like hell,
29:06and they're going to keep doing that.
29:08And we just have to hope that Colin doesn't make more stages
29:10like stage two and three yesterday.
29:12Ex-rally driver George Donaldson,
29:15the Toyota team manager.
29:18Well, Colin McRae really sets the groundwork on day one for this event,
29:22and Tommy Mackinen trying desperately to make up for his wretched day one
29:26and stay in some sort of a point-scoring situation.
29:29Probably, in fact, almost definitely too late for victory,
29:32but Mackinen never says die.
29:35Always in the top three in stage times during the morning,
29:40but not making enough inroads
29:42to have any chance of a podium position.
30:02Mackinen's problems weren't aided by having brake trouble
30:19on stages 13 and 14,
30:22but it was even worse for his teammate Marcus Grunholm
30:25running through 14 completely without braking ability,
30:30having to use lots of sideways action
30:32and the gearbox to slow the car down.
30:38Well, as if the Peugeot contracted driver
30:41hadn't been spectacular enough
30:42on his first ever day in a Mitsubishi on day one,
30:45it was even more spectacular on stage 14
30:47trying to keep the thing on the island.
30:55When he stopped between the stages,
30:57the temperature went up in the caliper,
30:59and I think he's damaged the seal,
31:01so we're not quite sure yet,
31:03but we're just going to change the calipers and the seal
31:05and the discs, so it's just unfortunate.
31:10How much time do you think he lost in that last one?
31:13Well, he certainly lost more than a minute,
31:14which is too much these days
31:17when you see how close they are.
31:20You know, stages like that,
31:21they're only tenths of a second apart.
31:23I mean, it's so competitive
31:26that a problem like this
31:27and you drop three or four places.
31:32Andrew Kahn himself, of course,
31:33the Mitsubishi team boss,
31:35former winner of the London to Sydney Marathon
31:37and a professional driver in his time.
31:39This is Peter Solberg in the second Ford Focus,
31:41the Norwegian champion.
31:43This is his second outing in the car,
31:44replacing the injured Thomas Radstrom,
31:46leading and picking up speed as he goes.
31:49Yeah, for sure, it's a big, big problem
31:52to be new in the world championship
31:54and start writing notes
31:56and learn new car, new team,
31:58everything, a new car driver.
32:00So everything has to just take a little bit of time,
32:03but I think it helps.
32:05But next year and year after that,
32:08it starts coming to get real fast, I think.
32:13I meant learning, of course, not leading.
32:15This is for Brumy and the boys at MSD.
32:18Pictures of the cars they've been working hard
32:19to keep at the front of the Formula 2 field all day.
32:22Alistair McRae in the Hyundai
32:23and Kenneth Ericsson, his Swedish teammate,
32:27leading and second in Formula 2
32:29by quite some margin.
32:31Incidentally, rocks thrown at Kenneth Ericsson's car
32:34on stage 10.
32:35Cracked stages, but the stages themselves
32:37were very unkind to the Finns
32:39during the course of the afternoon.
32:41Juhal Kankinen retired on the road section
32:43after stage 15.
32:44You can see he's there checking the oil.
32:47Broken engine, fell onto two cylinders,
32:49and that was the end of his run in Portugal.
33:04Maybe it has been already all the time
33:07something a little wrong on that
33:08because that maybe was the thing that,
33:10I mean, I don't know what...
33:13No good news either for Harry Rovenperer,
33:18hitting a rock at high speed on stage 16.
33:21The Seat WRC looking very convincing
33:23until he ripped the wheel off it
33:25with a small indiscretion.
33:27Disappointing, Seat failing to finish
33:29with either of their cars
33:31in the first time since the 1997
33:33Catalonia rally.
33:38Bad news too for Marcus Grunholm.
33:40He retired on stage 16.
33:42It was the output shaft from the clutch
33:44that sidelined him.
33:46Well, Mitsubishi's normally paragons of reliability,
33:55but Grunholm out of the event.
33:57He says something about the performance
33:59of the new Seat WRC
34:01that it almost doesn't mention
34:03the fact that they are running strongly
34:05in the top 10.
34:07Unfortunately for Seat,
34:08neither car finishing in Portugal.
34:09And Bruno Thierry, look at this,
34:12rolled the Subaru,
34:13cracked the windscreen,
34:14damaged the bonnet,
34:15but it didn't actually go over on the roof.
34:17It sort of pivoted around the nose of the car
34:19and he was six overnight.
34:23It was a slippery, slippery corner
34:26and I hit the bank
34:29and then we went on two wheels
34:31and then we rolled once.
34:35Didn't even take the aerial off the roof there.
34:37Very bizarre roll,
34:38500 metres before the end of stage 13.
34:42Well, Tommy Mackinnon,
34:43fastest on stage 15,
34:45his only top time of the afternoon,
34:48continuing his fight back,
34:50but still locked in fifth place.
34:52Two World Championship points
34:53will be all he gets for that.
34:55That won't help his series lead much.
34:58Richard Burns, just ahead of him,
35:00fastest on stage 17.
35:02Should have been three from home,
35:04but it turned out to be
35:05the final stage of the day,
35:07more of which in a moment.
35:08And he finishes the day fourth overall.
35:11He'd been looking forward to the final two stages
35:13where he'd run well in the morning.
35:15His challenge for taking second place back
35:17from the Toyotas rather blunted.
35:20Didier Auriol, third at the end of day two.
35:23Lost power in stage 17.
35:25After hitting a rock in stage 16,
35:28damaged the radiator
35:29and the car starting to overheat.
35:39Relatively good day, he says,
35:41apart from the final stage.
35:43We had water leaking from the radiator.
35:45I realized just before we went into the special,
35:49but we had to go without water injection
35:51in the intercooler.
35:56And that means to say
35:57that we had less power from the turbo
35:59than we should have done.
36:00So we lost a little bit of horsepower.
36:06We lost three or four seconds to Carlos,
36:08so it wasn't too bad.
36:10So damage limitation helping there,
36:11but on that final stage of the day,
36:13Carlos Sainz did overhaul his French teammate
36:16to take second place.
36:18Sainz was fastest on stage 16,
36:20second fastest by 0.6 of a second
36:23on the final stage of the day.
36:26And that was just enough
36:27to ease ahead of his rival.
36:32But not enough to do anything
36:34about the flying Scotsman.
36:37Cliché to go-go,
36:38but there's no other way
36:38to describe Colin McRae at the moment
36:40with a huge confidence boost
36:42after winning in Kenya,
36:44the first event that he's won in the focus.
36:48He looks very much as though
36:49he's got this rally by the scruff of the neck.
36:5330, right and six left over crest.
36:5630, three left plus over crest, opens.
37:01Into six right over crest,
37:02middle and right tightens to three plus.
37:0650, five left plus,
37:08opens and tightens over jump.
37:11Into four right plus, tightens.
37:1570.
37:19Colin McRae, as he was on the first day
37:22in superlative form.
37:25Hopefully, yeah.
37:25I mean, we've been losing a bit of time today,
37:27which we knew we would do
37:28because of the conditions.
37:31And we lost quite a bit in the last three.
37:34The first one was very loose.
37:35And obviously then a lot of wheels spinning
37:37at war the tyres quite a lot
37:39in the first of the three stages.
37:41So then the next two,
37:42we had to be very careful.
37:44So we dropped a wee bit more again.
37:45Well, the final two stages
37:47were cancelled on safety grounds.
37:49Just far too many spectators
37:51in the stage Sunday
37:52and has led every leg of it,
37:55every stage of it ever since.
37:57In the full focus, car number seven,
37:59a 33-second lead overnight
38:01going into the final day.
38:03Chased by Carlos Sainz.
38:04Sainz was quickest
38:05on three of the day's stages
38:07on Tuesday.
38:08And at the end of the day,
38:10he had pulled back 17 seconds
38:12on the rally leader
38:13in his Toyota Corolla.
38:15But he hadn't had it all his own way.
38:16He'd been having a day-long battle
38:18with this man,
38:19the man in the red overalls,
38:20that is,
38:21not Malcolm Wilson
38:22or anyone else in the photo there.
38:23Didier Oriel, the second Toyota,
38:25started the day in third place
38:27behind Richard Burns on Tuesday,
38:29overhauled the Englishman
38:30and then fought a long battle
38:32against Sainz
38:32to try and hold on to second.
38:34Well, as you can see
38:35from the leaderboard
38:36at the end of day two,
38:37he failed.
38:38Sainz just squeezed ahead of him,
38:40chasing McRae
38:41for all he was worth.
38:42Burns was pushed down
38:43to fourth in the Subaru.
38:44The other point scoring place
38:46is held by world champion
38:47Tommy Mackinen,
38:48winner of the first two rounds,
38:49don't forget,
38:50and Bruno Tiri
38:51in the second Subaru Impreza
38:52with the fly-by-wire
38:54electronic gearbox system.
39:03Well, the job was always
39:04going to be toughest
39:04for the chasers
39:05in the final day,
39:06just 60 stage miles,
39:08and that's with 40
39:10and he hacked off
39:10yesterday's stage mileage,
39:12or kilometrage,
39:13I suppose you should say.
39:14It's 60 stage kilometres.
39:15Manda Carlos,
39:16Sainz Didi, Oriel,
39:17and the rest
39:17had only 60%
39:19of the time
39:21that they had hoped for
39:22to try and catch
39:23Colin McRae.
39:25So those 40 kilometres,
39:27the stages
39:28that didn't happen
39:29on the second leg
39:30because of safety worries,
39:32could perhaps
39:33now be starting
39:34to prove vital.
39:37Well, Colin McRae,
39:38first on the road
39:39on Tuesday,
39:40knew what to expect
39:41on Wednesday.
39:42It was likely
39:42to be more slippery
39:43for him.
39:43He was likely
39:44to find less traction
39:45than anybody else would.
39:47The cars starting
39:47behind him
39:48would have an advantage
39:49as his tyres
39:49would have swept
39:50loose dust,
39:51sand, and gravel
39:52off the stage,
39:53giving them more bite.
39:55So for Carlos Sainz
39:56and for his teammate here,
39:57Didier Oriel,
39:58this really was
39:59perhaps a last gasp
40:00opportunity
40:01to make some inroads
40:02into the 33 and 34
40:04second disadvantages
40:05respectively that they had.
40:07But Colin McRae
40:08was not ready for that.
40:10He wasn't the fastest man
40:11on any of the stages today.
40:13He came away
40:14from the event
40:15with a total
40:17of six best times
40:18on stages
40:19set on the first
40:20and second days.
40:22He did what he needed
40:22to do today,
40:23run as fast
40:24and hard as he could,
40:25but a mature,
40:26level-headed drive
40:27keeping the focus
40:28in the lead
40:29and on the road.
40:30Well, Sainz
40:33second quickest
40:34on the first stage
40:35of the morning.
40:353.5 seconds
40:36he pulled back
40:37from Colin McRae.
40:38The difference
40:38down to 29 and a half seconds.
40:49Problem with the differential,
40:51Luis, he says.
40:51Problem with the differential,
40:52Luis, he says.
41:00Well, I translate
41:10the clean bits
41:10of that little conversation
41:11there.
41:12Sainz pressing on
41:14as he finds
41:14that the differentials
41:15aren't ramping up
41:16properly for him.
41:18Meanwhile,
41:18behind him,
41:19more worries
41:20perhaps for the Spaniard
41:21because Didier Oriel's car
41:22running strongly
41:23at this stage
41:24in third place.
41:25And the Frenchman
41:26starting to look
41:28like overhauling
41:29the Spaniard
41:29for second place.
41:31But for Colin McRae,
41:32everything's still
41:32going well.
41:34Yeah, not so bad.
41:36Still very loose
41:37on the top though.
41:38So it's a bit
41:39of a disadvantage
41:40at the front
41:41but it didn't seem
41:42too bad.
41:43Carlos took a little
41:43bit of time out of you.
41:44Think he's going to live?
41:45Yeah, it looks okay
41:46at the moment.
41:49Well, you can never
41:50be too confident
41:51with Carlos Sainz
41:52right behind you.
41:54Carlos,
41:55you've taken
41:55a little bit of time
41:56off Colin
41:56in the first stage
41:57this morning.
41:58Do you think
41:58he's going to run
41:59out of stages
41:59like last year?
42:00It's too long way.
42:02It's too far away
42:03but we try anyhow.
42:11The indefatigable
42:12Carlos Sainz
42:13as he says
42:13really the margin
42:14too much
42:14to make up
42:15in such a short distance
42:16particularly
42:16with that
42:17differential problem
42:18but
42:19never a man
42:20to give up
42:20neither it seems
42:21is Didier Oriel
42:22really enjoying
42:23a renewed
42:23lease of life
42:24here
42:24in Portugal.
42:27Didier you look
42:30as if you're
42:31trying maximum?
42:33I try maximum
42:33but
42:34we start
42:35this morning
42:36without cut
42:38on the tyre
42:38we think
42:39it was more
42:40more hard
42:40and
42:40we don't get
42:42the traction
42:43I mean
42:43I'm okay.
42:47So tyre choice
42:48problems
42:48inflicting
42:49themselves
42:50on the
42:51Toyota team
42:52but
42:52Tommy Mackinnon
42:53was the man
42:54who seemed
42:54to be
42:55in best form
42:55running behind
42:56the top
42:57half dozen
42:58on the road
42:59in fact
42:59in fifth place
43:00he was getting
43:01perhaps the best
43:02of the conditions
43:02before the stages
43:03really cut up
43:04and he was
43:04in flying form
43:05fastest on
43:06three of the
43:07days
43:07four stages
43:08and
43:38Well, McKinnon's chances of victory went west on the first day
43:41when he was hobbled by differential problems.
43:44Richard Burns fighting back in his Subaru,
43:46trying desperately to stay ahead of the chasing pack.
43:49Fifth and eighth in the first two specials.
43:51He is now out of a chance at the podium position
43:54with just two stages left,
43:56and perhaps threatened by Tommy McKinnon,
43:58closing in just 16.4 seconds behind the Subaru.
44:01McKinnon keeping up the pressure,
44:09continuing to really pile on the times,
44:14pushing as hard as he dares.
44:17Yeah, we try. We try very hard.
44:21We try as hard as possible.
44:22Shame about those problems on day one.
44:26Is it still bugging you?
44:27Not so much at the moment.
44:32Of course, it was a big disappointment
44:34because we haven't got similar problems so often.
44:37It's not so nice.
44:41A normally reliable Mitsubishi
44:43not quite holding up its end of the bargain
44:46on day one of the event.
44:47So Colin McRae leading by 29.8.
44:50Didier Oriel just a few seconds away,
44:52and Burns and McKinnon locked in that battle
44:54for fourth place for Inotiri.
44:56still well out of time.
44:57On the stage, stage 22,
44:59the penultimate stage of the rally,
45:00losing time once more to the Toyotas behind him.
45:04But has time really run out for McRae,
45:07or is the distance between him, Carlos Sainz,
45:10just too great for the Spaniard to bridge?
45:12Well, Sainz, you just know, gives it everything.
45:28Wants teammates, but even then,
45:29they were really strong rivals.
45:33Sainz and McRae have so often come
45:34into this head-to-head situation.
45:37Sometimes it goes one way,
45:38sometimes it goes the other.
45:39But Carlos Sainz, third in the stage,
45:43and drops to 20.5 seconds behind McRae.
45:47There's just one special left.
45:51Didier Oriel, second on the stage,
45:53but he won't be able to catch Carlos Sainz.
45:56And it all stems, really, from a tyre problem,
45:59making a bad choice at the beginning of the day.
46:01You heard him say before the break
46:05that they had thought the surface
46:06would be harder than it was.
46:08They'd have to cut the tyres.
46:10So what could they realistically do about it?
46:12George Donaldson explains.
46:15Yeah, well, they have to stay with these tyres.
46:17The tyres chosen this morning,
46:18they have to use all day today.
46:20So that's just one set of tyres.
46:22And we've just made some cutting here just now.
46:24And that's it for the day.
46:27One more stage,
46:28and they have to live with what they have.
46:30Well, Donaldson's not too pleased,
46:33but what about Ford boss Malcolm Wilson?
46:35Car running well, so was he happy.
46:40We're very happy with the times that Colin did.
46:42And then on the third one this morning,
46:43he went quite a bit quicker
46:45because the surface was dry and hard,
46:47which really put, hopefully,
46:49a stop to the challenge from Toyota.
46:53Didn't put a stop to the challenge
46:55from Tommy Mackinnon, though.
46:57Mackinnon quickest again
46:58on the third stage of the morning.
47:00But really just still too far
47:02from Richard Burns
47:04to seize that fourth place
47:06unless the Subaru driver
47:07were to run into some sort of major problem.
47:16Unfortunately for Burns,
47:18he didn't have those problems.
47:21Hanging on to Mackinnon's shirt tails
47:24in terms of time
47:24on the third stage of the morning
47:26and just keeping his nose in front.
47:35Well, final service,
47:37and the crew's just making sure
47:39that the car's in tip-top Vettel.
47:42Plenty of polishing going on there
47:43on the Ford, you notice,
47:44just in case it goes on to the podium.
47:46And the final good luck message
47:48from the team for Didier Oriel.
47:51One stage to go.
47:53He's in a podium position.
47:57So it's all down to stage 23.
48:00The battle for the lead.
48:02Colin McRae goes in with the advantage.
48:0620.5 seconds.
48:09Carlos Sainz just behind.
48:10Will this be a repeat of Portugal 98?
48:14Last year, Colin McRae was in a Subaru
48:16and he had a huge battle with Carlos
48:18in the final stage,
48:20winning the rally by just 2.1 seconds.
48:24A real cliffhanging ending.
48:27And it looks as though
48:28it could go the same way again.
48:31Last year, it was Carlos Sainz
48:33who gazed despairingly at the clocks
48:35at the end of the final test
48:37and knew that barely a hair's breadth
48:39had separated him
48:41from overhauling the Subaru for victory.
48:45This year, the Toyota Star
48:46was again chasing hard.
49:00But for Sainz, it wasn't enough.
49:01He wasn't even quickest on the stage.
49:03That went to Didier Oriel.
49:04Colin McRae came home fifth.
49:088.4 seconds slower than Carlos Sainz
49:11as it turned out.
49:12And that was enough to keep him ahead
49:15and heading for the podium in top spot.
49:21Nicky Grist reading through the times
49:23to the team
49:24and the messages of congratulations
49:25following on the radio
49:27to the guys back in the service area.
49:31No miracles then for Carlos Sainz.
49:33Carlos, he must have realized
49:35that on sheer pace
49:36he couldn't overhaul
49:37but he knows all too bitterly
49:40from the Network Q rally of Great Britain
49:42that it's not over
49:43till you get to the finish line.
49:45Carlos, do you think you've done enough?
49:49Well, you can tell from the faces
49:51he doesn't even need
49:53to answer the question.
49:54They know.
49:55Didier Oriel on board
50:09and you can see just how hard he's trying.
50:11Denis Juridei yelling the notes of him.
50:13Caution, caution.
50:14Didier Oriel right at the limit there
50:33up onto two wheels
50:34nearly going over.
50:36Do you think you've done it?
50:39No, says Denis, we need a second.
50:46He said, but you're going to enjoy
50:47the on-board images later.
50:49Excellent.
50:57I took the corner too tight
50:58and I got up onto two wheels.
50:59It wasn't a catastrophe though,
51:00says Didier.
51:01I never thought it would roll.
51:02Could have been a problem
51:03when we landed
51:03but we only lost half a second
51:05and that's all.
51:06No damage, nothing.
51:07Well, Denis Juridei saying
51:08that he would love
51:09to see those on-board pictures.
51:11Denis, I hope you've enjoyed them
51:12this evening.
51:14Well, what about Tommy Mackinen?
51:16The battle he was having
51:17with Richard Burns.
51:19Didier Oriel quickest
51:20on the final stage.
51:25Tommy Mackinen quicker
51:26than Richard Burns
51:27but not by enough.
51:292.2 seconds quicker.
51:31The fin went through the stage
51:32so the Englishman
51:34held on to his place.
51:35Richard Burns.
51:37Holding on to that
51:38hard-fought-for
51:39fourth place.
51:47Last year, twice a winner.
51:49This year, not so far.
51:51Burns and Subaru
51:52keep on trying.
51:53World Rally team
51:54celebrated
51:54the first anniversary
51:55of its entry
51:56into the World Rally Championship
51:57in Portugal
51:58with a crushing 1-2 victory
51:59in Formula 2.
52:01Alistair McRae
52:01took class victory
52:02closely followed
52:03by teammate Kenneth Ericsson
52:05putting the double disappointments
52:07of retirement in Sweden
52:08firmly behind them.
52:10A Hyundai
52:10occupied the top
52:11of the Formula 2 leaderboard
52:12for all but two
52:13of the event's 21 stages.
52:16And Alistair McRae
52:17making it
52:18a McRae on top
52:19overall
52:20and in F2.
52:21Was it a battle
52:22between you and Kenneth
52:23all of the way?
52:24Did you have to go
52:24flat out all of the way?
52:26No, I think after
52:26the first day
52:27we pushed fairly hard
52:28on the first day
52:29and we got a bit
52:30of a lead
52:30then with the others
52:32having problems
52:32it was a case
52:33of both Kenneth and I
52:34between us
52:34we decided
52:35we'd back off
52:36and drive
52:36to the other car's pace
52:38and it went really well
52:40with first and second
52:40first one for Hyundai
52:42so it was a really good event.
52:44On day one
52:45you had some problems
52:45with the tyres
52:46did that balance out
52:47over day two and three?
52:49The only problem
52:50with the tyres
52:50was me
52:50I chose the wrong tyre
52:51for the first two stages
52:53stage two and three
52:54apart from that
52:56I've had no problems
52:56the tyres have worked
52:57really well
52:57the car's been good
52:58100% reliable
53:00so it's looking good
53:01for the rest of the year.
53:02He just couldn't look
53:03for an excuse
53:04if he had to
53:05could he?
53:05Two on this
53:06for his own good
53:06Alistair McRae
53:07the Formula 2 winner
53:08this is Miguel Campos
53:09the Group N winner
53:10in the Mitsubishi Lancer
53:11and that's Mitsubishi's
53:13fourth Group N victory
53:14from four starts
53:15this year.
53:16Second in Group N
53:17Gustavo Trellis
53:18the Uruguayan
53:19and third in Group N
53:20for Subaru
53:21this time
53:21Juha Kangas.
53:25Well in sixth overall
53:26using the fly-by-wire
53:28gearbox system
53:29this is Bruno Thierry
53:30the fly-by-wire system
53:32very much like
53:32a Formula 1 gear change
53:34a paddle
53:34behind the right-hand
53:36steering wheel rim
53:37allows the driver
53:38to change up
53:39automatically
53:40that's connected
53:43to the fly-by-wire
53:44throttle
53:44that all the cars have
53:46the gearbox
53:47connected to the engine
53:48connected to the
53:49differentials
53:50connected to the
53:51thigh bone
53:51I think you get the picture
53:53he was sixth anyway
53:54and it seems that
53:55all the Subarus
53:56will have that
53:57fly-by-wire
53:58gearbox control system
53:59for the next round
54:00Rally Catalunia
54:01fifth overall
54:02for Tommy Makinan
54:03and really his rally
54:05fell apart
54:06on day one
54:07when Mitsubishi
54:08lost its traditional
54:09reliability
54:10fourth place
54:11using the fly-by-wire
54:13throttle control
54:14but not yet
54:15the gearbox
54:15Richard Burns
54:17after the survival
54:18of the Thierry cars
54:20prototype system
54:22on this rough
54:23tough rally
54:23the team now think
54:24that it is probably
54:25pretty much ready
54:26to go
54:27so Burns
54:28and Kankinen
54:28and Thierry
54:29or whoever the
54:31point scoring drivers
54:32are nominated
54:33for Catalunia
54:34can't second guess
54:35that
54:35will get their chance
54:37to try it
54:37in anger
54:38Didier Oriel
54:39in third place
54:41couldn't quite catch
54:42Carlos Sainz
54:42in the death
54:43and that little
54:44half second
54:44two-wheeled worry
54:45well that won't
54:47have put him off
54:47but just indicative
54:48of how hard
54:49he was trying
54:50and for Carlos Sainz
54:51close
54:52not as close
54:53as last year
54:54but still
54:54no cigar this time
54:56he now moves on
54:57of course
54:57to home territory
54:58I think there may have
55:00been a few
55:00Spanish flags
55:01in the hillsides
55:02in the long shots
55:03in Portugal
55:04just wait
55:05till he gets
55:06into his home territory
55:07in the Basque country
55:08on Rally Catalunia
55:11well Colin McRae
55:14in devastating form
55:16here
55:16on the first
55:17proper gravel rally
55:18of the championship
55:19after the three
55:19specialist events
55:20Sweden
55:21the Monte
55:22and of course
55:23the highly specialised
55:24Kenya
55:25Safari rally
55:26which McRae
55:27and Ford won
55:28this is a chance
55:29to show the car's
55:30mettle in
55:30more traditional
55:31if you will
55:32European rally
55:34style territory
55:34and both car
55:36and crew
55:37and the whole
55:38of the Ford team
55:39I think came out
55:40with flying
55:41colours
55:42big welcome back
55:48by the spectators
55:49and the whole
55:51Ford team
55:52Malcolm Wilson
55:53they're the team
55:53boss
55:54but after the victory
55:58in Safari
55:58was perhaps the lead
56:00on day one
56:00still a surprise
56:01to Colin
56:01no we planned it
56:03obviously I was looking
56:04at the stages
56:05very carefully
56:05on the rally
56:06and I knew by the feel
56:07of the car
56:07where I thought
56:08we could pick up time
56:09and the plan
56:11was to really push
56:12100% plus
56:13in the first one
56:14and see how it was
56:15after that
56:16did you build
56:17into your testing
56:17programme
56:18the fact that you
56:18may have been
56:20first on the road
56:20in day two
56:21and therefore day three
56:22not really
56:24I mean you
56:24you sort of adjust
56:26as it happens
56:26it's not a difficult
56:27thing to do
56:28all it is
56:29is very fine
56:29adjustment on dampers
56:31and spring set up
56:32obviously to go more
56:33for traction
56:33than precision
56:35obviously it's been
56:37in the newspapers
56:37in the UK
56:38about the Formula One
56:39drive
56:40looking forward to it
56:41yeah I mean
56:42it's a good challenge
56:44it's something
56:44that everyone
56:45would love to do
56:45that you know
56:47at this sort of level
56:47and I'm really
56:48looking forward to it
56:49Malcolm's going to be
56:51doing all he can
56:52to keep hold of you
56:52though
56:53I'm sure he is
56:54yeah
56:54Tommy Mackinnon
56:57of course
56:58tested a Williams
56:58last year
56:59and crashed it
57:01let's hope that
57:02Colin doesn't do
57:03the same
57:03with the Jordan
57:04well the Ford
57:06should shed
57:0640 kilos
57:07before they get
57:08to the tarmac
57:09of Spain
57:10what are we going
57:13to what is
57:13everybody going to do
57:14about these Fords
57:15well they're fabulous
57:16aren't they
57:16but we think we're
57:17just as fabulous
57:18as they are
57:18so we reckon
57:19we'll have a very
57:20good race in Cataluna
57:21for sure all the cars
57:22are all very very
57:23close now
57:23which is how we
57:24want the championship
57:25what developments
57:26have you got
57:27coming through
57:28with the Corolla
57:28for the next two
57:29tarmac events
57:30well all that
57:31development has been
57:32done
57:32we've done all our
57:33testing in the last
57:34month or so
57:35or finalised anyway
57:37and we have new
57:37mappings on all
57:38the transmissions
57:39and we reckon
57:40we've made some good
57:41developments with the car
57:42well we'll have to
57:44wait and see that
57:45one with interest
57:46Colin McRae
57:48his second victory
57:49of the season
57:50makes him an
57:5118 times winner
57:53in the world
57:53championship
57:54level with current
57:55driver Didier Oriel
57:56and Hannu Mikula
57:57also on 18
57:58Mark Ollen has 19
57:59of the current
58:00drivers
58:00only Juhar Kankinen
58:01on 21
58:02and Carlos Sainz
58:03are ahead of him
58:03in the list
58:04and that is in fact
58:05the only drivers
58:06ahead of him
58:06in the all-time
58:07line-up
58:08those are the top
58:09half-dozen
58:10point-scoring
58:10drivers then
58:11and that means
58:13that Colin McRae
58:13has pulled himself
58:15up into second
58:16in the championship
58:17and he has also
58:18moved forward
58:19into second
58:19in the all-important
58:21manufacturers
58:21title series
58:22race as well
58:24well Ford winning
58:26its second event
58:27from its first
58:27four rallies
58:28only Peugeot's
58:29205 T16
58:30was as successful
58:31as this
58:31it won its third
58:32world rally
58:32championship event
58:33the Thousand Lakes
58:34in 1984
58:35then went on
58:36to win the next
58:37five events
58:38so that's some
58:39challenge still
58:39for Ford
58:40don't forget
58:41however that
58:41Lancia has won
58:42first rally out
58:43with its Stratos
58:45its 037
58:46its Delta S4
58:48HF
58:48Integrale
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