Thierry Neuville is talking about the two mistakes he did in Stage 11 of Central European Rally which costed him the lead.
The Belgian driver was leading Central European Rally until the end of Stage 10, but he had two spins in Stage 11 resulting in dropping many seconds and eventually losing three places in that stage. The incident happened due to a fast pacenote which made him and Martijn Wydaeghe to have a 360 spin after having gone wide and slipped into a ditch. However, the most important thing is that he was ahead of his teammate Ott Tanak who is the closest title rival, but now the last one is in second place overall and can keep his championship hopes alive if he can score more than two points compared to Neuville at the end of Central European Rally. Last but not least, there are four stages remaining until the end of CER which means that everything can happen until the end of Powerstage.
"It was two spins I mean the first one was a basic spin and the second one the pacenote was too fast", Neuville said.
"It was a long corner and you don’t see the exit very well because it is uphill and when I entered the corner, it turned more than my pacenotes told me.
"I tried to save the car and getting out of the ditch we got stuck a little bit and we lost time.
"Obviously it was going well but there were tricky conditions out there and there were lots of surprises.
"The first stage was a real surprise I didn’t expect such conditions so it was much more tricky than expected and then we had two little mistakes.
"We are still here and the rally is not over".
Source: Motorsport.com
Photo Credits: Hyundai
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