 So the WRC teams have just left the final service for this year's rally We're about to go and have a chat to our ARC teams 31 kilometers to go in this year's event It's been a tough one. Let's catch up with them all see how they're all feeling before we finish off this weekend Marcus leading the four-wheel drive a couple of stages to go there. It's okay Yeah, yeah, it's um, it's you know, but a difficult morning just to try and maintain the pace and so forth, but I Think we've got a big enough gap now and two stages to go. I think we should be right People who don't aren't involved in the sport don't realize it's hard to to run with a lead Isn't it's hard to manage that sort of the push and the natural instinct to push hard versus trying not to be too silly It's a fine line. Yeah, I'd much prefer to be Be trying to chase someone down than to be at the front, you know, so um, but anyway We've just got to deal with that and and hopefully Come home to win the solo big pattern about it going to those final stages and all clear after two could be the championship Yeah, no, I think we've got about 30 k's to go this afternoon So we'll just come through there nice and clean and tidy and yeah We made a few adjustments this morning from yesterday Which suited these stages a lot more and they were good ones again So yeah, just putting some more data down in the book for for this driving this car But no, we're just going to keep in the race and go from there Gerald sco for we've been monitoring the fight that you and Mike Bailey have all the time It's so close between you two. He slipped off the road. You're in third big run home, right? Yeah, unfortunately, um, he's gone and uh, but I'm still there and I'm still hanging in there and Stages today were pretty bad. I was thinking they were a lot slipper than I was expecting. So Yeah, we're still in there. So we're just going to get through these next two and we're right Eli, you said steady she goes but you're a bit surprised at your time. You know, you're leading the field on the first stage Yeah, no, I was uh, maybe it was a good way to drive through the rough stuff just a bit cautious and um, just kept it really neat like I said, um, very similar to how I drive in Nambaka, but uh Yeah, I think we were 20 something seconds up on Molly, but she's up the pace in the last two stages I think she's found herself in a battle with Steve Mackenzie for today's heat. So Um, interesting. I'll see if I I'll do try and do the same thing through through buck her again and See if we win it while he's having good to be in a fight. Yeah, leg points is what you're chasing here Yeah, it's it's really nice to be actually in a battle after some frustrations over the past few days And look, it's still still a bit mind boggling. You know, we were driving the same as as we did We found, you know, a few few things and the spark plugs were were quite quite dirty after the yesterday's stages So um, so we think it's a little bit better there But um, I think that you know, one of the main differences is the stages are just so fast this afternoon And we're not having to you know, slow down accelerate out of corners That that's the only difference and I've been driving the same in the times of better. So The event points are obviously far more valuable Than a single leg. So yeah, definitely just staying in it for the rally You got a real, um, I guess a plan for this one, haven't you sort of been executing plans each day each stage Rather than just sort of flamboyant necessarily is who's quite quite good. It's a bit different to usual, isn't it? I didn't mean it that way, but you know, I guess I'm leading. Yeah. Yeah After Queensland, the boys gave me a bit of a sit down and just focus on getting through the rally. So Yeah, we've really I guess put a good day in on Friday and then just built from there. So yeah, it's been really good Tony, we spoke to you yesterday. You are hoping you might get out there today, but the clothing says it all, mate Yeah, exactly. Um, we pulled the pump out stripped it down and the why the the wiring's like blue and Melted and hot and I don't know if it's an old-age thing or whether it would run without hydraulic pressure when we Cut one of the hoses when we crashed it the other day. So either way it's Not fixable and there's none available Obviously not a component of this normally an issue because you know, no one has one here You know in the Citroen team not need to expect them to have maybe cars of the parts of this car But you know, it's a bit of an unexpected failure, probably 100% We run went over to the Citroen boys and they said oh, you know, we don't have one and why don't you have one? And then each pulled a couple of engineers aside and they said oh, if you've ever seen one fail He said no, so it's one of those things that you know, it's not it hasn't doesn't even have a lifespan So it's not one of those things you gave a 2000 kagen and replace it. It's if it's if it goes it goes if it doesn't go it's broken Screwed near better behind it. They're obviously paying a good attention to your door, which you've uh, you borrowed at all overnight Yeah, very appreciative to Tony. We borrowed a door. It um, it closes. It's just a bit tricky to close So I've sort of been climbing in out here inside and it opens okay It's um, we just a bit of tape to try and seek out the dust out and do what we're going to do