 We've known that International Rally Queensland is always a tough event as proved that once again our opening day of our endurance round And I don't think there's a team up and down the field that hasn't had some sort of problem It's even taken out a couple of our leading contenders including Tony Sullins and of course Simon Evans behind us It is the end of leg one. Let's go into the service park now and catch up with all our teams Eli Evans are not a day without drama, but you've come out on top mate. Congratulations. Thanks Dino Nicely being an endurance event important to capitalise on a nice lead today, and we can We'll see what happens tomorrow. We'll I'll go flat out in the morning as I know I'm not gonna lie as I normally would And you know Simon and Molly are gonna be going for the heat wind tomorrow So if I can stay in touch, I'll be pretty happy and we'll make an assessment on Where we're at short left eight into short right six in You know we'll go flat out. I've put more case in than anyone else. So I should be in the groove and Keep it neat keep the throttle on and keep turning in and we'll see if we can match Simon's face like I expect Beast mode from Simon tomorrow. He's gonna go berserk So if we can keep in touch with him and keep the pressure on you might be able to force another mistake We never know. We haven't had a good day we've limped through but everyone else is having issues too so Points wise, it's not all that bad Even though you say it's one of your toughest days as you say to have limped through the way you don't you have is probably the best move You've made in a lot of in a lot of senses. Yeah, well after the first stage We were weighing up whether we come straight back here and fix the car and have a go for the salvo stages But I'm glad we limped through kept pouring water in it. And yeah, we've come out better off I think Good to be here happy being second. It's not the way you want to do it, but you know, we've we've kept our nose clean and I think we're second so according to boss man nearly reckons. That's the case. So Yeah, like I'm not overly happy with my driving at the moment But need to try and sort that out tomorrow, but we'll take what we can Molly Taylor, it's a tough afternoon for you through there talk us through what the drama was and how you cope with it Yeah, we had a really tough afternoon and I'm really lucky to be here Just when we were had the after the refuel we we heard something Funny from the front like that the fan was hitting on something So we open the bonnet to have a look and there was just water pouring out everywhere We couldn't find where the the leak was coming from and then it turned out we take the fan out and There's a really small hose that was split and the coolant was pouring everywhere. So then I try and fix that and Yeah, we we got we got going But dropped over 25 minutes The next day so dropped four and a half minutes there and and then the throttle stuck open on the next stage, which was very scary And then we fixed that and then we had to stay just to get through cleanly, but Ashley James tricky day for you as well big thing endurance rally you have persevered down all the stages Even though not the day you wanted you're still hanging in that's what you got to do in this board, isn't it? Yeah, absolutely. Look, we might have dropped back a little bit on that last stage We had trouble getting up one of the hills that was so far down on power You know it we stopped and put a new TPS in it actually in between stages got the laptop out and retuned it and That didn't that didn't end up being the issue. It was actually water down down the spark plugs. So yeah Is that part likely to rock up tonight? Are you going to do the same sort of perseverance tomorrow? Well, we've got a couple of more spares So we'll persevere with that and we'll glue the plug leads in hopefully seal them up nice and tight and Make it a bit more like a submarine for tomorrow It might matter despite all your problems a second lead it looks like or just under a second amazing Yeah, no it is we said look at the times at the end. We've gone off. That's a little bit of a surprise But yeah quite nice some and yeah, look it was a super tough day Like we really didn't have a clean stage anywhere through the day I don't know a niggly drama here and there so to pull it through and yeah pop a pop of wind for the Day is is quite pleasing. The thing is you're inching so close to that nearly perfect stage to get yeah To grips with this car you can see the smile growing on your face with all that Yeah, like I've said a few of the boys like it's it's almost there You know if we can just get the thing, you know the engine still got a bit of a miss We're pretty close with the suspension set up now I think and I you know I just I think the rest of it's just me learning how to drive it So, you know, if we're gonna have a couple of clean stages You know I really start to get to know the car a bit, you know the potentials endless for this thing Mick Patton didn't quite get it all fixed in the service and persevere with the problem this afternoon But still in the heart only just over a minute off the leading four-wheel drives pretty good. Yeah, look we had a really good afternoon We had no fifth or reverse so we're very conscious of not spinning anywhere in there But look I think this afternoon we picked up every stage win again, which was nice So the only one that we dropped today was the one where we had issues on So yeah, look that's that's really pleasing But the the main thing is where we're still out in the forest and we're still back on the run sheet today as well And still going so that's the main thing Kent you are one of the few teams We're chatting to that's had a pretty good day right and only I think less than a second off the lead. Good job Yeah, no look absolutely. I mean we we have had a good day. So we've had no breakages no damage Everything's been going well. We've extended all our awesomeness today and gave it everything we had but We are where we are and it's a good result. So we're pretty excited This is what makes this sport pretty cool Isn't it we all have ups and downs and dramas here and there and you've had a really good day power stage yesterday Probably one of the better moments and days in your rally. I'm guessing. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely Well, look 95% of it was good, right? We still had a few little moments in there But never have a left sort of a chuckle and a bit of a laugh and keep going So we kept the spirit good in the car