 Opening stages of Heat 2, perfect chance for us to catch up with the teams, we're about to go into a regroup and then service. We can speak to them now, Eli Evans, you're leading the charge and you're just having a big chat to your team about tyres, what have you decided to do there? Yeah, look today is pretty important for us, so if we get through cleanly we'll win the championship so we've decided that we'll throw whatever new tyres we've got at it and we think mathematically we'll have two tyres left for tomorrow but we should have some pretty good second hand ones but you know tomorrow doesn't matter, it's all about today at the moment, so new tyres all around and we'll go in the shy stages where it gets really fast and pretty serious out there. We chatted about it at the beginning of the weekend, you're almost learning tyre strategy for the first time in these conditions because South Australia has always traditionally been wet, it's muddy, I don't really worry about tyre wear necessarily, you're learning this event almost for the first time, it's like being here the first time in regards to tyres. Yeah that's exactly right, we know Crawford Forest is quite a hard and abrasive surface but we haven't experienced it in 25 degrees so yeah we're getting out of a set of not 900 meetings I've put the throwing on the car, we're getting about 25k out of them and they're almost gone so in winter you wouldn't get that sort of tyre wear so it is you know it's all data we write down what it's like at this time of the year and we learn from it. The times weren't quite there as we're hoping we tried some new things we tried a bit of a different tyre combination, didn't work on the first stage, I think on the second stage it was probably better, we've still got that missing issue with the engine like mid revs so being the mechanic that I am I've got no idea what to do about that so that's Moli's department and the boys but yeah not too bad, we're close, still there and we're looking forward to the show I rode this afternoon. In some ways you're not just banking on what you've done for the rest of the year, you are actually trying some different things which is good because you're trying to find the pace and not just going well let's just try and finish and hopefully Eli has a problem, you're just genuinely trying to find a pace with things like this tyre combination and stuff like that. Oh for sure, I think Moli's a racer, she wants to win stages, it's as simple as that. The championship's one thing but if you can't win stages, you can't win rallies, you can't win rallies, you don't win the championship. So tough road ahead for the afternoon, you're digging? Fast road ahead for the afternoon. These next three stages are traditional shy roads, they're actually quite quick aren't they? That's a word for it, unbelievably fast, yeah like the fastest roads in Australia by far and the biggest white gums on the edge of them you've ever seen. Stephen Strong, start to the day mate, well done. Yeah we've been pushing, I've said to Brent at the end of the last stage, I don't think I can drive any harder without wrecking the car, so Eli's still putting in the good times and Moli's right there with us, so that's a really good battle at the moment. That's a mature comment though, because you're now knowing what the limits of this car are, sometimes in the past you're probably going to chase that and go oh jeez the car's now damaged because of it, you now know this is about our limit and we'll run at that and you are still close enough to put pressure on that. Yeah absolutely, we've got one more pass to that Crawford stage tomorrow I believe, so if we do need to find another five or ten seconds I reckon there is that in there, but the car might suffer, so we might leave that till tomorrow and see where we are, but yeah going into some shy stages as Arvo we definitely will be pushing. Mate so as well as a smile come back after stage one and you're telling me stucking forth the same corner, what's all going on with that? I've got no idea, it's like ten kilometres into that twenty-something kilometre stage, coming down the hills with exactly the same corner I thought oh come up hydraulic pressure low and I thought oh no here we go again, stuck it and it happened to be fourth gear because it was the same corner I was in, did the rest of the stage in fourth, and we were not that slow, surprisingly. Well that's the whole thing, you didn't drop that much time and you were just saying to me before that you'd love to see the splits, you're obviously going well in that stage, you just can't get the car to run with you. Yeah I reckon we nailed it up to the point where it let us down, we were on it, there's lots of grip the car, I softened it up a bit and it's actually got a bit more grip now, it's more comfortable to drive fast. The biggest problem now is we're in fourth gear in corners, you should be in third or second and you start running out of road and you've got nothing to help you out of trouble and I'm just worried about these next stages, you know there's big trees on the side of the road, it could be really really hurtful if you get caught out.