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Wait WHAT? Kalle recovered 1.1s in one split!

Even on the penultimate split. GO KALLE!

What a turn of events, Kalle is second in and leading .

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It was a zerbra after all, Thierry drops by 1 tenth to Craig, but it's all about the fight with the new flying Finn, who's 1.1s down, which probably means that Thierry is alright.

Tanak is the last to run, not going for a full haul, driving conservatively to not mess it up.

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Craig tops Ogier, Thierry Neuville still "wheel to wheel" with both. Bits of i20s are flying every which way... What a zebra of a split times!

Rovanperra is contesting top times on this road.

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Honestly, even without any intrigue about the winner, the points distribution and a huge gap in road order between Ogier and tops are the two things that keep us on the edge of our seats.

- Ogier's time still stands after Evans finishes, Breen and Neuvile contest by a fractions of a second on a significantly better road.

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Sunday power stage:

- So nice to see privateers, especially televised!
- I don't think there's any intrigue left as of yesterday, Ott just optmisies for maximum power stage points.
- Can't complain, the championship becomes interesting after a winter rally and it's fairly expected for the leader after Monte to not haul too much. Still, hauling that little must be annoying for Seb.
- Punting the last corner seems to be the theme of the event.

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If one uses a social media bot farm to heavily promote an asset, the SEC will now suspend trading on that asset.

Now we all get to watch this get regularly exploited as a DoS vector.🍿

sec.gov/news/press-release/202

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- Woke up too late to catch stage 3, stage 4. Watching stage 3, it's so beautiful and the mid-pack is full of exciting fighting.

- "After 10km I thought ``shit, it's finished'', but there were still 20km to go" -- Tänak on tire management on this huge stage. Before this event I didn't realise how much of a force front studs need to cope with.

- Breen still second, it's impressive! Tomorrow will be exciting. I hope for snow so that Tänak has to work hard starting first on the road. Awesome that there's no drama in the top. What a rally! First time I watch big snow rally live.

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- I've been thinking about whether or not people will remember Julien Ingrassia tens of years after. I think so, especially since is very clear about the fact that both driver and co-drivers win or lose.

- Amazing work of new Neuville's co-driver though demonstrates that Rally is made or broken by drivers (together with competence of co-drivers, of course).

- I find it clear that Tänak is likely to win, but what a stellar job by Rovanperä, who's likely going to get second, assuming no punts or bad fortune!

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- Instead of competing under the flag of their country, Russians are competing under the flag of Russian Automotive Federation.

- It's impressive to see that despite so much Russian money, followed through with sanctions against . Or is it just ?

- Portrayed on the screenshot is Martins Sesks from my home country (), confusing the audience, as there was a choo-choo train of rally cars after some incident in .

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- Wonderful to see Takamota posting competitive times, even on cleared road... Also, amazing recovery drive after cautious mid-stage by him.
- I wonder how balanced are competitive KMs between Friday and Saturday, running the longest stage twice today could be horrible for Seb.
- Tanak shows that road cleaning is more important than ice getting stripped by cars. Seems like one can yeet a -10.6 stage even as car number seven.

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Observations from rally :

- The moment cars touch the ground after jumps it feels like they get glued to the surface of the road. That Elfyn's jump looked scary and then the car landed and kind of just continued following the line... So weird to see!

- Even as a huge snow lover, I don't want to know how it feels to be a marshall on the stage. There are 11 televised starts, so it's at least 22 freezing televised minutes outside the car, but then when however many WRC2 / WRC3 cars go, I wonder if marshalls stay or get to warmth?..

It's so amazing to see Jari-Matti as a team principal of Toyota.

What a nice guy and an articulate communicator of all things rally.

How to make a horizontal navigation bar with items floating to the right in 2021?

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