WRC Rally Sweden 2016: Stages 5-9

FIA World Rally Championship - Rally Sweden 11-14 February 2016
WRC Top 5 after DAY 1: 1.Ogier 1h03m10.6s, 2.Paddon +26.9s, 3.Ostberg +33.7s, 4.Tanak +34.8s, 5.Sordo +38.2s

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[forischatz]

So unlucky again Meeke. Ogier is very lucky, he's still leading

[ELUSIVEJIM]

Ogier makes a mistake and gets off with it whilst his rivals all hit trouble. Give him the Championship now.

[Skellingtor]

The conditions are all over the place, and so is your sound mixing!!

[rockygambina]

That Paddon shot is what Sweden is all about.

[OussamaErraji]

Meeke is so good at picking up rocks lol

[morko]

I feel so bad for Kris, he deserves better.

[wilhelmdevos]

Hope paddon wins this one.Ogier needs more compition

[ChevroletastragtcOPC]

Definitely god hates MEEKE. The only driver which is putting pressure over Ogier now is K.O just again.

[zimizi]

Whats with all the rocks on the stages..

[Hymer]

Seriously can´t they remove all god damned rocks?

[Fergutor]

Oh come on!!
But, one has to expect this because of the driving style Meeke has: if you look footage you see him extremely sinking the nose into corners, starting corners way too early. Thus resulting in higher chances of picking up rocks that others didn't hit, and rocks that others pushed to the insides of the corners.

[jdubz]

The citroen seem to be a very fragile car..

[xwaltranx]

what is with Meeke and rocks :/ anyways #GOgier

[alvinkatojr]

Am disliking the video just because Meeke is out :(