There was probably the key moment of Rally Sweden on Saturday morning stage. The leader of the race, Thierry Neuville, made a mistake in absolutely innocent situation, broke his car and came out of fighting for the win.

At the same time, on the same special stage there was a very pleasant moment for Ukrainian fans. The crew of Eurolamp WRT achieved their best result from the start of the race. The Ukrainian-Estonian crew occupied 11th row in the list of results of SS15. That was like a logical finish of the day during which Valery Gorban and Sergey Larens were constantly increasing their pace.

During the second passage on both SS Hagfors and SS Vargåsen they improved by 12 seconds their morning results. only the first special stage of the day remained without improvment, SS Knor, on which a few seconds were lost because of a spin of the car. Unfortunately the crew didn’t have opportunity to update their result on SS Knon during second passage because of its cancelation by the organizers. In the morning the participants put on very high average speed which was more than recommended 130 kilometers per hour and it was the reason of organizers’ decision.

«Today we were the first on the roads. So we were the first on the first stage of the day – the most long and speedy stage. And it was not easy task because the road was very slippery after night snow. As a result we made a mistake in one of the curves and the car skidded…» — told Sergey Larens, Eurolamp WRT co-driver.

«The winter doesn’t forgive mistakes very often. Especially the winter like we have on Rally Sweden now. There is no lack of snow on the road to make it slippery, but there is the lack of real winter snowbank on the road sides. So the crews have to keep their racing lines very carefully because any very optimistic step to the right or to the left may invoke early end of the race either by a stone or by a ditch or by a tree. But today the winter has forgiven us…»