Gerard de Rooij comments on stage 9


We had had a very good fight from day one

The first part was very hard, but we had a good fight with Ales. He made a mistake on a navigation part and I passed him then was just in front of him. That was the big goal today, just to stay close to him. So the rest of the day went great for Miki. Ales started again with a crash. I don’t know how they are, but the truck is finished I heard. I don’t know about the crew inside, but I hoped they wore their safety belts. But, yes, it was not good for him. It was a nice stage, especially the last part. Normally I would have had a good fight, but then it was a bit boring, though I was thinking about Loprais. We had a very good fight from day one and he was very close. Yesterday and today we were fighting together really hard, but I’m really sad it has to end like this. But that’s life, I think.