Brabec climbs positions and will fight for the final Rallye du Maroc podium

The day started off really well. More or less my style of riding - really fast. A couple of stones here and there and some trial areas. I felt really well today. Unfortunately there were a couple of navigational errors from the riders up front. I copped the group. I just rode in the dust for the rest of the day. Losing a bit of time, but it’s all good. I’m happy with the way I rode. I finished second today, so tomorrow I’m starting second. I think the navigation might be easy. Hopefully not lose too much time tomorrow. I’m on the podium right now. It would be nice to stay on the final podium. It’s rally and anything can happen. We are going to keep the fight alive. The bike’s working really well. We are going back to the old specs suspension for me. I prefer this and tomorrow the traction for me will be really nice.

Today was a complicated day for me. A very hard stage. Yesterday I hit my leg hard and today my muscle was very swollen; it didn’t allow me to get on or off the bike and resist the impact of all the bumps. I tried to take it easy to just get there, without anything else. The season is over and I think we have, by now, paid all the dues to be able to start well next year.

We finished the fourth stage, which despite having been cut it for safety reasons, was equally tough. Complicated navigation areas where you had to have a cool head. I made no navigation errors, I notched up good times and we arrived in a good position, which allows me to continue making up positions in the general standings. There is one more day but we must remain focused until the very end.

It was a stage where you had to push hard. The pace was higher than on other days. Today they gave us more information in the roadbook and we had to race had. We had to make up time. Seven kilometres from the line in a point in the roadbook that had to be correctly interpreted, I got it wrong and dropped time while going into a mountainous area. We still have options and we will try to fight to finish the rally well tomorrow.