The going gets tough for Schareina on the penultimate stage

Tosha was riding really well until 253 km then he made a mistake and took the wrong piste. At the last waypoint he was 50 seconds behind Daniel Sanders, but with this mistake he lost quite important time. It was a shame as he’d done a really good job up to that point and tomorrow he will start with a 3’12” gap between him and Daniel. Of course the race continues into the last day and anything can happen. Ricky finished fourth and although it was quite technical at the beginning, which was a little bit tough for him and Skyler on this sort of terrain, fourth and fifth position finishes were good for them. Tomorrow, there will be 103 km against the clock on fast, sandy pistes, so we will see what happens.

Made it to Lisbon, one more day to go, so really looking forward to this. Today, wasn’t our greatest result, we did the best we could but struggled a lot with set up, so it is what it is and we did our best. The championship’s tight, obviously not for the top spot, but for the second and third, me and Luciano are tied for that and also for the podium spot here in Portugal. This terrain’s not that easy, it’s fun, but for me it’s a little bit difficult, there’s so many corners going on and a lot in the road book. I’m looking forward to the final stage and I’m happy today, I finished and didn’t hit the ground. The finger’s a little bit sore from yesterday’s crash too. One day to go and we’re looking forward to it.

Stage four was a challenging day, we repeated a lot of tracks and so they were really destroyed, a lot of fesh fesh out there and quite silty. We went around a lake in the beginning and it was really slippery and technical, there were a lot of turns and I just took it a little too easy around there and the rest of the stage I needed to pick it up and so I pushed as much as I could through all that. Overall I rode well and didn’t make any major mistakes so I think that’s a positive note for today. I just need to get through this last stage tomorrow but now we’re getting rained on so that’s how a rally goes, throws everything at you and you got to keep rolling with it and get on through.

Everything was going really well with our plans that we’d made, trying to not lose too much time to Daniel because we were opening the stage and to try to start second tomorrow and attack again. Everything was going well until 20 km from the end, one note was not clear and I was confused and ended up riding in circles. I lost like 4 minutes and it was so frustrating, especially as it was just 20 kms from the finish. This is part of the game, we have to check now with the organisation what happened in that note and then I will try to clear my mind and attack again tomorrow.