The final leaderboard showed that I won the event, but in my mind I finished second, ... Sebastien deserved the win, but I can understand the reasons why he did what he did. But now we all have to keep going - it's what Beef would have wanted.

The car is getting better and better and I'm much closer to the confidence I had yesterday,

The engine seemed to drop to two cylinders and I couldn't see over the bonnet as it was so badly bent. I stopped for about 20 seconds and then continued.

If I had been in the job 22 years doing the same thing, maybe I would need a change, to do something different, to put energy into something else.

I had an advantage this morning (Friday) in my start position, but the specials 5 and 6 were very hard.

If the positioning is not there, its very difficult.

I'm quite happy actually. The car feels good and we have improved many things. We lost maybe seven seconds towards the end of the first stage as it was hard on the brakes and they seemed to go off. However they seemed fine by the next stage.

That said, I can't afford to relax as Sebastien (Loeb) is doing very well... I'm just going to carry on going as we are and keep the speed.

Not perfect, but not bad times. On the second and third stages, the engine was running very warm, so it dropped to three cylinders and cut off the anti-lag from time to time.

They are too far away now to give it a proper fight.