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Last night the first car of the new-founded "oasis RallySport" Team hit the roads of Sweden.
In a slightly changed livery from the one he used at the Monte, Lutz Müller took the first 7 stages.
Here's a quick summary of what happened:
At SS1 Lutz chose to have a "safety first" behavior to get well into that rally without risking to much. It was a clean run without any mistakes and only 4 sec. above his PB. Good start!
SS2 went exaclty like SS1 - a clean run with 1 sec. above PB.
At SS3 he then had the first spin...
...after his mobile rang in his pocket. Waht in the whole wide world can be so urgent to disturbe him during a rally???
This caused a total loss of the rhythmn he had until that point. Some corners after that...
...he even rolled over after a small jump but no major damage to the car occured and the time was not so bad in the end.
After calming down with a cigarette and a beer and having his mobile on "flight mode", he continued with SS4 in a tremendous way - 5 sec. under his PB in a clean run.
The first service saw the teams machanics to solve most of the problems on the car
With changed weather conditions Lutz decided to drive it more safely on stages 5-7 and SS5 and SS6 went well without any mistakes or issues.
As the night came to the swedish forrest he let the brake discs glow and found his way to service point 2 - even though he did not find any rhythmn on SS7 he was quite happy with stage times so far...
Lutz will climb into his italian car tonight to finish the rally...more to read about this tomorrow morning!