The different between the first three in stage 3 Thiva 1 (23.6km) is 0.2 seconds only. The advantage is for Latvala who win stage 3 with 0.1 seconds faster than Loeb and 0.2 than Petter Solberg. The rain at the end of the stage and the unpredictable weather and the tyre choise is decidable for the rally positions.

Comments after SS 3:
Latvala: "At the end, the last two kilometres, it's been maybe raining at some point so it's a bit slippery and muddy in some corners, so it was a little bit scary, but we're okay."
Solberg: "It's not very good today. It's very difficult and I am struggling, particularly in the right corners. We have to complete one more stage and see what we can change. I don't think we can make anything until we come to the service."
Loeb: "It was a good stage. It was tricky, with changing conditions. I didn't expect rain, so I didn't choose the soft compound. No big difference. It's ok until now. We have only one spare and I hope we made the right decision."
Hirvonen: "We had a front left puncture. There was a lot of understeer in the end of the stage because of the hard tires."

In stage 4 Latvala lost the leader position. He was 14.2 seconds slower than his teammate Petter Solberg who win stage 4 Elikonas 1 (19.89km). In the overall standing Sebastien Loeb move in front as Petter Solberg is third second is Latvala.
Mistake of Latvala cause his to loss 14.2 seconds by Petter and 4.5 seconds by Loeb.

Latvala: "The splits were looking really, really, really good, I think we were ahead of Loeb. But before one junction, the corner before was really, really muddy. I locked the front wheels and the engine stopped. I couldn't turn into the corner, so I did a little overshoot. I lost maybe five to 10 seconds."
Loeb: "I don't know what happened in that stage. I was pushing hard. I saw the splits, I was pushing hard, I had a good feeling, but I don't know."
Solberg: "It was very muddy. Not a bad time. I am happy with that. We are looking forward to make the car better. We will find what happened for sure. There were some muddy corners."
"In the morning, after 1-2 kilometers, something was wrong. We will try to see if we can fix it now. I was just a little bit angry in Thiva and pushed. Tomorrow I want to have the same road position, as today and I will push in the afternoon. "
Hirvonen: "Very slippery and tricky, almost overshoot a junction. It was really slippery."
"We are still in the game, maybe we could be 4-5 seconds closer. Not bad. We went straight in a junction and we made a mistake. We could avoid it. The next stage is going to be very hard for the tires. It's difficult to decide what tires to take."

Results after SS 4:
1. S. Loeb 57:41.9
2. J. Latvala +1.2
3. P. Solberg +4.5
4. M. Hirvonen +11.0
5. E. Novikov +43.2
6. M. Ostberg +51.6