Latvala win two of the afternoon stages but althogh that remains on third position.
The rally leader Sebastien Loeb continue in day 2 ith confident advance.
Comments after the end of Day  1:
Loeb: “For sure I am happy. We are leading, that’s really good and we started to increase a little bit our lead. I am pushing hard because I am feeling comfortable in the car and I am able to make some differences so that’s good.”
M. Prokop: What exactly happened? “Actually we don’t know because the flames and the smoke was coming very fast so I decided to stop because it was impossible to sit in the car any more. We will try to find the parts that could have been broken, like the brake pipes or dampers because maybe there was some problem with leaking oil from these parts because it was really aggressive, very fast. It will be difficult because you can see there is nothing left on the car.”
The main thing is you are okay, right? “We are both okay because we jumped from the car immediately. My co-driver was trying for a long time to save the car but it was not possible.”
Unfortunately the same can’t be said for the car...? “The car is completely finished, you cannot use anything from the car. Everything is completely destroyed. I just took my phone from the car, that is all I had time to take.”
Results after the end of Day 1:
1. S. Loeb 1:22:18.0
2. P. Solberg +20.4
3. J. Latvala +29.4
4. T. Neuville +34.5
5. D. Sordo +46.7
6. M. Hirvonen +48.9
There are 6 stages for tomorrow incudes the longest rally stage Arena Panzerplatte of 46.54 km.