Bryan Boffier wins the first stage in Day 4 while couple of drivers out of the rally due too many accidents in SS 14 Moulinet - La Bollene-Vesubie 1, 23.54 km. The weather conditions are extreme bad snow, ice, wet snow, fog, no grip.
Tyres using for the stage:
VW and Bouffier 6x used studded tyres
Ford and Citroen 4x used studded tyres and 2x winter tyres without studs
In the stage the big losers are Evgeny Novikov, Jari-Matti Latvala, Juho Hanninen and 8 other drivers.
Comments:
Loeb:  It is really shit. Unbelievable. It is mixture of wet a snow. We had absolutely no grip. We were driving very slow, about 30 km/h on straight sections. If we will push more, we will destroy whole car. But we have made line for cars behind.
Ogier:  It was really hard, 20 km/h on lot of parts. I hit two times barrier, is my car damaged?
Sordo: Jevgenij hit something after the start, he is continuing slowly. It is very difficult not to make a mistake, especially in final downhill it is very tricky.
Hirvonen: Unbelievable. Never been that difficult. There were absolutely no grip on the stage.
Ostberg: I am really shocked. I can walk through this stage faster. I am allowed to swear to the radio? It was clean and nice stage, I enjoy it. And to say the truth - it was disaster. Lot of snow and wet places. We are not driving the cars.
Bouffier:  It is a good time, but my pace notes were very bad. I drove carefully, it was very slippery but it was nice to do a good time.
Sebastien Loeb lost 52.7 seconds in the stage by the winner Bouffier, as second in Mads Ostberg far at 29.1 seconds.
Results after SS 14:
1. S. Loeb 4:41:31.5
2. S. Ogier +1:43.9
3. D. Sordo +3:29.5
4. M. Hirvonen +4:34.7
5. M. Ostberg +5:54.6

There are 4 stages to the end of the rally.