Sebastien Ogier / J. Ingrassia starts with attack by the first stage of ADAC Rallye Deutschland 2013. The French crew was the fastest in SS 1 Blankenheim with a distance of 23.54 km. The team-mate J. Latvala / M. Anttila is second in the stage at +4.6 seconds by the winner. The third position is the man with incredible progress Thierry Neuville with his co-driver Nicolas Gilsoul at +9.2 seconds. Dani Sordo and C. Del Barrion is fourth at +15.4 seconds.
In the dry stage with a perfect temperature of +22 C Evgeny Novikov and Ilka Minor at the beginning of the stage out of the road almost hit a group of trees but without serious damages could not back in the rally.
Neuville comments after SS1: The road is getting more and more dirty. I was understeering like hell all stage. I had no confidence at all and drove very badly.
Andersson: In the beginning, we almost hit Novikov, very slippy braking, we went off and came back on again. Quite pleased to be here as we have high water temperature from when we went over the starting ramp.
Ogier: Not so good, I am not so happy with the car. It is understeering a lot. We have to try to change something, it is difficult to drive the car like that.
In the second and last stage today Sauertal (14.10 km) again Ogier / Ingrassia are at the top. The second position in the stage is for Latvala / Anttila at +1.1 seconds.
Latvala in SS2: Second stage was clearly better for me , the grip was much better. On a couple of places I was braking too early but better than the first one. When the car is good then it is alright, but when it is not good, it is scary.
Sordo:  I had problems in the hairpin, but nothing important. I am a little bit surprised how fast they are. I don't feel bad in the stage. The car was not so bad, in places a little bit dirty.
Results after SS2 (End of the day):
1. S. Ogier / J. Ingrassia (Volkswagen Polo R WRC) 19:33.2
2. J. Latvala / M. Anttila (Volkswagen Polo R WRC) +5.7
3. T. Neuville / N. Gilsoul (Ford Fiesta RS WRC) +12.7
4. D. Sordo / C. Barrio (Citroen DS3 WRC) +20.5
5. M. Hirvonen / J. Lehtinen (Citroen DS3 WRC) +25.7
6. M. Ostberg / J. Andersson (Ford Fiesta RS WRC) +30.6
For tomorrow there are 6 stages to run with start of the first one at 10:43 CET.