Troubles for others are helpful for Araujo who finished 8th. The story doesn't mention Block finishing nearly 5 minutes out. Looks like Nobre is broken down somewhere. Must be a tough stage.
Wow, Stage 9 (re-run of Stage 5) is "cancelled on security grounds after rocks were thrown at a competitor on the first run through the stage this morning."
I find it hard to hard to get my brain around the thought that he could have run 25km of a rough 29.9km loose surface rally stage with a broken wheel and flat tire and still managed to finish only 49.9sec slower than the stage winner (Loeb)! How do you do that?!
