Port Aventura service 3: News from the front

"I'm not thinking of catching Philippe." Explained his fastest time on SS11 by saying: "That was practically a gravel stage and I have more gravel experience than he [Bugalski] has."

"We've gone back to the centre diff' mapping I used in Corsica and San Remo last year. It's made the car much easier to drive."

"We'll try to get Panizzi, but I think that's the only thing we can hope for now."

"I changed the camber, but there was not such a big difference in the feeling, however tyre wear was a little better. It's hard work for not much success."

"The stages aren't interesting at all like this [covered in gravel], you have to wait till the end of every corner before you can accelerate. It seems like Carlos, Richard, Freddy and me are having our own private rally."

"I had a little bit of a dead feeling in the brakes in the second of those two stages, but it wasn't enough to explain the slow time. Mind you I couldn't explain why I was so fast before [on the Pratdip stage, SS7 & 10] either."

Ongoing electronic problems not yet fixed. Car cut out again in SS10 and Martin spun twice in SS11.

Continuing intermittent turbo wastegate problems cost the Scot a lot of time.

Overnight leader Sebastien Loeb has moved to the top of the class again in his Citroen Saxo, after a misfire caused by a faulty engine sensor knocked him back to second place early today.