On leg two the 32-year-old Belgian confidently defended his position despite the disruption caused by an accident between the Peugeots of Jusso Pykalisto and Harri Rovanpera.
Loix and Smeets continued to make changes to the suspension set-up of their Accent WRC³ throughout leg two and into leg three, and by SS16, the penultimate stage of the rally, Loix had found a good set-up permitting a much steadier and more competitive drive.
“It’s true, we did spend a lot of time throughout the rally trying to find a good suspension and diff set-up and by leg three it was good and I really felt I could drive more competitively,” said Freddy. “I was happy with my performance on the last day and if we had started with a car like this we could have had a fantastic rally. We lost a lot on the first day on set-up and once we had the performance and handling sorted to take some time back, we just ran out of stages.
Freddy added: “The Accent has excellent potential and it is great to drive but we just have to make sure we do the work before the events so we can make the most of it and really challenge the Fords. Of course it is sad not to score points here but we can see that we were closing in on the Citroëns and Fords at the end of the rally.”
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Freddy added: “I should be quite happy in
Turkey as I have always gone well in Greece and Cyprus. I think the car is very good on rough events and it will be interesting because no team has any experience there which means we all start on a level playing field.”
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