BBC SPORT | Motorsport | Rallying | Gronholm in hospital after crash

Saw the crash on Eurosport!

What a mistake to make.

Glad to hear he is ok, after the commentator was saying he had memory loss.

I live about 50 miles from the stage - the roads are particularly greasy here at the moment.

Just as well we build stone walls to last - he would have gone for a swim otherwise.

poor kris meeke...

Meeke was a superb third in Thursday's opening super-special stage at Stormont but after doing well to remain in the top six after four stages, he then hit trouble to drop way out of contention.

A devastated Meeke said after stage five that he was unable to go above 50mph and his rally was over.

Tim McNulty is top Irishman in ninth place after day one - seven minutes and 56 seconds off the pace.

Completing the top 10, just four seconds behind McNulty, is another home driver, Gareth McHale.

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Rally Ireland positions after Friday's stages

1st Sebastien Loeb (France, Citroen C4) 1:33:15.9

2nd Dani Sordo (Spain, Citroen C4) 1:33:27.1

3rd Jari-Matti Latvala (Finland, Ford Focus) 1:34:44.3

4th Mikki Hirvonen (Finland, Ford Focus) 1:35:09.1

5th Petter Solberg (Norway, Subaru Impeza) 1:35:35.1

6th Guy Wilks (Britain, Mitsubishi) 1:37:29.5

7th Manfred Stohl (Austria, Citroen) 1:37:57.8

8th Matthew Wilson (Britain, Ford) 1:4:01.3

9th Tim McNulty (Ireland, Subaru Impreza) 1:41:11.8

10th Gareth McHale (Ireland, Ford Focus) 1:41:15.7

poor kris meeke...

Kris was doing well alright, tbh I don't rate that S12 so that made it even better. Before I get slated for saying about S12, its a long time since a Scooby was competitive on the World stage, remember the Discovery programme and the Subaru, the car was a bucket of ****

I live about 50 miles from the stage - the roads are particularly greasy here at the moment.

Just as well we build stone walls to last - he would have gone for a swim otherwise.

That got me thinking about our roads aswell, Irish Tarmac Roads and Road Safety - Rally Ireland 2007 Race Days - Rally Ireland Forum