The first real test began on Friday with Citroen driver; Thierry Neuville taking the lead early on but coming to an end on the last stage of the day going off road unable to complete. Aaron Burkart in the lead Suzuki Swift Super 1600 following closely behind was able to finish the day in the lead. His teammate; Kruuda hit an unlucky patch early on with a puncture on SS2 and became temporarily ‘stuck’ after an off road excursion on SS7, finishing the day in 5th place.

His speed showing more promise despite the extremely tough road conditions.

The second day test on Saturday was probably the toughest day in JWRC history with only two out of the days 10 starters able to finish. The lead Suzuki of Burkart was one of the unlucky ones, hitting a rock and damaging his radiator forcing him into retirement three stages from the end and pushing him back into 3rd place. The second Suzuki of Kruuda was fortunate to avoid trouble leaping up into 2nd place behind the Renault of Kevin Abbring.

The final Sunday test saw both Suzuki drivers retaining their position and finishing the event in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.

Suzuki Swift S1600 driver; Aaron Burkart commented - "Yeah, hard to say. I mean in the end it is a good result for the team, we were 2nd and 3rd , which is quite nice. For me personally 3rd position is also quite nice as we had some trouble on Saturday. We hit a stone, somehow lost the line and got stuck in a ditch, this caused a lot of stress to the car. There was only a small leak in the radiator but that was enough to forced us into having an early break.

We lost three stages, which means 15 minutes penalty, so for that 3rd position is great, but if you consider that we were 4 minutes on the lead, than third position is a little bit like a disappointment. But in the end we have to look forward, the championship now moves to tarmac which is my "stronger" surface so I'm happy that we are still leading championship"

The second Suzuki driver; Karl Kruuda commented - "We started the rally with a quicker pace than we did in Turkey and made a lot of mistakes in the first day, we hit a rock, had a puncture then we pretty much gave up and just tried to make it to the end of the day. On the 2nd day we took a little bit slower, tried to match our pacenotes with the correct speed, then at the end of the day realized that we were in second place just from driving for ourselves. On the final day we took it carefully and retained our position finishing on the podium in 2nd place. I am looking forward to the tarmac rallies to come."

Yasuhiro Ishii, the Suzuki Sport Europe team manager commented:
First of all I'd like to congratulate Karl. It's been a very tough rally, in extremely tough conditions, for a young driver to finish his 2nd only JWRC event in an extremely difficult event such as this one, on the Podium in 2nd place is remarkable. I feel sorry for Aaron. He was leading rally, and had to drop back to third. I think we can be still happy and gain from this since Aaron is still leading the 2010 championship. Now the tarmac events are coming and we must continue to look forward and developing our car even further for the tarmac !