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The 70 th Rally Poland is one of the rally that was eagerly looked upon, being the former F1 star Robert Kubica 's homeland and also because of his outing in the event with the Citroen DS3 RRC rally car. But in the pre-event testing, Kubica crashed heavily and left the car looking beyond repair. But the Polish was determined and with a huge task in hand, the race engineers fixed the devastated DS3 back into a shiny piece of a rally car. Job well done ! And it seemed that it wasn't enough to plague the event, then a heavy downpour on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, left many sections of stages with slushy stages, and beyond immediate repair. Soon the organisers of LOTOS 70 Rally Poland to made a few modifications to the event itinerary. On Saturday 14 September, special stage one and four, Tałty, is cut from 14.54 kilometres to 6.15 kilometres. Baranowo, which forms stages two and five of the gravel rally, is trimmed from 17.51 kilometres to 12.11 kilom

The Land of the Skoda's! Wonderful countrside, winding narrow asphalt roads, welcomes the wider gap from the last event at Romanian , Sibiu Rally . Highlights of the rally - three cars of factory ŠKODA team compete for victory in home rally in the Czech Republic , with few more privateer Skoda. Peugeot and a big lot of potential competition are absent. However, the fight between, the Finn - Esapekka Lappi , Sepp Wiegand who has an advantage of good-competitive-form from the ADAC WRC round last week., the local and leading driver of the current ERC season, Jan Kopecky . Tomas Kostka to perform with a brand new Ford Fiesta R5 , Pavel Valousek too has a Fiesta R5 drive in this weekend. Antonín Tlusťák , with the local knowledge could be at an advantage, in his Skoda Fabia S2000 ! Although the Frenchman Bryan Bouffier 's entry showed that he would be driving a Peugeot 207 S2000 , he and and few more withdrew from the competition. Apart from the 103 competitor, th

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Geko Ypres Rally, is the sixth round in the European Rally Championship, 2013 . The historic city of Belgium woke up to the rumble of the rally cars at the service park, and its countryside. The narrow and fast asphalt roads, with corners at tricky places and lined by the deep and grassy drains, makes no room for surprise moves. Not just that, the drains have hidden concrete culverts at places, if upon a slightest moment, can rip-off a wheel or smash any part of the car - with no remorse. The rally is not new to the championship, nor to the competitors. Local talents from here have made it to the top level rallying, for example; Thierry Neuville . However, it will be Freddy Loix , the local star who has won the event 7 times earlier and will be one to watch. Practice & Qualifying was held on Thursday , and as expected Freddy Loix went the fastest and chose to start first on Day 1, while Craig Breen was second fastest will start on #2 position, and Bryan Bouffier was

Tour de Corse, is the French version for 'Rally of 10000 Corners', because to its high frequency of twists and turns. The 56th running of the legendary event went on to make it one of the most anticipated event in ERC. The winding tarmac roads on the edge of the mountain and also frequently facing the sea makes it one of the most challenging event to compete. In the history, this event has claimed a few competitors, like Attilio Bettega , who died during the fourth special stage of the 1985 rally, driving a Lancia Rally 037 , Zérubia-Santa Giulia . The biggest was in 1986, exactly a year later, when Henri Toivonen and his co-driver Sergio Cresto died in their Lancia Delta S4 during the 18th stage of the event, at Corte-Taverna . Coming back to this year's rally, below here is the video highlights of Day 1. With a thrilling battle for the finale, Kornel Lukacs wins the ERC 2WD Championship on his Tour de Corse debut and Molly Taylor wins the ERC Ladies'

The weekend was all set to stage the Sata Rallye Acores , the fourth rally of the ERC calendar. The rally started with dense clouds lingering around the island, and it was raining with some fog. With celebrities and young stars like Robert Kubica, Jan Kopecky, Craig Breen , [and more]   in the entry list, the weekend was set to be packed with full of exciting stage action. Rally was hosted at the picturesque city of  Lagoa  municipality on the southwest-central part of São Miguel Island, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean . Rally HQ was established on Monday the 21st Apr-2013, with the recce spread for 2 days, ie., yesterday and today. The documentation was established and concluded by Wednesday noon, along with the pre-event scrutineering. Ceremonial start and city show was held on Wednesday , and the real gravel action began on 25th Thursday with a free practice and shakedown in the morning. The competitive stage action started post lunch and with a service total sc

Located 100 kilometres off the coast of Morocco , Gran Canaria hosts Rally Islas Canarias for a 37th time in 2013. With the stages frequently climbing and descending, drivers pay close attention to the speed and line they take for each corner to maintain optimal momentum. One of the notable features of the stages is the abrasive surface, which is partly constructed from volcanic lava. It means grip levels and tyre wear are high as a result. However, because there is little opportunity to take ‘cuts’ through corners, the road surface remains relatively clean and consistent and puncture risk is reduced. Below is the former Formula 1 driver  Robert Kubica 's crash, the one who was most closely watched by his fans. Here is the TV broadcast of the complete event.

At the end of the opening leg of the rally, Craig Breen leads the rally by a little over 6s to Finnish Jari Ketomaa , and Francois Delecour another 6s further in third overall. Jari Ketomaa was the fastest through the qualification stage this morning and Craig Breen all the way down at 6th and the turn around was a bit of a surprise for the top field, but the Irish got the talent. Delecour 's third is something extraordinary, as he had to drive through SS3 by holding the door closed which had latching/locking issues. Day 1, top 5 result. 1 | C.Breen / D.Moynihan       | 22:15.4 Peugeot 207 (2) 2 | J.Ketomaa / K.Lindström   | 22:21.8 | +6.4 Ford Fiesta RRC (2) 3 | F.Delecour / D.Savignoni   | 22:27.5 | +12.1 Peugeot 207 (2) 4 | A.Lukyanuk / A.Arnautov  | 22:48.1 | +32.7 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X (3) 5 | V.Švedas / Ž.Sakalauskas  | 23:06.2 | +50.8 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X (3) _ ______ ____________ _ ____________ ______ _

Opening round of the ERC 2013 season, 30° Internationale Janner Rallye,  is just around the weekend and will be live in around 2 days.  Janner Rallye was common both to ERC & IRC drivers & crews. The interesting thing about this rally is the time which it is scheduled, which makes it similar to the Monte Carlo Rallye. The event is held on the tarmac roads of Austria, which normally experiences snow fall and hence ice is mostly present on the roads. The rally has 18 special stages of around 248 kms, and measures of a total 825 kms including transport. With all this weather condition, probably it is the entry list which really looks good. A good 64 cars [Wow!], in those fifteen S2000 spec cars, five R4 spec cars, and a pretty long list of Group N & around eighteen R2 cars will be fighting for the top honors. Some useful rally docs: Itinerary Maps Leg 1 , & Leg 2 Entry List Below here is from last year's action. _ ______ ____________ _ ___