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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