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ERC - 2013 | Round 8 - Barum Rally, Zlin [Czech Republic]

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By Ashok R
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, there is a host of historic & other support drives too, according to the entry-list.

Raffael Sulzinger is making a comeback to FIA European Rally Championship at Czech Republic this weekend in a Ralex Sport Renault Clio R3 rally car, with support from one of the rally sport’s legendary - Walter Röhrl, European champion in 1974 and world champion in 1980 and 1982.



Day 1 - Saturday, 31st August - 2013





Day 2 - Sunday, 01st September - 2013

Jan Kopecky winning his home event, 5th time and with a hat-trick in this season has put him high up in the championship with a wider gap of 109 points. Jaroslav Orsák took the production class win, while Molly Taylor finished atop in Ladies class.


Rally Poland is the next in the series, next weekend to round it up to 9th event in ERC.

The weekend also showcased one of the most anticipated European RallyCross event on the shared dates. Petter Solberg was joined along with the Legendary Frenchman Sebastien Loeb & it turned out to the Norwegian had better results and finished second on the podium at the end.


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