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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...

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' ...