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ERC - 2013 | Round 9 - Rally Poland

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...

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

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...

ERC - 2013 | Round 7 - Sibiu Rally, Romania

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ERC - 2013 | Round 6 - Geko Ypres Rally, Belgium

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 ...

ERC - 2013 | Round 5 - Tour de Corse, France

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' ...