Czech rally news

[Mirek]

Bohemia is home event for Škoda. It's roads are a lot smoother than other Czech ones and the stages of today are very technical in Czech standards. Stages of tomorrow will be much faster than today. Anyway nice fight of Škoda crews.

EDIT: Lappi changed wheel on SS6. Fight is over.

Interesting also that Pech lost most of the time on both runs of Šumburk stage.

[RS]

Interesting also that Pech lost most of the time on both runs of Šumburk stage.

Any ideas why?

[Mirek]

He crashed there last year. According to his interview after first loop he felt uncomfortable there.

[Mirek]

SS11 is canceled due to too-high average speed in first run (our specific rules).

[RS]

What is the limit? 120?

I am impressed by Lappi's times on his first asphalt event in the Fabia R5.

[Mirek]

Yes, 120. Lappi did Bohemia last year in R5 as a zero car

[Mirek]

Yesterday 22 punctures and plenty of broken or bent rims were reported from a passage through a road work on stage Šumburk. I don't know if Lappi was one oft them as Kopecký reported that Lappi was off somewhere. Lappi also damaged damper in the incident and that's why he was a bit slow also on the last stage after.

[Mirek]

Dohnal retired from 3rd place with technical problems of his Focus WRC.

[RS]

Kopecky wins, with exact same time as Lappi on final stage.

The Skodas had an edge over Pech this weekend, will be interesting to see if they can repeat that next time out (Barum)

[Mirek]

Final results:

1. Kopecký (Fabia R5) 1:20:33,0
2. Pech (Mini S2000) +51,0
3. Vojtěch (206 WRC) +2:15,0
4. Lappi (Fabia R5) +2:20,3
5. Valoušek (Fabia S2000) +2:24,5
6. Odložilík (Fiesta R5) +2:58,6
7. Vlček (Impreza WRC S12B) +3:27,2
8. Černý (Fabia S2000) +3:28,8
9. Sýkora (Fiesta R5) +3:37,3
10. Jelínek (Fabia S2000) +4:09,5

Major retirements: Dohnal (Focus WRC) - tecnical, Jakeš (DS3 R5) - damper, Kopáček (Impreza STI gr.N) - gearbox, Semerád sen. (Evo IX gr.N) - accident