2023 ERC News & Rumours

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Delighted to see this. Rally fans to the rescue again.

https://www.fiaerc.com/erc/news/erc/...es-erc-return/

[wyler]

delighted to have a few erc drivers in my hometown rally this week in preparation of Rome.
besides italians Campedelli and Mabellini, very surprised to have Sesks in the entry list! I'll try to keep you posted!

brief recap:
hard to judge sesks as he was driving a rally2-kit fabia. looking good from outside, can't tell how much is the driving and how much is the car in loosing 2s/km from mabellini. then he retired on ss4 (mechanical).
mabellini really really good expecially on fast and large roads, a bit less on technical slower roads. in the lead or fighting for until a puncture lead him to retirement on the penultimate stage.
average race for campedelli, second in the end, not very much in the real fight.

let's see what happens in roma!

[Jarek Z]

Irish driver joins ERC with Hankook Tires:
https://www.fiaerc.com/erc/news/erc/...ipped-erc-bid/

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Chris Ingram is planning to enter Barum Czech Rally Zlín as prep for the WRC Central European Rally.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Re the comeback of Alexey Lukyanuk at Rally di Roma

Were any interviews done with him or any statement made on the reason for his return to competition in the ERC ? I didnt see and cant find any.

I've got nothing against him as he's been anti war in Ukraine for many years. But I thought more would've been made of his return and under the Cypriot flag.

[Walach]

There was only a short interview on regional czech website

https://www-drbna-cz.translate.goog/..._x_tr_pto=wapp

[Fast Eddie WRC]

[Rallyper]

Very good performance overall, Hayden and John!

[Jarek Z]

You can vote for The ERC Most Improved Driver of the Year award at https://www.fiaerc.com/a/news/w26680...ImprovedDriver

[eddy707]

Now that the season is over, I decided to count all the stage winners:

Martins Sesks 17
Hayden Paddon 14
Oliver Solberg 10
Yoann Bonato 8
Andrea Crugnola 8
Mads Ostberg 7
Miklos Csomos 7
Craig Breen 6
Erik Cais 5
Jan Kopecky 4
Andrea Mabellini 4
Mikko Heikkila 3
Robert Virves 2
Jan Solans 2
Simon Wagner 2
Miko Marczyk 2
Ricardo Teodosio 1
Adam Brezik 1
Simone Campedelli 1
Alexey Lukyanuk 1

I didn't double check it, but you get the overall picture.
Points of note:

Solberg got the third most stage wins from participating in just a single rally;
Breen would have definitely been up there;
Paddon had a very consistent and strong season without pushing when he didn't need to;
Former champion Llarena did not get a single stage win.