[GR/ERC] 2007 Elpa Rally...

[Tom206wrc]

Hi,


In two weeks is the new ERC round in Greece, the Elpa Rally...

http://www.elparally.gr/2007/en/index.php


What I'd like to know is if there will be one(or several)greek driver in an S2000 car on this event

I remember having read from our greek friends in another thread(that I can't find) Peugeot-Sport Greece, which employing driver Konstantin Paradissis with a 206 S1600, in the year on the greek championship this driver would use a 207 S2000 on one(or several)rally of the championship...

[N.O.T]

Nothing confirmed yet.....best case senario talks about 2 paugeot s2000 (Paradisis and Tsolakidis) worst case senario...none.

[Jarek Z]

I think it's going to be an interesting event. First rally in many many years that will be held on a mixed surface. No single-surface specialists, the best driver wins!

But of course, everything depends on the entry list. Anybody knows when it will be published?

[harriswrc]

Most likely there will not run Greek S2000 cars.
Travaglia will come to Halkidiki with Lancer, maybe Solowow the same, so we will have not many S2000 cars (Czopik, Isik for sure).

There are about 80 competitors in entrylist (some of them will run only the tarmac day, some of them only the gravel day) and the foreigners crews are about 10.

[Tom206wrc]

OK that doesn't look good in term of S2000 entry then

[atsiotras79]

The entries closed last Wednesday, except from the crews that took part in DETH rally this weekend that had an extension until yesterday!

About Greek crew with S2000 in Elpa Rally, I would not count on it!

If Paradissis would drive a 207 S2000 in Elpa Rally, he would have driven it also in DETH Rally which has the same special stages with the tarmac day of Elpa Rally!!!

[Filip]

Juraj Šebalj will come to Elpa with Lancer, but we can't expect much from him, as he has minimal experience on gravel.

[PLuto]

I think it's going to be an interesting event. First rally in many many years that will be held on a mixed surface. No single-surface specialists, the best driver wins!

But of course, everything depends on the entry list. Anybody knows when it will be published?

I think, that mixed surface is the main problem of this event, why so many foreign crews rather miss the event (for example Tlustak )

[Tom206wrc]

And what about Aris Vovos ?? Shouldn't he drive a Grande Punto S2000 on few greek championship rounds ??

[atsiotras79]

Vovos drove all Greek Championship rounds with Evo9 from Ralliart Italy, as he will in Elpa Rally.
His co-driver told me that they had some thoughts to use an S2000 in DETH Rally in order to see how it is and maybe use it in Elpa Rally, but that did not happen!
In DETH Rally last weekend, Vovos had problem with the differential of the Evo and stopped on the first morning stage, after he went flat out in the night stages and had a 10 sec. lead.