[ERC] INA Croatia Delta Rally

This year's "Delta" will be held from 22. to 24. May, on the stages well known from the previous years. A new stage "Pila" is added to the itinerary and it will be run twice on Thursday evening. I hope we will have a good entry list and a beautiful weather like last year.
Here you can find the itinerary and maps:
http://www.croatiarally.com/itinerary.htm

and results here:
http://www.croatiarally.com/results.htm.

Some pictures from the last year:
http://www.ddmotorsport.50g.com/delta07laz/deltalaz.htm

When the entry list is published?

Entry list will be published at 13th May.

PLuto:For some reason I cant send you a PM so look at this

http://www.croatiarally.com/delta08-...0smjestaja.pdf

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1 euro-7,3 kunas
1 kuna-24 češky kruna

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Unfortunately I have some very bad news.
From what I heard this years Delta rally probably wont be held.There are no sponsors,there is still INA missing from the rallys name.Entrys are closed and they have only got 52 entries...8 B priority drivers and 5 Croatian entries with top cars.
The rally will not count for the Slovenian championship and most of the Slovenian and Croatian drivers dont want to drive because the rally is 800 km long (only 280 competitve km of that 800 km) which most of those drivers cant pay...Even most of the top drivers with top cars from Croatia and Slovenia cant pay that..
We will know more tomorrow when the final meeting will be held.

Very bad news. When they finally gain ERC status, now this happen...I still hope they will find some money and do this year`s event. Although I think I know where is a main problem for situation (cause in Slovenia we have same problem).

Entry list: http://www.haks.hr/info/080513-01p.pdf

Not so great!

Entry list is bad,but good news is that the rally will be held.
Despite the entry list,I cant wait!!!

I'm not that excited about this year's edition of "delta". Either I'm getting older or the rally isn't what it used to be... It lost it's sharm. :(

Yes.. not a good entry list... but.. that's a pure entry list for an ERC event...

Luca Betti in a 207 S2000... this guy run with a lot of cars... this season with a Civic R3, Impreza WRC, Lancer EVO IX and now with a 207 S2000...

I think JURAJ ŠEBALJ will repeat the victory of last season

Thanks for the information guys. It's good news that the rally is going to be held. Did the main sponsor return or did the organizers find another one?

For me Šebalj is the main favourite,but lets not forget that Solowow and Isik were fast too.
But for me the surprise will be Corrado Fontana,last year he lost lots of time on the first day,but he won almost every stage of the second day!!!

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Originally Posted by Jarek Z

Thanks for the information guys. It's good news that the rally is going to be held. Did the main sponsor return or did the organizers find another one?

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I do not know. Perhaps another one, but we are yet to see. Regarding the poor entry list, hm, maybe it won t be so bad, but there are very few small cars. Šebalj will probably win again, but there could be a good fight for the victory, since some other Croatian drivers are much faster than they used to be. As for the foreigners, they will traditionally be very fast, so I guess it will be a good rally after all. Also I hope there will be some more spectators than previous years.

Most probably there will be even less spectators because last year Delta counted also for slovenian championship and I know there were a lot of us present there, not so much this year.

Good news.
The traditional main sponsor INA (finally) announced it will be sponsoring this Delta.So from now the name of this rally is INA Delta Croatia rally!!!

Thanks for good news from Croatia. Could you tell me what this INA company is? What do they do?

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Originally Posted by Jarek Z

Thanks for good news from Croatia. Could you tell me what this INA company is? What do they do?

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Oil corporation.

Does anybody know, which team will prepare Betti's Pug?

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Originally Posted by Karbonyl

Does anybody know, which team will prepare Betti's Pug?

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ErreEffe

What team is that?What is their car?

Unfortunately more bad news.
The first two stages Pila 1 and 2 are cancelled

So the rally actually starts on Friday instead of Thursday?

Yes

Can't wait to see Betti and Solowow in action :)

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Originally Posted by Jarek Z

So the rally actually starts on Friday instead of Thursday?

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Shakedown is tomorrow

Luca Betti will start with Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX from F.R. Special Cars.

Weather is very bad, from the morning is still raining. Water is everywhere, roads are very slippery.

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Originally Posted by PLuto

Luca Betti will start with Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX from F.R. Special Cars.

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:mark:

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Originally Posted by Tom206wrc

Can't wait to see Betti and Solowow in action :)

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I don't think those two will fight for the win. I'd bet my money for Fontana, Isik or Sebalj...

As it is completely wet I think Šebalj is that man.

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Originally Posted by Jarek Z

I don't think those two will fight for the win. I'd bet my money for Fontana, Isik or Sebalj...

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Actually Solowow was the fastest man on shakedown

There's hope for Michal then :p : :D

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Originally Posted by Tom206wrc

There's hope for Michal then :p : :D

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Actually from what I saw on shakedown Solowow impressed me the most,he was clearly the fastest in my opinion(Fontana was close,others were way behind).
So there is lots of hope Tom ;) ;) ;)

According to Autosport Donchev and Isik were equal fastest during shakedown and no trace of Solowow and Fontana in the top8... :confused:

http://www.autosport.hr/content/view/8165/314/

I was there and I saw the results on finish line:
Solowow-2:20,4
Fontana-2:21

1. Volkan ISIK Fiat Grande Punto S2000 2:28,8
2. Krum DONCHEV Subaru Impreza WRX TMR'08 2:28,8
3. Antonin TLUSTAK Citroen C2 Super 1600 2:31,4
4. Gabor TAKACS Peugeot 206 RC 2:48,8
5. Branko JEMRIC Skoda Fabia RS 2:50,4

This is bulgarian info

But that information (from rally website) is definitely too odl because Pluto comfirmed to me that many crews are completely missing in that results.

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Originally Posted by 'Mirek Fric [Cze

]But that information (from rally website) is definitely too odl because Pluto comfirmed to me that many crews are completely missing in that results.

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Yes,I can confirm that too.I was at shakedown and I can confirm that Solowow,Fontana,Betti,Manfrinato and Cibej were all driving

Here are videos from shakedown http://www.rallypuza.bloger.hr/

Gaps are incredibly huge for a shakedown :eek:

Weather should have been very bad :confused:

I will post the real results