Czech rally news

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Originally Posted by Mirek

This coming weekend there is going to be the first round of rallysprint championship. Rally Vrchovina is held near Jindřichův Hradec at the southern border with Austria. Currently there is some snow on stages and more is expected but there are no studs or even narrow wheels for S2000/WRC allowed, so we'll see what happens. Anyway the entries are not bad considering the situation in our country (cca 100 crews including the cup).

Entry list: http://www.rallyvrchovina.cz/reposit..._prijatych.pdf
Timetable: http://www.autosport.cz/zavody/soubor.php?f=14307

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I thought Kostka was driving a Ford this season :confused:

In some WRC events yes, but 1.6T WRC can't take points in Czech sprints. He may drive Fiesta in next round (Lužické Hory) as a test.

For our Finnish friends - Risto Immonen entered Rally Šumava.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

For our Finnish friends - Risto Immonen entered Rally Šumava.

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Despite his good result in ERC Latvia his 2nd rally (home rally) in Joensuu didn´t went well. He was forced to retire but fortunately there was no damage in the car or crew..

Here is a link to Risto´s homepage where you can see what happened in the SS6 Immonen Motorsport | ristoimmonen.com

I hope for the solid performance and good result for the Risto and Marko in the Šumava!!!

Lot of crews withdrawn Rally Vrchovina, mainly due to snow conditions. For example Tomas Kostka, Roman Odlozilik, Karel Trneny, Egon Smekal, Josef Zimmermann, Dan Zpevak...

No snow tyres allowed... Gr.N/R4 cars can use narrow tyres without studs, S2000 and WRC only wide 18" tyres according to FIA regs.

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos...081_n.jpg?dl=1

Source: www.AutoSport.CZ

Now I was informed that the clerk of the course allowed free rims for all cars provided they are homologated for them.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Now I was informed that the clerk of the course allowed free rims for all cars provided they are homologated for them.

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Good!! This is the only possible solution to go thru the rally. Otherwise it´d be a disaster. And it might still be it ´cause Czech drivers are not used to drive rallies in snow surface...

Still no studs allowed though. We used to have these funny conditions in the past (Rally Šumava or Rally Vsetín)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRpRCu9M1jw

11 years old Petr Semerad

http://youtu.be/RO4z8DDsb4E