National Rally championships News

Arbö Rallye, 7th round of ÖRM will be held around Admont and Spittal/Phyrn tomorrow and saturday. No special entrys, Beppo Harrach will use a brand new Evo9 R4, Gerwald Grössing will drive his old one, anyway Raimund Baumschlager secured the title allready in the last round in Weiz. Still exciting will be the battle for the 2WD-title between leading Martin Zellhofer (Swift S1600), Michael Böhm (back in his Fiat 500 R3T) and Hannes Danzinger (Scirocco Diesel).

entry list: http://www.arboe-rallye.at/RallyeNen...012Eingang.pdf

live-timing (SS1 Fr 14:10): ARB Rallye Steiermark 2012 - bersicht

Hellendoorn Rally also tomorrownight and saturday.
9 WRC entries:

1. Peter van Merksteijn junior - C4 WRC
2. Jeroen Swaanen - Focus 08 WRC
3. Bernhard ten Brinke - Fiesta WRC
4. Erik van Loon - Fiesta WRC
5. Bob de Jong - Lancer WRC05
6. Bert de Jong - Lancer WRC05
7. Eric Bolhaar - Fabia WRC
8. Edwin Schilt - S14 WRC
9. Hermen Kobus - Fiesta S2000
10. Ferdi Biesheuvel - Impreza WRC

Entrylist: http://hellendoornrally.eu/wp-conten...rally-2012.pdf

Results: http://www.rallytiming.nl

Round seven of this years Austrian Rally Championship was held this weekend at the ARBÖ Rallye around Admont.

Raimund Baumschlager and Beppo Harrach had a nice battle trough the event. Starting with a 10 second lead into the final 5,8 km stage Baumschlagers sixth win in a row this season was expected. But after receiving a 20 seconds penalty for checking in late at the final stages time control Harrach claimed the victory.

Final results:
01. Harrach / Schindlbacher, Mitsubishi R4 1:05:45.4
02. Baumschlager / Zeltner, Skoda Fabia S2000 +12.9
03. Saibel / Mayrhofer, Mitsubishi R4 +38.0
04. Rosenberger / Kaiser, VW Polo S2000 +1:23.2
05. Stohl / Stummer, Mitsubishi CNG +1:33.4
06. Neubauer / Ettel, Subaru Impreza R4 +2:26.3
07. Danzinger / Watzl, VW Scirocco +2:59.3
08. Mrlik / Unterweger, Subaru Impreza +3:44.5
09. Zellhofer / Kachel, Suzuki Swift S1600 +3:45.4
10. Mayer / Langthaler, Subaru Impreza R4 +4:57.8

The final round of the Austrian championship is held at the Rallye Waldviertel (October 25th-27th 2012).

Images can be found here:
http://www.ir7.at/content/fotos_orm_...allye_2012.php

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You made my day with those pictures :)

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Originally Posted by hari

Round seven of this years Austrian Rally Championship was held this weekend at the ARBÖ Rallye around Admont.

Raimund Baumschlager and Beppo Harrach had a nice battle trough the event. Starting with a 10 second lead into the final 5,8 km stage Baumschlagers sixth win in a row this season was expected. But after receiving a 20 seconds penalty for checking in late at the final stages time control Harrach claimed the victory.

The final round of the Austrian championship is held at the Rallye Waldviertel (October 25th-27th 2012).

Images can be found here:
IR7.at: Fotos ORM ARBÖ Rallye 2012

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Just for the records: The codriver of Harrach was Leopold Welsersheimb, not Andreas Schindlbacher.

My video of the Unica schutte ICT Hellendoorn Rally:

Unica schutte ICT Hellendoorn Rally

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps15d6c618.jpg

Video of the Dutch Hellendoorn Rally 2012 [HD] with a lot of WRC cars.

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

Peter van Merksteijn jr. won the Hellendoorn Rally again like last year. There was a nice battle between him and Jeroen Swaanen but Peter was pretty much in control of the rally.

1. Peter van Merktsteijn jr. (Citroen C4 WRC)
2. Jeroen Swaanen (Ford Focus WRC) +8.4
3. Bernhard ten Brinke (Ford Fiesta WRC) +1.14.6
4. Bob de Jong (Mitsubishi Lancer WRC) +2.29.8
5. Bert de Jong (Mitsubishi Lancer WRC) +3.59.4
6. Hermen Kobus (Ford Fiesta S2000) +5.49.9

Eric Bolhaar (Skoda Fabia WRC) retired after just a few hundred meters but returned on saturday.
Erik van Loon (Ford Fiesta WRC) retired on SS3 after hitting a tree.
Edwin Schilt (Subaru S14 WRC) broke the engine on SS4.

My photos of the rally are online now.

http://www.rallymedia.nl/images/2012...Brinke%205.JPG

http://www.rallymedia.nl/images/2012.../Kobus%204.JPG

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http://www.rallymedia.nl/images/2012...erdijk%202.JPG

http://www.rallymedia.nl/images/2012...einjan%203.JPG

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And a 18 Minutes Video of the ARBÖ Rallye 2012 + Onboard Videos of Raimund Baumschlager can be found here:

http://www.ir7.at/content/orm_arboe_...012.php#videos

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