Bad weekend for Czech rallying again.
R.I.P.
What make it sadder is that on of the victims was a 6-year old child, the same age as two of my grandchilds.
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Bad weekend for Czech rallying again.
R.I.P.
What make it sadder is that on of the victims was a 6-year old child, the same age as two of my grandchilds.
For media everything where is tragedy is good topic, now newspapers ant tv for me is a piece of ****. They can only say something about rally when someone is dead or when someone is injured. Personally i don't know if you have any tabloid newspaper in Czech but i know situation in Poland and when if something like that happened to be in Poland people are talking that rally is a sport for people without brain etc. For me rally is a sport where you must have head on shoulders, if you don't have later we have situation like i Uhersky Brod.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Now we must wait for a decision about future, i hope it will be positive
Bartek, agree!
Just for better view how it is. Two media (TV Nova and lidovky.cz) used in their reports interviews with so called experienced rally drivers whose names are in no list of license owners. Most likely these people were just purposed made fake persons!
Mikulas Rally Slusovice and Prazsky Rallysprint officially cancelled - Autosport
This bad accident was shown on Saturday evening, Austrian Broadcast NEWS FLASH as Headline! I hate that kind of journalism! They include also an animation of that accident with some footage of crashed car and Interview police. But this was similar in past, when a tragic accident happend in France or far away from Austria, but our sport - Rallye - they ignore it during the year!
Condolences to family!
Rakovan: Rally je nebezpe?ná, zaka?me ji. Vá?n?. - Blogy | Autoweb.cz Who is this man? Do you have in Czech more like him?
I saw today few websites and really there is a big mess.
plus another story
http://jaradurdak.blogspot.com/2012/....html?spref=fb
Can someone give a resume of this texts in English please? :)
Googla translate give quite good translation
http://translate.google.com/translat...l%3Fspref%3Dfb
In Croatia this was also a headline news. Actually the only two times I remember seeing anything motorsport related this year were tho news reports- one for this, and on for a hillclimb race in Serbia where, you guessed it, a spectator died. Really horrible situation in CZ right now, I read a lot of articles in these few days and from what I understand, the media is very aggressive towards rallying at the moment. Not very hard to be, since the televisions make up fake rally experts who say that you will almost certainly die if you go spectate rallies. I can't even imagine the talks on the streets from people who are rally experts when tragedies happen, F1 experts when Senna died, football experts when some player dies, skiing experts when a skier lost his leg a few years ago, etc... Sorry for some harsh words, but just I'm very frustrated by the situation. All in all, a very simbolic end to this rallying year.
Hope things can be resolved with you guys.
Meanwhile I see Craig Breen is over at the Sosnova circuit driving a Fabia WRC. Rallycross/sprint I presume.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A742ZU3CQAEzR9L.jpg:large
Prokop's truck in the background?
It's a meeting of drivers from rally, rallycross and autocross. They use the parallel course of track usually used as Rally Bohemia SSS.Quote:
Originally Posted by noel157
Czech "Race of Champions" including Craig Breen and Patrik Flodin (orig. "Setkání mistrů") more photos HERE
http://www.rally-mania.cz/fotogaleri...4324770c13.jpg
http://www.rally-mania.cz/fotogaleri...b02b71313b.jpg
http://www.rally-mania.cz/fotogaleri...ba2a668a37.jpg
http://www.rally-mania.cz/fotogaleri...436edaa111.jpg
Some drivers understand that show is not about times :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtQGtcUWbUg
I would like to see the onboard from around 1:50 to 2:05 :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Jaromir Tarabus plans these events:
Mediasport mezinárodní mistrovství ČR 2013 (MMČR) 3. - 5. 1. 2013 Jänner rally (ME), Freistadt, A 19. - 20. 4. 2013 Rallye Šumava Klatovy 24. - 25. 5. 2013 Rallye Český Krumlov 20. - 21. 6. 2013 Agrotec rally Hustopeče 13. - 14. 7. 2013 Rally Bohemia 30. 8. - 1. 9. 2013 Barum Czech Rally Zlín (ME) 4. - 5. 10. 2013 Rally Příbram
Live stream of Walasska Rally Show
RallyTV2 on USTREAM: . Racing
RallyTV3 on USTREAM: .
RallyTV1 on USTREAM: . Racing
EntryList:
1. MARTIN HUDEC (Subaru Impreza STI)
2. JAROMÍR TOMAŠTÍK (Subaru Impreza WRC)
3. ANTONÍN TLUSŤÁK (Škoda Fabia S2000)
4. JAROSLAV ORSÁK (Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX)
5. JAROSLAV PEŠL (Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX)
6. DANIEL LANDA (Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX)
7. MARTIN VLČEK (Peugeot 206)
8. SILVESTR MIKULÁŠTÍK (Škoda Octavia WRC)
9. ZDENĚK ZDRÁHALA (Subaru Impreza sti N14)
10. PETR VRAJ st. (Mitsubishi Lancer EVO X)
11. RADIM SUŠEŇ (Subaru Impreza sti N15)
12. TOMÁŠ RŮŽIČKA (Subaru Impreza sti N14)
13.
14. MARTIN BŘEZÍK (Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX)
15. OLGA LOUNOVÁ (Renault Clio Sport)
16. PETR VRAJ ml. (Mitsubishi Lancer EVO X)
17. ROBERT KOŘISTKA (Škoda 110 LR)
18. JAROSLAV PODEŠVA (Subaru Impreza STI)
19. DAVID NOHAL (Honda Civic VTI)
20. MARTIN HALFAR (Škoda Favorit)
21. JAKUB CHOVANEC (Mitsubishi Lancer EVO VII)
Photos of ongoing restoration of one of the most interesting cars ever built in our country. The car on the picture is second of three original Škoda 160 RS MTX built by Metalex for that time famous Agroteam Slušovice. The car was used in 1984 season but AZNP Mladá Boleslav (Škoda) refused to help with homologation and Metalex was not able to produce 200 cars for gr.B homologation, so it was never homologated. It combines Škoda Garde body with further tuned 1600 ccm VAZ 2105 VFTS engine and completely new axles and steering. The owner plans to show it live in Rallye Praha Revival in April.
160 RS MTX < dobové speciály < auta < skoda-virt.cz
http://img.skoda-virt.cz/vase_auta_u...7-34-38_50.jpg
Preliminary calendars of Czech championships: http://www.autoklub.cz/dokument/1741...-acr-2013.html
International championship MMČR
3-5th January - Jänner rally, Austria
18-20th April - Rallye Šumava
24-25th May - Rallye Český Krumlov
21-22nd June - Rally Hustopeče
12-14th July - Rally Bohemia
30th August-1st September - Barum rally
4-6th October Rally Příbram
National sprint championship MČR-S
6th April - Rally Vrchovina
27th April - Rally Lužické Hory
11th May - Rallysprint Kopná
7-8th June - Rally Krkonoše
27th July - Rally Kostelec nad Orlicí
10th August - Rally Pačejov
21st September - Rally Jeseníky
19th October - Rally Vsetín
Is the program of Valousek and Kostka for next year already known? Will M. Semerad return to rallying next season?
I have no answer, sorry.
I think that answers to all your questions are actually no...Quote:
Originally Posted by Fiat-131-Abarth
Thank you for your - as usual - fast answers.
It looks like for a break in career of Martin Bujacek in 2013 - Autosport
Lack of money?Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
Some news about Jarin Orsak. Full czech championship plus Janner and Rally Latvia. If he success, he wants to continue in european championship with EVO IX. During the seasons wants to change the car for better.
No, it's the impact of Uherský Brod tragedy. Bujáček family organized the event.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bartek
I would like to correct it. Accident in Uhersky Brod is one of the key problems, but they had also problems with money this season and there is no funding for next year. If he will find some new sponsor, he will return...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Financial problems of many teams are connected to the series of tragedies as well. I would say for many that is the main reason why they can't find sponsors.
Tomáš Kostka said for one news-site that it's impossible to find sponsors for MMČR in current situation so he will either go abroad with few events in CZ (WRC2 or ERC) or go back on circuits for endurance events.
Let's hope he stays at rallying, ERC would be great.. The guy has potential!
On their calendar page, Skoda Motorsport talk of a Czech Championship programme. Are they just talking about likely starts of Kopecky on Janner, Bohemia and Barum?
Race Calendar - ?KODA
I think so.
Finally some good news. According to todays press release of Rally Lužické Hory all preparations are going according to a plan. There are no major problems with locals or authorities. Good news also is that the event is held under patronage of Liberec department representative. That wouldn't be so special in the past but in these difficult times it's very good news.
The route will stay largely unchanged, only one stage will be largely modified. The schedule will be 1x2 stages, service, 1x4 stages, service, 1x2 stages. Altogether two runs over 4 different stages.
German and Polish crews are again welcome :)
So "Czech Women Talent" was the famous awaited new Cup in CZ for 2013 ??? ;)
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