Rally History (part III)

[kabouter]

As some people may have noticed, a few weeks ago I started working on RallyBase again after a long period of inactivity. And now finally ERC and IRC results for 2008 are online (Matt, if you are reading this: thank you for your work and apologies for the delay!). Because it is a lot of information added to the database in a short period, there are bound to be some mistakes. As always, if you spot anything, please let me know either by e-mail (to be found on the RallyBase website) or through the forum.

[Josti]

Good to see you active again!

Hope you can expand your European Championship database prior to 1983 someday, that was a nice process.

[kabouter]

Thanks Josti. And continuing with the ERC results is something I wanted to do, so today I started work on 1982

[januszsz]

Hi Kabouter,
Nice to see you at work again.
Here you have missing names for Zlatni'86:
28th Nikolay/Nikolay
30th Yordan/Georgi
32nd /Todor
33rd Emil/Ivan
Regards
Janusz

[kabouter]

Thank you for the extra information, Janusz. The first names are now added to the database. That makes two people named Nikolay Kolev and three named Nikolay Nikolov in my database - those Bulgarian results can easily become a bit confusing...

[januszsz]

Hi Kabouter,
Collecting such information is always very confusing...
I checked also non finisher and here is result:
No 41 Yotzo / Angel
No 42 I have a different co-driver: Viktor Prostov and I don't know the first name of certain Momchev
No 57 Hriskosko / Ilia
No 90 Belcho / Kresen

Regards
Janusz

[kabouter]

Hi Kabouter,
No 42 I have a different co-driver: Viktor Prostov and I don't know the first name of certain Momchev

Thank you for those first names, Janusz. In the entry list there is Viktor Prostov. However in the results for SS1 (as can be found here: [url=http://history.rally-club.bg/storage/v/rally/zlatni/1986/SS1_2.jpg.html]Ð*езултати от СЕ1, Ñ

[januszsz]

[quote="kabouter"]Thank you for those first names, Janusz. In the entry list there is Viktor Prostov. However in the results for SS1 (as can be found here: [url=http://history.rally-club.bg/storage/v/rally/zlatni/1986/SS1_2.jpg.html]Ð*езултати от СЕ1, Ñ

[kabouter]

Don't you think it can be Nikolay Monchev? (mind spelling)

Now that you mention that, it looks pretty obvious it must be him. I've changed it.

Also Zlatni 1982 which you sent me is online now: RallyBase
Thank you very much for that, Janusz!

I think the co-driver of Rena Blome is Brigitte Johann, who was also her co-driver in the 1982 Rallye Deutschland. Based on the starting numbers and the usual way of numbering in Rally Zlatni in that period with non-priority drivers grouped together by car Class, I have made assumptions about the cars you weren't sure about in your result. It is just a guess, but one I am pretty confident about. Of course finding an official result including all the classes would be best. So if there are any Bulgarians with official Zlatni 1982 results reading this...

Likewise I'd also be interested to know about any retirements from this rally (or from any other Rally Zlatni in the 1980s except for 1986).

[kabouter]

Looking for a list of winners of the Peace & Friendship Cup I couldn't find any on the Internet (perhaps there is one available, but only in a language that my Google skills cannot turn up). So from the World Rallying annuals I came up with the following list for the years 1978-1989. Janusz (or anybody else), can you confirm or correct this list, and do you have additions before 1978? Was 1989 the last year of the Cup?

Peace & Friendship Cup winners

1989 Václav Arazim (Tch) Škoda 130L
1988 Pavel Sibera (Tch) Škoda 130LR
1987 Pavel Sibera (Tch) Škoda 130LR
1986 Vallo Soots (Urs) Lada 2105 VFTS
1985 Svatopluk Kvaizar (Tch) Škoda 130LR
1984 Andrzej Koper (Pol) Renault 5 Alpine
1983 Svatopluk Kvaizar (Tch) Škoda 130RS
1982 Vello Õunpuu (Urs) Lada 1600
1981 Jan Trajbold (Tch) Škoda 130RS
1980 Václav Blahna (Tch) Škoda 130RS
1979 Jan Trajbold (Tch) Škoda 130RS
1978 Jiří Šedivý (Tch) Škoda 130RS