Romanian rally news

[br21]

link to results?

[Tom206wrc]

link to results?

http://www.autorally.ro/

François Delecour prevents Malcolm Wilson's company to get a new victory

[Mihai]

Why did David Botka retire in SS1 Tess Raliul ???

Botka did't actually turn a wheel in this rally. Friday when he turned the engine on he noticed the lack of oil pressure and attempted to fix the problem while the shakedown was on near Brasov. It was then a shock to see his codriver entering rally HQ before SS1 and asking the organizers who should he hand over the mandatory GPS installed in every car.

[Mihai]

One pic from the penultimate stage, with third placed Skoda Fabia S2000 :

link to results?

Final results here :

http://www.autorally.ro/results/results.php?event=854

I'm heading to the prize giving ceremony.

[Co-driven]

Oliveira is driving a car from Stohl Racing ??? I didn't know the team owned a 208 Maxi

No, it's a car from Baratec. Stohl came just to help Daniel.

[tolis]

Bogdan Marisca will switch to Skoda Fabia S2000 soon and Manfred Stohl will drive a Subaru Impreza in Romanian championship.

[Mihai]

@tolis: my sources are dry in this matter - I can neither confirm or infirm this info. It would be perhaps surprising to see Bogdan Marisca switching to an S2000, especially given the fact that he has lost a bit his confidence in recent years and that in 2014 he was paired by his team with a fairly inexperienced co-driver. Though I would be glad if it's true because I rate Bogdan highly.

In the meantime, Marco Tempestini was excluded from second place overall in Tess Rally Romtelecom for illegal service on his Fiesta R5 (banned tire warmers allegedly being used at the remote service in his team's assistance van operated by a technical crew from the Czech Republic). He went last week to the hearings with the Rallying Commission within the Romanian Automobile Sport Federation in Bucharest and today his lawyer dropped by again in order to formally appeal the decision.

[tolis]

@tolis: my sources are dry in this matter - I can neither confirm or infirm this info. It would be perhaps surprising to see Bogdan Marisca switching to an S2000, especially given the fact that he has lost a bit his confidence in recent years and that in 2014 he was paired by his team with a fairly inexperienced co-driver. Though I would be glad if it's true because I rate Bogdan highly.

Some Romanian drivers-co-drivers told me so in the Acropolis Rally.

[Mihai]

Some Romanian drivers-co-drivers told me so in the Acropolis Rally.

OMG so it's true! Legions of Romanian drivers-co-drivers were spectating this year's Rally Acropolis, so I believe you got the tip from a trusted source. Bogdan himself usually goes to Greece for the Acropolis. In 2006, the OMV Rally Team nominated him to drive a Group N car in Rally Greece, but the erratic national ASN (FIA representative in Romania) refused to grant him the international license, so he never made it into the WRC.

[Mihai]

An update that saddened me: regular national rally driver Madalin Radu-Arhire was jailed for 29 days following a large scale corruption investigation around the lucrative transfer of TV rights for the Romania's Liga 1 football championship.

Madalin is an enjoyable young lad and the news took us by surprise. Last month during Tess Rally in Brasov he experienced this freak-looking crash, but amazingly rejoined the rally and climbed to 3rd in the Suzuki Cup. I hope we'll see him again behind the wheel in the Romanian Rally Championship.