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Polish champion Grzegorz Grzyb will follow in the footsteps of ERC title holder Kajetan Kajetanowicz by mounting an FIA European Rally Championship campaign in 2017 after capturing his overall domestic title for the first time last season.

Grzyb, 40, is set to start his ERC programme on Rally Islas Canarias in early May in ERC1-specification R5 machinery having sampled a ŠKODA Fabia R5 and Ford Fiesta R5 in 2016.

He will link up with new co-driver Przemyslaw Zawada, who has experience of European and world championship events.

Grzyb is also a three-time winner of the Slovakian title and placed third on last season’s ERC-counting Rally Rzeszow. He follows Łukasz Habaj (2015), Wojciech Chuchała (2014) and Kajetanowicz (2010-2013) by stepping up to the ERC after winning the coveted Polish title.