Czech rally news

[Jarek Z]

Sebastian Frycz is back in rallying. This name will most probably not tell you anything, because the Polish driver had a long break from this sport. But 10 years ago he was an expeptional talent on the Polish rally scene. Being just 20+ he was beating all experienced drivers in Polish championship. In his short career he managed to win Super 1600 championship:



two group N championships:



and in 2003 he climbed to 2nd place overal in the Polish championship. Then he started to slow down and stopped his rally career after a few years of disappointments.

This year Frycz is back. Surprisingly, he will only drive 2 rallies in Poland. He will concentrate on Czech championship, where he is going to drive group N Subaru Impreza (without R4) from the ROTO Plzen team.

Surprising words of the team manager Petr Svoboda:

"For many years we were trying to support young Czech drivers. Unfortunately, it always ended with disappointment and a waste of money. Czech drivers seem to imagine our support for them in a wrong way. Therefore we changed our strategy. We support experienced driver, with whom we have good experiences from the past and who will appreciate our support. (...) It's a shame, that we can't give this chance to some Czech young talent, but we don't see any proper candidate"

I don't know what's wrong with Czech talents and I'm surprised that they support a "has been" driver, but I'm still happy for Frycz. His livery for this year will look like this: