Rally Poland may be a fairly fresh event on the calendar, but it’s one the drivers have been looking forward to. Not only does it feature plenty of high speed, flowing gravel stages, but being only in its second year, it also levels the playing field in terms of specific rally experience (or lack of). […]
The 14.75km repeat of the Goldap stage is the final test out in the countryside for today, the only tonight’s Super Special remains after this one. It’s a re-run of the roads used in SS3, in which Ott Tanak took the stage win. Jari-Matti Latvala was victor in this run through, beating Mads Ostberg by […]
SS7 is the repeat of the day’s longest stage – the 39.12km Stanczyki test. Tanak took victory on this morning’s running, but with the road-sweeping factor reduced, we knew Ogier would be the one to look out for in this afternoon’s leg – sure enough, the stage win goes to the Frenchman. A time of […]
The afternoon’s leg of Rally Poland begins with a repeat of stages three to five, albeit in a different order. Up first is SS6, the second running of the 14.65km Babki stage, which acted as SS6 this morning. It runs close the Russian border in parts and switches between cobbled and gravel surfaces with plenty […]
Robert Kubica has admitted that racing in formula one remains “beyond my reach” at present.The now 30-year-old Pole has been conspicuously absent from the grid since 2011, when in the pre-season he had an horror accident whilst contesting a rally Today, he is a World Rally driver but to date has been unable to return […]
The 39.12km Stanczyki stage is the longest of the day, and features a new surface to test the drivers, as it has only a thin layer of gravel unlike the usual thick covering that the crews have been driving on so far. Ott Tanak yet again took the stage win, continuing a dominating performance so […]
Two consecutive stage victories promoted Ott Tänak to the top of the 72nd LOTOS Rally Poland leaderboard on Friday morning.He won the first pass through Goldap in his Ford Fiesta RS to relegate Andreas Mikkelsen to second by a tenth of a second. Tänak followed up with victory in Babki to increase his lead to […]
A survey of more than 200,000 fans has Kimi Raikkonen at No 1, ahead of Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button He has been lauded by Bernie Ecclestone as the greatest champion ever, taking Formula One to millions around the world. But according to a survey of fans, Lewis Hamilton is […]
Our second stage of the day in Poland is the 14.75km Goldap test. It’s a tricky one as it changes to and from asphalt and gravel three times, and also has a variety of wide and narrow sections – it’s also got some especially thick gravel, meaning that the first cars through will have heavier […]
After 12 participations and 5 victories on the Dakar as a biker, Marc Coma has been called upon to assist Etienne Lavigne as sporting director of the event. The Spaniard will be devoting his passion for the Dakar to helping the organisers, starting this week: he will be spending part of July carrying out […]
131kph! That was the amazing average speed posted by Andreas Mikkelsen who won Friday’s opening stage at 72nd LOTOS Rally Poland to move into the lead of this seventh round of the FIA World Rally Championship. The Norwegian, whose form was rewarded with a new contract at Volkswagen last week, was half a second quicker […]