MotorsportUK.co.ukRally Poland On-Board
On board: one of the stages of Rally Poland on Mazury lakes...As You can see the stage are very fast with dry gravel on it...Car: Mitsubishi Lancer eVo IX N-group.
Can't wait to see Wrc cars here in Mikołajki in June 26-29 2009...host of 2009 WRC round and Super Stage...
The World Motor Sport Council during the meeting in Monaco adopted the 2009 World Rally Championship calendar. It was decided to include Rally Poland among twelve other rounds of the series. World's best drivers will compete on gravel stages around Mikolajki in June 26-29, 2009.
- We are delighted that we succeeded. It took a lot of work of hundreds of people from all over the country to organize Rally of Poland and become the member of such a prestigious group. So far Polish most significant rally was one of the most popular events in European Rally Championship. Rally Poland has also been an official candidate of World Rally Championship for two years. The dream of many people, mostly drivers and rally fans came true. The last weekend of June 2009 we are going to organize World Rally Championship event based in Mikołajki with a super special stage held on a freshly built circuit. The stages will be tackled on hospitable areas of Warmia and Mazury. I would like to invite everybody not only motorsport fans in our country to 66th Rally Poland - said Andrzej Witkowski, president of Polski Zwiazek Motorowy.
Rally Poland is one of the oldest motorsport events in the world. The first edition of the rally was held 1921. All competitors tackled the loop from Warsaw through Bialowieza and back to Warsaw. In the twenties and thirties of the previous century there were twelve editions of the event. Later on it was stopped by the World War II and returned in 1947. Since 1960 the history of Rally Poland as a round of European Rally Championship has begun. In 1973, right after the launch of World Rally Championship the event was once adopted for the series.
Rally Poland was organized in various parts of the country: in Cracow, Wroclaw, and Klodzko. Since 2005 the headquarters of the event are Mikolajki. The tarmac stages were substituted by spectacular gravel roads of Mazurian forests and lakes. In 2008 Rally Poland will be held in June 6-8. Similarly to previous editions it will count to European and Polish Rally Championships.
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