IRC - 2012 : Barum Czech Rally [Day 1]

Barum Czech Rally - Day 1 kicked off with a superb SSS with just a little over 9kms of stage. The stage was reportedly wet, but no rains prevalent during the course of the rally, however a spectator was found to be indisciplined which stalled the stage for a few minutes until organisers intervened.

The Shakedown stage held yesterday was pretty action packed too with almost the entire competition at atmost attack regardless of the group or class of the cars and their teams.

A whopping 99 cars took start for the Leg 1 of the rally with a minute gap between each starting car, in reverse order though.

SS1 : Results

Pos.	No.	Driver / Co-driver Vehicle	Group	SS time	Aver. speed sec/km	Diff.Leader Diff.Prev.
1	14	Kostka Tomáš / Houšť M. Škoda Fabia S2000	2	00:07:40.0	73.25 0.00	00:00:00.0 00:00:00.0
2	3	Kopecký Jan / Dresler Pavel Škoda Fabia S2000	2	00:07:43.0	72.78 0.32	00:00:03.0 00:00:03.0
3	15	Barrable Robert / Loudon Stuart Škoda Fabia S2000	2	00:07:44.7	72.51 0.50	00:00:04.7 00:00:01.7
4	19	Orsák Jaroslav / Šmeidler David Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	3	00:07:45.2	72.43 0.56	00:00:05.2 00:00:00.5
5	1	Hänninen Juho / Markkula Mikko Škoda Fabia S2000	2	00:07:46.4	72.25 0.68	00:00:06.4 00:00:01.2

Results courtesy irc-results.com

Complete results can be seen at this link

• Competitor #9 - Valoušek Pavel / Kostka Lukáš: technical problem - engine in SS 1, DNF, 
• Competitor #61 - Chentre Elwis / D'Herin Igor broken wheel, however completed the stage,
• Competitor #89 - Kašík Martin / Uhřík Karel, retired in SS 1,
• Competitor #104 - Yakimakho Dmitri / Zakharava Volha, technical problem,
• Competitor #68 - Štefan Roman / Šillerová Klára, technical problem before start.