ERC champion steps up for home rally
ByERC
Published 23/11/2017 at 11:54 GMT
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Image credit: ERC
Kajetan Kajetanowicz will try a World Rally Car for size when he bids for his fifth Rally Barbórka victory in Warsaw on 2 December.
LOTOS Rally Team star Kajetanowicz won a record-breaking third consecutive FIA European Rally Championship title in a two-way showdown on Rally Liepāja in early October.
Having achieved his ERC title triple in a Ford Fiesta R5 run by M-Sport Poland, the 38-year-old and long-term co-driver Jarek Baran will step up to a current-specification Fiesta WRC from the Krakow-based team and become the first Polish crew to do so.
“Competing in Rally Barbórka always brings huge emotions,” said Kajto. “It is also an iconic wrap-up of your achievements in any given season and an important decision time – what to do next? Right here, eight years ago, I did my first rally with Grupa LOTOS branding. Since then we have achieved probably everything that is possible – seven championship titles, including the last one: record-breaking result for European and Polish motorsport. With this start I would like to thank all our fans and supporters for their support and faith in our abilities to become European Rally champions for the third time. Every sportsman needs his fans and positive emotions. You have provided us with them this season. I decided to thank you for this with undertaking another challenge. It is a prize for me to drive a Ford Fiesta WRC in current specification but above all it is a huge experience.
“It will be not easy to use all its abilities first time out. Rally Barbórka is a short event which demands amazing accuracy – which will be difficult to find quickly after switching to a WRC car. I want to thank M-Sport Poland for enabling me to have a go. One more time I want to thank my fans and partners, especially Grupa LOTOS, for our season together.”
This year’s Rally Barbórka consists of five special stages: three runs of Autodrom Bemowo (4.8 kms) and two runs of the new Tor Modlin (5.0 kms). That’s followed by the Stage of Champions on Karowa Street in central Warsaw from 18h20 local time.
Graphic:Siadlycom
Having achieved his ERC title triple in a Ford Fiesta R5 run by M-Sport Poland, the 38-year-old and long-term co-driver Jarek Baran will step up to a current-specification Fiesta WRC from the Krakow-based team and become the first Polish crew to do so.
“Competing in Rally Barbórka always brings huge emotions,” said Kajto. “It is also an iconic wrap-up of your achievements in any given season and an important decision time – what to do next? Right here, eight years ago, I did my first rally with Grupa LOTOS branding. Since then we have achieved probably everything that is possible – seven championship titles, including the last one: record-breaking result for European and Polish motorsport. With this start I would like to thank all our fans and supporters for their support and faith in our abilities to become European Rally champions for the third time. Every sportsman needs his fans and positive emotions. You have provided us with them this season. I decided to thank you for this with undertaking another challenge. It is a prize for me to drive a Ford Fiesta WRC in current specification but above all it is a huge experience.
“It will be not easy to use all its abilities first time out. Rally Barbórka is a short event which demands amazing accuracy – which will be difficult to find quickly after switching to a WRC car. I want to thank M-Sport Poland for enabling me to have a go. One more time I want to thank my fans and partners, especially Grupa LOTOS, for our season together.”
This year’s Rally Barbórka consists of five special stages: three runs of Autodrom Bemowo (4.8 kms) and two runs of the new Tor Modlin (5.0 kms). That’s followed by the Stage of Champions on Karowa Street in central Warsaw from 18h20 local time.
Graphic:Siadlycom
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