ERC Barum Czech Rally Zlín facts and stats
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Published 17/08/2018 at 16:01 GMT
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The FIA European Rally Championship is heading to Barum Czech Rally Zlín from 24-26 August. Here are some essential facts and figures.
BARUM CZECH RALLY ZLÍN IN NUMBERS:
48:Barum Czech Rally Zlín ran for the first time in 1971 and turns 48 this year. Jan Halmažna took the inaugural honours in a ŠKODA 1100 MB.
6:Jan Kopecký was also ŠKODA-powered when he claimed a record-extending sixth outright victory in Zlín last season. He’s one of36drivers entered in R5 machinery in 2018.
15:Since the ERC’s streamlining in 2004, Barum Czech Rally Zlín has been ever-present on the European championship schedule.
24.88:At 24.88 kilometres, the new event-closing Kašava stage is the rally’s longest. Meanwhile, Maják, which runs twice on day two, is the shortest at 8.15 kilometres.
19:ERC Junior Experience student Erik Cais from Fryšták, a village near Zlín, will be 19 years and 19 days when Barum Czech Rally Zlín gets underway, making him the event’s youngest competitor.
ZLÍN FAST FACTS:
*Zlín’s rise from small town to big city is credited to Tomáš Bat’a, who founded a shoe factory there in 1894. His old office – located in a moving elevator – is preserved in the Regional Authority Building 21.
*Now established as a bustling university city, Zlín’s south-eastern Moravia setting is 300 kilometres from the Czech capital Prague and 220 kilometres from the Austrian capital Vienna.
*Zlín became Gottwaldov from 1949-1990 after the first Czech communist president, Klement Gottwald.
*Event sponsor Continental Barum’s giant tyre factory and distribution centre in nearby Otrokovice hosts the rally’s permanent service park.
*Zlín’s residents can count on an extensive transport network – including 13 trolleybus routes – but the running of the ever-popular city-centre superspecial on the opening night means a number of services are temporarily suspended due to part of the route running through a bus terminal and over a railway line.
48:Barum Czech Rally Zlín ran for the first time in 1971 and turns 48 this year. Jan Halmažna took the inaugural honours in a ŠKODA 1100 MB.
6:Jan Kopecký was also ŠKODA-powered when he claimed a record-extending sixth outright victory in Zlín last season. He’s one of36drivers entered in R5 machinery in 2018.
15:Since the ERC’s streamlining in 2004, Barum Czech Rally Zlín has been ever-present on the European championship schedule.
24.88:At 24.88 kilometres, the new event-closing Kašava stage is the rally’s longest. Meanwhile, Maják, which runs twice on day two, is the shortest at 8.15 kilometres.
19:ERC Junior Experience student Erik Cais from Fryšták, a village near Zlín, will be 19 years and 19 days when Barum Czech Rally Zlín gets underway, making him the event’s youngest competitor.
ZLÍN FAST FACTS:
*Zlín’s rise from small town to big city is credited to Tomáš Bat’a, who founded a shoe factory there in 1894. His old office – located in a moving elevator – is preserved in the Regional Authority Building 21.
*Now established as a bustling university city, Zlín’s south-eastern Moravia setting is 300 kilometres from the Czech capital Prague and 220 kilometres from the Austrian capital Vienna.
*Zlín became Gottwaldov from 1949-1990 after the first Czech communist president, Klement Gottwald.
*Event sponsor Continental Barum’s giant tyre factory and distribution centre in nearby Otrokovice hosts the rally’s permanent service park.
*Zlín’s residents can count on an extensive transport network – including 13 trolleybus routes – but the running of the ever-popular city-centre superspecial on the opening night means a number of services are temporarily suspended due to part of the route running through a bus terminal and over a railway line.
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