Love Cyprus Golden Stage next for ERC aces

Organisers of the Nicosia event will present the driver setting the best cumulative time on Love Cyprus Golden Stage 1 and Love Cyprus Golden Stage 2 with a cheque for 10,000 euros. The top two-wheel-drive contender will receive 7,000 euros, while the leading Cypriot runner will be handed the same amount.

Love Cyprus Golden Stage 1 is an all-gravel affair measuring 5.31 kilometres and running along a section of Larnaca Bay in the south east of the island from 15h57 local time. Love Cyprus Golden Stage 2 is 74 per cent on gravel and 26 per cent on Tarmac and totals 6.17 kilometres. It’s located on the far southeast tip of Cyprus close to holiday resort of Ayia Napa and begins at 16h30.

With 12 stages run, Nasser Al-Attiyah is on course for his fifth Cyprus Rally win a margin of more than five minutes over Cypriot drivers Simos Galatariotis and Panikos Polykarpou, who are second and third respectively. Meanwhile, in the battle for top leg bonus points, double ERC champion Kajetan Kajetanowicz heads the list.