RALLY GUIDE 1 - ERC

Dear motorist sport fans,
Barum Czech Rally Zlín is a long-term traditional rally that will run to its
42 nd edition in this year. The rally sport is an extremely popular sporting
line in the Czech Republic. This is expressed every year by thousands of
enthusiastic fans standing along the route of special stages! Barum Czech
Rally Zlín is held in area around the Moravian town of Zlín. Since 1983 it
has been a part of European Rally Championship and since 2007 also a
part of brand new series Intercontinental Rally Challenge covered with the
considerable medial support of satellite television Eurosport. With entering
this championship, the rally did great step forward and in previous year
offered the best starting field in its history – there was 27 Super 2000 cars,
which meant an unofficial world record in number of these cars entering
particular rally. In 2011, Barum Czech Rally Zlín was won for the second
time by Czechs Jan Kopecký and Petr Starý with factory-prepared Škoda
Fabia S2000. Czech manufacturer celebrated the overall top three and
recapitulaed similar success from 1983, when the rally was ruled by Škoda
130 RS cars.
Barum Czech Rally Zlín event has a long-standing partner, a tyre company Barum. This advantageous
connection between the most prosperous domestic name of tyres and the most prestigious Czech
automobile competition supports the positive response for the tyres-producer trademark as well as for the
rally itself. During the years, the event got to the top of Czech motorsport scene and year by year has been
bringing new features and innovations to the field of automobile rallying in this country. Based on good FIA
Observer’s reports, the FIA World Rally Commission has also again ranged Barum Czech Rally Zlín among
the top European Championship rallies. A significant attention to the rally is also evident from the part of
journalists. 322 publicists from 25 countries were accredited last year (87 TV and radio studios, 110
journalists, 125 photographers).
The rally headquarters as well as the start and the finish are situated in regional town Zlín. Start of Barum
Czech Rally Zlín will be preceded by scrutineering with presence of public held on 30 August in the evening
in sportshall Euronics in Zlín. The shakedown will take place on 31 August in the morning close to
Otrokovice. The same day in the evening the presentation of top drivers and codrivers will be organized,
followed with ceremonial start and opening superspecial stage running through the streets of Zlín. But the
main part of the competition will go on in two weekend days (1 and 2 September).
Barum Czech Rally Zlín includes about 250 km of special stages covered with various types of tarmac. The
farthest place from the rally center is only 50 km. Zlín is located in the valley, surrounded by wooden hills
offering splended scenery and diverse landscape. Moravian regional town Zlín is about 300 km east from the
capital Prague and about 200 km north from Austrian capital Vienna.
It is really worth coming here and enjoying Barum Czech Rally Zlín!
Rally Guide 1
Miloslav Regner
Clerk of the Course
Barum Czech Rally Zlín
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