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Loix and Frenchman Bryan Bouffier. Still before the final special stage it wasn’t clear, who would take the
glory, but tough special stage Pindula served the solution very soon. Bouffier made a mistake and finished
the rally with 10 minutes loss. Freddy Loix won in Zlín for the second time, second place took another
representative of the Škoda Motorsport team, Juho Hänninen from Finland. The last podium place captured
local driver and later Czech national champion Pavel Valoušek – all these drivers used Škoda Fabia S2000
cars.
One of the beggiset attractions of the 2011 edition was resurrection of the legendary special stage Maják
with its route going through woody hills not far from the Zlín city centre. Its opening section is finished with
famous hairpins at the Malenovice castle, which were again after more than 20 years fiiled with crowds of
spectators. This stage was one of the key moments of the whole event. Bryan Bouffier (Peugeot) was forced
to retire after braking two wheels at the same time, and Jan Kopecký (Škoda) was struggling with problems
of his car. After first passage of SS Maják, the Czech almost completely lost his lead, which he hardly built
during the first leg. Since that time the fight between Kopecký and his follower Freddy Loix was the spice of
the event - the Belgian was hardly pushing up to the finish, but Kopecký defended his leading position and
won the rally by the closest margin in the BCRZ history - only 1.2 seconds split these two rivals, both using
the factory prepared cars Škoda Fabia S2000.
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