Special rally for Hołowczyc

The 8th round of this year’s FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies – LOTTO Baja Poland focuses the attention of teams representing the world’s elite. Due to that fact, Krzysztof Hołowczyc will be obviously present on the start of the event based in Szczecin. The Pole finished this year’s Dakar Rally in 3rd place and now we will see the driver from Olsztyn behind the wheel of Mini All4 Racing once more. He will be co-driven by Łukasz Kurzeja, with whom the so-called Hołek has been cooperating for many years.

The competition in the military area in Drawsko Pomorskie and the community of Dobra is a special event for Krzysztof Hołowczyc, for his active contribution as an ambassador was really important in promoting Baja Poland, as well as giving his advice and help in the event’s organization. The range and status of this year’s 8th round of the FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies put LOTTO Baja Poland next to the best cross-country events in the world. It will be a perfect opportunity for Hołowczyc to announce his future plans.

The competition held from 27th till 30th August will be the round of the FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies fourth time in a row. In a cross-country world these are the most prestigious series, while the crew Hołowczyc / Kurzeja, among other competitors in LOTTO Baja Poland, will have to cover the distance of 706 kilometers, 414 km of which will be special stages located on the military area in Drawsko Pomorskie and community of Dobra.

Krzysztof Hołowczyc will surely want to continue his good streak of wins in Baja Poland, as the former European Rally World Champion was on the topmost step of the podium as many as four times since the year 2010.

Krzysztof Hołowczyc: - As a supporter of Baja Poland, I believed from the very beginning, that together with the main organizer of the event, Sławek Wasiak, we will be able to achieve something more than just another round of Polish Championship. Thanks to a wonderful attitude, determination and huge enthusiasm of Sławek and great help of Polish Automobile and Motorcycle Federation the event joined the World Cup. It is the top status in the cross-country rallies. We have difficult and technical routes here, which require the driver to be fully focused. I’m glad it was possible to find such diversified and interesting stages nearby Szczecin – the military area isn’t very broad, but it has been perfectly used. This time my co-driver will be Łukasz Kurzeja and I think that our experience from other rallies can be very helpful, especially on the second run of each stage, when we will be able to put some new notes to our navi. We don’t have a recce here which is typical for regular rallies and it means we have to drive the stage for the first time basically not knowing it. This is the beauty of cross-country. The driver is responsible for many things, but together with Łukasz we will try to cooperate successfully again. I’m looking forward to this rally. In some ways it will be special for me.

 

Organizers

Fundacja BAJA POLAND    PZM

Co-Organizers

Szczecin     Dobra Szczecińska     Drawsko Pomorskie

 

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