Tuesday2.8.2011
15:00 rally starts for organizers which are preparing Rally Office and documents for participants


18:00 registration for reconnaissance and Administrative checks starts
- as first Isabelle Galmiche with Laurent Viana! this nice relaxed pair comes from the greatest distance maybe therefore have some eager :)
from polish drivers as forst Jaroslaw Baran (Kajetanowicz)

- and alreadi Dodi Béreš with Robo Muller are waiting
we check the bags with documents and stickers and debate what is what ... "Serwis" - it is clear - Service, but :Pojazd towarzyczacy" ... it is maby Auxiliary, "Zaplecze" it is plate for catering cars but  "Zespol rajdowy" rest for us as mystery

- Mário Csente (probably under the influence of Petr Tešínsky) unexpectedly between the first !!!

- and next and next arrive - Jožo Tischler with Milan Parihus - two co-drivers together :), followed by complette set of Melico team, than Drotar with Banoci and next and next

- some minutes before 22:00 arrived brothers Lapdavský ... and it is finish for today !!!

Wednesday 3.8.2011
07:00 we are waiting for the first crews - nobody arrived

07:45 welcome! first is Lukáša Zámečník - it seems that Pali Nagy was fast on the routte from Košice

08:00  everyone else came - except Roman Grendel and Marek Špavelko they appologized for technical failure with their cars
Administrative check is successfully finished,we leave on the route by the Clerk of the Course.
The Poles start with registration and Administrative checks for Polish Rally Cup.

Organizers from Rzeszow selected very nice and technical special stages with some fast parts.
We meet some of our crews which are working very hard on their page notes becouse time for recce is very short.
We stop Vlado + Igor on RS Widaczow and we ask them for impressions "This stages is good for our WRC cars - but other no!"

15:30
We got information about crash of Orsák with Novák on SS Blizianka - their reccce Mitsu lost wheel, but they try to repair it.

In the same time starts preparing of the Service areas.

18:00
All spaces of the Rally Headquarters begin to be full. Gradually coming organizers and delegates from various parts of Poland and Slovakia.
No crews are here, all of them intensive use of hours assigned to.
Each SS is allowed to passage only three times.

4.8.2011
07:00
Good morning. Rzseszow wake up to nice sunny day and Rally headquarter start to work in Technical university:
No very far from university - in Ford Service during some minutes will start Scrutineering.
In area of university service "town" is growing fastly.
Some of crews finish their recce, at 12:00 will start shakedown and evening at 20:00 ceremonial start will be held on mean Rzeszow square - Rynek. We all are looking for a unique atmosphere of it !

09:30
Radoslav Horňák (št.č. 58):  Last year I was here on my first "great" rally so I was satisfied. But now after recce I see that this rally can be about one mistake. Stages ate nice and difficult.

Tibor Šamo (št.č.57): TSpecial stages are such as they had to be - fast, technical, narrow, rides, trips ... gravel ...

Jozef Molnár (št.č. 59): this downhill on SS Lubenia - I would not start even on bike !!!, otherwise everythink OK  

Jozef Béreš jr. (št. č. 4): Everythink OK, stages as always are very nice and fast. We will tast our car for the first time on shakedown.

Viana Laurent (št.č. 21) Trať je pekná, rýchla, hlavne na druhej časti RS 8 Izdebki sme stále hľadali retardéry. Neskutočne rýchla. RS 2 Lubenia je pre nás asi tá naj. Naopak nesedí nám úvod RS 7 Widaczów. V servise pomaly ale iste pribúdajú stany ale niektoré posádky sa nám zatiaľ úspešne vyhýbajú  Podarilo sa nám pristihnúť Lukáša Zámečníka (št.č. 38) ktorý tak usilovne robil posledné úpravy na rozpise že mal čas povedať len že všetko je OK  Zahliadli sme aj bratov Lapdavských (št.č.15), ktorí vyzerali spokojne. Celkovo atmosféra v servise je zatiaľ pohodová, kľudná . Podaktorí sa chystajú na shakedown , nektorí chytajú slniečko ktorého sme si v posledných týždňoch na Slovensku moc neužili. Šamovci tak umývajú a leštia už od rána svoje súťažné auto, že na Rynku bude určite najčistejšie v celom štartovnom poli. Dúfam, že naši paparazzi ktorých sme vyslali do terénu už onedlho prinesú prvé foto aby sme sa s Vami mohli podeliť o atmosféru na 20 Rajde Rzeszowskom aj v obrazoch.

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