It was a great fight for the victory in 68th Rally Poland. Till the end of Zalesie 2 stage, the battle for the win was between Kajetan Kajetanowicz (Subaru Impreza) and Michal Solowow (Ford Fiesta S2000). After covering over 200 kilometres of special stages the margin between two drivers was only 3,3 sec. Finally it was Kajetanowicz who triumphed in the event. It was a second win in row in Rally Poland for Ustron based driver. Second overall Michal Solowow scored maximum points for the European Rally Championship classification. Third overall was Grzegorz Grzyb (Peugeot 207 S2000).

Rally Poland’s tradition has been maintained and the event was won by group N car driver. For Kajetanowicz it was eight victory in the Polish Rally Championship. For the third time in a row Michal Solowow won the rally in the ERC classification.

Michal Bebenek (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X) had big hopes to repeat his success from 2008 season. The Platinum Rally Team driver was an event’s leader after Day 1. However, the cleaning surface factor decided Bebenek lost valuable time and finally dropped to fourth place. He lost third position to Grzegorz Grzyb for whom it was the first gravel rally in a S2000 car.

68th Rally Poland took its toll. During the second day of competition Krzysztof Holowczyc (Subaru Impreza) had two punctures an dropped to eleventh place. Maciej Oleksowicz (Ford Fiesta S2000) had an accident. The same bad luck touched Maciej Rzeznik (Peugeot 207 S2000). Michal Kosciuszko had a puncture, rolled his Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X in the penultimate test and decided to retire.

After 68th Rally Poland there is a change in the leader board of the European Rally Championship classification. Two times winner of the series, Luca Rossetti (Abarth Grande Punto S2000) elevated to the first position.

Comments

Kajetan Kajetanowicz/Jaroslaw Baran (Subaru Impreza)
Yes! We did it! We've been waiting for it the whole year. This rally was more difficult for our minds than from technical side. We are very happy.

Michal Solowow/Maciej Baran (Ford Fiesta S 2000)
The last stage was really dusty. The time was not good enough for the victory.

Grzegorz Grzyb/Daniel Siatkowski (Peugeot 207 S 2000) .
We have podium in the Polish Championship and great position in S2000 class so we are really happy.

Michał Bebenek/Grzegorz Bebenek (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X)
We finished the rally, that's important for us. Yesterday was perfect, today we were cleaning the road and lost everything. Of course we are happy with the finish.

Luca Rossetti/Matteo Chiarcossi (Fiat Abarth Grande Punto)
It was difficult rally, but we are glad with the points for the second place in the ERC classification. Thanks to that we are leading ERC again. We would like to thank out sponsors and also Fiat Auto Poland for big help.

Krzysztof Holowczyc/Lukasz Kurzeja (Subaru Impreza)
At the end we just had a lot of fun. But of course it was also part of preparations for Rally Dakar. We had bad luck with the punctures. 

Szymon Ruta/Sebastian Rozwadowski (Peugeot 207 S2000)
Great rally. We finished and again learned a lot. Very important start in tough conditions. 

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ERC classification (unofficial classification)

1. Luca Rossetti 209
2. Luca Betti 188
3. Antonin Tłustak 131
4. Michał Sołowow 115
5. Maciej Oleksowicz 113
6. Szymon Ruta 98
7. Dimitar Iliew 46
8. Renato Travaglia 35
9. Giandomenico Basso 28
10. Petar Gioszew 28

RSMP Classification (unofficial classification)

1. Kajetan Kajetanowicz 179
2. Bryan Bouffier 169,5
3. Michał Sołowow 164
4. Tomasz Kuchar 116,5
5. Michał Bębenek 112
6. Grzegorz Grzyb 111
7. Wojtek Chuchała 54
8. Maciej Rzeźnik 34
9. Leszek Kuzaj 31
10. Jan Chmielewski 27,5