•SKODA driver snatches IRC title lead with second straight
victory•Peugeot’s Neuville clinches Colin McRae IRC Flat
Out Trophy for charging drive
SKODA Motorsport’s Jan Kopecky won the 45. Canon Mecsek Rallye by the
smallest margin in the history of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge
after a dramatic final day of action. In an event marked by close
battles throughout the field, Team Peugeot Belgium-Luxembourg’s
Thierry Neuville won the final stage but lost out to the Czech driver
overall by just 0.8s.
Right up until the penultimate stage, this rally looked like it
belonged to SKODA UK’s Andreas Mikkelsen. The overnight leader started
the day strongly, built an advantage with a commanding early stage win
("On the first stage this morning I was sleeping," Kopecky said), then
backed off too much on the first stage of the afternoon. With the
pressure back on, 6.2km into SS13 Mikkelsen slid wide on gravel in a
fast right-hand corner and the back of his car hit a tree. He was able
to keep the heavily damaged Fabia S2000 moving until the next
junction, where he was able to park it safely.
“We had the perfect weekend up until stage thirteen," he said.
"We had led from the start, I was driving smart, Ola [Floene] was
doing an amazing job and the car was faultless. I’m so
disappointed about what happened.
“Our rally came to an end on an uphill fast right-hand corner
over a crest, and where it tightened a little there was gravel all
over the road. It was a repeat of a stage we’d done this this
morning, and the first time through there was no gravel. Even on the
second run there was a nothing on the road until that point. When we
hit the gravel there was no grip at all and we slid off the road in
sixth gear and hit a tree.
“We are getting so close to winning a rally now, it’s
just a shame we couldn’t fulfil it here."
The battle for the lead between the SKODA team-mates wasn’t the only
story of the day. Peugeot’s Thierry Neuville was third overnight and
began the day within striking distance of the leader. There could be
no question of team orders up front as Neuville racked up a succession
of stage wins, and after Mikkelsen’s retirement Neuville ended the
penultimate stage 8.1s behind new leader Kopecky.
To close the gap over the remaining 17.7km would be a tall order, and
so it proved. Neuville won the final stage convincingly but fell just
short of overall victory, by 0.8s. Could they have snatched victory in
the final stage? Neuville and co-driver Nicolas Gilsoul will be
pondering that between now and the next round.
"Unfortunately I absolutely wanted to modify a pace note in a very
fast section, and I didn’t have time to tell him the pace note
for afterwards,” said Gilsoul. “The corner tightened so we
had a big moment. But Thierry has very good car control and we had a
bit of luck."
Freddy Loix brought his BFO-SKODA home third. Having shown speed on
the opening day, he couldn’t hit the same heights on the second.
"It’s a combination of factors," he said. "The feeling of the car is
better, I have a good feeling but I’m losing a few seconds here and
there. I can see where I’m losing but I can’t react for the stage
after, so it’s always the same silly mistakes.
"It’s not a question of gravel on the road. If I feel well, like in
the Barum Rally, gravel is no problem. It’s more about being on the
big attack and about confidence."
Confidence had been a problem for Peugeot France’s Bryan Bouffier on
the opening day as he struggled with set-up issues and lack of trust
in the veracity of his pace notes. Today he was within the top five on
every stage, but the overall gap to the leaders was too great for the
Rallye Monte-Carlo winner to overcome.
"The car worked very well today," he said. "I had a better feeling
and we took some points."
Fifth fell to Hermann Gassner Jr in only his second asphalt rally in
the Red Bull SKODA. Gassner improved continuously throughout the
event, beginning just outside the top 10 and ultimately passing more
experienced entrants on merit. By Sunday morning he was posting stage
times well within the top 10, and was fourth quickest over the last
two stages.
It was only on the penultimate stage that Gassner unseated local IRC
Production Cup entrant Gyorgy Aschenbrenner, who used his local
knowledge to remarkable effect. Regularly setting top 10 stage times
aboard his Ralliart Lancer Evolution IX, Aschenbrenner delighted the
local fans and drew one of the biggest crowds in the service park.
Brake problems on the first day consigned Toni Gardemeister to the
lower portion of the top 10, and his counter-attack this morning was
hindered by a misfire on SS1. "It felt like bad turbo lag," he said.
"It would pause, there was nothing, then the power would come in. I
stopped after the stage and went under the bonnet, played with some
connections, but we had to look at it in the service park."
In the afternoon, though, the TGS Worldwide SKODA came on song and
Gardemeister had no complaints. "The car is working brilliantly," he
said, "and we’ve learned a lot about this new rally."
Hungarian entrant Robert Butor finished eighth after a strong run,
beating several IRC regulars in his Peugeot 207 S2000: "We are very
happy. For us the Hungarian championship was the most important and in
this we are second, so it’s good."
Bruno Magalhaes was ninth in the Peugeot Sport Portugal 207 S2000,
having solved the set-up and gear ratio issues that hindered him on
the first day. "This rally was very tough," he said. "It was hard to
run against local drivers – they were fast."
Beppo Harrach rounded out the top 10 in a Ralliart Lancer Evolution
IX, though Karl Kruuda – who suffered a puncture in SS12 – was just
2.1s behind after the final stage.
"This result is much more than we expected before the rally," said
Harrach. "To be able to fight with all the Super 2000 cars ahead of us
– amazing!"
IRC Production Cup: Gyorgy Aschenbrenner and Piko Zsuzsa continued
their dominance in their Ralliart Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX, remaining
in the top 10 throughout the day. Aschenbrenner had some handling
issues in the morning’s final stage but the timing was opportune,
since a service halt followed immediately. Second placed Beppo Harrach
also finished inside the top 10, 24.5s ahead of David Botka, both in
Lancer Evolution IXs. IRC regular Toshi Arai, driving the Subaru
Impreza R4 in its third event, found it hard to match the pace of the
Hungarian drivers but set-up improvements overnight enabled him to
finish seventh in class.
IRC 2WD Cup: Menyhert Kroszer, driving a Citroen DS3 R3T, held an
overnight lead of 15.0s over IRC 2WD Cup regular Stefano Albertini’s
Renault Clio R3, but Albertini attacked from the very first stage and
by the lunchtime service had moved into the lead. The battle continued
throughout the afternoon and Albertini won by just 1.9s. Olle Sasa was
2m22.6s behind in his Suzuki Swift S1600. Jean-Michel Raoux continues
to top the IRC 2WD Cup standings after finishing seventh. Honda moved
clear in the makes‘ classification with two cars in the top six.
DRIVER QUOTES
Jan Kopecky (CZE), SKODA Fabia S2000, first overall: “It was
very difficult racing, a very quick rally. Finally we are in first
place – okay, we were lucky, but we didn’t make any
mistakes, we stayed on the road, we didn’t spin or go off, and
the car was working perfectly. The result was first place.”
Thierry Neuville (BEL), Peugeot 207 S2000, second overall: “We
changed the set-up and the car felt much better, and I felt more
confident. I continued to push and push and we felt really good. We
had just a little moment on the last stage today, Nicolas was maybe a
little too late with the pace note, but we managed it and we could
continue. Maybe we lost the rally there but yesterday I was not
driving so good on a few stages, so it’s hard to say. Today it
was like we switched off and went flat out.”
Freddy Loix (BEL), SKODA Fabia S2000, third overall: “It was
certainly not my most easy rally because I could never do the speed of
the first three cars. I was always doing the third or fourth time, so
today when I came in for the first service I had a small talk with my
engineer, he was pushing me and I said, ‘Look, I want to finish
the rally like this because at the moment I can’t go quicker,
and maybe with some luck by the end of the day I will be on the
podium.’”
TOP 10 IRC POSITIONS AFTER DAY TWO
1 Jan Kopecky (CZE)/Petr Stary (CZE) SKODA Fabia S2000 2h00m06.7s2
Thierry Neuville (BEL)/Nicolas Gilsoul (BEL) Peugeot 207 S2000 +0.08s3
Freddy Loix (BEL)/Frederic Miclotte (BEL) SKODA Fabia S2000 +1m00.0s4
Bryan Bouffier (FRA)/Xavier Panseri (FRA) Peugeot 207 S2000 +1m25.6s5
Hermann Gassner Jr (GER)/Timo Gottschalk (GER) SKODA Fabia S2000
+2m32.5s6 Gyorgy Aschenbrenner (HUN)/Piko Zsuzsa (HUN) Ralliart Lancer
Evo IX 2m38.2s7 Toni Gardemeister (FIN)/Tapio Suominen (FIN) SKODA
Fabia S2000 +3m05.6s8 Robert Butor (HUN)/Igor Bacigal (HUN) Peugeot
207 S2000 3m16.8s9 Bruno Magalhaes (POR)/Paulo Grave (POR) Peugeot 207
S2000 +3m51.7s10 Beppo Harrach (AUT)/Andreas Schindlbacher (AUT)
Ralliart Lancer Evo IX 2m38.2sIRC Production Cup: Gyorgy Aschenbrenner
(HUN)/Piko Zsuzsa (HUN) Ralliart Lancer Evo IX R4IRC 2WD Cup: Stefano
Albertini (ITA)/Simone Scattolin (ITA) Renault Clio R3
IRC STANDINGS (BEST OF SEVEN SCORES)
Drivers after round eight of 111 Jan Kopecky (Czech Republic) 120pts2
Freddy Loix (Belgium) 1033 Juho Hanninen (Finland) 98pts4 Thierry
Neuville (Belgium) 78pts5 Bryan Bouffier (France) 73pts6 Andreas
Mikkelsen (Norway) 58pts7 Guy Wilks (United Kingdom) 47pts8 Toni
Gardemeister (Finland) 34pts9 Hans Weijs (Netherlands) 18pts10 Bruno
Magalhaes (Portugal) 16pts
Manufacturers after round eight of 111 SKODA 285pts2 Peugeot
199pts3 M-Sport 70pts4 Ralliart 67pts5 Subaru 61pts6 PROTON 33pts7
Honda 31pts8 Abarth 14pts
IRC Production Cup after round eight of 111 Florian Gonon
(Switzerland) 50pts2 Gyorgy Aschenbrenner (Hungary) 25pts= Jose Luis
Barrios (Spain) 25pts= Jonas Langenakens (Belgium) 25pts= Ricardo
Moura (Portugal) 25pts= Jaroslav Orsak (Czech Republic) 25pts=
Volodymyr Pechenyk (Ukraine) 25pts8 Toshi Arai (Japan) 24pts= Vojtech
Stajf (Czech Republic) 24pts10 Daniel Behalek (Czech Republic) 18pts=
Beppo Harrach (Austria) 18pts= Vitor Lopes (Portugal) 18pts= Anthony
Martin (Belgium) 18pts= Yuriy Shapovalov (Ukraine) 18pts etc 
IRC 2WD Cup drivers after round eight of 111 Jean-Michel Raoux
(France) 70pts2 Stefano Albertini (Italy) 65pts3 Pierre Campana
(France) 25pts= Pierre-Antoine Guglielmi (France) 25pts= Paulo Maciel
(Portugal) 25pts= Kris Princen (Belgium) 25pts= Janos Puskadi
(Hungary) 25pts= Joan Vinyes (Spain) 25pts9 Eric Mauffrey (France)
22pts10 Gorka Antxustegi (Spain) 18pts= Michael Burri (Switzerland)
18pts= Vlad Cosma (Romania) 18pts= Tommy Doyle (Ireland) 18pts= Vaclav
Dunovsky (Czech Republic) 18pts= Guy Fiori (France) 18pts= Menyhert
Krozser (Hungary) 18pts etc
IRC 2WD Cup manufacturers after round eight of 111 Honda 201pts2
Peugeot 149pts3 M-Sport 116pts4 Abarth 58pts5 SKODA 30pts
RALLY LEADERS
SS1-SS12: Andreas MikkelsenSS13-SS14: Jan Kopecky
STAGE WINNERS
Day one (Friday 9 September and Saturday 10 September):SS1: Hetvehely
1 (18.21kms): Andreas MikkelsenSS2: Orfu 1 (28.00kms): Andreas
MikkelsenSS3: Pecsvarad 1 (12.00kms): Jan KopeckySS4: Alsomocsolad 1
(14.02kms): Andreas MikkelsenSS5: Hetvehely 2 (18.21kms): Jan
KopeckySS6: Orfu 2 (28.00kms): Jan KopeckySS7: Pecsvarad 2 (12.00kms):
Jan KopeckySS8: Alsomocsolad 2 (14.02kms): Stage cancelled due to
safety reasons
Day two (Sunday 11 September):SS9: Zobak 1 (12.00kms): Andreas
MikkelsenSS10: Arpadteto 1 (24.00kms): Jan KopeckySS11: Nyarasvolgy 1
(17.70kms): Thierry NeuvilleSS12: Zobak 2 (12.00kms): Thierry
NeuvilleSS13: Arpadteto 2 (24.00kms): Thierry NeuvilleSS14:
Nyarasvolgy 2 (17.70kms): Thierry Neuville
KEY STATISTICS
IRC rally wins in 2011 (drivers)Juho Hanninen: 3Jan Kopecky: 2Bryan
Bouffier: 1Freddy Loix: 1Thierry Neuville: 1
IRC rally wins in 2011 (manufacturers)SKODA: 6Peugeot: 2
IRC stage wins in 2011 (drivers)Andreas Mikkelsen: 22Jan Kopecky:
19Juho Hanninen: 17Thierry Neuville: 16Freddy Loix: 14Guy Wilks:
8Bryan Bouffier: 8Stephane Sarrazin: 4Giandomenico Basso: 1Francois
Delecour: 1Bruno Magalhaes: 1Patrik Sandell: 1Nicolas Vouilloz:
1 
Stage wins in 2011 (manufacturers)SKODA: 74Peugeot: 38
TV TIMES
Eurosport, the Intercontinental Rally Challenge’s media partner
and Europe’s leading sports entertainment group, will show
coverage of the Canon Mecsek Rallye as follows:
Saturday 10 September:24:00hrs-24:30hrs: Day one highlights
(Eurosport)26:15hrs-26:45hrs: Day one highlights (Eurosport
Asia-Pacific)
Sunday 11 September:08:30hrs-09:00hrs: Day one highlights repeated
(Eurosport)11:15hrs-11:45hrs: Day one highlights repeated (Eurosport
Asia-Pacific)19:45hrs-20:15hrs: Day two highlights
(Eurosport)26:15hrs-26:45hrs: Day two highlights (Eurosport
Asia-Pacific)
Monday 12 September:10:15hrs-10:45hrs: Day two highlights repeated
(Eurosport Asia-Pacific) 
Tuesday 13 September:23:15hrs-23:45hrs: Rally Review
(Eurosport)24:15hrs-24:45hrs: Day one highlights repeated (Eurosport
Asia-Pacific)24:45hrs-25:15hrs: Day two highlights repeated (Eurosport
Asia-Pacific)
Wednesday 14 September:05:45hrs-06:15hrs: Rally Review (Eurosport
Asia-Pacific)26:15hrs-26:45hrs: Rally Review repeated (Eurosport
Asia-Pacific)
Friday 16 September:13:30hrs-14:00hrs: Rally Review repeated
(Eurosport 2)
Daily highlights will also be shown at www.rally-irc.com and via the
IRC iPhone and iPad App. All times are CET.

Andreas Mikkelsen leads a fierce battle for the lead on the opening
day of the 45th Canon Mecksek Rallye. Driving a SKODA UK Motorsport
Fabia S2000, Mikkelsen holds sway over factory pilot Jan Kopecky by
just 8.7s, with Peugeot ace Thierry Neuville a further 12.7s behind.
This is the first time the Canon Mecsek Rallye, based around the
historic city of Pecs, has been part of the Intercontinental Rally
Challenge, and all the drivers coming here for the first time felt
that they would struggle to reconcile the slow pace of the recce
(performed in road cars at legal speeds) with the high velocities they
would achieve in racing trim once the roads were closed.
Nobody expected to arrive with the perfect set-up straight out of the
box. Thus the recurring motif during the morning’s opening loop was
one of frustration with pacenotes and set-up: braking for corners that
should be flat out, and finding the suspension either too pliable or
so stiff that the cars were jumping over the bumps. For the most part,
it was the drivers who adapted most quickly who prevailed.
Mikkelsen won all but one of the morning’s loop of four stages,
holding back by his own admission on stage three, a stage he was not
yet comfortable with. Kopecky initially complained that his Fabia was
too stiff, and that he did not like some aspects of the course, but
between the stages he finessed the set-up of his car and by the
afternoon he was on a roll, setting commandingly the quickest time on
all three stages after the lunchtime service. The last test of the
day, due to be held in the evening, was cancelled because there were
too many spectators.

Thierry Neuville was on impressive form in the Team Peugeot
Belgium-Luxembourg 207 S2000, occupying second place overall for the
first four stages and showing a thoroughly mature outlook. He made it
very clear that he wasn’t going to risk his car by pushing to keep up
with Mikkelsen, but still managed to post stage times within the top
three on all but one occasion. He too made set-up changes throughout
the day to improve the car, and finished the final stage with a firm
grip on the final podium position.
For the opening two stages a clearly delighted Frigyes Turan held
third place in his M-Sport Ford Fiesta S2000, but the top 10 was so
tightly contested that no mistake went unpunished. On stage three he
posted the 10th quickest stage time and lost three places overall.
Although he recovered, moving back up to fifth, in the heat of the
afternoon he made a mistake shortly before the end of stage five,
clipping one of the logs at the apex of a corner and rolling off the
road.
BFO-SKODA Rally Team’s Freddy Loix spent the morning recreating his
exploits on the final day of last month’s Barum Czech Rally
Zlin, matching Kopecky’s pace to the tenth of a second. But he failed
to find the same level of set-up improvements and on the second run
through the stages he slipped back to a baffled fourth, unable to
understand where he was losing time. "We tried some more things after
the last service but it did not work," he said.
Peugeot UK’s Guy Wilks worked through the morning to improve the
set-up of his 207 S2000, feeling that it was moving around too much. A
calculated gamble to run the harder tyre compound paid off on stage
three when he set the fourth quickest time, but his day ended by the
roadside on stage five after a coolant hose retaining clip came off
and his engine overheated.
"Something splashed on the windscreen," he said. "I thought it was
from the water bottle, but when I turned on the windscreen wipers I
realised it was coolant."
Bryan Bouffier had a problematic morning in the Peugeot France 207
S2000, losing confidence in his pacenotes from the first stage when he
found tyre barriers which had been laid down on corners to prevent
‚cutting‘ had been removed since the recce. Then in stage four he had
to back off when he rounded a corner to find spectators crossing the
route. In that stage alone he lost 12.2s to the leader, but the
retirements of Turan and Wilks enabled him to end the day in fifth
place.
After battling brake problems during the morning, Toni Gardemeister
overhauled local privateer Robert Butor for seventh place in stage
six, but he still felt that the TGS Worldwide Fabia had too short a
top gear. "In the fast sections I was bouncing off the limiter," he
said.
There was trouble early on for PROTON when Giandomenico Basso halted
after stage one with an engine issue, then PG Andersson hit a kerb in
stage two and damaged a wheel. The Swede was able to continue but the
impact had also damaged his Satria Neo S2000’s rear diff, adversely
affecting the handling. Since the issue did not manifest itself until
after the mid-morning service halt, Andersson had to take it easy
through stages three and four. This made his aim of a top 10 finish an
even tougher task, even before he had to stop with a technical issue
on stage six.
Hermann Gassner Jr found some of the opening stages too slippery for
his liking in the Red Bull SKODA, but ended the day ninth, 8.1s ahead
of Hungarian entrant Norbert Herczig in a similar car.
Outside the top 10 local knowledge really told as a host of entrants
from the Hungarian championship dominated the midfield, especially on
the tighter stages. Multiple Hungarian champion Janos Toth would have
finished higher in his Peugeot-Total Hungaria Rally Team 207 S2000 but
for a recurring diff problem in the morning which cost him over two
minutes.
Bruno Magalhaes quickly realised he had badly misjudged the gears of
his Peugeot 207 S2000 when he reached the first flat out section and
found himself hitting the rev limiter in top gear. After that it was
along road back to the top 10, and he ended the day just outside in
11th place.
"For sure it was a big mistake with our gear ratios this morning," he
said. "This afternoon has been much better."
SKODA Auto Deutschland drivers Mark Wallenwein and Matthias Kahle
were 16th and 23rd overnight. Kahle was leaving morning service when
his engine dropped on to two cylinders. The problem was traced to a
broken fuel injection pipe, but it was a lengthy fix and Kahle checked
in to the next time control late, incurring a penalty.
IRC Production Cup: In the opening stages Gyorgy Aschenbrenner and
Piko Zsuzsa were untouchable in their Ralliart Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
IX, not only pulling clear of the IRC Production Cup rivals but also
regularly posting top 10 stage times. IRC regular Toshi Arai, driving
the latest spec Subaru Impreza R4, admitted that he found the stages
scarily fast and lost almost two minutes to Aschenbrenner over the
morning alone, ending the day seventh. Aschenbrenner leads Beppo
Harrach by 1m09.9s.
IRC 2WD Cup: Menyhert Kroszer, driving a Citroen DS3 R3T, led from
the first stage but 2WD Cup regular Stefano Albertini’s Renault Clio
R3 was never far behind. Kroszer leads by 15.0s, with third placed
Olle Sasa 1m12.1s behind in his Suzuki Swift S1600. Ferenc Levai is
the highest placed Honda Civic Type R3 driver in fifth. Title leader
Jean-Michel Raoux holds fourth spot.
DRIVER QUOTES
Andreas Mikkelsen (NOR), SKODA Fabia S2000, first overall:
“It’s been a really good day, and to be leading overnight
is a great feeling. Even though it’s quite bumpy, these roads
are like a race track and you have to use racing lines. I’m
really enjoying myself out there. We’ve got a long way to go on
this rally. It’s been very fast and Jan has been pushing us very
hard.”
Jan Kopecky (CZE), SKODA Fabia S2000, second overall: “Andreas
pushed hard this morning so now we have to catch up. We will see. Much
depends on the conditions of the stages tomorrow. Already we have seen
a lot of loose gravel on the surface of the last stage.”
Thierry Neuville (BEL), Peugeot 207 S2000, third overall:
“It’s been a very good day and we’re exactly where
we want to be. On the last stage I couldn’t see the road properly
because it was so dark. I didn’t want to damage the car on the last
stage. Tomorrow we go on more attack!”
TOP 10 IRC POSITIONS AFTER DAY ONE
1 Andreas Mikkelsen (NOR)/Ola Floene (NOR) SKODA Fabia S2000
1h06m41.6s2 Jan Kopecky (CZE)/Petr Stary (CZE) SKODA Fabia S2000
+8.7s3 Thierry Neuville (BEL)/Nicolas Gilsoul (BEL) Peugeot 207 S2000
+21.4s4 Freddy Loix (BEL)/Frederic Miclotte (BEL) SKODA Fabia S2000
+32.7s5 Bryan Bouffier (FRA)/Xavier Panseri (FRA) Peugeot 207 S2000
+1m20.9s6 Gyorgy Aschenbrenner (HUN)/Piko Zsuzsa (HUN) Ralliart Lancer
Evo IX R4 1m29.0s7 Toni Gardemeister (FIN)/Tapio Suominen (FIN) SKODA
Fabia S2000 +1m46.6s8 Robert Butor (HUN)/Igor Bacigal (HUN) Peugeot
207 S2000 1m52.8s9 Hermann Gassner Jnr (GER)/Timo Gottschalk (GER)
SKODA Fabia S2000 +1m58.2s10 Norbert Herczig (HUN)/Kalman Benics (HUN)
SKODA Fabia S2000 +2m06.3sIRC Production Cup: Gyorgy Aschenbrenner
(HUN)/Piko Zsuzsa (HUN) Ralliart Lancer Evo IX R4IRC 2WD Cup: Menyhert
Kroszer (HUN)/Gyorgy Papp (HUN) Citroen DS3 R3T
DAY TWO ITINERARY (SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER)
Special stages: SixSpecial stage distance: 107.40kmsLiaison distance:
183.89kmsTotal distance: 322.69kmsService F: Expo Center Pecs
(0:15hrs), 08:10hrsSS9: Zobak 1 (12.00kms), 09:08hrsSS10: Arpadteto 1
(24.00kms), 09:51hrsSS11: Nyarasvolgy 1 (17.70kms), 10:44hrsService G:
Expo Center Pcs (0:30hrs), 12:04hrsSS12: Zobak 2 (12.00kms),
13:17hrsSS13: Arpadteto 2 (24.00kms), 14:00hrsSS14: Nyarasvolgy 2
(17.70kms), 14:53hrsService H: Expo Center Pecs (0:10hrs),
15:56hrsFinish: Expo Center Pecs, 16:18hrs
TV TIMES
Owing to bad weather in the US, which has forced the US Open Tennis
to be rescheduled, Eurosport, the Intercontinental Rally
Challenge’s media partner and Europe’s leading sports
entertainment group, has amended the timing of its coverage of the
Canon Mecsek Rallye as follows:
Saturday 10 September:23:30hrs-24:00hrs: Day one highlights
(Eurosport)*26:15hrs-26:45hrs: Day one highlights (Eurosport
Asia-Pacific)*Subject to the end of the US Open Tennis semi-finals
Sunday 11 September:08:30hrs-09:00hrs: Day one highlights repeated
(Eurosport)11:15hrs-11:45hrs: Day one highlights repeated (Eurosport
Asia-Pacific)19:45hrs-20:15hrs: Day two highlights
(Eurosport)26:15hrs-26:45hrs: Day two highlights (Eurosport
Asia-Pacific)Daily highlights will also be shown at www.rally-irc.com
and via the IRC iPhone and iPad App. All times are CET.