[WRC] Central European Rally 2023 (26-29 Oct)

Central European Rally website is up and running.
https://www.centraleuropeanrally.eu/

Tickets now for sale
https://www.centraleuropeanrally.eu/tickets/

Twitter account
https://twitter.com/cerwrc

German city Passau will be the base of the event but the rally will take place in three countries: Germany, Czech Republic and Austria.

Shakedown close to Passau, show start and SSS in Prague, next day 7 SS in Czech Republic (and one SSS), Saturday the SS will be in Austria and Lower Bavaria and Sunday with four stages in the Mühlviertel region (Austria) and Lower Bavaria (Germany) again. The finish ceremony in Passau.

https://centraleuropeanrally.eu/en/#...80877960a589fd

312.80kms & 18 special stages.
Thursday evening & Friday in the Czech Republic, whilst Saturday & Sunday are in Austria and Germany.

Tickets bought, flight reserved!!!

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Tickets bought, flight reserved!!!

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Where are you staying? If you don’t mind me asking.

If you want to have an idea about our part, look for videos from Rally Šumava/Historic Rally Vltava. Some stages are same, or partially same. Not much to say about the mickey mouse stage in Prague. It will be held in Chuchle hipodrom but they say they will build some new roads there (if I get it right).

German/Austrian part are partly stages of German 3-Städte Rallye (with special stages also in Austria in the last years) , so to look for videos from there.

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If you want to have an idea about our part, look for videos from Rally Šumava/Historic Rally Vltava. Some stages are same, or partially same. Not much to say about the mickey mouse stage in Prague. It will be held in Chuchle hipodrom but they say they will build some new roads there (if I get it right).

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Is that where Prague Rallysprint took place in 2013?
I remember I was there for vacation and I took the train (around 30mins) to a hippodrome. And they had 3-4 different mixed stages (tarmac and gravel) in it, simply by changing some barrels, pins, etc… it was not bad…

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Is that where Prague Rallysprint took place in 2013?
I remember I was there for vacation and I took the train (around 30mins) to a hippodrome. And they had 3-4 different mixed stages (tarmac and gravel) in it, simply by changing some barrels, pins, etc… it was not bad…

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Yes, that place.

Are there any onboard footage from a rally or roadbook from any of the special stages?

Shakedown will start at 16.00 CET on Wednesday 25.10.?

Thanks

To be honest I am no expert on Rallye Šumava stages but here is at least something.

SS2 is an old classic spectator circuit in Klatovy reduced from 3 to 2 laps. It is quite boring because it's mainly flat our wide road but they keep it running as a tradition since 1960' or so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4QA9k2hEZA

SS3 shall be a somewhat different and longer variant of this stage which I absolutely like.

SS4 wasn't used in rallies for a long time if I am not mistaken. I tried to find some onboards of the past variants but I wasn't successful on youtube. Some existed on the old mediasport.cz website but those are long gone and I didn't save any. I do remember it used to be a great stage though...

SS5 shall be a way longer and reversed variant of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBrN9KRY5DM

SS4 uses many sections of previous stages, but of course it never had this length. Start is near this intersection on the left road https://youtu.be/p_YeNVeJ5xc?feature=shared&t=157 Honestly, I am quite disappointed that the SS does not include this corner. But you can see the road quality there, the Friday stages are mostly run on a new smooth tarmac.
Most relevent onboard I found is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDK-Wcp8pQ4 The 0:00-3:50 section is run in the middle of SS4 in the opposite direction. In 2016, the road in the beggining had quite bad quality, but now it also has a new tarmac: https://en.mapy.cz/s/derefokuna

Hyundai Motorsport is starting at the final round of the austrian rally championship OBM Bucklige Welt Rallye on September 16th - 17th 2023 with Teemu Suninen / Mikko Markkula in the Rally1 car as preparation for Central European Rally.

Entry list: https://www.obmbuckligewelt-rallye.a...nennliste.html

Intinerary 12 stages (135 km): https://www.obmbuckligewelt-rallye.a.../zeitplan.html

Does anyone have an even better map than what has been leaked so far? Or does anyone have any information when a more accurate one will possibly become public?

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Where are you staying? If you don’t mind me asking.

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IBB but I booked on January….

http://www.autosport.cz/zavody/soubor.php?f=26459
some kind of map has been published

https://x.com/hmsgofficial/status/17...lSamYcW0Iki0kg

Suninen confirmed by Hyundai.

Can you recommend which area is best to stay for a rally? I thought about Cesky Krumlov because it seems to be somewhere in the middle between stages in DE/AU and CZ

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Can you recommend which area is best to stay for a rally? I thought about Cesky Krumlov because it seems to be somewhere in the middle between stages in DE/AU and CZ

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Český Krumlov is a beautiful place and it shall offer plenty of accommodation options because it's quite a busy tourist place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-29zM0qmD9Y

As for the rally... I recommend to skip the trip to Prague. You can come here any other day but for the rally it's so far away from the rest of the action that it makes no sense at all to come here and watch just one kilometer long mickey mouse stage.

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Český Krumlov is a beautiful place and it shall offer plenty of accommodation options because it's quite a busy tourist place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-29zM0qmD9Y

As for the rally... I recommend to skip the trip to Prague. You can come here any other day but for the rally it's so far away from the rest of the action that it makes no sense at all to come here and watch just one kilometer long mickey mouse stage.

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Thanks a lot. Prague, to be honest, was not an option at all because of the distance and the options involved with the Rally. I have visited the city itself several times and, of course, it always made an overwhelming sensation.

I hope it will be the same with Český Krumlov, because I am calm about the rally itself :)

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Can you recommend which area is best to stay for a rally? I thought about Cesky Krumlov because it seems to be somewhere in the middle between stages in DE/AU and CZ

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At home and watch WRC+ :)

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At home and watch WRC+ :)

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Can I hear some sarcastic criticism? ;) If it’s the case let us know why?

Does anyone know what is the system for rally passes? Do they mail physical passes or is it print-at-home or even within mobile phone? Thank you for any info.

I received e-ticket by email with a qr code.

Random fact: Start of SS8 is at 16:58, which is 50 minutes before sunset. There in Czechia are really dark forests and in this time there will be quite dark, so maybe headlights needed. Atleast for Rally2.

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Random fact: Start of SS8 is at 16:58, which is 50 minutes before sunset. There in Czechia are really dark forests and in this time there will be quite dark, so maybe headlights needed. Atleast for Rally2.

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Wish we'll get to see it, night time rallying is rallying at its best imho.

Starting just before sunset is stupid, it needlessly changes conditions for drivers.

Either start earlier so everone drives in the daylight, or later so everone drives in the dark.

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I hoped for more locals.

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I hoped for more locals.

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That´s true. At least Griebel, Tannert, Geipel, Riedemann, Neubauer, Kopecký & Stříteský are missing.

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I hoped for more locals.

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Me too I expected around 50 rally2 crews here..

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Preview of the stages https://youtu.be/0CCHg3O-TQQ?si=kmh8BTmMnxqQnhGf

The guy has also onboard vids of the stages

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Me too I expected around 50 rally2 crews here..

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There is no reason for them to come. Start on any WRC event is very expensive and this rally is with costs over all other limits. So for most of competitors it is waste of money for nothing...

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Preview of the stages https://youtu.be/0CCHg3O-TQQ?si=kmh8BTmMnxqQnhGf

The guy has also onboard vids of the stages

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I like the Rabí castle at the very beginning because I was there just on the past Saturday :D

Herbst Rally as PET

https://scontent.fopo4-1.fna.fbcdn.n...pA&oe=652ACD77

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I like the Rabí castle at the very beginning because I was there just on the past Saturday :D

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Nice.

Are you going to the rally ?

Tänak, Fourmeaux and Ciamin are testing at Austrian Herbst Rallye Dobersberg the weekend before CER.

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Tänak, Fourmeaux and Ciamin are testing at Austrian Herbst Rallye Dobersberg the weekend before CER.

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Also Korhonen Roope with Fabia Rallye 2 Evo.

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Nice.

Are you going to the rally ?

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Yes but most likely only on Friday. I have some other plans for the weekend. Also despite I'm from Prague I will not attand the Prague SSS.

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Yes but most likely only on Friday. I have some other plans for the weekend. Also despite I'm from Prague I will not attand the Prague SSS.

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That’s great!

Waiting for your feedback later then :)

Im from Mladá Boleslav which is the city where Škoda is based basically. I will go to the rally from Tuesday to Sunday!