The fourth S2000 group car included in the list of participants in the rally will be piloted by the Czech Antonin Tlusak / Lukas Vyoral — they participated also in the 1st round of the ERC in Austria, where after the first rally day they defaulted from the 20th position. During his career Tlusak has once participated also in the WRC round in France (48th place) and overall has participated in 57 events of the ERC and has won in ”Rallye International du Valais 2011”. Besides Tlusak another three Czech crews will start in Latvia — Vojtech Stajf / Petra Rihakova (Subaru Impreza), Jiří Sojka / Jindřiška Žáková (Suzuki Ignis Sport) and Jaroslav Orsák / David Šmeidler („Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX).
The list of participants has been supplemented also by the former Latvian Champion Aivis Egle with the co-pilot Andis Dauga (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X) and the Byelorussian crew Dmitri Yakimakho / Volha Zakharava (Citroen C2).
Currently the number of crews applied for participation in the 2nd round of the ERC ”Rally Liepāja-Ventspils” is 31, which is equal to the number of the Latvian Rally Championship applicants, and in total 12 different countries are represented. The application of the competitors will continue till 15th January 18.00 (EET).
The actual list of the competitors here: http://www.lvrally.com/eng/rally/competitors