Barum Czech Rally Zlín 

Autograph session with top crews is coming on Tuesday!

25. 8. 2014 - Roman Ordelt, press relations officer BCRZ

Three days prior to the Barum Czech Rally Zlín start there comes an autograph session with top crews of the rally. The Barum rally organizers have prepared it together with shopping centre OC Zlín at Kvítková street where the session will take place for the fourth time. The Autograph session will go on Tuesday 26 August from 6 p.m., but additional program will kick off already in the early afternoon.

Autographs from the biggest stars of the actual Barum rally edition can be collected in advance before the rally start, rally fans can meet with their favourite crews face to face. There will be present both Škoda Motorsport drivers – the actual ERC leader Esapekka Lappi from Finland as well as Sepp Wiegand from Germany. Visitors can look forward to multiple Portuguese rally champion Bruno Magalhaes, Robert Barrable from Ireland, Robert Consani from France and the invitation has been received also by former M-Sport Ford WRT driver Ott Tänak or both Peugeot Rally Academy drivers Craig Breen from Ireland and Kevin Abbring from Nederland.

The OC Zlín shopping centre will welcome also many Czech drivers like five-time Czech rally champion and three time Barum Rally winner Roman Kresta as well as Jaromír Tarabus, Miroslav Jakeš, Jaroslav Orsák, Tomáš Kostka, Pavel Valoušek, Antonín Tlusťák, Jan Jelínek, Martin Březík and many others. Men's eyes can look forward to beautiful women. Bulgarian Ekaterina Stratieva won't be missing and there are talks about attendance of Inessa Tushkanova who is not only a rally driver but successful model as well.

The session organizers have prepared also an interesting program for children. "Already in the afternoon kids can play in a jumping castle and since 1 p.m. they can try for free a golf simulator which is located in the third floor," said Vlastislav Šafařík, an OC Zlín commercial manager. In front of the shopping centre will be displayed several rally cars like Antonín Tlusťák's Škoda Fabia Super 2000, also a Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX, Adam's Kobliha Renault Clio R3 or Lada VFTS as an invitation to the Star Rally Historic. It's worth to visit the OC Zlín shopping centre on Tuesday 26 August in Kvítková street and to get to the right rally mood!