IRC - 2012 : Round 6 - Geko Ypres Rally [ Belgium ]

A recently concluded european's favourite IRC series' Geko Ypres Rally of Belgium went through smoothly without much of notice, both because of rally fans running around in confusion whether its IRC or WRC event that they want to be a part of their action weekend, and also by the recent loss of its competitor Gareth Roberts.

The event went smooth with one major crash, though nobody was hurt in the inicdent. Thanfully!

Here are the set of videos covering the complete event fantastically. Really its a great effort by the Eurosport channel..

DAY 1

DAY 2

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IRC - 2012 | Round 13 - Cyprus Rally

Season 2012 is coming to an end, and also the IRC series too. In the coming season onwards, the IRC will be merged into the European Rally Championship. The season finale was scheduled at the city of Limassol, Cyprus. The event is a mixed surface based rally with both gravel & asphalt sections in the special stages. The event is held since 1970 in various championships, including WRC, IRC & MERC. Since 2010, it has been in the IRC calendar & was last won by Andreas Mikkelsen in Skoda Fabia S2000 car. The event was eventually won by Nasser Al-Attiyah in his new Ford Fiesta RRC, which he will be fielding with two more in the coming WRC season in a WRC addon kit for the same car. Andreas Mikkelsen was pretty much there on his tail until he picked up a puncture in SS10 and dropping couple more minutes but still comfortably finishing in 2nd place. He also let his codriver Ola Floene to drive the last stage of the rally, to give him a feel of the heat of the event on his

IRC - 2012 : Round 8 - Sibiu Rally [ Romania ]

Day 2 [update]: 'Andreas Mikkelsen' wins 'Sibiu Rally Romania'! The result and winner was obvious with the overall results on the board with just the Super Special remaining. It was a fantastic result for the young Norwegian who won the rally with a comfortable margin of more than 5 minutes ahead of the chasing pack, says " It's been long weekend. With so big gap it's just about getting the car to the finish. We had lot of second places, it's nice to be again on the top spot. It's important result for the whole team. ". Although the luck and conditions were in his favour as the down-order had issues with visibility due to hanging dust over the stages, he was not a easy one to catch either! With all the drama with the second placed Patrik Flodin, this is what he said " We are very very happy, we are very proud of the second place. All the guys in the team did great job. Thanks to them and to Petter! Now w

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