By: Nytko Motorsports 
May 24 2017 

Nytko Motorsport recently competed in Cesky Krumlov Rallye New Energies. Located in the Czech Republic it took place from May 18th to 20th. We were very excited to take part in this rally as it was our first in Czech. For this event team consisted of; driver Lukasz Nytko and co-driver Artur Najder. Arthur was substituting for Piotr Nytko due to racing in Ontario.

It was a very nice event which runs in combination with the 45th Cesky Krumlov Rallye. This is a performance rally and a round of the Czech Rally Championship as well as European Rally Trophy. Taking place in picturesque southern Czech very close to Austrian and German border out start was in the city of Tabor. From there a concentration leg, took us to Cesky Krumlov, the focal point of the rally. This is a similar format as Rallye Monte Carlo.

The competition at the rally was split between the FIA international championship and the national UAMK cup. For 2017 FIA made fundamental changes to the FIA Electric and New Energy Championship allowing only for zero emission vehicles. Since our car is a Toyota Yaris Hybrid as a result of the new rules we took part in the UAMK Regularity Cup as it allows for Hybrid, LPG, CNG and Electric cars.

The first leg of the rally with a distance of 152km consisted of 6 special stages including a regularity stage that was held on Birell Rallye Arena in Ceske Budejovice. That was a lot of fun :)

The second leg on Saturday was a bit longer with a total distance of 169km and also with 6 stages.

All Regularity Stages were quick with an average speed of 47 km/h till 49.9km/h on public roads.

The rally was fantastic for us, leading both days and finishing 1st out of 28 cars !!!

The event was very professionally prepared by the organiser and the idea of combining it with the 45th Cesky Krumlov Rallye was superb. It allowed for a gathering of a full range of rally cars; ranging from historic to new R5 class cars and our event’s new energy vehicles, a true motorsport spectacle.

A very big thank you to CK motorsport, Pavel Kacerovsky and Karel Rech for all the help and invitation to this awesome event.