motorsport SKODA and Esapekka Lappi to appear at the Monte Carlo Rally

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• ŠKODA´s new factory crew, Esapekka Lappi & Janne Ferm, to make their first appearance at the legendary rally
  
• The “Monte” opens the WRC-2 season
  
• The ŠKODA Fabia Super 2000 made its debut at the 2009 Monte Carlo Rally
  

?Scheduled for 15-20 January, 2013, the legendary Monte Carlo Rally will see ŠKODA Motorsport´s Esapekka Lappi & Janne Ferm make their debut as a new factory crew. The WRC-2 season in which ŠKODA will appear at selected events is starting.

?Lappi & Ferm will make their first-ever appearance at this legendary event, one of the best-known and also one of the most difficult rallies. Yet Esapekka Lappi is looking forward to it a great deal: “We can´t wait to make our first appearance at the “Monte”. It is a tough and difficult rally, but also a great experience for any driver. It is great that we can start the new WRC-2 and our mission in the ŠKODA Motorsport team at this event. It will be a big challenge for us, because everybody wants to succeed at the “Monte”.

Regarded as great new talent of contemporary motorsport, Esapekka Lappi & Janne Ferm won the Finnish Championship in 2012 after winning all of its seven events. ŠKODA´s cooperation with the Finnish champions started last year in October at the Poland Rally that Lappi & Ferm (in a ŠKODA Fabia Super 2000) won comfortably.

Monte Carlo is a very special place in terms of ŠKODA´s sporting efforts – the 2009 Monte Carlo Rally saw ŠKODA Motorsport make its rallying debut and start the successful era of the ŠKODA Fabia Super 2000 project. Over the past four years since then, ŠKODA has won three IRC championship titles in both the Manufacturers and Drivers categories (2010-2012), the Drivers category of the European Championship (2012), both the Manufacturers and Drivers categories of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship (2012) and a total of 18 national championships (2009-2012).

Launched in 1911, the Monte Carlo Rally is the world´s oldest car race, and the typically rapidly changing weather conditions (including snow and ice) as well as the profile of its routes make it one of the most difficult events. Scheduled for four days, this year´s “Monte” comprises 18 stages (468 special stage kilometres and 1,352 liaison kilometres).

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Want to know more about the S2000?

Here is a video from last year with some action footage.

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