Here are the new kings of the legendary marathon
Breslau Rally 2024 is already in history. The 30th jubilee edition of the Europe’s oldest and biggest off-road race finished after 7 dynamic and difficult days. with a not so long, 80 kilometers Winners’ Stage. And, after the last battle, here are the new crowned-winners:
As usual in the bike class, time differences are tiny and unstable until the very end of the race. Breslau 2024, of course, made no exception and the top pretenders were at the arch split by a few minutes. Anyway, Bartolomiej Tabin (KTM) from Poland was the best rider on two wheels, leading the race for the entire week and claiming his well-deserved title. Second place for the South American Matthew Grid (KTM) with 3 and a half-minute delay. Third, slightly less than 9 minutes behind the winner was another rider from Poland - Krzysztof Jarmus (KTM).
Marcin Wilkolek won the title in the ATV class, after a good battle with his compatriot and team-mate from Polaris Polska Adam Krysiak. At the end Wilkolek had more than 18 minutes advance to his opponent and claimed the second title for the host-country of the rally. Well-deserved third place for Gaetan Martinez from France in his debut season with CF MOTO.
No doubt Mindaugas Povilaitis and Slavomir Volkov (Toyota) deserved the title in the car CC open class. The Lithuanian duo started very strong from the very beginning of the rally and at the end the Baltics had huge one hour advantage to their pursuers. The second place went to the well-known Breslau veterans Joerg Gruenbeck and Thomas Dasinger from Germany with their white Mercedes G. The G&D team managed to keep their lead over their fellow countrymen, Daniel Jurk and Tabea Warg (B-Performance Proto).
In the limited CC car class, Wojcieh Chorowski and Grzegorz Komar from Poland with Toyota claimed the overall win with huge advantage to their rivals. Second place for the Dutch crew Robert Van Lutterveld - Suzan Saat (Mitsubishi) from the Netherlands and “bronze medal” for another German team - Torsten Wilk and Fabian Franke with Mercedes.
It was an epic battle in the SSV class during all the week, as the crews Jacek Zak - Artur Kordala (Poland) and Arunas Simanavicius - Edgaras Simanavicius (Lithuania) often changed on the top on the ranking. In the last few days, however, the Polish duo pushed their Polaris, beating their Baltic Can Am opponents with just 2 minutes. The third place went to another Lithuanian crew - Emilia Gelazninkiene - Arunas Gelazninkas, also with Can Am.
In the truck CC class, the Dutch trio William Van Groningen / Ralph Van Den Elshout / Wesley Van Groningen (Iveco) managed to control the rally from the beginning, gaining an advantage over its competitors day by day. Logically, they claimed the overall win, with massive advance. Second place for Tom Heurer - Christoph Tum - Marco Richter (Tatra) from Germany and third for another German crew - Benjamin Kittler / Silvio Kelch / Marco Rihter (Ginaf).
It was clear maybe in the half of Breslau 2024 that the Estonian dominator Hardo Mere and his copilot from Poland Piotr Kujawski will claim the title in the Car Extreme Open class. And the last few days just confirmed that. Estonia was the dominating country here as Rainer Ruutli and Rainer Oja finished second and Vallo Sassi and Ats Tsupsman took the third place.
In the limited EX car class, it was a total domination for Oliver Schwermann and Marc Brosig (Land Rover) from Germany, who finished first with huge advantage to their rivals. Second place went for Jip Saris and Jos Beekman (Nissan), from the Netherlands and the third to Michael Betz and Bastian Betz, from Germany with their good old VW Iltis.
Another victory for Estonia was claimed in the small Extreme trucks, where Urmas Uffert and Kaiod Kallavus with their Omaval C22 proto made it more than perfect. Second, more than 2 hours behind was the well-known German crew Steffen Braun / Christian Koepke / Rainer Ulrich with Unimog. Third finished the mixed equipage of Floors Dekers and Simon Meintema from Netherlands and Hendrik Alfers from Germany, also Unimog.
Last but not least, Kay Messner, Nico Huth and Anja Wilhelm managed to win the Big Truck Extreme class for vehicles with over 7,5 t weight. In this German-only competition the second place went to Oliver Leyh, Marcus Kemmerzehl and Andre Probst. Third were Silvio Menz, Maximilian Rexhaeuser and Anke Rexhaeuser, and all the top teams played with legendary Man Kat machines.
Source: Breslau Rally / RBI
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