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Rajd Polski - Round 1 Recap, by Wiktor Smoliński

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As some participants have already started their adventure up the gravelly mountains of Olympus, we wait for the news of their endeavours and any footage or live feed from the stages. Meanwhile, Wiktor has put together a rally recap for the Rajd Polski with the best and the better moments shared by our participants, make sure to check it below!

Olympus Rally - Quick History lesson, by Jake GPLaps

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Imagine a country with over a million miles of unpaved roads, with massive areas of wilderness and mountains and unique terrain which spans the gamut found on planet earth. A country with a population that has an unquenchable thirst for the automobile and the largest auto manufacturers willing to take any opportunity to outshine their rivals. A nation fueled by endless motorsport competition with some of the largest events in the world funded by the largest corporations in the world all vying to have a small slice of the pie. It seems like a place for which Rally would have been the perfect variety of racing to claim as its own. To take a seemingly average vehicle and hurl it on seemingly average roads at incredibly unaverage speeds. Not requiring a special facility and bringing the sport itself directly to the people in their own back yards. And that is very nearly what happened in the Cascade mountains of the Pacific Northwestern United States. For a brief 3 years of the 1980s, the w...