WRC 2014: Rally Poland in images
The World Rally Championship returned to Poland after a gap of four years and the event was a terrific success. Of course, there was some amount of trouble with the fact that the rally stages across the border in Lithuania had to be cancelled no thanks to the conditions of the soil being too rough. That aside, Poland saw some spectacular stages like Goldap and Chmielewo. Stages, that some quarters of the WRC community remarked were the best that they'd seen thus far in the 2014 season. Here are some WRC moments that we managed to capture.
Sebastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia airborne in the Volkswagen WRC on the Goldap stage at Rally Poland
Hyundai's Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul also airborne on their way to a podium finish
Robert Kubica was cheered along by hordes of Polish fans, who, needless to say were disappointed when the M-Sport Ford driver lost a wheel on SS17
Kubica explains to the press how a little more luck wouldn't hurt too much in his WRC career
Here's Jari-Matti Latvala's car after the Finnish driver hit a rock on SS14
And here's that very same car on SS15 after the Volkswagen rally crew had a go at it
Andreas Mikkelsen's second place finish gave Volkswagen a 1-2 at Rally Poland
Ott Tanak won the WRC2 class in the Drive DMack Ford Fiesta R5
The only Mini S2000 around, it was fourth place for Valeriy Gorban in the WRC2 category
Volkswagen Motorsport boss Jost Capito giving Jari-Matti Latvala's face the German flag treatment
And here are the results - Jost looks pleased not just with the victory
Seb Ogier sprays some champagne right on Team OD's camera after coming into the service park at Rally Poland
The very young and very quick Thierry Neuville who has taken his second podium for Hyundai in the WRC
Ogier and Ingrassia victorious at Rally Poland
The podium at Mikolajki - Ogier and Ingrassia, Mikkelson and Ola Floene, Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul
Rally fans evidently start very young and this one even predicted that Kubica would crash