Historic Acropolis Rally 2022: The Results of the Sporting Race

Marking the fastest time in all 11 special stages of the race, the Konstantinos Pitsos and Stelios Karapapacis with Ford Sierra Cosworth 4X4 left absolutely no margin in the competition and took a clear victory at this year’s Historic Acropolis Rally.

The crew returned to the top 11 11 years after winning the 2011 Dirt Race and were also winners in the E4 category.

The race ended in second place overall Panagiotis Paradisis – Costas Poimenidis with Ford Escort MKII RS, which, with their rear-wheel drive, move impeccably and with a perfectly stable and elegant pace.

The podium of the overall standings of the Sporting match has been completed George Paradisis – Michalis Frangou with Ford Escort MKII RS2000 and finished second in the D3.

Fourth overall were the Konstantinos Tzemos – Dionysis Kolotouros with Toyota Corolla AE 86, which also won the E2. they followed Grigoris Pierroutsakos – Alexandros Mataliotakis with Peugeot 205 Rallye, which also won the E1. In E3 were the winners Konstantinos Papadimitriou – Anastasios Papadopoulos with Toyota Starlet EP 71s who finished 6th overall.

In C1 the victory was achieved by Konstantinos Argyriou – Stamatis Laskos (Toyota Corolla KE 25), in C2 the Dimitris Amaxopoulos – Chara Moraitis (Toyota Corolla KE 30) while in the B4 the Evangelos Birlirakis – Costas Kofinas (BMW 2002 Ti).

The winners per class

B4

1. Evangelos Birlirakis – Costas Kofinas (BMW 2002 Ti)

C1

1. Konstantinos Argyriou – Stamatis Laskos (Toyota Corolla KE 25)

C2

1. Dimitris Amaxopoulos – Chara Moraiti (Toyota Corolla KE 30)
2. Nikos Paraperas – Konstantinos Mylonas (Toyota Celica TA 22)

D3

1. Panagiotis Paradisis – Costas Poimenidis (Ford Escort MKII RS)
2. George Paradisis – Michalis Frangou (Ford Escort MKII RS 2000)
3. Themis Chalkias – Andreas Vigos (Nissan Violet GT)

E1

1. Grigoris Pierroutsakos – Alexandros Mataliotakis (Peugeot 205 Rally)
2. Michalis Nomikos – Konstantinos Trovas (Toyota Starlet KP 60)
3. Montecristo – Valia Markaki (Toyota Starlet KP 60)

E2

1. Konstantinos Tzemos – Dionysis Kolotouros (Toyota Corolla AE 86)
2. George Kasidopoulos – Vangelis Panaritis (Toyota Starlet EP 71)
3. Vassilis Chalkias – Costas Accounts (Nissan Pulsar)

E3

1. Konstantinos Papadimitriou – Anastasios Papadopoulos (Toyota Starlet EP 71)
2. George Chorianopoulos – Athanasios Samaras (VW Golf GTi)

E4

1. Konstantinos Pitsos – Stylianos Karapapacis (Ford Sierra Cosworth 4X4)

See the results of the Sporting game here

The unlucky ones of the second leg of the struggle

The beginning of the second day of racing was adventurous, as was the case with the first special route of today’s programme, in Amfissa, the Alexandros Christodoulou – Athanasios Samaras (VW Golf GTi) had a mechanical problem which caused their car to burst into flames and was completely destroyed.

A natural consequence was to stop the special run, which continued to be carried out at the passage of the last races, when the passage was now safe and of course after the fire had been extinguished. They were also eliminated from the race early on Sunday Chrysostom Karellis – Leonidas Macheiras (Peugeot 205 Rallye) due to mechanical problems, as well Konstantinos Georgakopoulos – Manos Sigalas (Toyota Corolla AE86).

A problem with her car forced her to do it Alexandros Halivelakis – Athanasios Papageorgiou (Ford Escort MKII RS2000) to lose about 17 ‘in the special “mattress”, thereby losing the third place general of George Papadisis – Michalis Frangou, who took advantage of the waiver Spyrou Petridi – Apostolou Palla (Toyota Corolla AE 86) with problem at the gas pump in the easy way after the mattress.

They dropped out of the ninth special route “Elatia” due to mechanical problems Athanasios Athanasoulas – Vassilis Basioukas (Toyota Starlet KP 60) and Andreas Papageorgiou – George Papageorgiou (Volvo 142 S), while the rally cars were excluded from the single track before the special track Karolos Lambrou – Giannis Kollias with the beautiful Alpine A110.

A special stretch before the end ingloriously ended the appearance at the Historic Acropolis Rally Stelios Giamalakis – Nikos Mouzakis (Talbot Sunbeam Lotus) due to a mechanical problem.