Track Focus – World Travel Show (Warsaw)

Venue – Ptak Warsaw Expo
Race Hosts – ATA
Country – Poland
Location – Warsaw
Direction – Anti-clockwise
Surface – Carpet
No. of EOS Races hosted – 1

After a successful return to the Euro Offroad Series calendar last year, Poland is back as the destination for the opening round of the indoor carpet offroad championship. The fifth time the country has hosted the EOS, this is the fourth occasion it has kicked off a new season and as with each previous Polish visit it again provides the opportunity for RC Racing to showcase itself to the public. With ATA’s Niko Triandafilidis managing to secure a slot at the Warsaw Moto Show last year, held at biggest Exhibition and Congress Centre in Central Europe, Ptak Warsaw Expo, racing will again take place at the same impressive venue, this time as part of the World Travel Show which is expected to attract over 30,000 visitors. Situated in a different one of the venue’s six halls this year’s track has a reverse orientation to last year with the driver’s stand on the opposite side. The other noticeable difference is that instead of being in a hall full of cars, this year racers find themselves surrounded by campers and caravans.

In terms of this year’s track layout, the track is now running anti-clockwise with the KIA wall again its standout feature.  Double winner of his home event last year, reigning champion Michal Orlwski said of the 30 X 24 metre layout, ‘It looks easy but you have to get everything right for a fast lap, it’s hard but I like it’.  The reigning 2WD Champion added, ‘its important to get the down slopes right and not over jump especially the singles’.  Asked what he felt was the most difficult part of the track he said, ‘the section under the driver stand.  You have to get the first double landing right, you need a good rhythm for the single section and then you have a tricky double into a hairpin’.  4WD Champion Bruno Coelho described the track as ‘super difficult’.  He added, ‘You have to be very smooth, not aggressive.  It has many difficult points so mistakes are easy.  You can have one great lap and then crash the next one so easy’.  Like Orlowski, he too feels the section in front of the driver’s stand is the most challenging but also added that the chicanes ‘are really difficult’ because you can end up hitting the boards.

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