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06.10.2003 PHOTO GALLERY
Photos of our photographer Uroš Čuden are available now.  

Gallery

06.10.2003 SUPRISING VICTORY FOR ŠPUREK
Radim Špurek, Czech driver with mitsubishi lancer is winner of 26th rally Saturnus. Špurek himself was a little surprised by winning the event, but ha deserved this victory. Each competitors has equal chances at the start and for good result is not enough to be fast on some special stages, you must also ... Read more
05.10.2003 DeCECCO RETIRED 5 km FROM FINISH
Claudio DeCecco had to retire just 5km from the finish line of last special stage because of broken front wheel. Victory goes to Czech driver Radim Špurek (CZ), Boštjan Turk (CRO) is second and Nenad Lončarić (CRO) third. 
05.10.2003 AFTER SS 6 - JEREB RETIRED
After two stages of Leg 2 Andrej Jereb had to retire due to the technical problems with his kit car ibizas' engine. "There was possibillity to go on, but damage would be to big so we decided to retire" said Andrej. DeCecco is still leading, 1:26,6 ahead of mitja Klemenčič. Third is Tomaž Kaučič.
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04.10.2003 DE CECCO LEADING AFTER LEG 1
Claudio DeCecco is leading after Leg 1 of 26th rally Saturnus. He is 13.1s ahead of Andrej Jereb. Jereb lost too many seconds in SS4 in Idrija center, 9.6s. Mitja Klemenčič, leader of Slovenian championship in third, but he's already minute and a half behind leader.
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04.10.2003 NAUGHTY WEATHER
Weather in Idrija is very naughty today. In the morning there was sun, at aorund 1p.m it was hard rain and now at start there is sun again, but it is a question if roads will be dry. See ON LINE RESULTS
03.10.2003 SCRUTINEERING
We can say that rally already started with scrutineering. Even if there was rain, a lot of spectators come, mostly to see Claudio DeCecco and his P206WRC. And Claudio was awarded with big aplause like Andrej Jereb too. See some photos. PHOTO 
02.10.2003 CEZ & REGIONAL RALLY CUP - SOUTH
Rally Saturnus is also last event counting for FIA Central European zone. Each driver, who wants to score points for CEZ, must attend at least 3 rallies and now we only have 2 crews in group A which do this. The leader is Vaclav Pech, but he isn't coming to Saturnus rally and neither do Josef Beres. Of those who are coming, Siniša Crnojević had already two starts and now he can score 20 points and jump...
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02.10.2003 BULLETIN 01
For competitors Bulletin 01 is available.
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01.10.2003 SLOVENIAN CHAMPIONSHIP
Rally Saturnus is penultimate rally of Slovenian championship. At the moment Mitja Klemenčič and Jernej Korpar (mitsubishi lancer) are leader, 20 points ahead of Milan Bubnič and Jure Krizmanič (lancia delta). Tomaž Kaučič (renault clio S1600) retired at the lat rally in Velenje and it is now on third place. Read more  
30.09.2003 KNAJZL AND KAZAZ ARE STAYING AT HOME
Due to the technical problems with their cars, Martin Knajzl and Ercan Kazaz had to withdraw from rally Saturnus. Kanjzl had a lot of problems with his škoda octavia this year, in all 10 rallies he retired. And saxo of Kazaz rallying in YU rally and during the rally some promlems shows up which couldn't been solved till Saturnus rally. 
29.09.2003 SZOLLOSZI WITH MITSUBISHI
Hungarian driver Peter Szolloszi will come to 26th rally Saturnus with mitsubishi lancerjem evo VI, because škoda octavia wrc had some problems during Mecsek rally. Roads of Saturnus rally impressed Szolloszi and the same opinion was heard from Claudio DeCecco, for many spectators the biggest favourites for winning rally on ...
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29.09.2003 PRESS CONFERENCE
Tommorow, on 30 September press conference will take place in Saturnus Avtooprema in Ljubljana. It'll start at 15:00 and to journalists we'llalso show production of lamps for Ferrari and Lamborghini.  
26.09.2003 CORRECTED ENTRY LIST
We corrected entry list, because Peter Szolloszi eneterd new another car. If he will finish Mecsek rally in Hungary this weekend without any damage, then he will come to Saturnus with škoda octavia WRC. 
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26.09.2003 GUIDE FOR RALLY
We also prepared Guide through the rally. It will be available next week, but now you can download it to your computer. It is in pdf format, size is 3,7 MB.
GUIDE
25.09.2003 ENTRANCE FOR SPECTATORS
We decided, that this year there will be entrance for all super stages. Entrance is 700 SIT (approx. 2.5 EUR), and one ticket is valid for all stages. We also prepared 40 prizes for lucky tickets. 
24.09.2003 ENTRY LIST - DE CECCO FIRST ON THE ROAD
Entry list for 26th rally Saturnus is now available. 109 competitors has entered to Saturnus rally. Andrej Jereb eneterd 2 times, because at his team they don't know yet, which car he will drive. Number 1 goes to Claudio De Cecco with  peugeot 206 wrc.
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23.09.2003 BATTLE FOR VICTORY?
This years champion of Serbia and Montenegro Andrej Jereb and Miran Kacin, will participate in Slovenian rally for the first time his year. They had some technical problems with their seat ibiza kit car, but anyway they are one of candidates for top positions of 26th Saturnus rally. They show that they can compete with other fast drivers in last rally of  Read more  
22.09.2003 ALSO FOR CROATIAN CHAMPIONSHIP
26th rally Saturnus will also count as penultimate event for Croatian championship which is open this year. There is 7 events in Croatian rally calendar and form 27th to 28th of September they will also compete in Mecsek rally in Croatia.   After 4 of 7 events Nenad Lončarić with mitsubishi lancer evo VI is leader.  Read more  
19.09.2003 FIRST TIME IN SLOVENIA - P 206 WRC
August 2003. Italy. Rally Alpi Orientali. Winner Claudio de Cecco. And Claudio de Cecco is the driver, who will drive the most attractive car in this year rally Saturnus. With car, which won several events in world rally championship. With Peugeot 206 WRC. De Cecco is already known to Slovenian rally fans, he competed in Maalbo show in Koper at the beginning of 90ies, Read more  
18.09.2003 END DATE FOR ENTRIES
Till dead line for entry to 26th rally Saturnus more than 100 crews sent their entries. They come from 7 european countries. Entry list will be published next wednesday, September 24th. 
18.09.2003 FAST MARTIN
One of the crews, who has a chance to finish in high positions in 26 rally Saturnus are Martin Knajzl - Petr Černohorský, who drive for Czech national team with škoda octavia gr.A with 234 HP. Knajzl also have FIA B priority. Petr Černohorský, the oldest son of one of the Czech auto sport legend, join Martin at the end of 2000 season. Read more  
17.09.2003 HOME GROUND EVENT
17 of 23 crews, which drive in YugoCup in 2003 season came from teams, where this year rally Saturnus will take place, from Idrija and from Cerkno. MPI racing Idrija team, who is also organizing rally Saturnus, have 14 drivers, and the other 3 are coming from Cerkno racing, which was established at the beginning of this year. Read more  
16.09.2003 ERCAN KAZAZ WILL COME TO SATURNUS
Ercan Kazaz, las year Turkish champion has confirmed his arrival to rally Saturnus. He'll driver atractive citroen saxo kit car, which hasn't been seen on Slovenian rallies yet. In 2003 season Kazaz had some problems, he retired on two rallies, where he was leading S1600. Read more  
10.09.2003 SPECIAL STAGES 
Maps of special stages and itinerary is available now. In next few days we will also prepare pictures of interesting places in special stages and commentary of each stage. 

Special stages

10.09.2003 SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS 
Please see supplementary regulations for rally Saturnus. You can also download zip file to your computer and print the regulations. 

Supplementary regulations

03.09.2003 SLEEPING CAPACITIES 
Here you can find all about sleeping capacities in Idrija and neighborhood with phone numbers, e-mail addresses ... 
Sleeping capacities
01.09.2003 ENTRY FORM FOR 26TH RALLY SATURNUS 
Closing date for entry is 17.09.2003. Filled entry form should be send by e-mail or to MPI racing, Grilceva 4, 5280 Idrija, Slovenia. 
Entry form DOC   Entry form ZIP 
13.08.2003 PROGRAMME OF 26TH RALLY SATURNUS 
New programme for 26th rally Saturnus is available now. 

Programme

07.08.2003 RALLY SATURNUS ON OCTOBER 
26th rally Saturnus will take place from 3rd to 5th
of October in Idrija and Cerkno region. 
01.04.2003 RALLY POSTPONED TO AUTUMN 
Due to the problems, 26 rally Saturnus Hella has been postponed to the autumn time. New date will be published in next few days.  
01.04.2003 NUMBER 1 FOR MARTIN KNAJZL 
Number 1 for 26 rally Saturnus goes to Martin Knajzl and Petr Černohorský, škoda octavia group A. The crew starts for the team AUTOspektrum 2000, which represents, among others, one of the biggest dealers of Škoda cars within the Czech Republic, a constructor of racing cars Škoda ...  Read more  
27.03.2003 ERCAN KAZAZ IS COMING 
Ercan Kazaz is the best Turkish rally driver and this year, we'll have opportunity to see him on work in rally Saturnus. This year he is driving citroen saxo kit car and we must thanks to Slovenian team Target motorsport, who helped us to invite Kazaz to our event. Read more  
25.03.2003 PRESS
On Thursday, 3rd of April, at 11a.m. pre-rally press conference will take place in Ljubljana in Karting center, BTC city, hall 18 (RollBar). All members of media are invited to attend this conference. 
18.03.2003 SPECIAL STAGES
Pictures of special stages are published now. 

Special stages (new will be published)

17.03.2003 Supplementary regulations

Supplementary regulations (new will be published)

Entry form (new will be published)

05.03.2003 SLAVKO KOMEL : 5 OF 19
ISlavko Komel is one of the most popular drivers. Not only that he drive very spectacularly, in his company is never boring. And he also have one record - he attend rally Saturnus for 19 times! "First time I was competing rally Saturnus in 1979, as co-driver. ... Read more
12.02.2003 BRANE KÜZMIČ - FIRST WINNER
It was back in 1976 when Brane Küzmic achieved his first great results in rally. In his first season, he competed with BMW 1600TI, group 1. Despite some great drivers compete in this group he started to prove that he is a great and talented driver ... Read more
04.02.2003 ORGANIZATION GOES BY PLANS
There were some information last days, that there are some problems with organization of 26th rally Saturnus, but we're glad to inform you, that this was incorrect. All is going by the plans, and we even do some works before dead-time which we made it for ourselves. The most interesting for competitors are data about race ... Read more
28.01.2003 SHORT HISTORY
First rally Saturnus was organized back in 1978, and there was nobody, who thought that this event will became the biggest rally in this territory. For the first three years rally only counts for Yugoslavian championship, but in the early 80-ies it get coefficient for.... Read more
18.01.2003 TWO SUPER SPECIAL STAGES
On 26th rally Saturnus organizers are preparing two super special stages. First it will take place in city of Idrija on the opening day of the event on Friday, April 11th, and it's already known by last two Idrija rallies. Read more
20.12.2002 WELCOME
Welcome on the official web site of 26th rally Saturnus - Idrija - Koper - Izola - Piran, which will take place from 11th to 13th of April 2003. Again rally Saturnus will count for European rally championship with coef. 2, more about rally it will be published later. At the moment you can see WINNERS 1978 - 2002, PAST RALLIES, where you can find all results, and  GALLERY, where are pictures from past rallies.
20.12.2002 WINNER 2002


Mitja Klemencic - Jernej Korpar
Mitsubishi lancer evo V