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 The drivers are still driving the lapses but we can already tell you that Boris Gadasin has ensured a place for him in 1/8 finals. According to the rules the contestants had 4 runs and in case of three victories the contestant would enter the next round. There was no need in the fourth run for Boris. He got a flawless 3:0 victory.
 It has been a long day. The participants were very thankful for no early wake ups – the start time was 12.00. The necessity of some changes in the layout of the race became obvious very soon. Competitors were driving only Mitsubishi’s and didn’t swap today.  The latter was due to various body build of the drivers – the swapping required a prolonged procedure of adjusting belts and seats. Boris wasn’t too lucky with the seat – it didn’t fit and he could hardly drive.
 The cars started to give in to the drivers’ charge quite soon. One of the cars was replaced by the back up car while its transmission was repaired. This was concern of the car owners and the drivers and the spectators savoring the splendid race.
 The media’s attention was drawn to the only female driver in the race. Burcu Cetinkaya, a driver from Turkey has been competing since 2005. She is rallying in the country and will become the first female driver to contest an expanded programme of Intercontinental Rally Challenge events when she starts her IRC campaign on Rally d'Italia-Sardegna from 4-6 June. Burcu was very disappointed not to pass to the next level but said she was happy to participate in the event. She certainly got her share of fame – there were just about more photographers around her than around Juha Kamkkunen. The Finnish driver predictably gained an easy victory and entered 1/8 final with his fast and spectacular driving.
 The tomorrow’s layout of competing is unclear yet. We know for sure there will be again play-off runs until three wins. However we don’t know yet which cars will they compete in? Probably it wil be rally cars first and then buggies and off-road cars. Boris Gadasin is competing with Srdjan Petrovic from Serbia.  Boris’s chances are higher if they compete in off-road cars but smaller in case of the rally car. The Buggies will equal their chances.
Let’s root for G-Force!
1/8 finals
KAUCIC Tomaz /SLO
HOLOWZCYC Krzystof / POL
SCHWARZ Armin / GER
WIEDNER Wilfried / AUT
THOMAS Nicos / CYP
GASSNER Herman / GER
POPOV Jasen / BUL
KANKUNEN Juha / FIN
DONCEV Krum / BUL
PULIC Niko / CRO
PETROVIC Srdjan / SRB
GADASIN Boris / RUS
SASKIN Daniel / CRO
PELJHAN Darko / SLO
PETROVIC Vladan / SRB
the competitor was not defined, the run was moved to 2.05.2010 at 12:00
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Unexpectedly the race for our crew came to a premature end...
Early in the morning, almost 18 hours after the race had started, we received official results of the first half of the race.
Boris Gadasin got the 4th place in Rally All Stars. The winner is Kewin Abbring from the 
Here comes the first day of the real fight –