Konstantinos Pitsos and Stelios Karapapazis (Ford Sierra Cosworth 4\u00d74\/E4) won the first three special stages of the morning leg of the Historic Acropolis Rally 2022, having created a lead of almost 1′ from the second crew of the general classification.<\/p>\n
Panagiotis Paradisis – Kostas Poimenidis (Ford Escort Mk2 RS\/D3), who followed the leaders in the ranking of all three specials, are in second place in the general classification and are the leaders in their class. The top three of the general classification are completed by Alexandros Halivelakis – Athanasios Papandreou ((Ford Escort MKII RS2000\/D3), who are second in their class.<\/p>\n
The unlucky ones of the morning leg
\nKonstantinos Kapourelakos – Georgia Zambeli (BMW 320 E21) and Pantelis Antonopoulos – Maira Kallitsi (Ford Escort Mk2 RS2000) retired after the end of the first SS due to mechanical problems.<\/p>\n
The second SS was interrupted for 8 minutes after an accident of Dimitris Vazakas – Nikos Tsadaris (Toyota Starlet KP60), who are in good health but had to abandon the rally.
\nIn the third SS of the morning leg, Chrysostomos Karellis – Leonidas Machairas (Peugeot 205 Rallye), Alexandros Papandreou – Dimitris Rizopoulos (Toyota Starlet KP61) and Yannis Kalaitzian – Margianna Kalogirotou (VW Golf GTi 16V) retired due to mechanical problems.<\/p>\n
Athanasios Athanassoulas – Vassilis Basioukas (Toyota Starlet KP61) had an exit at the first kilometer of the special “Thiva”, while Panagiotis Koutsikos and Nikos Petropoulos suffered from mechanical issues and were forced to reiter at the liaison following SS3.<\/p>\n
Karanikolas \u2013 Kakavas are leading in Rally Legends
\nIn the new category of the Historic Rally Acropolis, the “Rally Legends”, Epaminondas Karanikolas – Giorgos Kakavas (Ford Escort RS Cosworth) are leading the general classification with a time of 25:12.90, having dominated all three special stages of the morning leg.<\/p>\n
Second overall are Theodoros Kalamaras – Vasiliki Psarakou (Citroen Saxo VTS), while the top three are completed by Ioannis Papazisis – Konstantinos Pediaditakis with Mazda 323 Familia. Kyriakos Vtoutogiannis – Yannis Katsikas (Subaru Impreza 555) are fourth overall.<\/p>\n
The leaders by Class<\/strong> \u03924<\/strong> C1<\/strong> C2<\/strong> D2<\/strong> D3<\/strong> E1<\/strong> \u03952<\/strong> E3<\/strong> \u03954<\/strong> C3<\/strong> Konstantinos Pitsos and Stelios Karapapazis (Ford Sierra Cosworth 4\u00d74\/E4) won the first three special stages of the morning leg of the Historic Acropolis Rally 2022, having created a lead of almost 1′ from the second crew of the general classification. Panagiotis Paradisis – Kostas Poimenidis (Ford Escort Mk2 RS\/D3), who followed the leaders in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-uncategorized","category-sporting"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n\u03922<\/strong>
\n1. Karolos Lambrou – Yannis Kollias (Renault Alpine A110)<\/p>\n
\n1. Konstantinos Pitsos – Stylianos Karapapazis (Ford Sierra Cosworth 4X4)
\n2. Evangelos Mirlirakis – Kostas Kofinas (BMW 2002 Ti)<\/p>\n
\n1. Konstantinos Argyriou – Stamatis Laskos (Toyota Corolla KE 25)
\n2. Neophytos Eleftheriadis – Dimitris Sianganas (Lancia Fulvia HF)<\/p>\n
\n1. Angelos Zivas – Konstantinos Synetos (Toyota Corolla TE 37)
\n2. Dimitris Amaxopoulos – Hara Moraiti (Toyota Corolla KE 30)
\n3. Nikos Parapera – Konstantinos Mylonas (Toyota Celica TA 22)<\/p>\n
\n1. Alexandros Christodoulou – Athanasios Samaras (VW Golf GTi<\/p>\n
\n1. Panagiotis Paradisis – Kostas Poimenidis (Ford Escort MKII RS)
\n2. Alexandros Halivelakis – Athanasios Papageorgiou (Ford Escort MKII RS 2000)
\n3. George Paradisis – Michalis Frangou (Ford Escort MKII RS 2000)<\/p>\n
\n1. Grigoris Pierroutsakos – Alexandros Mataliotakis (Peugeot 205 Rallye)
\n2. Michalis Nomikos – Konstantinos Trovas (Toyota Starlet KP 60)
\n3. Montecristo – Valia Markaki (Toyota Starlet KP 60)<\/p>\n
\n1. Spyridon Petridis – Apostolos Pallas (Toyota Corolla AE 86))
\n2. Georgios Kasidopoulos – Vangelis Panaritis (Toyota Starlet EP 71)
\n3. Konstantinos Tzemos – Dionysis Koloturos (Toyota Corolla AE 86)<\/p>\n
\n1. Konstantinos Papadimitriou – Anastasios Papadopoulos (Toyota Starlet EP 71)
\n2. Giorgos Chorianopoulos – Athanasios Samaras (VW Golf GTi)<\/p>\n
\n1. Konstantinos Pitsos – Stylianos Karapapazis (Ford Sierra Cosworth 4X4)<\/p>\n
\n1. Andreas Papageorgiou – Georgios Papageorgiou (Volvo 142 S)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"