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One of the oddities in the WRC history, Polish Rally was included in the WRC calendar only once in 1973. Event is still being organized today, being a round of FIA European Rally Championship. Rajd Polski has surprisingly long history as it was run for the first time already in 1921 and celebrated it's 64th edition in 2007. Over the years there have been several gaps on running the event due to instabilities in the region like Second World War, it's immediate aftermaths in early 1950s and finally during Solidarity movement and subsequent martial law in early 1980s.
Poland's inclusion to inaugural 1973 WRC calendar, which contained many other interesting events as well, was quite natural as Polish Rally was well established event by then. Unfortunately, it apparently wasn't quite up to the standards required from world class event and even worse, only three entrants were classified. This is all-time low and a record that still stands - and even though four other crews did complete the route, they were over maximum lateness and were excluded.
Rally was very demanding, consisting of 55 stages and almost 750 kilometers in just two days. Just for comparison, Corsica - which also was run in just two days - had only a dozen stages and around 500 kilometers.
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Warmbold, Achim
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Fiat 124 Abarth Spider
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86.65 km/h
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Driver wins
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Warmbold, Achim (1)
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Manufacturer wins
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Fiat (1)
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