Leg 1 victory and seven fastest times on eight special stages add up to a fantastic day for Kajetanowicz and Baran in Cyprus Rally. FIA European Rally Championship leaders impress with their pace and consistency in the second outing in this event. LOTOS Rally Team crew enjoy a comfortable advantage of almost two and a half minutes in overall standings of FIA ERC. On top of that the Polish crew is faster than all FIA Middle East Rally Championship contenders who have great experience on Cypriot roads, including Nasser Al-Attiyah: double Dakar Rally winner and three-times Cyprus Rally winner.

Kajetan Kajetanowicz and Jarek Baran have strengthened their lead in FIA ERC overall classification with hard-won bonus points and seven fastest times on eight special stages gave them comfortable advantage in FIA ERC Gravel Masters standings, with gap of 116 points to second-placed Craig Breen. The final leg in the battle for victory in Cypriot FIA ERC counter takes place tomorrow. The crews face two passes of four special stages with total length of over 95 kilometres, including one gravel-only test, Tseri (13 kms). Round 8 of FIA European Rally Championship will conclude tomorrow, around 4 pm CET.

Kajetan Kajetanowicz: – We have a lot of reasons to be happy today. The sun is already setting and we had a good day, as we won the majority of stages. We need a good sleep, so that tomorrow we can drive just as today: quickly, with the same pleasure I felt today in the car. As always, the whole LOTOS Rally Team have worked very well so we had no other choice than to give our best. We fought on many various stages today and they had two things in common: all of them were extremely demanding and twisty. There is a lot more gravel on Sunday, but on the other hand the speed is higher. We have to plan everything in our heads and push like hell right from the early morning.

2. Bruno Magalhães (Portugal) +2:17.8 s

3. Jaromir Tarabus (Czech Republic) +3:07.8 s

4. Robert Consani (France) +3:19.1 s

5. Christos Demosthenous (Cyprus) +3:58.7 s

6. David Botka (Hungary) +4:23.6 s

7. Antonin Tlustak (Czech Republic) +4:35.9 s

8. Alexey Lukyanuk (Russia) +4:57.7 s

Starts of Kajetan Kajetanowicz and Jarek Baran are supported by strategic partner of LOTOS Rally Team – LOTOS Group – as well as CUBE.ITG and Driving Experience. More info about Kajetan Kajetanowicz and the team available at: www.lotosrallyteam.pl, www.kajto.pl, www.facebook.com/EmocjeDoPelna, www.facebook.com/KajetanKajetanowicz and www.twitter.com/Kajto_pl.