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Golden Stage will be extra special for both Cyprus and the ERC

The Love Cyprus Golden Stage will provide an extra special climax to the 2016 season, representatives from the FIA European Rally Championship and Cyprus Tourism Organisation have said.

Crews contesting the Cyprus Rally will compete for a share of 60,000 euros over the final two stages of the 2016 season. "The Cyprus Rally, the final round of the FIA European Rally Championship season, has just got even better!" said series co-ordinator Jean-Baptiste Ley. "This is great news for the drivers and teams and it really underlines the tremendous support being extended to the event by the authorities in Cyprus.

"With the various ERC titles still up for grabs and now a prize fund of 60,000 euros at stake - which is in addition to the usual 20,000 euros on offer to the top seven ERC finishers - the Cyprus Rally will serve as a thrilling climax to yet another exciting and hotly-contested ERC season."

Full details of the Golden Stage are being kept under wraps for now, but Annita Demetriades, Acting Director General of the Cyprus Tourism Organisation, said the area chosen will make for spectacular competition.

"The Cyprus Tourism Organisation actively supports this stage both for its importance as part of an important European athletic event as well as for the special promotion that it offers Cyprus," she said. "Through this year's Golden Stage the spectators will have the opportunity to get to know a different area of Cyprus that will contribute in its own special way to the success of this particular stage, but at the same it will lift the adrenaline levels to the maximum."

Zdroj: fiaerc.com