Kajetan Kajetanowicz and Maciej Szczepaniak have announced their start in Acropolis Rally in Greece. It means that the ORLEN Rally Team crew will contest three World Rally Championship rounds in just six weeks.
This year’s campaign of Kajetanowicz and Szczepaniak gains even more momentum. The 2024 podium finishers in the WRC2 Challenger championship standings have already contested two rallies in 2025. In Kenya and Portugal they scored precious points which might be priceless at the end of the season.
The ORLEN Rally Team crew take part in Rally Italia Sardegna next week but this is not the end of the busy schedule for Kajetan and Maciek. Shortly after their return from Mediterranean Island, the whole Polish team will move to Greece, to tackle the legendary Acropolis Rally of Gods. Competition on rough roads, full of stones, quite often in extreme heat, will close a real World Rally Championship marathon for the Polish duo. With events in Portugal, Italy and Greece, Kajto will contest three World Rally Championship rounds in just six weeks. Bearing in mind that one WRC rally, together with testing session and recce, lasts for over one week, from early May to the end of June the crew will spend 32 days in competitive trim.
– Our rally marathon goes on and it gives me plenty of satisfaction. I do what I love to do, in a very intensive way. We have just returned from Portugal, we head to Sardegna soon and afterwards we move to gravel roads in Greece. It means three WRC rounds in six weeks and the last one of this triple-header looks to be the toughest. I took part in the Rally of Gods seven times and every start was a huge challenge. Now the rally returned to its traditional slot in June, so apart from twisty, rocky and very rough roads, our crew and our car will also face extreme heat. Despite these difficulties, Acropolis Rally is one of my favourite events
– Kajetan Kajetanowicz, the ORLEN Rally Team driver, said about the rally.
Kajetanowicz has enjoyed plenty of success on Greek gravel stages. He competed in the Rally of Gods seven times, securing his place among the winners. His victories in 2015 and 2017 helped him to clinch two out of three European Rally Championship titles. On top level, in the World Rally Championship, he also did a great job there, winning in 2021 and finishing in top three in 2023 and 2024, in Rally2 cars.
The competitors face 17 special stages in 71th Acropolis Rally, in different parts of Greece. The event starts with a spectacular superspecial stage in the centre of Athens. Afterwards the crews will move to the Corinth Canal area and finish the rally in the impressive Parnassus Mountains – having completed almost 346 kilometres of gravel special stages.
Starts of Kajetan Kajetanowicz are supported by the title partner of the ORLEN Rally Team – ORLEN S.A., as well as technical partner Delphi and ORLEN OIL.
