Leszek Korzanowski & Piotr Zęmbowicz's Fatal Crash @ Sudecki 2003 (Aftermath)
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Renowned Polish rally driver Leszek Korzanowski started his career in the late 1980s. He stopped his racing activities for several years and resumed rallying only in 1999. Two years later he was the winner of the PZM (Polski Związek Motorowy) Cup, taking four outright wins at the wheel of a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI, which he shared with different co-drivers, including Maciej Gleixner, Adam Lipkowski and for the first time the experienced Piotr Zęmbowicz. The PZM Cup (Polish Motor Association Cup) was the second rally league in Poland.
Zęmbowicz joined Leszek Korzanowski once again in 2003. The pair decided to race together in both the Polish Rally Championship and the PZM Cup, also competing in selected rallies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in one of the three Mitsubishi Lancers of the rally team Korzanowski had just created. The season did not start well, due to retirements in the opening two rallies, the Rajd Elmot and Rajd Festiwalowy. Their next entry was in the Rajd Sudecki (Sudety Rally), fifth round of the 2003 PZM Cup, scheduled to be contested on Saturday, 14 June 2003 in the small town of Świdnica, region of Silesia in south-western Poland. Sadly, they would die in an accident one day before the start of the proceedings.
During not-official test in open roads, Leszek Korzanowski aged 40, lost control of his white painted group-A Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII which left the road at high speed and struck a tree. The car was badly damaged and caught fire, and despite the immediate intervention of some by-passers, he and his co-driver Piotr Zęmbowicz, 30, were unable to escape from the burning car. They both were killed at the scene.
R.I.P
Zęmbowicz joined Leszek Korzanowski once again in 2003. The pair decided to race together in both the Polish Rally Championship and the PZM Cup, also competing in selected rallies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in one of the three Mitsubishi Lancers of the rally team Korzanowski had just created. The season did not start well, due to retirements in the opening two rallies, the Rajd Elmot and Rajd Festiwalowy. Their next entry was in the Rajd Sudecki (Sudety Rally), fifth round of the 2003 PZM Cup, scheduled to be contested on Saturday, 14 June 2003 in the small town of Świdnica, region of Silesia in south-western Poland. Sadly, they would die in an accident one day before the start of the proceedings.
During not-official test in open roads, Leszek Korzanowski aged 40, lost control of his white painted group-A Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII which left the road at high speed and struck a tree. The car was badly damaged and caught fire, and despite the immediate intervention of some by-passers, he and his co-driver Piotr Zęmbowicz, 30, were unable to escape from the burning car. They both were killed at the scene.
R.I.P