Mikołaj Krysik is the newest Quad rider to hitch the SSV get together as he makes his début within the class at this weekend’s Baja Poland. He’ll race a Can-Am Maverick X3, categorized within the Polish Cross-Nation Rally Championship.
Krysik isn’t any stranger to side-by-side autos, however has in any other case competed totally on a quad. This included coming into the category in races just like the Fenix Rally and Tunisia Desert Problem in Tunisia, and the World Rally-Raid Championship’s 2022 Andalucía Rally and 2024 BP Final Rally-Raid on a Yamaha Raptor 700. He completed fourth in Quads in Andalucía, his maiden begin within the championship, adopted by a seventh in Portugal.
He scored his maiden W2RC stage win on the fourth leg of the BP Final Rally-Raid, bouncing again after a damaged suspension and rollover in Stage #1. Krysik and his fellow Quad opponents have been knowledgeable of the Amaury Sport Organisation’s resolution to drop their class from the Dakar Rally beginning in 2025; though Krysik has by no means raced the Dakar, the information means he must race one other automobile if he needed to participate.
SSV was the pure subsequent step for him, which he described as “one thing thrilling and above all, future-proof.”
In Friday’s Baja Poland Prologue stage, he completed nineteenth general and thirteenth amongst SSVs competing for the nationwide championship. Dominik Jazik is serving as his co-driver.
Many Quad riders have additionally made the change to an FIA class with specific concentrate on SSVs. Manuel Andújar, winner of the ultimate Dakar for Quads and the newly topped World Rally-Raid Champion within the class, plans to race the 2025 Dakar Rally in an SSV, whereas Juraj Varga ran the Hungarian Baja in early August in one among his personal. Others emigrate to SSVs in latest months embrace Pablo Copetti and Rodolfo Guillioli, whereas 2023 Quad champion Laisvydas Kancius is now a co-driver within the Final class.
Apart from being a part of the Polish Championship (Rajdowe Mistrzostwa Polski Samochodów Terenowych), Baja Poland is the fourth spherical of the FIA World Baja Cup.
