Mátyás Keszler: the oldest driver with the oldest car!
The round is turning 70 Mátyás Keszler the oldest driver in the race. If we add that he is also competing with the oldest car in the field (not counting the Historic category) (the Audi S2 is in its 31st season - and it has been trampled for that long), it is even more impressive that in this year's point hunt they can already boast two category victories .
The opening sentence of the Pécsvárad pilot is also enviable: "I sat in a racing car for the first time just 45 years ago, as a youngster of the now legendary Pécsi Volán team, which is also celebrating its 50th anniversary. In order to spare the readers, I wouldn't even run through the titles of my long career, I would just say that that certain old seed with a wheel has forged itself into a real group of friends over the decades. Unfortunately, many of us have already left, but we still get together weekly with the ones who are still alive today, we get nostalgic," he says a little further into the past.
"I'm going to the ORC this year István Pál Perhaps not bad, since we took the trophy for the category winner in the P14 Youngtimer 4WD category at Salgó and Dunakanyar. Well, the cars in front of us sputtered, but at my age, wouldn't anyone know that in the rally the points are not for speed, but for reaching the finish line? We then skipped the Boldogkő Rallye, instead we went to study as spectators at the Croatia Rallye, so that we could innovate something at Mecse," Maba then turns back with a joking hussar cut.
"As I said, the car is not a modern child either, so you have to angle properly. I do most of this myself, but it helps a lot Róbert Márai, while as head of department Huba Mang supports the preparation of almost forty competitors of the entire FIASKO SE in addition to mine. Unfortunately, we didn't reach the finish line in Mecsek last year, the bad news is that after our spectacular overturn on the rainy road at night near the Pécsvárad shooting range, that corner was named after me... This year it will be the longest fast, but on the way back, I want to go through it properly now. This won't be easy, just like none of the tracks this year, especially the ones on Friday evenings. We don't have a really good lamp, and my eyes aren't the same; our desire and determination are unbroken, so we want to reach the goal! And maybe to score a point this year, which we would have achieved last year based on the results, but due to the small number of cars, we were not evaluated, we only received a special prize," concludes the pilot of the 55th Mecsek Rallye co-chairman of their plans.