On Thursday August 19, 2010 John Haugland, Norwegian rally star of the eighties and former Skoda Motorsport works driver, came to visit Kopřivnice. He was accompanied by colleague Arne Berg and the director of Subaru Norway, Peter Solberg. Both distinguished guests will be with team members of the Tatra 603 team to test the the T603 with an all new ejector cooled engine, especially built for the Goodwood revival meeting held on Sept. 17-19.
Tatra 603 Team was established in 1991, when the Hajdušek brothers renovated an old Tatra 603 and restored another one to Tatra 603 B5 condition with which the team regularly attends races and hillclimbs. Another car raced by them with support from its parent company is the ECORRA Tatra V8 Sport.
After racing the T603B5 at Goodwood last year, the team looked for more power and decided to build an ejector cooled engine as used in the T603B5 (T603B6)on rare occaisions in the sixties, making an incredible and breathtaking sound. The new engine was built in cooperation with ECORRA Koprivnice. On friday, August 20, the ejector cooled engine will be tested on Tatra’s oval, the Polygon. The Norwegians will conclude their visit on saturday when they will visit the Koprivnice Tatra museum.
Czech: http://magazin.ceskenoviny.cz/auto/zpravy/koprivnici-navstivi-legenda-svetove-rallye/517107
Goodwood: http://www.goodwood.co.uk/revival/welcome.aspx